The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-16
BLOODY THIRD WARD
in REVERSE ENGLISH
Expected Gain for Barnett in This Ward is
Converted Into Gain for SymmOnds
in the Recount
FIVE BALLOTS ARE MISSING
Bert Shaw Nets Gain of Three Votes Over John F.
BALLOTS ARE
MISSING
Bert Shaw Nets Gain of Three Votes Over John F.
Schmitt Reducing Majority to SO = Voters
Refused to Wait to Cast Ballots

ever cast but the tally sheet showed
that the people had voted.
The count of the Third ward showed
a gain of six votes for Bert L. Shaw.
the Republican candidate for register
OF deeds, and at the same time a gain
OF three votes for John F. Schmitt. Jr..
his Democratic opponent.
ClamOr for Third Ward.
When the members of the recount
board came together they planned To
start with the First ward and go right
through the city vote but there was
an immediate clamor forlthe counting
OF the Third ward. Some of the peo-
pie who were able to get only one
night Off to watch the recount seemed
to be convinced that there would be
thrills and thrills galore in the recount
OF this ward. The only thrills thew
got came from the chickering's of can
dldates as to intention of voters on
very few doubtful ballots. At that
the ballots were not considered doubt
ful" by the members of the canvassing
board. Only one ballot was really a
questionable one. This voter had
placed a cross after every candidate
on the Republican ticket He went
one farther as after he completed
crossing the names of the candidates
he slipped another cross into the Re-
publican party circle The count of
the vote showed the identical vote for
Barnett which had been given out on
the night of the election and which
was shown later in the official canvass.
Evidently every Republican who had
voted for Barnett in this ward had his
vote counted. The vote for Symmonds
showed an increase of four from the
official return.
Find Ballots Missing.
The first discovery of the board as
the members started work on the
Third ward was the fact that the bal
lots found in the linen bag returned
by the election officials were five short
of the number of votes shown on the
tally sheet. Considerable time was
lost in the efforts of the board to elm
mate the discrepancy but the ballots
were not in evidence. The chairman
of the board was appealed to but he
admitted that he was just as much at
a loss to explain the discrepancy as
were the members of the canvassing
board. He volunteered the suggestion
that the shortage in ballots might have
been due to the fact that a lot of
people got Disguised with waiting for
a chance to vote on election night and
that possibly some of them went away
without casting ballots even though
they gave their names to the election
clerks.
81 am of the opinion" said the
chairman, shat voters came into the
polling place and gave their names to
the clerks and got ballots and then
just naturally got Disguised over wait
ing for chance to vote and walked
away taking the ballots with them.
Certainly all of the ballots deposited
in the box were counted and returned
along with the tally Sheets"
Offered Field of Speculation.
1t was admitted by the members of
the board and the candidates and their
friends that the failure of the ballots
returned to check with the tally sheet
offered an interesting field for specu-
lation and that it would become in
creasingly interesting should the re-
count in other wards in the county
show that one candidate or the other
had won by majority Of five votes or
less.
It was admitted that the recount of
the vote in the Third ward taken con-
siderable pep out of the hopes Of some
of the Barnett boosters. However,
most of them took comfort in the fact
that there were eight MORE wards and
they insisted that twenty-five votes
were not many to overcome if the
wards did not all show reverse Eng
lish in favor of the Republican eandi-
date.
Resume Count This Evening.
With just one city ward reeounted
in a night it became pretty evident
that the recount will not be concluded
before Saturday and it is possible that
it will go into next week. It is ex-
pected that the canvassing board will
tackle the big First ward vote this
evening and it is expected that it will
take until midnight to complete the
checking up Of this vote.
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