The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-23
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board TO order and the communication
was received and placed on file." on mo-
tion Of senator-eect Lawton. seconded
by Mr.. Maxson.
The days count began with the Fifth
district OF the Sixth ward. the next m
order following the last district TO be COM
pleted on Thursday The sixth and Sew
enth wards were finished. and the First,
Second and Sixth districts OF the Eighth
ward.
PECULIAR SEALING.
The Sixth district was taken out OF its
order. so as TO have the package of ball
lots In this district passed upon without
staying in the vault over Sunday. as this
package bore but one seal of the election
officers so placed that the twine could
be slipped off the end and the package
opened without disturbing the seal. sew
eral OF the state returning boards oni-
cial seals were affixed so as to effectual-
| ly prevent this, however, and these were
signed by the check of the district. Har-
ry i. Bates.
| Mr.. Jennings explained TO tho board
that when the package was delivered tn
him by the election officials he affixed
| the additional seals on the spot and re-
qurod the clerk To sign them before he
would accept It, The result OF the count
1
and Watrous a gain OF !, net gain or
| for Sisson.
The board counted the first two districts
| of the Eighth ward and when IL conclud-
ed the days work there was a net gain
OF votes for Charles Sisson for licu-
tenant governor. 10 districts of the city
OF Providence having been counted yes
| terday making the aggregate of Sissons
net gains i'm the city of Providence liz
for the A3 districts counted OF this NUM-
ber III Is straight gain. the remaining ono
being a loss for Watrous. These 43 city
districts gave Sisson 9iI0 and Watrous
725s.
| According 10 tabulations made by Sec
retary Richard w. Jennings OF the state
returning board, the i23 districts count
ed thus far show for Mr. Sisson net
gain OF 50 votes and the plurality for
lRalph c. Watrous. the Republican candi-
date. calculating on the published returns
from the election officials in the "a un-
counted districts Is 10 votes.
FOR 1913 DISTRICTS.
In the 123 districts officially counted the
total vote for watrous is 23,s70 and for
Sisson 23,367. With the election night fig-
ures for the remaining "a districts Wat
rous' estimated total vote is a.209, and
Sisson's 81, 1893. The machine organ makes
Sisson's vote Bliss. giving Watrous 26
plurality.
The districts remaining to he counted
are Providence H. Scituate 8, South Kings
town g. Warren 1. Warwick 8, Westerly l.
Woonsocket 5. The board VIII probably
complete The count on next Friday.
During the count yesterday ballot
was found I'm tho Second district of the
Eighth ward which bore a cross to tho
right OF the name of Ralph c. Watrous
for lieutenant governor and another
against the name of William y. Green-
ough for attorney general. Under the
name OF Mr.. Watrous was written the
name "Domenico." in lead pencil. OBJ
lection was made by the Democratic
watchers to counting this ballot. under
the provision of the election laws which
says that no voter shall place any mark
upon his ballot by which II may after
ward be identified. but the board voted
3 to to count the ballot as vote fol
Mr.. Watrous and Mr.. Greenough.
In the First district OF the Seventh
ward was a ballot on which ~ Wendell
street was written under the name o.
James H. Higgins. The ballot wa.
counted for all candidates voted for will
the exception OF the candidate for gov
ernor, as the voter tried to vote for thre'
candidates for governor