The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-28
MINOR ERRORS DO
NOT ALTER RESULT
One Candidate Who Called for
Recount Lost One Vote;
Other Gained Two.
WORK is PROMPTLY DONE
Committee Goes Right at 1t and
Settles Question in Short
Time.

No change is made in the list Of
Council in Clay and Jefferson Wards
by the recount of ballots cast in tho
recent primary, though in nearly every
precinct there are differences OF one
or more votes. One OF the candidates
who called for the recount lost ono
vote In his total and the other gained
two. The final official results as
issued by Secretary Duke. OF tho
City Democratic Committee, last
night give Mr.. Hirschbcrg lead over
Mr.. Atkinson OF sixteen votes in JEFF
ferson Ward as against eleven on the
former count. IN Clay Ward. Mr..
Powers secured lead Of eight votes
over Mr.. Miner, as against four In the
former count.
Session of Committee.
The committee met promptly at IS
down to business Immediately. No
fraud had been charged. nor was tho
discovery OF any anticipated. but ow-
ing to the close vote in the cases Of
two candidates, and to the fact that The
total vote was not Invisible by five,
making an evident discrepancy. a re.
count was asked In Clay and Jeffer-
son Wards. The committee held that
such request was but reasonable AMI
proper under the circumstances.
Eight tables were provided, one for
each OF the precincts and three mem
bers OF the committee were told off TO
each table. Each OF the contrasting
candidates was allowed to have a
watcher at each table representing his
ward. BY $40 o'clock all were. with
coats of. hard at work. the men who
prescribed oath, the same as admins
tered to election officers in legalized
primaries. Chairman James B. Do
herty. with Vice. Chairman Clyde Saun-
ders and Secretary Walter G.. Duke.
were constituted court OF appeals. to
whom were referred a number OF ques-
tionable ballots, which had not been
marked in accordance with the pri-
mary plan. The plan proved sufficient
which the pledge was scratched. and on
which the voter left either more or less
than FIVE names for Councilmen, this
being the required number. were
thrown out. At 9:4o p NJ. the tellers
of Third Jefferson came up with 1a2
ballots counted, and ten minutes later
First Jefferson reported I'll votes prop
erly accounted for The larger pre-
ctncts were an hour longer in counting,
but before II O'Clock Secretary Duke
had announced the final returns.
Result OF Recount.
Comparing the totals. the secretary
stated that under the new count ac
cepted as official, Mr.. Cohen. in Clay
Ward. lost three votes; Mr.. Dance lost
two votes. Mr.. Davis gained four. Mr..
Don Leavy gained three. Mr.. Miner
gained two, Mr.. Powers gained six, Mr.
Richardson came out as before. and
Mr.. Umlauf gained one Messrs. Davis
Don Leavy, Powers. Richardson ana
umlauf were then declared the party
nominees in Clay Ward
In jefferson Ward there We're an al
most equal number OF minor discrepan-
ries without any important change.
Mr.. Atkinson lost one in the total; MT.
Curry lost two. Mr.. Davidson lost one.
Mr.. Delaney came out as before, as did
Mr.. Gates. after an error In addition IN
the frs. count had been corrected: Mt.
gained four. Mr.. letter iosI
one. Mr.. Lynch lost two. Mr. NILS sot
the same vote. Mr.. Reddin gained Two
votes. Mr.. John A. Selph gained one,
Mr. Milton selph lost one, and Mr.. Wilt
shire lost one. In Jefferson Ward
Messrs. Hirschberg. Lynch. Mills, ). a.
Selph and Wiltshire were declared the
party nominees for Council
How They Occurred.
The slight discrepancies which .ap-
neared in nearly every precinct were
readily accounted for by the fact that
the precinct Judges allowed some nai-
lots which were thrown out last nlsnt,
and the fact that the judges last night
counted some ballots which had been
held In the former count to be I'M
properly marked.
: Even under the new count. however,
In two precinct returns, Third Clay
and Fourth Jefferson. the total vote
is not divsible by five, which would
tend TO show an error in tallying at
some point, not OF sufficient import
ance, however, to raise any question as
to the result.
The disappointed ones, with their
friends and watchers, accepted the an
nouncement in good part, and as the
committee went into executive session
left the hall in company with the more
successful candidates..