Arizona republican., 1905-02-03

votes, or rather a loss of thirteen for | Cook. Thirteen of the votes which had | been counted for Cook were excluded | as was one of the votes which had been cast for Walker But one of the bal ] lots for Walker which had been reject ed by the election board was counted bringing his vote up to the figure at which the canvassing board had fixed it. The final count in this ward is, Cook, PIG; Walker, 2O6.
 In the count of the Second ward vote Cook gained four votes. It was also disclosed that the inhabitants of this ward, supposed to be the most cuItur- ed district in the city, know very lit tie of the Australian ballot system or else they had employed their ingen- uity in disregarding 1t. The ballots there were infinitely worse than those
 of the Fourth ward, where the MeXi-
 can population chiefly resides. The count gave Cook in the Second ward
 235 and Walker 225. The original fig
 ures were: Cook. 232; Walker, 226.
 Very few new rules for the counting of the ballots were made yesterday, most of the disputes coming under one
 or another of the rules established the
 day before It was settled though that
 there must be some kind of a cross employed by the voter It need not be a very artistic cross but there must be somewhere in the device an inter- section of lines.
 There was one ballot in the Fourth ward vote which was not counted yes terday, nor had it been counted at any other time. It bore an undOubted dis
 tinguishing mark. It had been cast by a man who had been suspected of hay ing received s for his vote. That sus- piciOn was confirmed yesterday when it was discovered that he had boldly written his name across the face of the ballot, presumably for the purpose of convincing his employers that he had honestly earned his money.
 The count of the Tempe vote reveal ed a wide unfamiliarity with the in tricacies of the Australian ballot sys- tenn. The intention of one voter was expressed by a cross in the letter 70" of the words "OmciaI Ballot" on the upper margin of the ballot. The at torneys for MT. Walker had the nerve to claim this for the entire democratic ticket on the ground that the 70" was nearer the democratic column than the republican column.
 Another Tempe voter had scratched out the name of MT. Fowler and had written under it the name of NJ. A. Smith. Another had made well exc Cuted crosses in the paralleIograms containing the names of all the repub- lican candidates and had put a cross in the square before the names Of the socialist candidates. It was the Opin- ion of Judge Kent that this voter in tended to vote the socialist ticket first and then the republican ticket as his second choice.
 There was another ballot which re- vealed very little of the intention Of the voter. MT. Bennett as usual claim ed it for the democratic ticket. Said he: Tt is evident that it was the in tention of the voter to vote the dem ocratic ticket" to which Judge Kibbey sarcasticaIIy replied: 'I should think from the character of it that it was cast by a democrat"
 At four o'clock when an adjournment was taken there had been counted in this precinct. v votes for Walker and 7S for Cook. The full vote according to the election returns was, Walker, IFS; Cook. 2o5. Tn the recount of the Tempe precinct so far as it has gone, Walker has lost three votes.
 We have remarked that a rOod many