Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-14
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.
THE COUNT OF THE BALLOTS IN
UNION DISTRICT HAS NOT YET
BEEN COMPLETED.
CLOSE RACE FOR ASSESSOR
In the Country District, Which Only
The Official TabuIation of the Re
turns will Determine Between
EngeI and Madden-The Results
in Centre and Webster and In
complete Returns From Union.

The returns from the Democratic
urinary election held last Saturday
are not yet all in, but they are sur
ficiently complete to indicate the result
upon every contest save the assessor
ship in. the city district and the dis
trict officers and delegates in Liberty.
The ticket in Union was very long
and the vote extremely heavy. The
Judges and clerks worked all Satur-
day night, and Sunday morning one
of the clerks took sick and was COM
PEELED to discontinue. Considerable
time was lost in finding another clerk.
The officials continued without sleep
until shortly after midnight this
morning. when 545 of the 70S votes
cast had been counted. Bearley was
then more than one hundred votes
ahead of Weisgerber, and his nom
ination for commissioner was assured.
The indications also pointed to the
nomination of G. F. Brandfass for
school commissioner.
The race between Engel and Mad
den for assessor, county district, is
very close, and the official returns
from the missing precincts will alone
tell the result. In the tabulated fig
ures below, Madden has a majority
of "a. AS the count progressed in
Union, Madden gained on his oppo-
nent. The early ballots had a very
pronounced Engel tinge. In order to
secure the nomination Madden will
have to hold his own in the Union
district ballots remaining to be
counted, in order to offset the Engle
majority in the Potomac and school
house precincts in Liberty, which had
not reported last night. Half of Lib
erty gave Engel majority over Mad
den of 81. If the other five precinsts
do as well Madden's present majority
| will be wiped out, and a majority for
Engel of three substituted. 1t will
be seen that Madden will have to Sc
cure majority of the remaining 1853
ballots in Union in order to defeat
Engle, but Engle has been running
stronger than his opponent in that
district. In any event the result will
be SO close that the official count may
be necessary to determine the result.
Centre and Webster districts were
not completed until yesterday after
noon. The result in Centre sustained
the forecast in the Sunday Register,
John ]. Byrne defeating lbs opponents
| for the Commissionership. In Web
ster the race for Commissioner was ex-
ceedingly close between Stephens and
Stab, the latter winning out by a few
votes.
The total number of votes cast was
about 3,340, which Is larger than the
vote at the primary election four
years ago. Then there were contests
| for Clerk of the Circuit Court, and
Clerk of the County Court, which
brought out many more voters. I'm
der the circumstances the vote was
surprisingly large, and the Demo-
Gratis grant to their opponents all the
comfort they can derive from an ex-
| animation of the aggregate or the dis
trict vote where there were fights over
the Commissionership. The vote for
Sheriff in 1896 was 3.248.
The tabulated vote on the head of
the ticket, and the vote from missing
| precincts, so far as it could be Sc
cured last night, are given below: