The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-06-17
MeRION'S VOTE CANVASSED.
County Democratic Executive Com
mittsa Held Session SATURDAY..


court house Saturday. Chairman
Baskin presided. Roll call showed all
the precincts represented except
Romeo, Orange Springs, Linadale and
Stanton.
J. VI. Douglass, the new committee
man from Shady precinct, instead of
S. R. Pyles, resigned, was seated.
L. d. Stafford and H. L. Seckin-
ger, holding proxies from Kendrick
and MarteI, respectively, were seated.
f. W. Davis moved that the COM
mittee proceed to canvass the returns
of the primary of June Z; that moth
ing be considered in said canvass save
the returns of the inspectors, except
in cases of contests, in which cases
notice of contest shall be filed with
the committee prior TO the COM
mencement of the canvass; and no
other ballots save those mentioned
by the inspectors in their re-
turns be considered. This motion
was carried.
The returns from precincts No 20
and 26 were not signed by the in
spectors, but as there were no contests
and the certificates and oaths of the
inspectors accompanied the returns,
showing no intention of fraud, E. w.
Davis moved that the same be can
vassed in the regular way. Motion
carried.
While the total of the vote.was
being made up by the secretary, w.
X. Zewadski appeared before the
committee in the interest of J. d.
! Bassett, whose name was on the bal
/ lot voted on May 10th as candidate
J for Justice of the peace for the An
/ thonv district. Mr. Bassett had com
piled with all the rules under which
/ the election was held, but on the day
( of the election J. r. Wilder's name
was written instead of printed upon
the ballots, and he received the
/ the largest number of votes for the
office of Justice of the peace for said
district, and was declared the nOmi-
nee of the party for said Office at the
meeting of the committee held May
Ii. a motion was made to the effect
that the protest be not considered for
the reasons: First, that it is not
presented before the committee in
such form as to enable the committee
to investigate the legality of said
. election; second, no proper or suf-
ficient notice of this contest has been
! given this committee; third; the con-
test is made too late to give relief"
/ A substitute to this was offered by L.
! s. Light to the effect that a COM
mittee be appointed to investigate the
/ case. The substitute was lost. A
vote was then taken and the original
motion was carried, thus declaring
Mr.. Wilder the nominee. Mr.. Wild
! er's fee had been rendered the secre-
tary, but was not accepted on account
of the date having expired for its
payment.
Considerable feeling is manifest at
the action of the committee in this
case and it is thought it will be APP
pealed.
/ The secretary announced the result
of Marion county's election on June
Z as follows:
For U. S. Senator
J. y. c. Stockton, $40.
]. p. Taliaferro. 793.
StocktOn's majority, -.
For Governor
y. B. Broward 932.
r. W. Davis, $40.
| BrOward's majority. 1872.
| For Secretary of State
/ l. proop,a 40
H. c. Crawford. 7O9.
Broome's majority, SO.
For Sheriff
| ]. 2. Galloway, SIG.
| Henry Gordon. S72.
| GOrdon's majority, 80.
For County Commissioner, Second Dis
trict
H. w. Long, 23s.
V. P. Smith, 1S9.
! Longs majority. AZ.
Fifth District
W. D. BObbitt, Isl.
c. w. Turner, 2S2.