Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 20
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 17, 1902
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FRAUD CHARGED.
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Recount Of The Vote Demanded.
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       Wednesday the air was thick with rumors of an injunction to restrain the committee having the counting of the ballots for the ugly man's contest from further serving in that capacity.  In other words, the plan was to remove them and place some one else in charage of the counting.
       This move was inauguarted by the friends of Capt. Thad Clark, who charged that through the enfluence and power of the coin of the realm their candidate had been deprived of his true standing in the contest.  Therefore, they proposed to go into the courts and settle the matter.  However, after a caucus they decided to ask a recount, and if it was granted they would be satisfied.
       The Board of Election Commissioners readily agreed to this and the vote was recounted with the following result:

       Fife, 1075.
       Clark, 762.
       Coleman, 494.
       Eppstein, 268.
       Reeves, 02.
       Martin, 38.
       Captain Carter, 30.
       Connally, 55
       Cheeves, 109.
       Curtis, 10
       Dupree, 35.

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