The age-herald., 1900-06-17
primary election held April II, 1900.

primary election held April IA, 1900.
 When the County Committee met on April 20, 1900, to canvass the returns or said primary I had reason to believe that errors had been made against me and l therefore challenged the correctness of the managers certificates sent up in the sev- eral boxes and, following the precedent set in the matter of declaring the nominees Of the party for delegates to the constitution al convention, which was to have been held, and which were chosen under a like plan, l requested the committee to recount the ballots cast for candidates for County Treasurer believing that what was fair and right to do in that elecuon-and IL was done on motion of my competitor, MT Gray, who was then member of the com mittee-was fair and right to do in this election.
 I made this challenge and request in good faith, believing from information then in my possession that true and ac- curate count would show that plurality of the votes had been cast for me and that I was thereby entitled to the nomi- nation.
 The plan under which said primary cleo ton was held provided that the managers s of the several election boxes, upon count ing up the votes, should make duplicate certificates, giving the name of each per son voted for, the name of the office and the number of votes cast for each,' and that one certificate should be given to one of the managers, who would return 1t to the committee, and one should be placed In the box together with the ballots, poll list, tally sheets and other memoranda made by the managers, and the box sealed up nd rattIrnpd the committee Dy the re- turning officer.
 The plan further provides that when the committee should come to canvass the re- turns, that these certificates should be con- pared and that if any conflict or obscurity is shown the committee shall proceed to open the ballot box for the precinct and by comparison of the ballot and certificates ascertain the true results"
 The respective managers, whose duty it was to return the certificates entrusted to them failed to do so, except as to five or six boxes out of the siXty-Six, and for that reason the comparison of certificates could not be had. It thereupon became the duty of the committe to compare the one certifi- cate with the ballots in the box and made the demand therefor before stated, but the committee refused to recount the bal lots.
 The plan further provides that the committee shall declare who are the nomi- nees for the respective offices, unless there be contest in which event the committee will fix time and place for hearing the same.'
 filed my contest with the committee be- fore the result was ascertained and de- manded the fulflment of this provison of the plan. But the committee refused to fix time and place for hearing" my contest and declared Henry B. Gray the nominee.
 I immediately gave notice of an appeal to the State Committee and caused a resolu- tion to be introduced providing for the preservation by the committee of the bal lots returned in the several boxes, pending my appeal, but the committee, on motion of MT. Walter Moore, laid said resolution on the table. I then caused a resolution to be intro- duced providing that the chairman of the committee preserve the boxes and their contents intact pending said appeal. This motion was also tabled. My friends there upon preserved said boxes and their con- tents as shown by the affidavits hereto attached. The State committee did not sus- tain my appeal.
 Failing to get an official recount, re- count was made in the manner and under the conditions set forth in the affidavits hereinafter set out. That recount demon strates that received seventy GW more