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Show CRAZY CANDIDATE BEATS OPPOiEiT Washington, Feb. 8. Tho name of Elliott G. Mathews, an alleged lusano man on the ballot as a third candidate candi-date for congress in the Fifth Vlrclnl.i district, drew enough votes from John M. Parsons. Republican candidate, to elect K. W. Saunders, Democrat, according ac-cording to Parsons' statepicnt today to house election committee No. 'I Mathews, reler.sed. It Is said, from an asylum just before the election, obtained ob-tained n place on tho ballot by sending his name to tho secretary of tho commonwealth com-monwealth with the required attestations. attesta-tions. Fourteen thousand baliot.s were cant, and Saunder's plurality over Parsons was about so. subcommittee subcom-mittee will count the ballots. Mathews Is said to be again in an asylum. |