The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-12
C0UNCILMEN
COUNT VOTES
CanVaSSing Returns on the City
Election.
FIRST PRECINCT GONE OVER
NO IMPORTANT CHANGES IN
FIGURES PUBLISHED.
FIRST PRECINCT GONE OVER

The results Of last Tuesdays mu-
nicipaI election viii be officially deter
mined this week Last night the city
council commenced canvassing the re
turns, and after putting in three hours
the eleven districts in the First pre-
cinct were gone through. Then a re-
cess was taken till o'clock this after
noon, but it is unlikely that a session
viii be held tonight, on account of the
regular weekly meeting Of the council.
At the rate Of progress expected to be
made. the canvass viii not be COM
pleted until Thursday night.
No discrepancies Of any consequence
were found in the official returns, and
with few exceptions the votes credited
to each candidate in The Herald the
morning after the election were IN
changed. The canvass should have
commenced at noon, but at that time
there was not a quorum Of cOuncilmen
present and an adjournment was taken
until 1880 in the evening. It was fortu-
nate that the effort was not made to
commence the work until evening be
cause the abstract sheets had not been
received from the printers.
At the evening session all the coun-
Cilmen except Beatty and Davis were
present. The adoption Of a resolution
offered by Hewlett determined the
method of canvassing, which was that
the voting districts were taken up in
numerical order. the number of names
marked voted in the register COM
pared with the number in the poll
. book and discrepancies noted, the num-
Der of votes credited to each candidate
on the tally sheet verified and the
/ highest aggregate noted. so that more
votes could not be counted than had
been cast. Then the result in each dis
tTiCt was announced by Councilmen
Robertson. Whittemore and G. r.
Howe. the committee delegated to act
as teIars for taking down on the can
! vassing sheets.
Poll Book Not Certified.
The canvass of the returns from the
First district showed no irregulaTity Of
any sort, and the work was quickly
ended but when the returns from dis
tIict we've taken up perpleXing sit
uatiOn was presented. The poll book
was not certified TO- as the law directs,
and for the purpose OF determining
what the boards course should be in
( the premises further VerificatiOn Of the
districts returns was passed until an
opinion could be obtained from the
. Z
/ work ceased for the night the tally
sheet and other returns from this dis
/ trict were considered, Attorney Ste
! phens having orally declared that any
/ infOrmality IN the returns cannot be
made to operate as q rejection of them
! for canvassiug.
/ The returns from district ( showed
/ four more votes on the poll book than
! were checked off on the registry list,
/ and the same kind Of discrepancT ap-
! peared in the returns from districts 8
and 10. None OF the names on the reg
istry book of district were marked
4 voted and in districts Z and there
/ were d couple of Irregularities, COM
I pairing the poll book with the voted
/ names in the register.
/ In the returns from district IL were
found from thirty to thirty-twO votes
I for the Socialist candidates. In this
district are located many of the en-
: plOyees of the Salt Lake brewery. In
district ; one vote was cast for John
+ Clark for mayor and in one vote for
Richard W. Young. Districts Z. 10 and
/ II went Democratic on the head of the
/ ticket by small majorities.
Result of the Canvass.
The verified returns gave the follow
+ ing result on the ballOting for council
men for the First precinct:
F ]. Hewlett, 2,092; J. J. Thomas,
zoos: Arthur Robinson, 2,055; c. E.
/ Street, l,5SS; George T. Brice, 1918;
| William Naylor, 1,5FG. The majority
] for each of the three Republican can
( didates was 504 for Hewlett, 40 for
/ Thomas and 467 for Robinson.
Following are the correct totals of
votes cast in the First precinct for the
/ general ticket:
For Mayor-ThompsOn, 1892; Leary,
/ !, 709; Stewart, ~.
For Recorder-Nystrom, 2,059; SlSsn,
1,617.
For Auditor-Reiser, 2.1O5; Swan. l.
$50
Fer Recommendation 1911;
Morris. 1.76S.
For Attorney-Nye, 2,117; Stephens
1868.
For Judges-Diehl. zoos; Tanner, p
041; Sommer, 1881; Thomas, 1,474; Gun
( ter, 223; Lewis, 20S.