The age-herald., 1897-11-06
McContS lie Still Maintains the Major-
 lSis on the Democratic Side.
y < -RSET COUNTY, MARYLAND's, VOTE
Is Now the Hinge on Which the Democratic Gate Hangs-WII Stamford Win Out? the Question = Colorado Goes
 Into the Silver Column.

Columbus, O., Nov. 1.-The Ohio 1egis- lature stands "A republicans, 70 demo- crats and one doubtful on the official re- turns received up to tonight. With a dozen or more of the eighty-eight coun- ties very close there have been no mate rial changes except In Wood county, which will be claimed by both parties till the courts pass on the action of the supervisors. There have been no unu- sual proceedings between the returning boards of all counties except Wood, al- though both parties have had their representatives and attorneys in the county seats wherever the vote was close. Chairman McConnville, of the democratic state committee, has not changed his claims of democratic ma jority on joint ballot and will not do SO until the official returns from the doubt full counties are all in and show the re- suits to be different to returns he has at hand.
 Chairman McConnville and other mem- bers of the democratic state committee went to Cincinnati tonight to confer with MT. John R. Mclean and other party
 
 that are to be made in the close counties.
 Nash Insists Five Majority
 Chairman Nash insists that the legis- lature stands 75 republicans and 70 dem- ocrats and that the majority on joint ballot for senator will not be less than five. He says tonight that he Is satisfied with the situation in Wood county. What he feared was that the official count might wipe out the small republican plu- rality In that county. Since the face of the official sheets show a plurality of 31 for the republican representative Judge Nash Is ready and willing to have any court pass on the case. He says the law provides that the members of the board of election cannot go behind the returns, and the supreme court has held that they have no ministerial powers whatever, cannot hear evidence or use their discretion in throwing out any votes. That is left to the courts and to each branch of the legislature in pass ing on the credentials of its members.
 Blocks of Five
 In Wood county today Norris, the re- publican candidate for representative, filed protest against the board count ing the vote of Freedom township be- cause the ballot should be tallisd in blocks of five. This precinct gave Nor ris 151 and Mears, the democratic can didate for representative, 263. If the vote of the township had been thrown out it would have increased the plural ity of Norris by 112, but it was counted. The republicans insist that Norris will be declared elected in Wood county and that the legislature stands 75 to 70. Will Go Into Court. It is learned here tonight that counsel for both the democratic and republican, committees at Bowling Green agreed to submit the Wood county case to the cir cult court, and the lawyers on both sides went to Toledo for that purpose. The court will be asked to decide whether the election board can go behind the re- turns. Of course it will be left for pro- ceedings in the house to decide whether the vote of certain townships shall be counted.
 An Important Matter.
 Information has been received at re- publican headquarters of protests against the Soldiers Home vote at Day. ton, on the ground that the voting pre- cinct was not in the proper place. If that vote should be thrown out the dem- ocrats would get in two representatives from Montgomery county and one ssn- ator, enough Con the claims of the re- publicans), to make the legislature stand 73 democrats to 72 republicans on joint ballot.
 Chairman Nash says there are about thirty precincts in the state where these technical points on the location of the polls can be raised and if it is made an issue of contest it will work both ways with no one knowing the final result.