The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-07-05
Thrown Out by the Can
vassing Committee.
CONTEST IN CANTON
Nicholas Dickes Set Aside and
Louis Hug Made Com NIT
teeman-.Officiai
Count.

DemOcratlC primaries was not cOmplet-
ed by the executive committee until 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, at which
time Chairman Williams had to take
the train to his home in Alliance. The
list of delegates to the state convention
and the precinct committeeman were
not completed when the committee ad-
journed. but they will be figured out by
Chairman Williams and reported to the
secretary.
After canvassing the returns of AL
lance, 1t was determined to throw out
the entire vote cast in the second ward
of Alliance. The reason for this was
stated in Tuesdays News-Democrat.
There was a discrepancy between the
of votes returned and the names
on the tally sheet. Two sets of figures
were also sent in with the returns, and
for no candidate did the figures agree.
The second or corrected count contain
ed 113 votes while but 80 appeared upon
the tally sheet 1t was thought that as
the tally sheet was full that possibly
the additional names had been kept on
a separate sheet, which was not sent in
with the returns. There was no one
present to explain the situation. and
the entire precinct was upon motion
thrown out. The discrepancy appear
ing in Chairman Williams's own city,
he took no part in the discussion.
While the throwing out of the hun
dred or more votes did not In any in
stance change the result of the primar-
les, 1t lessened very materially the vote
of Morgan and Pontius for representa-
tive.
There was a contest in precinct of
the Fourth ward in Canton. Louis
Hug, who had certified his name in and
had 1t placed upon the official ballot as
a candidate for committeeman from
that precinct. was not satisfied with the
result, and made contest upon tech
nicality. A number of persons were
present and took sides with him. Hug
stated that he had complied with the
rules of the committee in reporting his
name in to get it upon the ticket, and
did not suppose that he had any opposi-
tion for the position of committeeman.
He said that Nicholas Dickes, who was
one of the judges at the primaries in
that precinct, became candidate on
the day of the nomination and that his
name was written upon the ballots CIV
en- out to voters while his (Aug's)
name was scratched out. Hug got five
votes and Dickes 13.
Hug thought that an unfair advan-
tage had been taken of him. and his
was that the affair was ir-
regular. There was considerable dis
cussion over the matter. John T. Hays
raised the point that as the primaries
in Canton were under the direction Of
the city board of elections and control
led by the Australian ballot regulations,
that Dickes could not be judge of the
election and at the same time candi-
date for any position to be filled at the
primaries over which he was sitting as
judge. Squire Reigner thought It
would be setting aside the expressed
will of the majority to ignore the fact
that Dickes had received the most
votes. After some further discussion,
the committeeship was given 70 Hug.
There were six precincts in the county
in which the polls were not opened.
They were Alliance precinct. North
Lawrence. Youngstown Hill, Pike pre-
cinct of Pike township. Stands, West
Brookfield and Mt. Union.
A short time before the time for
Chairman Williams to go to the train
the aid of j. II. Kaufman was secured
to add up the columns of figures repre-
senting the votes of the various candi-
dates. Mr.. Kaufman Is an expert ac-
countant and the nominee for county
auditor on the Democratic ticket. II
was but few moments until he had the
footings. which show the total votes In
the county for the various candidates
to be as follows:
Representatiye-N. A. Ernst, col;
Emmet r. Morgan. 962; Jackson w
Pontius, 759; John G. Warwick, 707.
Sheriff-Peter Smith, 1.415.
AUDITOR. H. Kaufman, 500; Ferd
r. Weber, 700.
Clerk-Charles l.. Oberly, I,471.
Commissioner-Leo j. Braucher, 749;
H. M. Martin, 3O9; Michael Miller, 459
Sixty-nine votes were cast at the
primaries for Squire Henry w. Hosslel
for treasurer. and 1t was determined tf
place his name upon the ticket. Two
years ago Mr.. Hossler received quite Z
number Of votes for the same position
but refused to allow his name to go up
on the ticket. There is no assurance
that he will run this year.
l.. j. DALEY received 81 votes for In
firmary director. and Adam Schisslel
72. There were scattering votes al
over the county for other persons, nom
of whom were candidates, Mr.. Schissle
was declared the nominee subject to hi
acceptance.