The sun., 1900-11-13
INSPECTOR PUT FOUR
REJECTED BALLOTS IN
HIS POCKET 70 BURN
Second Red Lion District Held
Up and Election Officers
Summoned.
WILLIAM CHANDLER WINS
Charles Megginson Elected to Levy
Court Commissioners. Protests
i'm His Districts Were With
drawn. Court Adjourned
A~~S Until This Morning.


drawn. Court Adjourned
- Until This Morning.
Yesterdays session of the Superior
Court in considering the returns of last
Tuesdays election was marked by con
tests in Il number of different Itrprcsen
tativc districts. Directly after court con-
vcrcd l.. Irving Handy, representing i
Rosrhy McMullm, Democratic nominee
iDr Levy Court. Withdrew the protests
10 the returns in the First, Second and
Fourth election districts OF the Tenth
Representative districts. He said that
Mr.. McAlullin was satisfied that the
contest would be in vain and did not
,lrsir" to occupy the time of the court.
Then Walter II. Hayes, for Charles
Megginson, Republican nominee for
Levy Court withdrew his protest i'll
tho Third Of the Tenth. The dropping
of the protests makes certain the elec-
tion of Mr.. Mcgginson, ana the next
Levy Court will undoubtedly be ltcpubli-
can.
The court then had the vote of New
Castle hundreds four districts c;lnvasScd.
there being no further contests there.
In taking up the remaining contests.
the court announced that the complaint
filed against the First of the Ninth by
Mr. Handy for John w. Morrison.
Democratic nominee for Representative
| in the Ninth, was not specific enough to
require the opening of the box, having
conclusion of law instead of stating
numbers.
Both sides had filed protests III the
Second election district of the Ninth and
the court decided to open the box. The
recount resulted in the throwing out of
Il Republican and Prohibition ballot
IL net gain of two for Morrison. AS
| William Chandlcr's plurality i'll the
whole hundred was only four, this re-
duced it to two.
The complaint which had been filed
in the Third election nstrict of the Ninth
was withdrawn by William III. llcald.
The official vote of the Ninth Repre-
sentative district was rs follows:
John w. Morrison, D............... 81
William Chandler. R................. 81;
Harry NJ. Mote, Il. P....................
Chundlcr's plurality ..............
The official vote of the Tenth Repre-
sentative district was us follows
lChaunecy T.. IIolcomh, D.......... d2j
III. W. lI,ishebcck R................ 55C
Thomas Slack, L. p.....................
lIoIcomb's plurality ...........,... q
The court next took mp the returns ol
the First election distric, of Red Lion
hundred, the Twelfth Representative,
sdis,rct, in which II. Bayard lleifcl
Democrat. and Theodore Il. Clark, Re
publican, were tried. j. Harvey White
man, for Mr. Hrisel, and w. ii. lIeald
for Mr. Clark, assisted the court in re-
viewing the ballots. Mr. Heisel claimed
that 25 ballots had not been properly
stamped, that 20 or more had been
marked with ink and two or moro
mutilated.
The court rejected II Democratic and
six Republican ballots in the First dis
trict. which makes the vote there. lleisel,
I1g5 Clark, 1873. One blank ballot was
found and no account was taken of it.
At the afternoon session the Second
election district of Red Lion hundred
was the district to be first counted 10y
the court. Chief Justice Lore read Il
complaint made by J. Harvey White
man in behalf Of II. Bayard IIeisel
similar to the one which Air. Whiteman
filed In the First election district of Red
Lion hundred
The court ordered the ballot box 10 hr
opened and Prothonotary Moollcy in try
ing to unlock it broke the key after
which the court ordered that the box he
broken open. On inspecting the con
tents Of the box the court failed 10 find
the ballots which were said to have been
rejected At this point Walter IL. Hayes
stated to the court that Thomas II.
Swuyne Who was Il judge III the polling
place in that district was present and
could possibly state where the rejected
Iballots were Sir. Swayne after being
lswoim stated that Prank C!ravcr. the in
sprctcr in that district, had put four of
the rejected ballots III his pocket and
said that he was going to burn them.
Thc court decided to. huld The Second
district of lied Lion over unii this morn
ing. Fna court ordered Mr.. Swayne to
Iupprar in court at $50 O'clock thiS morn
ing ana also ordered Sheriff Taylor to
have Frank Cleaver, William Carnagic,
William Roberts and William Il. Lester.
the other four election officers in that dis
tiict. prpHcitt ut the same time.
The court next took UP the Thirteenth
Representative district, st. Georges
hundred, Complaints had been made in
each Of the four ele, ton districts of st.
Georges hundred by the Democrats in
behalf o. Mr. Colpritts who was defeat
ed by Mir. Ellison, Republican, for State
Senator. She count ng OF the ballots III
the First election district of ST. Georges
hundred resulted in the court rejecting
II Democratic ballots and II Republican
ballots. In the official count of the sec
y