The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-24
Mays Managers Claim lire
gularities in Washington
andHolrnes Counties.
MAYSWILL PROBABLY
FORCE A CONTEST
Eastern District Candidate
Lost is Votes by Calhoun
County Reflections, and Ke-
plies to Question of Leon
Inaccuracies With Charges
Against Vote IN kehoe
Precincts.

The Kehoe-Mays fight in the tnlro
Congressional district is keener nov
than II has been since the primary
day Returns received by the Journ Id
YESTERDAY indicated Mays election oE
20 votes A dispatch from IallandS-
see tn the Journal last night says Indt
MAYS lost IS votes by the reJecIloh vi
two nrecincts in Calhoun county, anu
so NAYS is now only two votes aheAu
of Kehoe. c.,,,,,
IrregnIarities in Leon and Calhoun
counties charged by Kehoe managers
and which will be protested Woulu' 1t
was thought, force Mays's maJorl.y
down and elect the Pensacola candl-
date All that is changed now, now
ever for the Mays men are also
claiming irregularities, alleging that
Kehoe precincts in Washington and
Holmes counties were guilty or ac-
cesting ballots from electors whose
noIl taxes had not been paid.
This if would seem effectually
cbeekmates the benefit that kehoe
would receive by the votes that Mays
would lose if the Leon county lnaccu-
racieS we're corrected
That they viii be corrected there
is nd doubt, but, the vote in Washing
tDL and Holmes counties will also De
corrected. So, it is now question
entirely of what decision the congress
ional committee renders after an in
ysstigation of the vote in those ques-
tionable precincts.
Mays May Force Contest.
If was thought that protests would
be entered against the Leon county
irregularities by Kehoe managers. bat
since Mays has lost Is votes and his
majority is placed at 2, it is more
than likely that the Mays men will
force the issue, and compel an investi-
CATION of all irregularities, so that
NAYS may get the benefit of any rejec-
tons in Washington and Holmes
counties, which were KehOe strong
holds.
The meeting of the congressional
committee at Tallahassee tomorrow
S looked forward to eagerly by the
7oterS of the third congressional dis
rict. The choice OF a man for the
position of representative
n congress is important, and that the
,hoice of such a representative may
Iepend upon irregular ballots is a sit,
lation that every voter reVOlJs
Lgainst The election of men to Of
Ice should be by only the qualified
-oters of the state and the laws gov
rning elections should be diligently
says the citizen, and if con
ests are necessary to make clear the
cal choice of the people. then con
ests should be held and the ballots
igOrously investigated.
There is no doubt but that the
of a protest being enter
d by interested persons against the
in Leon county, worried
he Mays managers. for they AT once
'etaliated by charges of irregularities
n Kehoe precincts. The fight is now
IN which side will substantiate its
,harges, and the final result when al
disqualified votes are rejected by the
;anvass.
Dispatch From. Tallahassee.
The following is the dispatch from
he Journals correspondent at ITALIA
lassee last night:
Tallahassee, June 23.-Mays lost Is
Totes by the rejection of two pre-
:incts Of Calhoun county, but his lead
RS here claim his election by at least
30 majority
1t IS claimed by Mays men that If
-esu1arities occurred in strong Keho'
precincts in Holmes and Washington
also in Calhoun, In the mat
-er OF electors voting who had no
paid their poll taxes. It is alleged
hat in one precinct Of Washington
county thirty ballots were marked foi
hehoe and given to voters from the
Possible contests may bt
made before the congressional com
mlttee al the meeting here Thursda.
On these grounds.
The state committee meets Il
Jacksonville not STsJtah.eSea