The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-07
RALPH c. WATROUS
Republican Candidate Lieutenant Official
Count BY State Returning Board.

| The state returning board has many
close contests resulting from the election
of Tuesday to settle. interest being CEN
tired in the official count OF the ballots
for lieutenant governor. Mr.. rSisson Is
! elected by plurality of 2i3 votes over
Mr.. Watrous on the vote given for lieu
tenant governor by the wardens on Tues
day night. .5- sUa4 FFt
Gross errors either in the actual fig
ures received or In compiling them have
led some Republicans to claim the elec-
tion of MIR. Watrous by 1871.
There are quite few assembly candi-
dates on the anxious seat. No less than
four senatorships- Exeter. Narragansett.
Middetown and Woonsocket--are disput-
cd by candidates defeated on the face
of the wardens' returns. In the house
of representatives six seats are open TO
reasonable doubt. The candidates whose
election is contested were elected on the
face of the wardens' returns by small
margins i'm Exeter. East Providence, Lin
coin Narragansett, Middletown and
Woonsocket.
The senators from Middletown, New
Shoreham and South kingstown and the
representatives from Darlington, Central
Falls Middletown, New Shoreham and
Woonsocket were in doubt last year until
the returning board made it's final count.
But one was overturned. the Second rep
resentative i'm Woonsocket. Greene's plu-
ralty of = by the wardens' count being
wiped out and Bennett Republican, was
declared elected by %. Foy of Central
Falls had a very narrow escape, his plu-
rality OF Is over Glare. his Republican op-
ponent. being cut down TO vote.
According to the wardens' figures. Hol-
ley. the Democratic representative-elect
from Lincoln has a plurality OF but 2;
Bliss the Republican candidate in East
Providence has 3 and Bromley, the DEM
ocrat declared elected by the wardens'
count i'm Narragansett, has only 4. With
s votes to his credit, Sweet. Democratic
candidate for representative from Exeter.
awaits the final count of the board, and
there are several whose margins are less
than 20.
Oscar A. Bennett has a bare plurality
of II over Senator Norbert Decelles for
| the senatorship from Woonsocket, and his
claim to that office will have TO be passed
upon by the board.
| The returning board is taking the ballots
according to alphabetical order Of the
towns and cities. This will.make the con
test I'm East Providence between William
G. Bliss. Republican. and James S. Nc
| Cabe, Democrat. I'm (which MIR. Bliss has
three votes the better of the contest. ac'
cording TO wardens figures, the first to
| bc counted.
The contest is peculiarly interesting
| one I'm tho town, as II involves local
| issue i'm which factional differences of the
| Republican party are being tried out.
| IL has been learned that an intcrprcta-
| tion of the election law by officials in two
OF the districts whereby nearly 20 ballots
were called defective. may have ma
| terial bearing upon the result.
| I'm Exeter Dutcmplc. Republican has
| plurality OF only ~ over Cook, his Demo-
| cratic opponent for senator. and In Mar
| ragansett Northup, Republican, leads
| Sullivan. Democrat. for senator by only
! gi Ward. Republican candidate for Sena-
| tor I'm Middletown. has . less votes than
Brown. the Citizens candidate. and on tho
representative ticket from the same town
peckham, Citizens. leads Peabody, Re
publican, by 20.
BATTEY HAD III PLURALITY.
In the town of Scituatc an error in the
returns made IL appear that Senator-elect
John a. Battey, Jr., Dem. had only II plu-
rality. when as a matter of fact, nc had
III. a. follows.
District go. ....1 Total.
Battcy .......lD 100 lD Ao
The new senator-elect is a supporter of
Col. r. " T. Goddard for senator In the
United states congress.
The revised state returns give Higgins.
Democrat. 3.825 votes. an increase Of 800
over his vote of 1906. Jackson. Republican
has 309l1 votes. or 9e0 less than was polled
by Utter last year. and 1900 less than no
received last year as candidate Tor leu