The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-02-15

nation OF city officers was held last
Saturday, Feb. 8, with the following
result: 4. Gerard was nominated for
marshal over W. 4. Mcleod by II
votes; E. c. Lamb was nominated for
treasurer over Albert Long by SO
votes. and W. P. Ferguson was re-
nominated for alderman from the
East Ward and T. L. Heath was NAM
ed as his associate. These two gentle
men led the ticket for aldermen. East
Ward, in the first primary. The great
est interest was very naturally in the
contest for mayor. The count did
not begin until the vote was prac-
tically all in. The ballot box con-
tanning the East Ward vote was the
first to be counted. AS the call OF
the ballots progressed Tatum kept
forging slightly ahead until he had
outdistanced Brown in that Ward 21
votes, the ballot standing 16 to 81
in favor of Tatum. There were not
many who were not of the opinion
that this did not mean that Tatupl
would be the nominee. But when
the ballot box for the West Ward be-
gun to reveal the choice of the voters
Of that Ward, the tables were turned
and Brown forged ahead Of Tstunn
with the same regularity. When the
count in the West Ward was finished,
Brown had 7S and Tatum 81, in that
Ward. But in Browns vote there
lwas included ticket which had been
carefully marked but the voter used
a pencil instead Of pen and ink. This
raised doubt in the minds OF those
holding the election. so the pencil
x'ed ballot was placed in an envelope
and passed up to the Executive Com
mittee of the City which body is COM
posed Of H. j. Ray. W: D. Salmon,
W, W. Garner and r. G. Trusty. The
fifth member of the committee, Mr..
Dave Dogan, being in the army OF
course could not be present. Sunday
morning two more ballots came IN
from the soldiers and both of these
were for Brown, which, had one Of
them not forgotten to pay his poll
tax, would have given Brown ! vote
the lead, outside of the pencil x'ed
ballot. Monday morning brought In
another soldier vote which was fol
Tatum. Counting this ballot, and
throwing out the one for Brown or
which the voter used the pencil. gave
Tatum one the lead. But when the
Executive Committee met, It Wal
/ accidentally Observed in removing ths
ballots from the boxes that one OF tht
ballots which had been counted Sat.
urday night for Tatum was also x'ee
with a pencil, this then put Brown ane
J Tatum in the same box as to penci
ballots and the Executive Committee
found themselves confronted with the
} task of going over all the ballots. A,
sthis iuncture Messrs. Tatum ano
Brown appeared before the Commit
tee and announced that they hae
agreed. if acceptable to the Commit
tee, to run the race over Saturday
February 23. This relieved the Com
mittee of very embarrassing stu
A alton and that body gladly ordered
the primary for the final determine
X ton of the mayoralty nomination fol
4 February %. Eliminating both pen
ell ballots from Browns and Tatum'
total vote, gave them 154 each.
It is perhaps well enough to STATE
that it was perfectly proper to coun
! the soldier vote, even though !,
reached here after the polls closed
The law provides that if the soldier
3 or sailor votes reaches the executive
committee before that body shall hav'
4 "canvassed the vote" it shall be count
ed. The executive committee me
Monday morning at 10 o'clock ant
: adjourned to meet again, as Will o.
seen by the official proceeding pub
ished in another column, Monda!
morning at 10 o'clock, Feb. 25.
The following is the vote in de
i tail: