The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-12-13
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Election Contests.

In the second days recount of the bal
lots i'll the contested election case of Claude
vs.. Brashears, republican and democratic
candidates for States attorney, respective
l., Examiner Stockett counted the detect
i've ballots Of the third, fourth and fifth
districts and the first or Brooklyn precinct,
of the fifth district He also examined
judges of election who testified that the
ballot boxes had not been tempered with
since they left their hands Wednesday
the rejected ballots from the three wards
of Annapolis, the second precinct OF the
fifth district and the eighth district will be
counted After the rejected ballots have
been disposed of the regular or accepted
ballots will be counted. Dennis Claude,
the republican contestee, claims he leads
his democratic opponent, Mr.. Brashears,
bv 81 votes according to the vote so far.
Counting the 1:}S votes marked in the big
square, which he assumed as republican
votes, and dcducting the 100 majority re-
turned for Brashears, democrat, is the eX-
PLANTATION for this conclusion. Counsel
for the parties have failed to agree on any
ballots except a few blanks. AS an offset
To the claim that ballots stamped in the big
square opposite the Independent ticket
should be counted for the republicans, dem
ocrats assert that nearly hundred ballots
were cast for Mr. Hurst when they were
intended to be voted for the entire demo-
cratic ticket 1t is also claimed by the
democrats that certain votes credited to
the prohibitionists properly belonged to
their candidates. on these rejected ballots,
the marks being very indistinct In count
ing the fifth district ballots Tuesday 1t was
discovered that about twenty had voted
exclusively for MIR. Hurst. The return
Judge of the second precinct fifth district,
testified there were seventeen rejected bal
lots in his precinct, ten being rejected be-
cause the ballot clerk failed to sign his in
itials. There was also some defective bal
lots in the eighth district. These were
counted Wednesday.
The taking of evidence in the Calvert
county senatorial contested election case
OF W llllllll boNCiI> "Shiii.
John J. B. Bond. democrat, returned cleo
ted, was begun at Prince Frederick Mon
day. Messrs. John {. Rose, of Baltimore;
Daniel c. Hammctt, of st. Mary's. and }.
Frank Parran represented the contestant
I'd ex-Judge d. r. Magruder, of Annap-
oils: Duke Bond, of Baltimore and John
B. Gray are counsel for contestee. The
hole day was occupied in the examina-
ton of Joseph 7. Brickhead, republican
watcher in the polling-room of the third
district His evidence was in substance
tina, the election was irregular in that dis
trict; there were ninetyseven rejected bal
lots taken from the ballot-boX during the
count that did not have the ballot clerks
Endorsement on them, yet several of the
ballots wee scratched with pencil marks;
that curtains were used to screen the vo-
ter from observation while in the booth, on
" one ballot clerk at Il time assisted voters
in marking their tickets and that person
not qualified acted as Judge Of election for
a time during the day.