The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-03-02


may be challenged as unqualified by
aither Of the judges or by any person
Who ID an elector in this state, and it Is
the duty of each OF the judges to chal-
lenge any person offering TO vote whom
~ know orssuspects lot to be daly
qoelifled. III aa2--~..- s
Sec. 4s4. When any person isso chal-
lsnged. ne judges shall explain to him
The qualifications OF an elector and may
examine him rs to his qualifications and
if the person insists that he is qualified
and the challenge is not withdrawn one
OF the judges shall tc.ider to him the fol-
lowing oath:
You do soIcinnly swear that you are
citizen of the United States, that you
are IA resident of----township in this
county, that you are twenty-one Years
of age as you verify believe that you
have becna resident Of this county sixty
days aud OF this state six months next
proceeding this election and that you
have non voted at this election. Aud
| if he takes such oath, his vote shal, he
received, .......r.s. a5es - ,4s.-
Five electors opposed 10 a..ation, one
IF whom was registered aud took the
foregoing eeth, tho others had complied
with 10Th Of the foregoing provisions,
were prevented by said trustees from
| Voting or having their ballots deposited
in the ballot box aud only Mt the urgent
| x,F al Il
G., ,lseit to file their ballots with the
clerk for safe keeping until the time
for contosting the election should be
past. ssrYavs atrss. a. rtsa.s.t..s4 .tn.
a broad feeling Of charity might say
no /: these men were not blinded" but
rather scrupulous a,ivocate of the puri,
ty Of the ballot box. were it not for these
facts having bearing in the opposite
direction. Three persons, jealous advo-
Gates "fOr taxa ion, whose names were
either fradulently or inadvertently put
on the Register, presented themselves
to vote and were challenged, and on be
ing examined by one OF the officers in
question, one of them admitted that
"he bad been attending college in Linn
county for many months past, that he
had voted there at the last general cleo
ton, and had just come to Stanwood for
to be present ut this elcction." The
second stated that six months had not
elapsed since his return ~ from Min
nesota, where he had been opening up
flrm Of his own, and that since the
2lst of last Dee. and until within one
week he also bad resided in Linn
county, and the third admitted that lie
had been living in Jones county for two
months past.
One Of the said officers acting in the
capacity of President Of the Board, All
dressed these persons before administer
ing the oath to them in substantially
the following words, Notwithstanding
: your absencesrom the county, you have
right to this mental reservation il
taking oath if you so like, that although
your (my) case does come within thu
letter of the Law you (D can consider
this you: (my) home"
To say the least of it, would not con
sistency have required these ballots t.
have been filed with these "rcjected? p
2 They took the oath and their ballot
were deposited in the ballot bcx.
With all these "irregularities" the re
suit was most cheering to those who op
pose Railroad taxation OH principle
I which class includes ourself, we ar