The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-11-12

in character and decided to 'invalidate
the ballot is question of fact for the
courts to determine. This is the in
StruCtiOn by the officers to the judges
of election. 1t was not for them to
pass OH the question of whether the
marks invalidated the - ballots on
which they appeared. ;. a.,
=. Same As to TeterrI .t,a
= 1t is understood that the same con-
dition OF affairs exists in Marion copn-
ty where l.. ID. Teeter was defeated by
George NJ. Crozier for seat in the
house by a plurality of twentysiX.
In both the cases of Teter and HAM
bleton it is thought that enough votes
we're thrown out in this way to elect
the democratic candidates on the face
of the returns.
The law provides that the boards Of
supervisors, canvassing the vote on
Monday, shall accept the face of the
returns as bsals for issuing certili-
Gates of election to district office. If
there is a contest in the county then
the chairman of the board and rep
lresentative of each contestant sit as
la contest election board to hear the
case In case of a candidate for sen
ator or representative, 1t is said, the
board would issue 4 certificate to the
candidate who had the plurality on
the face of the returns Then the
contest would. go din ectly to the legis-
lative bodies. The appeal from the
contest board in u county on county
officers would be to the district court;
IN case of the legislative office, it
would be to the house in which mem
lbership is claimed.
Many Close Districts.
Information was received yesterday
from Fremont county that at last it
had been decided, semi-otiicially, that
A. V Penn, democratic candidate for
the house. had defeated w. T. David
son by four votes. At first it was re-
ported that Penn had been defeated
by Davidson, then that Davidson had
two plurality, and then that he had
eleven to the good. But yesterday
it was stated tina the vote showed
Davidson 1880, Penn 1884.
The Monroe county newspapers
state that John T. Clarkson of Abba
has been elected senator over F. ID.
Everett of Abba. Ii had been sup,
posed that Mr.. Everett, who is the
Republican nominee, had been elected.
The plurality Of two for b.. F, Stod.
Idard, republican, in Buchanan county,
tul bed. "s D.. ....
IN Scott county it has developed
that II. II. Boettger defeated NJ. II.
ICalderwood by los instead Of a plu-
lrality of eight, as at first reported.
= J. 7. Daily. republican, was elected
over f. J. Sldcy in Adair county.
Two of the Interesting Legislative
contests were those Of Paul +. Still.
man of Greene county and Guy A.
Freely of Black Hawk county. candi-
dates for reelection to the house. In
1906 Stillman received Is plurality
and Feely received ), the defeated
candidate in Black Hawk contesting
the election unSuccessfully before the
house. This year Stillman had S35
plurality and Feely had zoe. Both
of these men participated in the SEN
latorial caucus at the special session
and voted for Governor Cummins for
senator. 1t was said then that they
would suffer defeat on that account,
but the returns indicate that the
standpatters did not seriously oppose
them. Both men have been promi-
nently mentioned for speaker of the
house. '.
John b. Sullivan of Polk county
will be candidate for speaker. IL is
understood among the politicians I"