Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
LIGHT VOTE At
Spring PRIMARY

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day, brought out very light vote.
Of the three tickets voted there was
only one that involved any contest and
that was the Democratic ticket where
L. Heddens and Andrew J.
Steinman contested for the nomination
for county treasurer Mr.. Steinman
of the districts.
The day was rainy, which so far as
the town was concerned had the effect
of keeping the voters away from the
polls. In the first ward, which may
be taken as a criterion, less than two
hundred votes were polled out of a
possible five hundred and odd In the
other wards the proportion was still
smaller. In the rural districts the vote
was very light
The voters generally seemed to have
no difficulty in understanding the bal
lot. The only point that admitted of
any controversy was whether by using
the blank space, say on the Republi-
can ballot, and voting for a candidate
of the opposite party, that vote went
to swell the latter S support as a Demo
crat or made him candidate on the
Republican ticket in opposition to the
person whose name was printed on the
ballot of that party. There was con-
siderable of this kind of voting done
In all instances the name where writ.
ten or pasted in the blank space, even
though it was that of candidate of
the opposite party, counted as a vote
for that person as a candidate of the
party represented by the ballot the
blank space of which was used. Pre-.
sumably large proportion of those
who voted for persons whose names
were not on the ballot took the proper
view of it and voted intelligently.
The candidates voted for by the diff
ferent parties were as follows:
Democratic: Delegate to the State
convention. George NJ Leighow pro-
thonotary, Thomas G. Vincent; county
treasurer, Amandus L. Heddens and
Andrew ]. Steinman county chairman,
John g. Waite.
Republican Delegate to the State
convention, Thomas W Bedea; pro-
thonotary, William Vastine; county
treasurer, Alex H. Grone; county
chairman, John E. Roberts.
Prohibitions Delegate to the State
convention, George r. Bernhard ;
county treasurer, George f. Hendrick-
son; county chairman. Franklin p
Johnson treasurer of county commit
tee, William H. Mauger; secretary of
committee, John NJ. Kelso; commit
teeman, Richard w. Eggert.
The first primary under the uniform
primaries act held in Montour county
was carried through very successfully.
Nowhere in any of the districts so far
as heard from did any hitch occur that
interfered with the conduct of the
election or impaired the validity OF
the result. The returns of the votes
and the register of voters for each
party were all properly returned by
the election officers to the county
commissioners Office before noon
Tuesday as required by the act
AT noon yesterday the county COM
missioners pursuant to the provisions
of the act publicly commenced the
computation and canvassing of the re-
turns. In little less than two hours
the count was completed. The result,
of course, was foregone conclusion
y certain amount of interest how
ever, attaches to the figures, and the
total vote of each candidate is given
below:
REPUBLICAN.
Delegates to the State convention
Thomas w. Bedea, Ill: Alex Foster,
/; James Foster. / Dallas Hummer l..
Prothonotary-Will Vastine, 90
Thomas G.. Vincent, 81.
County Treasurer-A. II. Grone,
l05; A. l.. Heddens. 4; a. j. Stein
man. !.
County Chairman John L. Roberts,
10S.
DEMOCRATIC.
Delegate to State convention
George NJ. Leighow, $50.
Prothonotary-Thom G.. Vincent,
$50; Henry Leisenring, /; William
Vastine, 3; Walter o. Green, /.
County Treasurer-A. L. Heddens,
3l9: a. j. Steinman, 462
County Chairman-John G. Waite,
672.
Committeeman-Ed Edward H. Robin
son, 55 @. H. Seidel. /: Thomas
Kerswell, 4 William Seidel. 3.
PROHIBITION.
Delegate to State convention-Geo
r. Bernhart, II.
County Treasurer-John f. Hen.
erickson. TO-
County Chairman-F. P. Johnson.
II.
Treasurer County Committee-W.
II. Mauger, IL.
Secretary County comm ttee-John
NJ Kelso, II
Committeeman Richard W. Eg-
CERT, 4 Edgar l.. Rank, /. Daniel
Nevius, l..
Prothonotary-T Thomas G. Vincent,
/.
The returns as they relate to the
Prohibition ticket show that Thomas
G. Vincent, Democratic candidate for