The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-11-29
PROPOSE TO CONTEST.

The Baltimore Sun" of Wednesday,
said "That all the contests over the re-
cent election are not going to be made by
one party was made plain yesterday, and
from statements made by several gentle
men it seems certain that all the Repub
licans who are elected to the House Of
Delegates ON the face of the returns are
by no means sure of their seats.
Ex-Congressman Joshua W. Miles, Of
Somerset county, was in the city ycster-
day and emphatically stated that the
Democrats of his county proposed to
make contests not only against the Re
publicans elected to the Legislature, but
also against the election of the County
Clerk, who is a Republican. eve will"
he said, "contest the seat of Mr.. A. Lin
coin Dryden in the House of Delegates,
as well as the other Republican, for the
reason that we firmly believe a recount
will show our candidates to have been
elected We have also decided to con-
test the election of the County Clerk. A
number of Democratic ballots were thrown
out in Somerset county that ought to
have been counted. AS for the Republic
can proposed contests in our county we
look upon them mostly as buster. The
Somerset county ballot was passed upon
by the courts and judged legal in every
respect
AS yet it has not been determined to
make contests in any of the other coun-
ties, but the report some time ago that
Senator PutZel's seat would be contested
was revived yesterday, and it was even
stated that one of the defeated Democra-
tic candidates in the Second Legislative
had been approached in reference to
making contest. From other sources it
leaked out that the question Of making a
direct contest againt Mr.. PutZci, with the
hope of pulling through not only Mr..
Alexander H. Robertson, but the other
four candidates in the district who were de-
feated, is being seriously considered. 1t
is pointed out that while just after the
election Mr.. Putzel's plurality was sup
posed to be between 400 and 500, the Of
fetal figures given out last week show
that is only 299
Information that has been gathered in
the last few weeks concerning the
defective ballots, it is claimed, show that
the judges in that district threw out sew
eral hundred Democratic votes because
slight marks, which the Supervisors of
Election had in an open letter instructed
them to ignore and count such ballots.
In the Tenth ward alone the Democratic
Democratic votes were lost in this
way. The four candidates, who, besides
| Mr.. Robertson, were defeated il this Sc
cond district are Messrs. Johns, MaGrath,
Carr and Swami.
According to the official returns Mr.
John received more votes than either of
the other three and is only 45 votes be
hind Mr. Arnold, the lowest Republican
| who was defeated by Mcssrs. Straus anG
Campbell. In order to win Mr.. Johns
| would have to overcome the lead of 3Si
| votes of Mr. Kerr, who, next to Messrs
Arnold and Hopes, is the lowest Repub
lican.
Whether or not the contest will be at
tempted, the Republican delegates elect
from the Second district are not quite
easy in their minds and several have ex.
pressed their fear that an effort will bt
| made to unseat them.