The Somerset reporter., 1906-03-15

At 10 o'clock Monday last Town Clerk,
Geo. simpson called the Skowhegan
meeting to order and, upon motion to
that effect, the reading of the warrant
was dispensed with. l. l.. Walton WAS
elected moderator, the meeting voting
that one vote be cast for him TO comply
with the law in regard to eleoting a
moderator by ballot The moderator
was sworn by the clerk and, being In.
structed by vote to do 80, appointed l..
Z. Emery, K. E. Greenwood and c. r.
Gardner a committee to receive, sort
and count votes. Geo. simpson, town
clerk, and r. F. Parker, first seleotman,
were reelected without opposition, and
then came the first contest of the day.
=. Il. Bradbury, second selectmap,
WAS a candidate for reelection and NJ. s.
Adams was also placed in nomination
Mr.. Adams had the endorsement of the
labor unions and must have been very
Loyalty supported by them. Mr. Brad
bury proved to be the choice of the
voters as will be seen by the committed,
report:
Whole number OF votes, 47o
Necessary to a choice, 24o
For NJ :. Adams, 2o4
For S. II. Bradbury, ITS
Nj. S. Adams was also candidate for
third selectman in opposition to A. IL
Wyman and in this very odd thing
happeAed. Without stating who the
ballots were for, the moderator reported
to the meeting that the ballot committee
had found in the ballot box two ballots
30 twisted or laid together az to leave
no doubt that they had been cast by on
person and also a like set of three bal
lots. The Moderator then told the meet
ing that these packages of three and
and two ballots respectfully could be
counted as five for the person named, or
that each package could be counted AS
one. or that they could be thrown out
all together, and asked the meeting to
decide which course should be pursued
There were motions TO have a new bal
lot and an amendment to this motion
calling for the use of the check list but
it was finally voted to order the ballot
committee To make their report con-
| sidering the package of two votes and
the package of three votes as one vote
| each. This decision of the meeting,
made without knowing how it affected
the candidates, was accepted as fair by
| the majority. but it necessitated another
| ballot, as thus counted it made the vote
exactly a tie az will be seen by the re
| port of the committee which was then
made public.
Whole number of separate votes for
A. II. Wyman, az
One package of two votes for Wy
man, evidently cast by one person,
One package of three votes for Wy
man, evidently cast by one person, 3
Total for Wyman, at
! Deducted from Wyman vote by or
der Of the meeting, on the suppostion
| that each package represented one vote
Net vote for A. II. Wyman, 274
Number of votes for NJ. 5. Adams, 274
Another ballot was of course neces
| sary and resulted in the reelection of A.
II. Wyman for third selectman as fol-
| lows:
Whole number of votes, 489
Necessary for choice, 245
For Nj. s. Adams aga
For A. II. Wyman, 2s7
There were two candidates for road
comm issioner, Geo. H. Webb, who has
held the Office for several years, and
VIM. Fl Davis, who was endorsed by
the trade unions. Mr.. webb was re-.
elected by a vote of 1853 to 1874 AS the
other committee were engaged in count
| ing the ballots for third selectman at
the time, Messrs. r. G. Dunlap, j. Wal
lace Blunt and w. A. Bailey. received
and counted the votes for road com
missioner.
The usual vote was passed making the
selectmen assessors and overseers of the
poor and directing them to appoint all