Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-10

1888, 1i4O 4 it42 h4RKET ST.

| in Grant; 1 and in Pleasant; 1, 2, 4,
5 and 6 in Portland; / and in King
wood; 8 and in Union,and1 and 3
| in Lyon, for the reason that the returns
were not properly certified to by the
election commissioners at the time that
they were sent to the Court, and for
other gross Irregularities appearing up
i on the record of the Court.
He moved the Court to exclude the
entire vote of the county of Preston
because of irregularities; he moved
the Court to reconsider it's entire ac-
ton for the reason that Julius Scherr,
a candidate for the House of Delegates.
sat as a member of the Court and a
member of the canvassing board in the
election in which
HE WAS A CANDIDATE.
and for the reason that Jehu Jenkins
and A. Staley Shaw sat as members of
| the Court and members of the canvass
ing board of the election in which they
were candidates for Commissioners of
the County Court, but the Court over
ruled the several motions respectively
Further, counsel for the said McGraw
| renewed his exceptions to all the ac-
! tons of this court sitting as a board
| of canvassers which were offered by
| him while they were SO sitting, to-wit:
! The action of the Court in bringing
| before them the commissioners of the
election for a number of precincts
! heretofore named in another bill of ex-
| ceptions heretofore made, and having
| said commissioners sign the sealed
| packages containing the ballots cast
at said voting precincts in the presence
| of the Court, and to the action of said
! Court in opening and counting all
| packages which were not properly
| signed across the seal by the commits
sioners of election at the time they
| were presented to this Court; and
moved the Court to reconsider its ac-
ton as a canvassing board in order
! that all the witnesses might be cross
| examined, and excepted to the record
| of the Court of it's proceedings as a
| canvassing board, but the Court over
! ruled all the said several motions and
| objections respectively, to which action
! of the said Court the said McGraw, by
| his counsel, excerpts and tenders this,
| his bill of exceptions, and prays that
| the same may be signed and sealed by
| the Court.
| Be it remembered that, on the 18th
! day of November, 1898, when the Coun-
! ty Court began to recount precinct No.
| l, Reno district, the envelope in which
the ballots of said precinct were sealed
had the name of only one of the COM
missioners
SIGNED THEREON.
| for this cause the Democratic candi-
date for Congress, John T. McGraw, by
! his counsel, Melville D. Post, objected
| to the recounting of the ballots in said
package, which objection the Court
| overruled and proceeded to recount
| said ballots, to which action of the
| Court, John T. McGraw, now by his
| counsel excerpts, and asks that the said
exceptions be signed, sealed and made
! a part of the record.
And be it further remembered that
on the same day said counsel for John
| T. McGraw moved the Court to reject
seven ballots counted for A. G. Dayton,
for the reason that they were, in his
| opinion, marked by common lead pencil
and not by indellible pencil, and there
fore improper ballots, and to reject six
| votes in his opinion, irregulariy mark
ed ard one vote marked, "These are
my sentiments, gentlemen" all counted
| for the said A. G.. Dayton; which mo-
ton the Court, being OF different opin-
ion, overruled, and saud counsel of John
T. McGraw excerpts to the ruling of the
Court and asks that this exception be
The slipht couoh NAV