Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-02-01
WAYNE NEWS AN SWER6D.
Enron CpREDo ADVANCE.


News under the heading, "'The
Point is Plain, appears an editorial
IN which the editor of that paper
proceeds to quote statement made
by the ADVANCE concerning the re-
count of the votes cast at the recent
election for Sheriff and Commits
sioner of the County Court, and then
undertakes to get funny and says
1.-the point is too plain to be misun-
derstood;" that the ADVANCE wants
all illegal Democratic votes rejected
and all illegal Republican votes
counted. The News then informs
Its readers that Billups, the Demo
cratic candidate for Sheriff, was
elected by the face of the returns
and was ahead on the recount until
Cassville precinct was counted and
there it tells us that three Demo.
cratic ballots were thrown away be-
cause they were not properly signed
by the poll clerks and by reason of
the throwing away those three otes
Billups WAS put behind. The News
then ridicules the idea of the AD-
VANCE kicking on one hundred and
eighty-six Republicans at McComas
precinct being disfranchisei on the
theory that the failure of the poll
clerks at Cassville put Hunt the
Republican candidate for Sheriff.
ahead, and the same thing at Nc
Comas put Billups, the Democratic
candidate, ahead, and proceeding
upon the old adage wv hats sauce
for the goose Is sauce for the gand-
er" at the end of the editorial the
News man brushes the whole matter
aside and siiences all Republican
contentious by saying eff all the
ballots counted, then the
Democrats are elected If all of the
same or similar character are reject
ed the Democrats are elected
Where is the injustice to the Re
publicans?" 1t is strange that man
would say such thing through the
columns of paper that he sends out
for the public to read and believe
Does he not know that people will
sooner or later find out falsehood?
His whole argument is based upon
the fact that Billups lost three bal
lots at Cassville upon the same
ground that Hunt lost one hundred
and eighty-six at Me- omas, and he
then concludes that if it is legal and
fair for Billups To lose three votes
at Cassville because the poll clerks
failed to sign their name properly
and get behind, it would likewise be
legal and fair for Hunt to lose one
hundred and eighty six at Nc omas
for the same reason and get behind
Ills reason would be all right if his
facts were true, but his facts being
untrue his reasoning is false The
fact is Billups only lost one vote at
Cassville by reason of the failure of
the poll clerks to indorse their
names across the back of the ballots,
and that one was entirely different
from the McComas ballots which
the County curt rejected. At Cass-
vile the Republican clerk properly
Endorsed his name on the ballot but
the Democratic poll clerk instead of
Endorsing his own name across the
back of the ballot indorsed the
name of the voter, >. w. Loar, or
at least that is the way it is presum-
ed he happened to write the name
of ;. w. LOar instead of his own.
This ballot was rejected because it
did not have the names of both poll
clerks indorsed upon the back of it,
while the McComas ballots were re-
jected not because they did not have
both names of the poll clerks writ
ten on the back of them but because
each poll clerks name was not
placed there i'm his own handwriting.
Hunt lost ballot at one Of the pre-
cincts in the town of Wayne for the
same reason that Billups lost the
ballot at Cassville. They came out
exactly even on that score 1t if
true there were two other ballots re-
turned from Cassville that did not
have the name Of the Democratic
poll clerk indorsed thereon, but they
were neither OF them good on their
face no matter if they had been sign
cd by both poll clerks; they were
not sufficiently cancelled TO tell what
ticket or for whom the persons vot
ing them Intended 10 vote. Now,
will make this statement and TIA,
records made by the County Court
during the recount will prove IT,
Assuming that no change would
have occurred IN the recount of Nc
Comas precinct (and no change wa.
made ~ far ~ the recount was
suade) ON q complete recount, and
shat no ballots voted at any precinct