New-York tribune., 1906-11-17
SMALL REPUBLICAN GAIN.
Inspecting Doubtful Ballots Nos0-
Some FreaE VoteS.

Inspection of the void and protested ballots
was begun yesterday morning In Part Nv or the
Supreme Court The ballots were opened by
Edgar Hirschberg and Charles A. Dana for the
Judiciary Nominators. Daniel F. Cohalan. r. Lee
Lewis and John Doong for the Democrats. and
W. H. wadhams for the Republicans At the
same time the Board Of County Canvassers took
up the vote In the Sth 9Th, 10th. 18th. 18th and
18th Assembly districts, and still others later in
the day holding night session well.
Richard C. Daniel. who has been checking up
the returns for the Republican candidates for
Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. said
the result In the first seven districts showed a
loss Of 120 for Chanler and q loss OF for
Bruce making a net loss for Chanler in these
seven districts OF 112. The net loss of Jackson
was put at 154 These are put down genuine
gains for the Republican candidates.
The examiners in the Supreme Court finished
the first three Assembly districts. At the end of
the days work the Democrats would give no
opinion of the possible outcome, on the ground
that there were many ballots left for the
courts decision.
The Republicans figured the count show
Ing loss for the Republicans Of nine in the
cans OF seven in the 30 Assembly District and
q gain of five In the LIST Assembly. In the 1st
Election District of the LIST Assembly District
all the ballots were found to have been cor
rectly counted! in the second several defective
ballots were found One ballot was found to
be marked in the circle with double cross in
the Republican column and was counted under
protest. It was held to be void. A ballot marked
in the Democratic circle had many marks
IN 1t that it looked like the spol1es of wheel
Another was found to have cross In both the
Democratic circle and under the scales. In this
district not one split vote was found among the
twenty-one protested ballots In the Sd Elec-
ton District there eleven protested and
twelve void ballots.
At this point the Democrats held that there
had been a net loss of five for Hearst in the
entire 1st Assembly District and Mr.. Dooltng
declared that, "If there greater gain
shown In the other thirty-four Assembly dis
tricts for Hughes than shown in the 1st
the result VIII not be affected
Mr.. Wadhams admitted that II It were so, the
result would not be affected He added, how
ever, that there were thirty-one disputed ballots
in the 1st, and If the Republicans gained all Of
them there was chance OF electing NJ Linn
Bruce the same basis
In one Of the election districts of the 4th As
sembly District last night there found an
overplus of twenty votes. which the inspectors
could not account for. 1t appeared ultimately
that twenty out Of the forty electors who had
voted the Socialist ticket had cut their candi-
date for Governor TO vote for Hearst. The in
spectors went on TO give Chase, the Socialist
candidate. the full forty votes, ans the returns
did not agree. This difficulty was helped to a
solution by a representative Of the Socialist
party who said that the head Of the Socialist
ticket throughout the state had been cut about
30 per cent in favor Of Hearst