The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-05
The Usual Cry Of Fraud Is Suggested
BY the Two ChaIrmen.
MARYLAND PASSES OVER THE LINE
MARYLAND Passes Over the Line, and the Repub
Iicans Have Enough on Joint Ballot in the
Assembly to Name Germans Sue
cessor-Citizens to Prosecute.

Columbus, o., Nov. 4.-I4ate tonight it
became known that the courts would be
resorted to for the purpose of preventing
boards of election from issuing certifi-
Gates to republican candidates in cer-
tain counties. The cases will be brought
in the lower courts and thence to the
supreme court as soon as possible. The
republican state committee has lawyers,
also, preparing cases of contest.
The republicans got three representa-
tives on the face of the returns from
Delaware, Noble and Wood counties,
whose total plurahties number only 142
votes, and total of " votes would have
given the democrats control of the leg
islature. The republicans claim that
the democrats also elected members of
the legislature on close majorities, and
that there are ten counties in the state
that gave less than 100 majority for the
candidates on their ticket, and that the
democrats secured as many members
on close pluralities as the republicans.
Both sides are preparing for contests,
first in the courts and afterwards in the
legislature.
AS each branch of the legislature is
the tribunal of last resort in judging of
the qualifications of its own members,
the republicans have an advantage in
their control of the house over the DEM
ocrats, who control the senate. There
are thirty-six senators, with only two
or three contests possible in that body.
Both Sides at Work
In the house there are 100 members,
with a dozen or more seats that can be
contested, and the republicans claim
majority of seven in that body, so
that more democrats could be unseated
in the house than republicans i'll the
senate. While both committees are
keeping secret any arrangement for le-
gal proceedings, yet it is stated that the
democratic state committee will seek to
enjoin enough certificates of election of
republican representatives to prevent
the republicans from organizing the
house and appointing the committees
that will hear contests. 1t is possible
that the policy of both parties, as far
as appeals are concerned, will be known.
As Viewed BY the Two Factions
The very considerable talk about
a combins in the legislature against
Senator Hanna has subsided, pending
the interest in the official count in sew
eral of the close counties. AS the Of
fetal canvass of the vote in the eighty
eight counties proceeded the republican
plurality on the state ticket incrsassd
and on the legislative tickets the mar
gins became narrower. Whil= the repub-
Ican plurality ON the state ticket ex-
ceed.s $4,000, the vote ON the legislative
ticket is almost as close as 1t could b..
For this reason there is still unusual
anxiety at the respective state hearquar-
tsrs of both parties.
The republicans still claim that th:
legislature stands seventy-five republi-
cans to seventy democrats on joint bal
lot for senator, and that tlh ir candidates
for repres natives in three of the close
counties have been elected by the follow
ing plurality Delaware county, 20;
Wood county. %; Noble county, S5; q
total of 142 in the plurality of these thr
counties. A change of ssventy-two votes
properly ulStflDulSu III tn2Se unree C01n-
ties would therefore have turned the re-
suit in the legislature by giving these
thres representatives to the democrats.
Then the legislature would have stood
seventy-two republicans and seventy
three democrats on Joint ballot for sena-
tor When 1t is remembered that the
total vote OF Ohio last year was over L.
100000 and is almost 100000 this year, 1t
Is readily seen that the ssventy-one issue
is small plurality, that it cannot be
clearly exprs ssed in fractions or Ian
guage, and this is what makes the DEM
ocratic state committee continue to claim
the legislature and the republican state
COMMITTEE to be continually on guard in
watching the count In the close coun-
ties. The official count of Delaware
county is in. but with protests and notice
of contest from the democrats, and the
same is true of Noble county. Ths Off
cial count of Wood county may not be
completed until Saturday, although it
may be finished tomorrow.
In Wood county today the democrats