The herald., 1896-11-11
STRANGE DEVELOPMENTS
Discrepancy 10 the Total Vote Cast and
Returned
JsSse Bartholomew Makes Quite Gain for
City Justice
But It Will Not Affect the Result Unless
Other Precincts Make Showing.
Barlow's Plurality Outside
Of This County.

the last election Is progressing very sat
isfactorily, and it will in all probability
be concluded today. If not today it
surely will be tomorrow.
One thing is quite evident. The sin
gular fact is disclosed by the ballots as
far as counted that allowing for rejected
and spoiled ballots there will still be a
very considerable discrepancy between
the total number of votes returned and
the total number cast.
In the matter Of congressman, there
u going to be marked falling off in the
vote. Fully 1900 Republicans failed
to vote for Mr., McLachlan, and they
declined to vote for Mr.. Barlow.
As far as the count has proceeded
there has been no great discrepancies in
the tallies.
The count in the city has progressed
as far as precinct so, and that disclosed
the fact that about $50 ballots had been
rejected, or an average of three to each
precinct.
1t is a fact to be noted that the great
est number Of ballots were rejected in
precincts where the professional men
and the merchants live.
This goes to prove that the working
people and the so-called anarchist
classes know how to use the rubber
stamp in the booth under the Australian
ballot system in order to get their votes
they cast them.
1t seems, to judge from the totals
that absolutely no one was fooled by the
decoy ticket headed National Demo-
cratic Electors" So few voted for
those electors that it must be taken for
fo1 haf -1n CO int Nod
to vote that way.
There was one more deputy county
clerk on hand yesterday than there was
the day before to tally the count, but
the supervisors were over their eco
nomic streak, and that eminent adj
vocate of economy and reform, Mr.
hay, had nothing to say. AS long as a
Republican had the job it was all right.
Principles of economy as applied to
county expenditures go in cases where
it affects the employment for few days
of a Democrat.
James McLachlan, defeated candidate
for congress, made a gain by the count
as it progressed yesterday, is not true.
Mr.. McLachlan's vote remains fair and
n0minally unchanged. There are just
enough votes cast for Mr.. Barlow in this
county to defeat Mr.. McLachlan.
The friends of Judge Bartholomew, the
candidate for city justice. claim that,
oyer published returns, he made gain
yesterday in the count Of ~.
In the Fourteenth precinct Judge
Owens lost 10 and Judge Bartholomew
gained 22.
In the Eighth precinct Judge Owens
made a gain of 9.
In the Eleventh precinct Judge Bar
tholomew's gain was 5, and in the Fourth
precinct Judge Owens lost 5. This,
Judge Bartholomew friends claim was
a. net gain to them of AZ.
On the other hand. the friends of Judge
Owens claim that the real loss to them.
according to the tally of the Repub-
lican county committee. is but one vote.
In the Eighth precinct no Populis.
vote was returned at all According to
the tally sheets the Populist vote in this
precinct was lost in the shuttle.
In Howard precinct either the Popu-
lists forgot to vote or their vote has not
been tailed at all. Only the ballots
themselves could settle either of these
points.
1t has not yet been decided as to
whether or not there will be any contests
over the result This is the only way a
recount could be secured
To tell the truth there has nothing vet
been found which would warrant a con-
test. In many cases election clerks have
been very careless and as a result there
will always be a suspicion in the minds
OF many that recount of the ballots
would disclose some facts that cannot
and Will not otherwise ever appear on
the surface.
For instance in precinct No. Is the
clerks in their returns make the state
ment that 5S7 ballots were rejected. This
Is manifestly ridiculous as there are only
4Sl registered votes in the precinct
In the Twelfth precinct the return
made had to be passed because of tech
nical errors and the same was the case
in precinct No. go
Fred w. Potts is making a complete
duplicate tally and when it is complet-
ed 1t Will furnish some interesting show
ings for those who are interested in pol
itics.
The plurality of Hon. Charles A. Bar
low. congressman for the Sixth district
Of California by the official count. out
side OF Los Angeles county is 67s