Elected By A Recount Of Votes

The recount in Lenawee county for the office of county clerk was finished yesterday afternoon and John Gahagan, the democratic candidate for county clerk gets the certificate of election. On the face of the returns Fred B. Kline, the republican candidate, had 22 majority. The recount shows that Gahagan has 15 majority. The difference was made by the finding of tickets split for Gahagan, which had been counted as republican straights. It may be put down as a general rule that on a recount, where no intentional fraud had been committed on the original count, the candidate who is running a head of his ticket will be the gainer. And this for the reason that as his name was on more tickets of the opposite party, there is more liability of a greater number of split tickets with his name on being found counted as straight tickets than there is with his opponent's name on. This was the case in the recount on county clerk in Washtenaw two years ago. Mr. Dansingburg asked for a recount, only to find that the recount increased Capt. Schuh's majority. Capt. Schuh, it will be remembered, ran ahead of his ticket.