Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-11
STANFORD RENDERS
 DECISIONS DEALING
 WITH GOVERN0RSKIp
Maricopa County Superior Court Hands Down Several Decisions in Spite of An nounced Intention.

PHOENIX, Feb. 10.-Contrary to
 his announced intention of withholding
 his decision on disputed ballots until
 the completion of the count. Judge Stanford yesterday morning handed down his ruling on 4S ballots. Under his rulings 27 were counted for Mir
 Hunt and twelve for Governor Camp bell. Ruling was reserved on Is bal lots claimed for the former and on one for the latter. The judge ruled that nine of the disputed ballots were to be counted for neither of the contest ants.
 His ruling included the class of bal lots that were marked at the top with cross to vote the straight ticket and then marked below individually for na- tiOnal. state. county ana precinct can didates, but not for governor. Some of these ballots show the mark after every candidate, with the exception Of governor. and on some of them the elector. beside voting the straight ticket and individually for many party candidates. has crossed over into other party columns. Counsel for Governor Campbell has argued that where the voter has placed a cross after the names of various party candidates in addition to placing cross at the head of the party column his intention clearly was to vote for only those can Iidafng ,F rt-Is, hs haI marked his cross. Counsel for Mir. Hunt argued that the cross at the head of the party column should gov ern.
 This was a distinct victory for Sen ator Ives, as the figures compiled at Republican headquarters indicate that there are S61 ballots of this character in dispute. 666 for Mir. Hunt and 195 for Governor Campbell, making ma jority Tor the former of four hundred and seventy-one.
 The same source, when asked if this decision would not determine the con test, stated that their analysis showed clear majority of S15 at the close of the preliminary inspection in favor of Governor Campbell. These figures were arrived at after taking into con sideraticn only those ballots that were undisputed except for few minor errors in voting on amendments
 Counsel for Governor Campbell yes terday objected to four ballots bearing distinctive marks being counted for MT. Hunt but were oyerruled. Coun- sel also objected t3 the regular straight Prohibition and Hunt ballots being counted, but in this they were also overruled. One ballot yesterday show ed a piece torn out where the name and voting space of Governor Camp bell had been printed. This ballot was taken under advisement by the court as Campbells attorneys claimed that the preliminary inspection notes did not show. such a ballot It was a split Republican ticket.
 The court also took under advise ment one ballot showing numerous cross lines at the head of the Demo cratic column, which had been before designated as attempted pencil eras- ures.
 Numerous ballots were taken under advisement by the court which were endorsed as void" or not voted" and signed by the election board.
 The precinct of Naco instead of siv. ing a gain of one for MT. Hunt as cal culated by his expert accountants. showed a net gain of one for Governor Campbell.
 Hunts net gain in completed pre- cincts to date is ninety-seven. which is ten less than the figures submitted to the Supreme Court at the time Of the mandamus proceedings.
 It should be understood that the rul- ings of the court which seem to favor NIT. Hunt are largely made at this stage of the proceedings in court on ballots selected by the contestants attorneys and probably selected in the light of the first rulings made by the judge where the disputed ballots did favor the contestant.