The age-herald., 1899-03-24
IS IT GOING TO BE
 HEWITT OR LOWE That Gets the Sixth Place on Jefferson
 Delegation !? EACH RECEIVED 2119 VOTES AenArdind tn nifinial pnfnrnr Cnnt in
According to Official Returns Sent in
 By Managers.
COMMITTEE ADJOURNs TO APRIL 1
After Counting and Accounting Votes for TwenUy-four Hours on Stretch Managers Fourteen Boxes
 to be Examined.

Whereas, the chairman protem. of
 the county democratic executive com-
 mittee has adjourned the committee to
 meet on Saturday, April l. Therefore,
 be 1t
 Resolved, That the subcommittee appointed to count the votes cast in the primary election also adjourn until Sat- urday, April l, at o'clock, in this room.
 That MT. Mitchell and MT. Kennedy
 be appointed custodians of the boxes.
 That MT. Moore be instructed to sum-
 mon the managers of such boxes as
 have come up irregularly, to appear be-
 fore the committee at it's session, Satur-
 day, April l, and that they bring with
 them any or all papers, boxes ballots,
 etc., used by them in the primary elsc-
 ton.
 WALTER MOORE, Chairman.
 J. s. KENNEDY.
 R. H. TEACH.
 TOM DUGGAN.
 JERRY FOUNTAIN, Secretary.
 EDGAR l.. MITCHELL, Secretary. The sub-committe appointed by the dem-
 
 county to recount the votes cast in last Saturdays primary have adjourned until tomorrow week without announcing who were the nominees selected by the primary. Or, rather, without saying who is the sixth man on the ticket.
 The contest now lies between Robert J. Lowe and R. G. Hewitt, and according to the last count, which made yesterday aft ternoon, there was a tie between them, each candidate having 2119 votes. The committee had been working for over twenty-four hours on dead stretch, with out sleep and with but very little food, before this result was obtained, and then they frankly admitted that they were at their wits end and must needs take sworn statements from some of the managers be- fore they could proceed further.
 Behind Closed Doors
 The committee began counting at clock Wednesday and worked continually all night long and all yesterday until late in the afternoon when they passed the above resolution and adjourned. They carried on their count behind closed doors, and the details of the meeting are not fully known or understood. The committee, whose duty 1t was to decide the result of the election as between Ruben F. kolb Robert J. Lowe, James Weatherly, R. G. Hewitt and John Shugart-H. F. Burruss having had his name withdrawn-began at the beginning and counted the ballots in every one of the boxes which had been cast for these five candidates. But a number of the boxes, Aarons, Wylam, Bethlehem, Chalkville, Selfs, Pinson Morris, Brookside, Irondale, Mary Lee, Partridge, Meeks, Harrington and Huey did not have the ballots in them, the managers having kept them out and sent the boxes back empty, except for the tally sheets announcing the total vote. For this reason the whole recount could not be made, and the committee Is compiled to send for the managers to certify as to the results in these boxes.
 It Is understood, however, that these re- counted votes, so far as they went, gave Hewitt lead over Lowe for the sixth place on the ticket, of something like twenty votes. Captain Kolb is safe for fifth place, being about two hundred votes ahead Neither MT. Weatherly nor Mir Beddow stand any showing for catching up with Lowe and Hewitt.
 The Official Returns
 As a complete recount was impossible, the committee decided to make out the re- turns for Lowe and Hewitt as they appear ed on the face of the tally sheets sent in by the various managers. Ths was tho count which made the two candidates tie with 2119 votes each. There is a dispute of some kind about Lowes vote at Cedar Grove. He is credited there with having received IA votes, though some claim that he Is entitled to only 13. In this case, the official vote would give MT. Hewett one more vote in the total than MT. Lowe re- ceived.
 There was a great deal of talk yester- day about a compromise of some kind be- ing effected between these two candidates. Some say that MT. Hewitt offered to come down in MT. Lowe's favor, but that the lat ter declined to have the office unless he was entitled to it. Others proposed to let both candidates run In the general election of July. making seven candidates in all on the ticket, the man receiving the lowest vote to be dropped out But the other five nominees object to. any such plan, for 1t