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How Wheeler Votes

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

SHERIFF JUDSONSAYS HE WILL NOT VOTE FOR BURROWS.

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And the Sheriff Wants to Bet Money That Burrows Will Not Have the Votes He Claims.

Just now considerable interest is being taken in the question of how Hon. George S. Wheeler, of Salem, will vote on the senatorial question.
When Sheriff Judson pushed him against Hon. A. J. Sawyer for the nomination, it was generally understood that he was a Pingree man, who would go as far for Pingree as he could without total loss of self respect.
It is, however, stated that during the campaign he promised to vote for Burrows for senator.
It becomes interesting to know whether this promise was really made, for those who know Mr. Wheeler best say that if he made any promises he will keep them.
Sheriff Judson evidently thinks such promises were not made as witness the following from today's Detroit News:

Senator Burrows was kept so busy counting the votes that his federal office-holding friends say he is going to receive on the first ballot that he round it impossible to leave Detroit for Kalamazoo yesterday.
Stanley W. Turner has figured out the number of votes on the first ballot at 86. 

When Sheriff Judson, of Washtenaw county, heard of this claim, he said:

"I'd like to bet Turner any sum he likes on that proposition.
I'm sure that Burrows won't get the vote of a single member of the legislature from my county. "