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Show H The Election Case. H The result in the election c.-isc so far B as It was related to the clerkship was H was anticipated from the first by H those who weic piesentat court and H i listened to the proceedings. It was H ' c Idcnt from the first that a play was H being made to go behind the returns B l. and get Into the ballot packages, and It looks now that tlio complaint was kV drawn with that very end In view and . with a pretty sure knowledge that a ' recount would result In Just enough , gains being made to insure plalntHTs election. Theic would not have been any serious objection to tlio recount had not the plalntlir been custodian ' of the ballot packages and had not a number of them been In such a con- dltlon as to create a suspicion that they had been tampered with. Mr. Far roll admitted that the ballots as leeched were placed on a bench in his inner olllcc, that they had lain there exposed for sc cral da) s. The commissioners clerks, attor- ne)s and othcis had access to this room by passing through outer olllcc. Theie was an outside door the key of which was kept in the outer olllcc. The Janitor also had access to this door. After the olllclal canvas was made the ballots were stoied In a llt- T tie loom opening Into the outer olllcc where the telephone Is, there they remained until taken into court. Clerk Km roll testified that the open packages weic In that condition when received. He had not interfered with t them but could not swear that any one else had not done so. The pack- j ages sealed were meiely smeared oer with wax and It would not have re- quired a cry gicat expert to hae opened them without leaving any trace behind. It was in view of these facts that defendants attorneys ob- HBT Jected to the recounting of these bal- lots but the Judge oerrulcd theob- Jcctlou and the recount was made which resulted in crrois enough being found to elect the custodian of the ballots and defeat his opponent. In some precincts he even ran ahead of of the olllclal count. 'While it might be possible for the two Oeinoctatlo Judges in the pic-J pic-J ' clncts to make errois against their HBp, candidate and while it might be pos- slblethat all of the patty representa- thes usually piescnt at the polls at such times would not detect the errors which they arc there watching T for. Yet we haidly think it piobable, and especially that those eirors should be uniformity made in the majoilty HBT of the pieclncts of the county. Many HB Republicans look upon the whole pto- HBJ cecdlngs as an outiagc and think that Bj the matter should be can led to the BBj Supicmc couit without delay. BBJ The question has been asked why BBj better cue wasnottakenoftheb.il- BBj lots by Cleik Fundi, lllsiuiswei was BBJ that he consldcied them peifectl. BBj safewheie he placed them. The law BBJ doesn't state how ballots shall be BBJ cared for but stipulates that the) BBJ must be tiled by the clerk and pack- Bfl ages must be kept unopened and tin- BB altcted for twele months when the) BH shall be destio)ed. The peu.ilt) foi BB. altering the ballots is not less than BB olle Jcar m t-'le state prison and not moie than flvojoais. Bfl It looks as though the law should be HB amended to ptovlde for safe keeping of BH the ballots. It doesn't look light to BH make the clerk sole custodian espec- BH tally in a case like the one in question. |