New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
SALANT'S SENATE SEAT
WILL CO TO SIMPSON
Democrats Lead of So Votes
Too Great To Be Overcome
by Lone Progressive.
$50 BALLOTS FOUND VOID
Indelible Pencil Invalidates
Many in Recount Yet Unend-
ed-Moose an Inspector
in Tammany Guise.

Georee Washington Simpson. Democrat,
has practically won his fight TO be seated
as state Senator from the 10Th District ia
place of Henry Salant When the Senate
Committee ON Privileges and Elections.
which for several weeks has been engaged
IN rocounting the ballots at the Offices Of
the Board OF Elections in this city, adj
iourucd late yesterday afternoon Mr..
simpson was sixty-eisht votes ahead Of
Senator Salant According TO every esti-
mate that might be made on the law Of
averages simpson should hold the lead
until the end Of the count. which probably
viii be- reached next Saturday. out OF
l26 election districts in the Senate Dis
trict all except seventeen had been re-
oanyasscd last night Fifty thousand
votes were cast in the district
The unseating Of Salant will take from
that body lis only simon pure Progressive
member. the one who has handled all the
Senate Progressive bills although Senator
Palmer. of Ulster County. was elected on
both the Progressive and Republican tick
cts. Counsel for Senator Saiant has made
hard fight. and even last night he would
not acknowledge me was beaten, although
IL was apparent TO every one else.
Il have every reason to believe that the
lead OF sixty-eight that simpson now has"
said John r. Dooling. eX-president of the
Board Of Elections and counsel for Simp-
SON. will be still further increased before
W. have finished with the seventeen boxes
that remain 10 be counted. II shows clear
~ that Mr.. Simpson Is entitled to the seat
I'm the Senate from the 10Th district"
ON election night the police returns gave
Simpson the election by seventy votes.
when the official board of canvassers went
over the tally sheets OF the inspectors they
found that on the face of those returns
Salant mad been elected by thirty-six.
They so reported to the Secretary of state.
and he gave the certificate of election to
Salant, but a notice Of contest was imme-
dlately filed by Mr.. Simpson.
The Senate committee. OF which Senator
Duhamel y chairman, has been coming
down from Albany every Friday and
spending that day and Saturday iH re-
counting the ballots. They have found
numerous errors on the part Of the cleo
tons inspectors ami poll clerks. About
$50 ballots that had been counted good
by the inspectors were thrown out by the
committee on the ground that they Were
clearly void under the law. Many of these
ballots contained erasures. There were
many that had been marked with ink or
an inpellble pencil.
a., L..I
lot rot marked with a black leadpencl Is
void. although Justice Lambert, in the
Hearst mayoralty recount decided to count
indelihly marked ballots. on the ground
that the inten, of the voter was plain In
order to bc sure that any mark suspected
Of being made by an indelible pencil was
of that character it was moistoned with Il
damp blotter If ndelible, the blotter
took the purrle impression of the lead
Some ballots that had been east aside
by the inspectors as void were counted by
the Senate committee. FOR instance. they
accepted Yesterday several where II was
clear that the voter in making the cross
had permitted his pencil to slip through
the PAPER. This was not held to be mu-
tilation under the law. and, therefore, uid
not invalidate the ballot
The 18th Senate District is composed OF
siXty-four election districts In the 23d
Assembly District. twenty eight In the Slst
and thirtyone in the 2lst When one OF
'he Democratic inspectors In the ISL DIS
trict was placed under oath TO explain
some discrepancies in his tally sheet IL
was learned that he lived In Kings county
He also sworc he voted the Progressive
ticket, although appointed at the susses-
ton of the 1ammany leader oil the us
trict. Tne law provides that no man s''a''
be eligible t. serve as an inspector out
siln Tho DnIlntu In uhich he uNCs