Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-13
WILL. TAKE THE
OFFICIAL COUNT
To Determine Who Will Fill
Some of the State
Offices
MAJOR|T|ES RUN VERY CLOSE
The Discrepancies in Unofficial
Returns Are Very Inex-
plicable.

IL VIII take tne ONuCldI COuHl 10 ut'
termine who are elected and who are
not elected for state officers, outside
of governor, lieutenant governor, at
torney general and one representative
to Congress. With all the precincts
tabulated unofficially, it is found that
w. C. Mcdonald received 30,7S3 votes,
and Holm o. Blrsum, 2S,002 votes. On
the same tabulation, the Republicans
elected the three supreme coutr
judges, two corporation commission
ers, one representative to Congress,
the attorney general, the state audi
tor, the land commissioner, sixteen
members of the state senate and
twenty-nine of the House. The Demo
Gratis elect the governor, the lieuten-
ant governor, the secretary Of state
the state treasurer the super
intendent of public instruction
eight members of the state
senate, twenty members of the House
Up to this noon, the face of the re
turns showed that A. B. Stroup had
been elected superintendent of public
instruction, but revised returns this
afternon give White slight lead.
A number of boards of county COM
missioners met today and canvassed
ho T1,op1 ic yyo y,t 0f
law for that The returns are to be
canvassed at Santa Fe on November
27 by Governor Mills, Secretary Jaffa
and Chief Justice Pope. Despite the
printed instructions on the poll books,
many election judges enclosed both
poll books in the ballot boxes Re
turns from two precincts in Quay
county were received today which
said on one side: "These are the
| figures as they are returned on the
poll books" and on the other side
These are the figures on the official
certificate" There is a discrepancy
of eighteen votes in one precinct and
| two votes in the other of those two
As there are $50 precincts in the ter
! ritory, discrepancies of that kind in
each precinct would total over a tho1.
sand votes.
1t will thus be seen what both tht
Republican and the Democratic state
committees have heen up against in
seeking to compile the election re-
turns. In only the case Of the COVER
nor. the attorney general and Cover
nor Curry for Congress do the MAORI.
ties run over thousand, while in
other cases, they do not amount to a
hundred in some instances and there
fore are apt to be changed on the Of.
fical count. ....-...
How difficult it is to determine the
exact figures is illustrated by the
smallest county in the territory. Ber
nalillo. Up to yesterday, the Albu
querque Morning Journal, which hat
made every effort to get the correc
and complete returns, had given Ber
nalillo county to Mcdonald by III
votes. Today complete compilation
appears to give it to Mcdonald by
| 1215 votes. In Santa Fe county, nj
one has the complete returns from
| four of the precincts, and canot ge
them until the ballot boxes are open
ed on November 27. Territorial Secre
tary Jaffa today had to telegraph fo
sixty-six ballot boxes in which tn,
official certificate and pollbooks wer,
enormously enclosed. These will no
! be opened until two weeks from to
day and until then, anxious candidate
and their friends will have to posses
their souls in patience or wrangle
out on the street corners.
Dona Ana County.
4 The complete election returns from
Dona Ana county are as follows: Cur
ry 1885, Baca 1865, Ferguson 1916
Valverde 1891. Bursum 1884, McDor
aid 1894, Martinez 1872, Baca 1926
Romero 1876, Lucero 1906, Sargen
1892, Delgado 1890 Mirabal 1858, Nal
ron 1925. Clancy 1884, McGill 1294
iStroup 1887. White 1892, Ervien 1873:
1 Emerson 1899, Parker 1924, Robert
1878, Wright 1889, Burkhart 1876,
Dunn 1881, Hanna 1897, Armijo 1871
Williams 1896, Groves 1886, Owe
1888, Martinez 1888. Van Stone 129t
Medler 1437, Hewitt 1912.