Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-11-17

counted. 1t is unuerSIoou tnae 20
were McCaulley and 10 Mccoy votes
Chief Justice Lore announced that
the certificates Tor the Ninth election
district of the First Representative
district did not agree. There WAS
difference of only one figure, and, as
two OF the certificates were alike, and
as the discrepancy was purely an error,
the certificates were made to conform. |
At about $50 o'clock in the after
noon Richard M. Ennis of Newark de-
livered the certificate for the First
district of the Ninth Representative
district.
After all Of the figures for the First
Representative district had been given
| to the tally clerks, which was at about
/ 5 40 o'clock, recess was taken until
7.30 p. m. oo
The work was resumed at 7.30
O'Clock, with a much smaller attend
ance of spectators than during the
afternoon. The tabulating of the vote
was resumed where it was dropped in
the afternoon, the Fourteenth election
district of the Fourth Representative
district being the first one read off,
| Wherever discrepancies ,owere dis
covered the certificates in the boxes
were called for, and there was very
little trouble in correcting errors.
The clerks, having ample time, made
the additions as they went along, and
as each Representative district was
completed they had the totals.
The failure of the election officers to
make out the certificates like the ma
iority accustomed some delay Tor the
court. In some cases the Regular and
Union Republican votes were returned
| 4.lx nd in ar1ar N facilitate
matters for the tally clerks. the court,
in each case where there were two sets
of Republican figures, added the vote
for each Republican candidate before
the certificate was read.
AN ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
One of the Republican attorneys said
he had been informed that in two dis
tricts of New Castle hundred and one
district of St. Georges hundred election
officers had violated the law by burn
ing ballots which had been rejected,
the law requiring that all rejected
ballots shall be retained for future
reference. He said he had heard that
in New Castle hundred 10 such ballots
had been burned in one district and 70
: in the other and II had been burned in
the district in st. Georges hundred re-
ferred to. fad.
Judging from the marks on some Of
the ballots in some of the districts,
stamps other than those given out by
the authorities we're given to voters by
8 the election officers, the presumption
being that such stamps were procured
+, by election officers on their own 40
9 count, or accidentally got into theii
4 possession. In q number of district:
ballots were thrown out because the
Y mark in the square was not a i've
4 pointed star, but some. other design.
P One Of the attorneys for Republican
y contestants stated that as a rule tn,
5 peculiar stamps were on Republican
ballots in some of the districts, and "a
!. it looked as IL it was scheme to hay
Republican ballots thrown out, eyi
Il dence is being collected for the pur
It pose of prosecuting election officer
= where there is proof that they inten
y tionally gave to the voters stamp
IS which had not been furnished by tn
IA authorities or which were known to b
IS wrong. ~
N According to the attorney at one c
" the polling places voter noticing tina
le the design was not star inquire
it whether he had not been given tn
er wrong stamp, asking whether 1t We
not one used at the last election. ii
he was informed that the stamp was th
le only kind that had been furnished.
ID The persons raising the point VII
contemplate instituting legal actio
of against election officers expect to oil
re tain the testimony of persons who,
ii is said, detected that they had bee
he given stamps of designs other than I'll
SO star.
he Court was in session Thursday nigl
or until 10 O'Clock, when q recess WI
taken until 8 O'Clock Friday morning
on Court resumed its sitting at o..
N. o'clock Friday morning.
on The Forty second district of ii
NO Second Representative district W
first taken up and the figures we
on called off to the clerks. Other distric
a followed in order until the Fifty-eigh
lie district was reached, when the pr
on ceedings were interrupted by Walt
of II. Hayes, counsel for John e. Taylt
in Republican candidate for sheriff.
BY. BURNED BaLloTs OF NEW CASTLE nU
on DRIED.
n Mr.. Hayes filed a complaint on
re. half of his client, in which he alleg
'ad that of 294 votes which were lega
, cast in the First district of the Ten
NJ Representative district, the electi
bat officers had refused to count 10 n
nce they were not included in the C
in titicate. He alleged that by reason
ice such rejection the Republicans h
he been deprived of upwards of l5 vo
W. which were legally cast for them.
on could give no reason why the vo
led were rejected.
II Mr.. Hayes stated afterward that
az understood the missing ball"ts b
tbe been burned, whereas they should h:
in. been placed in the box and returned
,ted the court.
THE CITY COMPLETED.
rict At the conclusion of the discuss
riot over the New Castle matter the tai
Vere lation of the city vote proceeded.
the city being completed at 1885 o'clo
ond While in the contested districts, VIII
A. the discarded bollots had been
amined, votes were added in e.
was instance, the result was not affec
ting and the election in the city as
lcan nounced in these columns will sta
tteo SO far as the successful candidates
pe, concerned, unless proceedings aga
u Il some of the election officers, which
ther in prospect, materially change the
or suits in sometof the districts g.g
'tion At 1905 O'Clock the canvass
and completed up to the First distric
ined the Tenth Representative dist
New Castle hundred), the first
de- trict outside of the city in which no
OUT; of complaint had been made and pa
had filed.
were When that district was reac
otes. Walter II. Hayes, counsel for Johr
from rom Taylor, the Republican candidate