The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-07

we're present. as were also the candidates
themselves and number OF their advisers.
As the returns were read Fred Matson
and James w. Noel compared the figures
with those In their possession and figured
the loss or gain for Ensley. Jacob Buen-
nagel and Frederick Cooper kept track or
the Kuhn vote. William Bogardus. deputy
city controller, watched over two adding
machines. one Of which carried the official
vote for Ensley while the other kept Kuhn's
figures In addition 10 this Mr.. Ensley had
two men who compiled the total vote for
treasurer I'm each township and ward as
fast as all the precincts were heard from.
All these careful preparations and the
crowded courtroom gave evidence OF the
intense interest in the race for treasurer.
The board voted TO receive the returns
from the out townships first. as the precinct
officers in the city could be reached more
easily than those from the country, and
Cente- township (eutside) was called. The
work proceeded slowly. as 1t required about
ffteer minutes to read and record the vote
on the State and county tickets. At first
only one man read. but In the course OF an
hour or two IL was found that time could
be saved by having one man read the vote
or the State ticket while a second read
only the county vote. 1t was late in the
afternoon before the First ward was
reached. and at that time there were five
precincts missing from Wayne township.
The totals for Ensley and Kuhn in. the
townships completed were as follows:
Center (outside)-Kuhn. 332; Ensley. 37s.
Decatur-Kuhn. 81; Ensley, 20s Franklin
Kuhn. 313; Ensley. 1s2- Lawrence-Kuhn.
215; Ehsiey. ZIG. Perry-Kuhn. 311; Ensley,
s07 Tike-Kuhn. S21; Ensley. 2ls. Warren
Kuhn. $50; Ensley, 46O Washington
Kuhn. COZ: Ensley, 457.
ENSLEY GAINED FIVE VOTES.
These townships showed a slight plurality
for Kuhn. but the official returns also
showed a net gain of seven for Ensley over
and above the claims made by the Re-
publican county committee. In the second
precinct OF Franklin a question arose over
the vote for Kuhn. and the bag containing
the ballots was opened for a comparison
Of the tally sheets. The result showed five
votes In favor OF Ensley.
When the wards were taken up the work
went along a. little more rapidly and the
result was even more satisfactory to Ems
ley ard his friends. In the second precinct
OF the Second, for instance. the official
vote showed a gain of fourteen for the Re-
publican candidate and gains of one and
two were made in several other precincts.
on the other hand some losses were shown,
but the net result was always in Ensley's
favor.
Kuhn and his friends received severe
jolt when the returns from the tenth pre-
cinct of the Second were read. In the Sen
tinel OF yesterday the vote in this precinct
was given as 131 for Kuhn and fifty-eight
for Ensley. The official report practically
reversed the figures, showing ffty-two for
Kuhn and 1O7 for Ensley. This made a
difference Of ninety-eight in the figures of
the Democrats which they based their
claim of Kuhn's election by a plurality of
113. The Republicans had the figures coz
rect IN this precinct and consequently there
was no gain for Ensley over the claim
made yesterday.
In further confirmation of the claim of
Ensley's election Fred Matson yesterday
afternoon made a careful. comparison of
the figures published in the Sentinel yes
ter0ay with the figures in the hands of the
Republican county committee. The Senti-
nel's figures came from the Democratic
county committee and were the ones on
which the claim of Kuhn's election by a
plurality of lib was based. However, when
Mr.. Matson had made the comparison he
found that the Sentiners figures really
showed plurality for Ensley of 271, or 159
better than the Republicans claimed. Mr..
Matson took this as reliable evidence that
the Democrats have been attempting gil
gantfc bluff in claiming Kuhn's election
and that they had absolutely nothing on
which to base their claims.
REFUSED TO MAKE STATEMENT.
The men who were making the COMPARE
sons for Kuhn would not make any state
ment as to what the official returns showed
for or against their claims. They said
they found they had made some gains