Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-09-16
Arnold Defeats Cox In Race
For Shrievalty Nomination
Canvass OF Returns Completed
Last Night. Shows Minority
For Candidate Previously
Picked AS Winner-Contest
Already Entered
OTHER POSITIONS
ARE AS FORECAST

The official canvass OF the votes
cast at the primary election held on
Friday, September 9th. was COM
pleted by the Board OF Supervisors
OF Elections late yesterday after
noon, and the complete tabulated
vote is published elsewhere i'll this
issue OF the Evening Capital
The result, as officially shown,
confirms in every particular that
indicated on the face of the unoffi-
Cial returns with one important ex-
Ception That is as 10 the Office of
Sheriff, the election 10 which of
James I. Cox. candidate on the
Progressive" ticket, had been CON
sidered certain However. as the
official count progressed Yesterday,
ii gradually became apparent that
X. Harry Arnold. candidate on the
Organization ticket for Sheriff,
was running Mr. Cox close race.
When the vote of Annapolis was
reached they were pretty nearly even.
thus leaving the final decision 10 the
outcome i'll the four wards Of the city
and in the Eighth district II was
known that Cox had carried the lat
ter by something over hundred
votes, and the canvass for Annapolis
was, therefore, closely followed. This
showed 3S4 votes for Arnold and 239
for Cox. leaving Arnolds majority
las. Cox carried the Eighth district
by III majority, which. coupled with
| the lead of five votes he had from the
first five districts, showed majority
of 90 votes for Arnold In the county.
The total vote between them for all
the districts was as follows: Arnold,
1888; Cox, 1904.
Cox Calls For Recount
As soon as the official canvass was
made, Mr. Cox petitioned for a re-
, count of the votes. charging irregu-
! larities in several OF the districts. par
| ticularly the first precinct Of the Fifth
district, the Third district and in the
wards of Annapolis. Both candidates,
as well as several Of their leading ad- .
herents, announced their desire TO
have any possible cloud on the title TO
| the office completely cleared away.
and that they would welcome a re-
count for this purpose. ~ ~
Nominees For The House
The composition of the ticket for
! the House OF Delegates was finally
confirmed by the official count. show
! ing the nominees 10 be just the same
as those forecast. namely, Baldwin,
Dunlap. Holiday Howard. and Rull-
man. It also confirmed the fact, as
previously indicated, that Mr.. Holia-
day received the high vote for the
Legislative ticket, which was 2.07S.
The others in order were: Howard,
1857; Baldwin. 1926: Rullman. l,756:
and Dunlap. 1,74S.
1t is noteworthy in this connection
that Mrs Maggie A. Moss, the only
woman candidate for this Office, poll
ed the highly complimentary vote OF
1872 in the county.
! The State Central Committee
All doubt as TO the State Central
Committee was finally set at rest by
the election OF the following: Ander-
Duckett
In this contest other women candi-
dates who made splendid runs were
Mrs. Blanche w. Cecil and Mrs. Evan
geline X. White, who pOlled the not
able vote of 1893 and 1,l58, respec-
lively.
The Treasurer
For Treasurer, c. Albert Hodges,
present Deputy Treasurer, pelled a
vote that was really in the nature OF
: an ovation. His total vote was 1885,
! as against S12 for Dove and ass cor
: Owens.
For County Commissioners -,
r Those nominated were:
/ First District-Cs:r over Hardesty
4. by a majority of los votes.
: Second District-Barber over Du-
vail by majority OF 2l6 votes.
Third District-Duvall over Pette>
bone by majority of 1877 votes.
:, Fourth District-Watts over Rup|
: pert by majority of IL votes.
= Fifth District-Kelly over Stoll bJ
!, majority Of III votes.
!, Sixth District-Walton over TaylOI
: I IN, a rnaioritv of 141 votaa. and