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Show lis Shown' in Three Counties, Weber, Morgan and Davis Electors Failed to Read Directions. Of the Challenged. Votes in Recount, Thirty-Three Per Cent Is Sustained. . Pvesult of Recount. Howoll -1.621 -f Rolapp 5.1W -f Rolapp's majority on recount . .. S23 -f- Recount und acceptod to dato; Howell J.OOJ Rolnpp '. 5.3 -f Rolapp's pretont majority WO -f Rolapp's reduction In majority, 30. ' Challenges sustained against Howoll, S3. 31.S6 per cent. -f Challenges sustained against Rolapp, -f -f 78, 35.23 per cent. Special to Tho Trlbuno. OGDEN. March 3. Tho adjudication that Is now In progTOKH of 3S11 challenged chal-lenged ballots out of a total of. 13.3SI In tho Hamcr-IIowcU contest, Involving In-volving 08 it docs tho vitiation of over 23 per cent of tho total voto in tho Second Judicial district, might bo designated as a school in which tho sovoroign electors of Utah, or this particular section of It, might rccelvo instruction as to how they should vote, not taking Into consideration tho fact that in somo of tho flection districts dis-tricts some of tho judges testified to having hav-ing Indicated on tlio ballots for whom these sovereign doctors should vote. Carelessness in Prepnring Ballots. It Is probably rcgrottablo that a largor attendance of thpso sovereign electors oould not bo present at tho Investigation Tho carelessness in tho preparation of ballots exposed Is astounding. During tho recount counsel on both sides freely expressed tho belief that tho number of challenges thut would ultimate! v bo sustained sus-tained would bo less thnn 2 per cent of tho total challenged. Tho result of tho review re-view of tho challenges to dato shows 33 per cent of them sustained. If the snmo ratio of dofcctlvo ballots Is maintained to tho closo of the review nnd thero Is Ground to believe that It will be Increased it will indlcato that tho percentage of intelligence of Uic sovereign electors in Weber. Morgan and Davis counties is away below par. Must Consider Intent. Tho court In Its adjudications is abiding abid-ing absolutely to tho points of law cited by both shies Tho obsorvanco of tho fundamental principle that tho Intent of tho voter must be considered is evident, nnd on the other hand tho ballots having Imperfect markings such as aro proscribed pro-scribed by tho statutes aro sustained on tho challontres. Rvin thon Mm on,,- , retained a number of ballots on whloh Its proscnt judgment has been passed and which will later be subjected to a closer personal scrutiny, with tho possibility of somo rovcrses. The rato of progress In tho review was better than on Thursday, a total of 335 ballots being disposed of. or a trlilo hotter tbah a ballot each minute. Nino districts were covered, a total of twenty-six disposed dis-posed of. nnd a total of US challenged ballots. Voted for East In tho review today "Warren precinct In ebor county was reached. A versatile sort of a statesman by tho name of Georgo East appears to havo roslded in "Warren. Evidently East had many local lo-cal admirers at election time, but hlo ability to fill a public office had not been learnod at tho Hmo of tho primaries primar-ies or the conventions. Consequently his namo was not printed on tho official ballots bal-lots for Warren. When tho ballots from Warren woro recounted It was discovered that twentv-or.e twentv-or.e Republicans and nineteen Democrats hnd discovered that a usoful public servant ser-vant had been overlooked, ana thoy corrected cor-rected tho oversight by writing in tho namo of George East in tho ballots. Unfortunately Un-fortunately for East tho forty voters wero not a unit ns to what offlco East should bo elected to. Tho minds of tho electors woro as varied as tho qualities of tho candidate anpear to havo been Tho result was that on twonty-ono Republican Re-publican and nlnotcon Democratic ballots bal-lots In Warren tho namo of Gcorgo East had been written as a candldnto for ov-eTy ov-eTy office, from presidential olector down to preolnct Constable Strangely enough ho failed of election to any ofllco Votes Thrown Out. The application to tho present proceedings proceed-ings is that twenty-ono Howell votes and nineteen Rolapp votes wero thrown out by tho court in Warron becauso of tho writing of Georgo East's namo. On account ac-count of tho Irregular writing of names In the ballots a somewhat parallel ruling Is anticipated whon tho review of Morgnn Mor-gnn county ballots Is reached. Such a ruling would Imperil Howell's majority, as Morgan county gavo him a majority of SO. Court adjourned tho hearing until Tuesday Tues-day morning and on Monday Judgo Howell will hold court. |