Show STRUGGLE IN OHIO democratic judges refuse to sign the returns if one precinct Is thrown out hannas election will be still in doubt election Elec will be taken into the courts columbus 0 nov 5 today interest centers in the official counting coan line at cowling green cf of be the vote of wood county if wood county should finally be put in the democratic Democrat io list by the official figures the legislature would stand 74 republicans to 71 democrats while lethis this la is a mathematical majority of three it ia is a IL constitutional surplus of only one ore it requires 73 votes or a majority of all the members to elect a senator on joint ballot will with only 74 representatives in the legislature the death of a republican member or a republican vacancy from any cause would leave the bare majority ana and if wood county should elect a democratic representative le there would rould be no doubt developments at once in at least two other counties the proposed legal proceedings are believed 0 fo o be in stata quo waiting the completion of the official canvass of the yote yete in wood county information was received receive il at the state f headquarters of both parties this afternoon that the republicans claimed the elet tinn of clermont bounly by a ma of 28 when the board of elections took its noon recess at bowline bowling green the two democratic members of tho the board of clec lions refused to eign sign th the e 0 official fifa ral canvass of the vote ot of wood county unless the vote of one precinct in center township I 1 I 1 sere ere thrown out the vote of this precinct makes a difference of 42 votes on 01 the wood county representatives representative a if it it be counted the republican depre will have a plurality and if it be thrown oat out the democratic depre will have a plurality of 14 the coulty conr ty seat bowline bowling green ie is located in center township the precinct in dispute includes that portion oi of the township outside the corporate lim i its of bowling green but tor for the convenience veni ence of voters the ibe polls were located in bowling green juet just ner oes the precinct boundary bonn dary the voting place is in the proper township but no not within the precinct and it has been bion in the same place tor for five years without the legality ol 01 the location ever having been questioned before t AS it is believed the deadlock of two io jo two will continue in the board of election congressman burton of cleveland and other attorneys for the republicans have prepared their inan mandamus damus cage case and will go before the circuit court this afternoon for an n order to compel the wood county board of elections to sign the lne tally sheets as they have been made out on the face of the returns re turne the republican cou counsel claim that boards of election have no power to go behind the returns return sand and the face of their return returns gives their depre tentative a plurality of 23 luthe in abe event of the court net granting the order it seems probable that the republican member from wood county would oe ue sworn in as republicans have aw majority of lix in tho the hoase without wood county the cili official cial returns from dele wale county aeve the republics Republic in lep a plurality of 30 instead of A as its claimed list night uon bon cjarles 0 aarlea R kurtz who was chairman of the republican fhate committee in 1896 and 1895 says there ie Is nothing whatever in the alb talk about certain republican me members abers of the eRie lature combining will with tho the democrate to elect gov BuB bnell linell or any other dan in the place of senator ainna who endorsed by the republican state convention for both the short and full terms of seria senators tore mr kurtz says no Ite republican publican member could afford to bolt the caucus nomination and dedoes he does not dot believe a ingle single republican member would RO go into in 0 o such a combine As chairman karz was defeated tor for reelection Olet tion for ob chairman airman by senator hanna aid ald adroit that that he lie is unfriendly to the senator himself this statement ie Is li lf lieveld to be the last that will be heard oi of the colabine cobi coln bine against alanna as the republican Kc publican senatorial nominee at republican elate state headquarter headquarters the reports have never received any cred ance the managers state that if it they A are ard assured a safe Majo majority lity ou on joint ballot they have no doubt or concern aa as to what that majority majori tv will do |