Evening journal., 1904-11-12
Official Count by Board
of Canvass Shows That
Morrison and MCFarIin
A 2 Tie
Judges Still Hearing
Contests in the Districts
in Rural Part Of
County

When the court convened this morn
ing to resume the oficial canvass Of
votes cast in this county the contest
filed by Robert McFarlin in the Sec
ond Election district of the Ninth Rep
resentative district, White Clay Creek
hundred, was taken up. BY the face of
the returns McFarlin was defeated for
Levy Court by ]. II. Morrison by four
votes.
Mr.. McFarlin in his petition alleged
that i'm this district, nine allots were
rejected which should have been count
ed and a number were counted that
should have been rejected. The box
for this district was sent for and OPEN
ed, but before the judges started TO ex-
anime the ballots Judge Spruance made
the following statement:
Gentlemen. these applications should
not be made at random. They should
not be drag-net applications. The pc
titions are sworn TO and the petitioner
should know his business"
~ epubliean Gain.
AS a result of the examination the
Democrats lost five votes and the Re-
publicans one, which makes a net gain
of four for the Republicans. This made
the entire vote for MrFarlin and Nor
rison a tie. There are several con-
tests in the same Levy Court district,
yet TO be disposed of. which may result
fn other changes. The certificates gave
the vote in this district as follows:
Morrison 146: McFarlin. 1870. After the
decision Of the court the vote is as fol-
lows: Morrison. 141: McFarlin. 129.
The contest made by McFarlin I'm the
Third Election district Of White Clay
Greek hundred was next taken up. ir
this district McFarlih asked that about
230 ballots. nearly the entire vote OF
the district be thrown out because they
had no stickers on them. This is q
question Of much interest to the mem
bers Of the bar and argument was
made to get the court to render a de-
cision on the matter.
Reinhardt and William s. Hillei
. argued to have the ballots thrown ou
and John Riggs and William T
Smalley argued against it. The cour
refused to throw the ballots out and
ruled that IT did not consider it as in
aidating the ballot
In the same district McFarlin alleges
that number of ballots were counted
that should have been thrown out anC
the ballot box was sent for and opened
The examination of the ballots cas-
in the Third district of White Cla!
Creek hundred did not result I'm an!
change of the vote for Levy Courtman
In this district the vote was: Morrison
129 and McFarlin III.
The official vote i'm White Clay Creel
hundred shows Armstrong, Republi
can. elected to the Legislature by
majority of 419. The vote was: Dear
sS1: Armstrong, 419. Peter A. Riley
Democrat, was elected assessor an
George T. Johnstone. Republican, wa
elected Road Commissioner. The in
spectors elected follow: First district
Daniel Thompson, r.: Second, o. "
Widows, D., and Third. Joseph 1
Weber r.
There are a number of contests Il
the first district Of New Castle hundred
Morrison and McFarlin both have con
tests, Gallagher. the defeated Demo
cratic candidate for the Legislature
contests the election of Wilson an
Barnes. the defeated candidate for as
SCISSOR also contests. The box wa
brought up and opened. The recoun
made no change in the result