The sun., 1898-11-13
THE CONTEST IS SETTLED
DR.. hiram K. Burton Withdraws
From Senatorial Fight in
Sussex County.
OFFICIAL COUNT COMPLETED
After the Withdrawal of DR.. Burton
the Democrats Also Dropped
Pending Contests Which They
Had ON Hand and the
Vote Was Finished.
From a stan Correspondent.

cial vote of Sussex county was completed
tonight at a much earlier hour than was
expected. The returns were contested
in many instances and would have been
carried over until Monday or Tuesday il
the Maull- Burton contest for State Sena.
tor in the Fifth Senatorial district had
rot been withdrawn.
DR.. H. Q. Burton withdrew his com.
plant and Immediately thereafter the
affidavits on the opposing side were
Withdrawn by the Democrats Of Broad.
kiln and Lewes and Rehoboth hun.
dreds.
The official returns show the election
of James G. Conway for Representative
in Broad Creek and an inspector in
Broadkiln, both of whom are Republi.
cans.
The election gives the Republicans the
State and county ticket as follows: Con.
gress, Hoffecker; Auditor, Lingo; State
Treasurer, Ball; Sheriff, Short; Coroner,
Walls; County Treasurer, spicer.
State Senators, Pennewill and Brasure.
Representatives, Davis, Buell., Coma
way, Short, West, Hunter and Hazard.
Assessors, Reed, Anderson, Lewis,
Warrington, McCabe, Bishop, Rust,
Campbell.
inspectors, Macklin, Belts, Buell.,
Wright, Messick, King, Lingo, Derrick
son, Hill, Mustard, Smith, Schelling.
The Court worked on the returns from
the Second Election district of the
Second Representative district until the
early morning hours.
Besides the ten votes thrown out by
the election officers, the canvassing
board found twenty-nine more which
were thrown out, making total OF
thirty-nine votes thrown out.
The recount was made necessary by
an affidavit, which was fled by Attorney
General R. @. White, which alleged that
there were ballots in the box TINT had
not been included in the returns as quail
fed, and it was decided that the Court
should 60 into the ballot box and pass
upon each ballot.
This was done and resulted in the
throwing out Of % votes.
Fourteen Of the tickets thrown out
were Republican, making an increase in
Farlow s.vote and reducing the vote of
Ellis from 266 to 252. Farlow's vote in
this district was 1913.
The Democrats have elected Farlow
by a majority of is in the whole Sena-
torial district.
The certificates of correction were
made out as follows:
State of Delaware, Sussex county, s. S.,
and now to wit this, twelfth day of No
vember, one Thousand eight hundred
and ninety.eight, the written certificate
OF election is corrected by the Court as
shown by the figures following the word
Votes" on each of the within pages.
A peculiar feature of the recounting
Of the votes cast in Dagsboro hundred
was the counting out of seven Democratic
votes which did not effect the result OF
Farlow's count single vote. He had
1873 according to the official returns of
he election officers, and after the seven
hrown out by the court he still had
-9S. The only solution offered is that
he judges aud inspectors got the seven
,otes mixed and they were placed among
he required vote instead of among those
elected.
The contest in the Third Senatorial
district of Sussex county has been de-
'ided by an official recount of the votes
,ast in Dagsboro and Gumboro hundred.
The recount was made by Judges Grubb
md Boyce, and resulted in the Demo-
ratio Senatorial candidate, DR.. Elisha
j. 7. Farlow, receiving an additional IA
o his majority, making HIM win by 16
rot es over Elijah j. Ellis, Republican.
The contest in the Fifth Senatorial
district was the centre of all interest
Neither party was sanguiLe of winning,
md the contest is declared off. The
'ote as recorded now gives Franklin G.
daull, Democrat, plurality over DR..
Iiram r. Burton of 13.
The election officers threw 40 Republi-
an, 20 Democratic, 2 Prohibition and
lank ballots out.
The Republicans claimed that On q re.
cunt many of the votes cast for DR..
'urton would have counted him in.
In counting the number OF votes cast
or the different candidates it is said
hat DR.. Burton received the greatest
lumber of votes, and had they all been
ounted he would have been elected.
he people wanted DR.. Burton and think
1ey should have had him.
The Democrats have and did
lrow obstacles in the path OF the E
epublicans at every step, and tried to {
rove to the Court that it was unconsti- I
ltional to 60 into the ballot boxes. {
They lost this fight and their next i
love was to have every ballot recounted c
lat was cast in the Fourth Senatorial q
istrict and in which the Court had 9
assed favorably on. a
Nine of the 81 rejected ballots were v
'unted and this gave the Republicans d
onaway, Representative; Warrington, n
SCISSOR, and Messick, Inspector D
The Court would not permit recount
all the votes for the reason that no
'tition had been fled by the petitioner
ior to its decision.
Not to be outdone in the next fight, !,
ey had petitioned the Court to have +
votes in the contested districts OF the .
lrton-Maull fight recounted. +
The election officers in the last-named n
infested district are Democratic In a