The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-11
State Central
Committee
CALLSFOR RECOUNT
In Every Ward and Town
in Congressional District.


As predicted in yesterdays Spy,
recount of the entire vote of the third
congressional district has been ordered
by the state central committee, and the
petitions were placed in circulation
through the various wards of this city
this forenoon.
The first notice of the official action
of the state central committee was re-
ceived in this city late Wednesday
night, coming in the shape of tele-
gram from the headquarters of the
state committee in Boston to Charles
L. Tatman, chairman of the local re-
publican city committee. The order
was brief and to the point. 1t was as
follows:
Boston, Mass, Nov O. 1885,
To Charles T. Tatman, Chairman Re-
publican. City Committee, Worces-
ter Mass:
Secure recount of congressional votes
in Worcester.
Republican State Committee.
Acting upon these orders, Mr.. Tats
man took immediate steps to secure
the recount the first thing yesterday
morning.
The recount will cover every town
and ward in the district, and petitions
were started in circulation through the
various wards today. The law required
that such petitions shall be signed by
ten legal voters in each ward and each
town in the district, and they must be
filed on or before o'clock this after
noon. None of the petitions had been
nled up to the hour of closing in the
city clerks office yesterday afternoon,
but no difficulty was being experienced
In getting signatures, and the most of
the petitions will probably be filed this
forenoon. When the telegram was sent
to Chairman Tatman, the complexion
OF the next house was still in doubt
and 1t is evident that the state com
mittee deemed it wise to strike while
the iron is hot
Locally thehews that a recount has
been ordered has caused something of
stir in political circles, and although
the prevalent opinion seems to be that
the recount cannot elect Mr.. Walker,
even his most bitter enemies are willing
to coneede that he stands a. fighting
chance. Personally Mr. Walker is no
more in favor of a recount now than
he has been from the start, but he rec
ogniZes in it the wish of the party, and
offers no objections
Recounts seem to be in order Just now
and the action of the state central COM
mittee in asking for one has been fol-
lowed in the representative fight be-
tween John G. Hagberg and John F.
Carberry. Mr.. Hagberg, who was the
! first to get into the field for a recount
! is confident that the deadlock between
/ himself and Mr.. Carberry can be bro
ken in his favor. He has placed the
matter in the hands of Colonel William
A. Gle, who win probably nile a pc.
/ inn for
sometime today. Mr.. Carberry does
not propose to be outdone by his oppon-
! ent, in strategic measures, and
/ he also proposes to file q pc
tition for a recount. He has placed his
case in the hands of John r. Thayer
and the necessary signatures will prob
ably be secured and his petition filed
today. Mr.. Hagberg's claim is that a
number of the Is votes for him, which
We're thrown out because it was assert
ed that the cross for representative was
above the square, are legally all right
and can be counted in. If this is allow
ed at the recount his chances of cleo
ton are good, for 20 votes thus marked
were thrown out, and of that number
Mr.. Hagberg had 16, while Mr.. Car
berry had but seven.
AS was stated in yesterdays Spy, the
wards relied upon to help Mr.. Walker
out in the Walker-T hayer recount are
8, and 5. 1t is believed that a decided
gain will be shown in these wards for
the defeated candidate. In democratic
circles, the announcement that a re-
count had been ordered was of course
laughed at, and many We're the Jokes
cracked at the expense of the republic
cans. 1t was openly asserted by the
democrats and by some republicans
that the recount would show gains for
Thayer instead of Walker. However
this may be, it was evident that the
friends of Mr.. Thayer, although they
pooh poohed" the proposed recount,
were awaiting it's outcome with no
small degree of anxiety. A majority
of 127 is not so terribly large, and in
such a large district as Worcester dis
trict with a new system of counting
doubtless responsible for many mis-
takes, the action of the state central
committee in demanding a recount is
by no means as foolish as the demo-
Gratis and certain republicans would
have it appear. The recount will be
big Job. AS there are 80 precincts in
this city and % outlying towns in the
district, it really means 81 separate re-
counts
John r. Thayer went to Boston yes
terday, returning late last evening. 1t
was reported on the street that he
went down to confer with the officials
of the democratic state committee. To
a Spy man upon his return Mr.. Thayer
said, however, that his trip had no
political significance, and that ne went
down on business only
Mr.. Walker kept busy during the day
upon his accustomed duties. He re-
ceived few callers, but Notwithstanding
the bad weather, several dropped in to
talk over the situation with him.