The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-26

iect. so they remained within the
necessary number.
Committeeman r. #, Florence. of
the ssabcom mittce. su6xnitted the re
port. which was signed by his fellow
committeeman. Messrs- Martin and
Price.
Mr.. Ferrandini moved that the re-
sort be tabled and in doing so he
Explained that he wished such action
order to bring the subject up for
pebate. Mr. Saunders agreed with
Mr.. Ferrandini, and after some debate
engaged in by Messrs Florence, Pur-
cell. Ferrandini. Jennings and Hodges,
the latter standing pat for the Byrd
construction, the committee adopted
a resolution presented by Mr.. Saun-
ders by which the old rules of the
committee prevailed.
Chairman Martin designated Ger
tain committeeman 10 take. charge of
the recount, forming four groups. one
for each ward. The groups were in
charge OF Messrs. Saunders, Price
Purcell and Ferrandini. They in turn
had three clerks, or counters and tai
lymen. The candidates who asked for
the recount were privileged TO have
friends present to watch tn count. and
any interested citizen was given the
opportunity to take note of the pro-
ceedingK.
Eight Hours Work
The count began at 3; 80 o'clock. AT
1880 this morning but six precincts
had been counted. Two others had
been gone over but as the tallymen
could not agree IL was determined
that these two--First Lee and Fourth
Clay-should be again counted so that
all precautionary measure might be
had.
In First Madison Curtis lost one
vote; in First Jefferson he gained
four; In Second jefferson he gained
one: and In Third jefferson he gained
six. In Fifth Lee he lost one making
a net gain of nine votes over the
original Count
Z. In these same precincts Teney gain
ed in First Madison three; in Sixth
Madison he lost one in First Jeffer-
son he gained three. in Second, three;
and in Third, TWO; and in Fifth and
Sixth Madison he lost one each. while
in Fifth Lee he lost one. making
total gain OF eight.
In the contest in which Mr.. Frank
lin figures for justice OF the peace he
gains one IN three precincts, while Mr..
Starke, his nearest competitor, makes
an even break, the latter gaining two
in First Madison, and losing one in
each the Fifth and Sixth Madison. Mr..
Franklins gain appeared in sixth
Madison. a Southside precinct.
All the other candidates ran along
comparatively smoothly. Dreamer made
slight gains In First, Second and Third
Jefferson, while he lost In Flfth Lee
and First Madison.
Montague gained slightly in every
eral precincts. hut gained enough in
FIRST Jefferson To offset the foss.
Cannon's vote remained about what
it was reported In the FIRST place, while
Hobson went up and down in the pre-
cincts counted.
The signihtant thing about the re-
Acunt was that under the ruling Of
de committee more than hundred
-.allots were cast aside, because the
apter had not marked out the requisite
number. II will not be known whether
these ballots were originally counted
or not until the count has been com
pteted and the total number OF votes
cast has been ascertained.
fn-the Faith Madison, a Soathside
precinct, there were many ,nyo ballots ., f9r
Many OF them were. not marked at all,
while = large number had more than
the requisite number OF names UNI
nnrksd. 4 number OF ballots were
thrown out entirely, because there were
hut two or three candidates in the en-
several bailnts carried the names of
both Briggs and Satterheld while a
number contained the names Of two
candidates for the office Of commits
gionar OF the revenue.
One ballot had the names of Monta-
que. Stratton and Franklin scratched.
III the same ratio prevails, IL Is con-
csded by members OF the committee
thar the recount will have been in vain,
- there has been no material change
u &xnu tina xAtnEns handed La by tire
preclnct officials The fact that X took
the committee more than seven hours
10 count six precincts, and only por-
don Of this ballot gives the public
y some sort OF an idea as 70 the reason
Y {0r the great delay In receiving the re-
turns on the night OF, election.