Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-07
The Successful Candidates for Dele
gates to Philadelphia.
RECEIVED VERY HEAVY NAJORlfIES
Result Of the BaIIoting in the
Several Districts
A CONTEST THREATENED
CONTEST THREATENED

The citizens of the District who affiliate
with the republican party will be repre-
scented at the national republican conven-
ton, to be held at Philadelphia June 10, by
DR.. John E. Jones and Mr.. W. Calvin Chase
as delegates and Mr. George E. Emmons
and Lucius H Peterson as aIternates
These candidates were chosen by over
whelming majorities at the primary election
held throughout the District yesterday
over DR.. Robert Reyburn, Rev. George W.
Lee and W. F. Thomas, who were aspi-
rants for the positions of delegates and
Thomas G. Hensey and James A. Perry,
who desired to be alternates.
The polls in the twenty-five election dis
tricts were opened at 8 am and closed at 5
pm. yesterday, and nearly 1900 votes were
cast, or about one-fourth as many as were
found in the ballot boxes at the election
four years ago, when Andrew Gleason and
Perry Carson We're victorious. This mod
crate total was due to the fact, 1t Is stated
that greater safeguards were placed around
the polls yesterday, each voter being re-
Quired to give his name and place of resi-
dence before his ballot was accepted There
were three judges registrars at each
polling place. and when the polls were
closed they began the work of counting the
votes.
Session of Returning Board.
When this was completed the boxes and
the sheets containing the results of the
count were sent to the Office Of Judge John
B. Cotton, chairman Of the election board,
which had control of the primaries, and
were examined by a returning board COM
posed of Mr.. Chaplin Brown. president of
the Bar Association; Mr.. Aaron Bradshaw
and Mr.. Leo Simmons, the latter being
chosen to serve by the election board in
place of Mr.. w. s. Knox, president of the
Business Mems Association, who had been
selected to be a member, but who was late
in arriving.
The returns were all received by 8 o'clock,
but were not completed until nearly 1
o'clock this morning. A large crowd as
Sembled on F street in front of the Sun
building, in which Judge Cotton has his
office, and ingress was permitted to only
few persons, two police officers guarding
the main entrance.
There were minor irregularities found in
several districts and from the eighteenth
the only return was the ballot box filed
with ballots. All the candidates, however,
agreed that the ballots should be counted
by the returning board, and this was done
When the examination was concluded the
result showed 10,197 votes for JONES' O,19S
for Chase, 1855 for Reyburn. 1897 for Lee,
30 for Thomas, 1920 for Emmons, 1887
for Peterson, ) $50 for Hensey and BIZ for
Perry, the majorities of the victors thus
appproximating about 1000 votes.
Certificates Signed.
Mr.. L. NJ. Saunders who recently an
nounced that he was entirely out of local
politics. declared, after the result was made
known, of contrasting the election Of Jones
and Chase before the Philadelphia conven-
ton.
Saunders is a member of the election
board created by the national republican
committee, the other members of which are
Judge Cotton and W. Calvin Chase The
two latter signed today the necessary GER
tificates. showing the election of Jones and
Chase as delegates and Emmons and Peter
son alternates, and as the national COM
mittee in creating the board provided that
a majority of its members should decide all
questions the threatened contest will not
in the minds of leaders In local republican
ranks of all shades Of opinion amount to
anything.
Detail of Voting.
The vote by districts was as follows: