The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-04
Hue S GIVES UP.
Says He VIII NCt n 60 Park
er's Election.
WIN Rely Entirely Upon the
Canvass.
HE DOESN'T KNOW.
Says That He May Have Been
Elected.
Council Will Canvass Returns
on Friday Night.
KNOW.

Hughes and his friends have given M
their plan to contest the election Of Par
ker
"An I want" said Mr.. Hughes. is
that the council 60 over the figures as
returned by the judges to the city clerla
before am satisfied that I am de-
feated."
This is always done by the council and
will be done next Friday night
Mr.. Hughes thinks there might be a
mistake in the figures as returned to the
commissioner Of elections as sometimes
The clerks do not add the figures on the
tally sheet correctly. The verification
of the tally sheet almost invariably
shows some errors and Mr. Hughes says
ne wants these reports gone over before
he viii be satisfied. The law requires
that the council shall do this.
There can be no doubt of the result Of
the returns as made to the commissioner
of elections so far as addition is con-
cerned, for they have been gone over by
at least 100 people and the correctness os
the figures is not questioned The judges
made returns to the election commits
sioner from all OF the precincts. but,
through some error, the commissioner
does not have them all. Three are miss
ing, but the majorities on these three
have been vouched for by the judges OF
the precincts. SO there can be no error 81
far as these returns are concerned.
The law requires that the council meet
Friday night and go over the returns
which have been submitted to the city
clerk by the judges of the election These
returns are made up by the judges and
are sealed and left with the city clerk.
They are not opened until the night of
the meeting Of the council when they sit
as an election board The council then
goes over the tally sheets and verffes
the totals II any mistakes are made
the council coErects them and when they
have completed the verification of the
sheets, they viii issue a certificate Of
election TO the men. who according to
the sheets have the majority Of the votes
The officers thus obtaining certificates
can at once go before a person qualified
TO administer an oath and be sworn in
and then take the office to which the
certificate entities them
If the council finds that Mr.. Parker is
elected according to the returns. he will
be given his certificate and then will
take his place.
If Mr.. Hughes is dissatisfied with the
esult or if he inagines that there has
been fraud in the election he can then
hle his contest and the matter win take
the same procedure that other contest
cases take The mayor will appoint
committee from the council to canvass
The ballots and If there are other ques-
tions the matter viii go into the courts.
It Is not likely that there will be any
contest for Mr. Hughes says that he will
be satisfied with a verifcatiOn of the
tally sheets.
Mr. Parker says that he does not OBJ
5ect to a verification OF the vote and
that he would not object to a contest. $
he is satisfied that it would increase the
majority for himself. The ballots which
are held out on account Of marking both
the Citizens and Democratic ticket
would then be counted, and that would
certainly run him ahead by at least 6s
votes.
Mr. Parker said this morning that he
1aNored a thorough investigation of the
ballots If the opposition was not satisfied.
as ne was confident that he would benefit
by a recount
Tn answer to the question as to who he
would appoint in the different city offices
he SAID. Il have made no promises and
have not thought about the matter When
the council meets and verffies the returns
A Will begin to look the matter up. In
the meantime i viii not make a promise
ker denies the rumor that he has offered
the position of chief of police to Hank
Lindsay. or the SUPPLEMENTARY OF the
elecgrlc light plant to L r. YOunt
While Mr. Hughes pretendS to be Op-
posed to a contest, the fact is that both
sides are getting ready for a legal battle
Hughes lawyers have talked of question,
1rg the vote OF russian women. while |
Parker lawyers are ready to demand that |
many ballots which were thrown out /
shall be counted