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Show VOTES IS SALT LAKE MUST SE RECOUNTED BY A BHD i Salt Lake. Nov. n.with the prog-pf prog-pf the Official canvass of the VOU in Salt Lake county It became evident yesterday that a contest of the vote in this county was certain The canvass developed' arj unusually large number of trifling irregularities Which Will probably be used to form 'he basis for a contest. Irrespective of what effect a recount 01 all of the vote in the county may lave on the candidacy of any candidate, candi-date, the recount Is necessary in order or-der to ascertain what partv is In the lead In the election The fusion nominees nom-inees were on the tickets of both the Democrats and Progressives, but in ti e tabulation ihe Judges of election lumped the vote of each candidate on ho.h parties without segregating the Democratic and Progressive vote. The apportionment of the registration agents depends entirely on the vote east by the different parties In each district, but the tally sheets fail to make a distinction between the Progressive Pro-gressive and the Democratic vote. A recount of the vote is therefore essential essen-tial to the apportionment of the registry reg-istry agents Canvass 24 Districts. Twenty-four districts were canvassed canvass-ed yesterday by the board of county c ocimlsKioners The principal difference differ-ence between the offlel.il and unofficial unof-ficial returns was in the vote for congress. Through an error the un-offlclal un-offlclal oto In the Fir3t district of the F'irst ward showed 2'44 votes for Mays The official returns gave him 194 votes Leatherwood also gained five in the Nineteenth district and three In the Twenty-second district. Mays gained one In the Twentieth district making a net gain for Leatherwood Leath-erwood of 107 votes. The official returns show that Leath-erwood Leath-erwood earrled all of the counties In this district, except Salt Lake county. coun-ty. Leatherwood carried Utah counts coun-ts by 111 votes Tooele county by 209 nun Davis county by 348. This brings Lcntherwood Into Salt Lake county with a plurality of 668. The unofficial unoffi-cial returns gave Mays a lead of 890 In Snlt Lake county, giving him a plurality over Leatherwood in the district dis-trict of 231 votes. The gain of 107 votes for Leatherwood in Salt Lab county euts May's plurality to 124. D'iscrcpsncics Small. Aside from the discovery of 100 votes too many In the Kirst distriet w hich were counted for Mays, the discrepancies dis-crepancies in the vote were small and will have no bearing on the result. In the Fifth district 100 too many votes were counted for E J Groea beck. Republican nominee for auditor This chance only increases the already al-ready larce plurality of C A. Weaver, Wea-ver, auditor-elect. An average of three BPOlled ballots a distriet were accounted for by th election judges If this average holds good throughout th county the number num-ber of ballots thrown out in the coun ty will be 339. Democrats and Progressives Pro-gressives contend that most of thes? ballots were thrown out because the oters east th'ir ballots both for the Democratic and Progressive tickets and that inasmuch as the voter clear ly intended oting for the men on the two tickets, the ballots should have been counted. Until there is a recount of the ballots there will be no way of determining why these votes were thrown out. Representatives ot the Democratic-state Democratic-state committee watched closely the canvass of the vote yesterday with a view to ascertaining possible grounds lor a contest of the vote for United States senator. |