St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-02-19

Mayor, Micheal Halphen, majority
Of 4 votes.
Chief Of Police, c. I. Hayes, ma
jority of 65 votes
Alderman at Large, H. D. Larcade,
majority of SIS votes.
Alderman 1st ward, a. d. st. Cyr,
majority of 33 votes.
Alderman I'd ward L. Z. Danel,
majority Of 3 votes.
Alderman Sd ward, F. j. Dietlein,
majority Of Z votes.
Alderman 4th ward. 3. L. Loeb,
unopposed.
The above is the result Of the pri-
mary election held for municipal Of
fcers Of 0pelousas, on Tuesday.
In the case Of Mayor, there is a
contest, Or. B. A. LittelI, who OPP
posed Mr.. Micheal HaIphen, the sue
cessful candidate by four votes,
claiming that irregularities in the
counting Of ballots would change the
result and give him the nomination
BY majority of ten votes.
The contest will be passed upon by
the City Democratic Executive Com
mittee at noon to-aay. The meeting
Of the committee was originally call
led to be held Friday yesterday, but
| il was found that the primary law
had been so amended as to make the
date Of the meeting four days instead
lof three after the election.
| So the committee merely met
and adjourned yesterday, re-
fusing to take up the contest until
to-day.
Lewis & Lewis and g. B. Dubuis-
son represent DR.. Littell, while Gil
bert L. Dupre represents Mr.. Hal
phen. 1t is a strong array Of legal
talent on both sides, and the fight
will doubtless be an interesting one.
No fraud is charged, the conten-
tion being that id some wards tickets
which were spoiled ballots were
counted, while in others thsy were
4 thrown out. The petition, il full, Of
lDr. Littell appears in another column.
j While the ans yer on the part of
i Mayor HaIphen can not be given in
full Oh account Of having been filed
4 Friday noon, it may be summarized
to say that while the law fixes the
manner in which a vote must be
stamped and cast, there is no penalty
for non compliance with the provis-
ion. and therefore the committee is
without authority to order a recount.
| II says that these tickets were count
ed for both alike, that is, the Littell
tickets were counted for Littell, and
the Halphen tickets for Halphen,
therefore there was no injury done;
that the contested voters clearly
showed their intention. and that there
was no protest on the part of anyone
Ito their being counted.
It appears that the whole trouble
J amanates from the first ward. The
other wards threw out spoiled ballots
thst il. ballots which were not made
3 according to law. The first ware
counted them.
There IL no feeling in the con.
test. and it is confidently expected
that all will get square deal."
The committee meets at the court
house at noon to-day. The commit
: Tee is composed Of Raymond Breaux
chairman; Chas. Ventre, Maurice
ViIaseca and R. Lee Wiggins. Har
9 II. Sandoz, also d committeeman, will
not be present at the meeting.
The election Tuesday was yer!
8 opiet. although hotly contested i
ayery ward except the fourth, Wher
Nh i. &. Loeb was elected withou
opposition. a.saa
y 4 strong fight YES made TO defea
& ltbe present incumbent for Chief 9
/. Police. M g. l.. Hayes. The idea va
. 70 Get him in a second race with on
: # 5is three opponents, and then con
e s oantrate s the fight against him. +
sluavs maintained that he would fla
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