The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-01-22
PAINTER RUNS BEHIND.
Recount On Lieutenant-oovernorship
Shows Gains For Republican.

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st. Louis.-Jacob +. Gmelich, the
Republican nominee and contestant
for the office of lieutenant governor,
Saturday gained q lead over his Dem
ocratic opponent, William II. Painter.
of 1863 votes. This includes a recount,
under the supervision of a joint legis-
lative committee, Of the votes cast In
sixty.fve precincts, six wards, Of the
city of st. Louis.
1t was the Republicans day to smile
ard they made the most of their op.
portunity. The Democrats, naturally.
were chagrined at the unexpected
change from Friday, when Mr.. Painter
showed a net gain of "a, but did not
give up hope, and express confidence
that the inspection of the ballots in
the twenty-five other wards will en-
able them to have the last laugh.
The force of clerks engaged in the
recount were permitted to cease their
labors at 6 o'clock Saturday night
after working without interruption
since 9 o'clock, excepting only an
hours recess for lunch.
Mr.. Gmelich had easy sailing after
the recount of the first ward had been
finished. Mr.. Painter registered a
net gain of thirty in the first ward,
in which he scored. The second,
third, fourth, fifth and part of the
sixth swelled the Republican candi-
dates total.
The fourth ward produced the
greatest gains for Mr.. Gmelich, the re-
count there un%earthing 122 votes for
the Republican nominee which the
official count had deprived him of,
Senator F. M. McDavid, chairman of
the joint committee conducting the
recount, is authority for the state.
ment that the investigation failed to
disclose ballotbox stuffiing in either
ward, as the wide difference in the Of
fetal and revised figures would in
dictate.
On the contrary, he said, the ballots
in the fourth ward precints were
models of regularity, each being pro-
perly signed by the election judges
and numbered to correspond with the
poll books.
The Socialist vote figured in the
discrepancies found in the second,
fourth and fifth wards. Eight votes
cast in the second ward for Sargent,
the Socialist nominee for Lieutenant
governor, were not given to him in the
official figures. Five more Socialist
votes were misplaced in the fourth
ward, while the fifth showed two
Socialist ballots had been left off Mr.,
Sargent's total in that ward.
Vie third ward, the recount de.
veloped, gave the Socialist candidate
all that was coming to him, "a votes.
The first ward recount added 6 to his
string, making 81 votes in all that
we're restored to their rightful owner
by the Joint committees searchlight
The recount disclosed discrepancies
in all of the sixty-five precincts can
vassed with the exception of the firsi
and fourteenth in the second ward
and the eighth precinct of the fifth
ward.
In the first ward the errors ranged
from / to IL votes; in the second as
high as 10 ote changed hands; Il
was the top miscue in the third, 6;
was the headliner in the fourth; 81
in the fifth and 7 in the sixth. The lat
ter ward had been but partly recount
ed when the adjournment was taken
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the committee during the day. Fol
the most part they were thrown on
on the ground of illegality.