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before the committee testimony of rebuttal.
 In the meantime the county con. vention re convened on June 4, and by union of the Mccoy and Phill- l ips forces, both of whom had been defeated, Q resolution was passed ordering new primary for June l6, thereby taking the matter out of the hands of the central committee and depriving Mir. Brewster of his nomination.
 In the primary election on June 16, the unofficial returns showed 757 votes for Brewster, 757 votes for Mccoy and 556 votes for Phillips.
 The central committee met on Saturday June IS to officially can vass the vote of the primary cleo tion of June 16. A canvass of the Bolivar township box showed two less votes for Mccoy than had been returned for him. Two ballots had been put in the box with two names for sheriff on them. These had been counted and returned for Me Coy, but neither ballot was Vote for sheriff, and the two ballots were not counted for him on the official canvass. When the Sherrill box Of Plum Bayou township was reached, canvass showed that one more vote had been reported for Mccoy than was cast for him at that box. This resulted in a loss ot three votes for Mccoy.
 h the canvass of the Third ward box, Mir. Brewster lost one vote, a ballot with the voters name signed to it which had been returned for Brewster by the judges of the cleo tion, was not counted fot him by the central committee, although an other irregular ballot in that box was counted by the committee for Mccoy.
 Oa the face of the returns it will therefore be seen that Brewster had plurality Of two.
 But in the count of the Secon d wa"d box, two ballots not returned by the judges of the election for Mccoy, were counted for him, one being the Jim Smith vote and the other the ballot with all of the names scratched for sheriff, the pencil mark extending through the "Mc. in McCoy's name to the line below.
 This made the official canvass again stand a tie between Mccoy and Brewster.
 On motion of Mir. Arthur Murray, who held a proxy for J. D. Bush, the committee returned to the First ward box, which was opened, and a ballot with all the names scratched for sheriff, with a big line just running under the edge of McCoy's name and up and through the last two letters of his name, and which vote was not counted or returned for him by the judges of election, one of whom was Mccoy iudge-this ballot, on motion, was counted by the committee for Me Coy, giving a plurality of one for Mccoy.
 The Mccoy partisans on the com mittee then became clamorous to declare the result. They voted to deny Mr. Brewsters petition to in vestigate the Richland township box and purge it of it's negro Re- publican votes, and other illegal and irregular votes mentioned in the petition. But at this iuncture two of the members of the com mittee, who had previously voted with the Mccoy forces, kicked out of the traces and announced that they would vote for the Crawford resolution to investigate Richland township. This resolution was passed and then the committee ad. journed to meet again on July l2, at which time the contest will be finally decided.
 The above is truthful and dis passioned statement of the present political situation in the Sheriff's