Show DEFECTIVE i BALLOTS Large Number Discovered In the County Yesterday NU EFFECT ON THE RESULT VILTj REDUCE THE JFAJORITY OF THE COJDlSSIOS I the Election Had Been A Close One I Miirlit Cause Serious I I Trouble How the Mistake Occurred I Oc-curred In Printing the Ballots I I At a meeting ofthe county commissioners I commis-sioners sitting as 3 board of canvassers i of the election returns the discovery i was made ysterday that 3 large por I tion or the official ballots useS at the j I recent election were incorrect The discrepancy dis-crepancy fortunately will jiot affect the result but had the election been I j clos6 i would urfd6ubtedly have caused I serious trouble As it is the straight I Peoples party vote for county commissioners com-missioners can not be counted for the reason that there are four Peoples party candidates for these offices HOW 1 ITOCCURRED The simple stqiyjis this More than onehalf ihepfncial ballots used in this county were sent out having the words Independent Peoples party after af-ter the name of Samuel Perry the regular reg-ular Republican nominee for county commissioner The mistake uas apparently ap-parently not discovered by the county clerk when he sent out the ballots after af-ter having ascertained they were correct cor-rect in every way A C Reese woo has had charge of election matters could not account for the discrepancy i He examined the proofs and most of the printed ballots of the first lot that was turned out and a the forms at the printers were i stereotyped he could not see how such amistake could occur I ocur Foreman Loveiidahl of the Tribune job office where the ballots were printed threw some light on the error He explained that after a number of ballots had been run off i was necessary neces-sary to make a new cast In handling the forms the word Republican following fol-lowing the word Independent after Perrys name had evidently dropped out and the printer in making a pickup pick-up had placed the words Peoples I party instead of Republican He explains ex-plains that the firm printed nearly all the official ballots for the surrounding counties and on many of these the words Independent Peoples party appeared so that in a moment of for getfullness it was easy for the printer to make a mistake I When the ballots were finished they were turned over to th county clerk for inspection but although the larger portion of them are defective i seems that the error was overlooked EFFECT ON THE VOTE The discrepancy is against the three Democratic candidates for commissioners commission-ers a well as Mr Perry himself The I former are on the fusion ticket and all straight Peoples party votes for commissioner com-missioner would accordingly be thrown out Reckoning on the basis that the Populists in this county cast SOO straight votes and that onehalf of the ballots are misprinted it would only make a difference of 400 votes which would not ome anywhere near affecting the result for these offices ANOTHER ERROR Another error was discovered on the returns from the Twentieth precinct where all the Democratic candidates had been given ten more votes than the tally showed The board has now completed 26 precincts pre-cincts comprising the First and Second Sec-ond municipal wards JUSTICES AND CONSTABLES The omfial votes for justices of the peace and constables in these wards are as follows First Municipal Ward Justice W W Gee Dem 2077 T M Ulmer Den 11 Umer Rep 1254 Gees majority 823 Constable Con-stable = Adam Duncan Dem 1980 nlnmnn nn Pan 1 SIQ Tn I u Y v U lJh IQ UlLUU iiuviorjty 672 11Orjy Municipal Ward Justice Morris Sommer Dem 229Sf W C Button Rep 1688 Somniers ma I jor Y 610 Constable J3 J West I I Dem 2317 James Williams Rep 1C21 Wests majority 726 < |