The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-14
THE GAZETTE.
VIM. 3, HERRIoTT.
Editor and Publishsr.
Editor and Pablishsr.

VIM. e. HERRIOT.
/ Editor and PsblisAss.
Congressiensl Contest In this District
Mr.. Cox has given due notice Of hil
purpose to contest Major Straits cleo
ton - Representative to tho 44th
Congress, and has furnished him The
grounds upon which he relies.
The document is . matter of inter.
est to the voters of the district. The
substance of it is Is follows.
First. Gives tho official vote, shew.
ing that Maj. Straits majority q re-.
turned Was 221.
Second. That the votes Of certain
Towns were cauvassed and returned in
the Official vote Of Kaudyohi county
which do not form 81 part Of that eoun.
ty, but be:oug to Monongala County
and consequently, to the Sd District.
Also, in two other Towns in Handy.
obi county, legal votes were cast fol
Mr.. Cox which the board refused to
count.
Third It is claimed that the vote Of
Lincoln county should not be counted,
for the following reasons.
/. Because said oennty of Lincoln
does not belong to said Second Con-
gressioual District, State aforesaid.
2 Because said places, At which
said votes are returned Is having been
cast, are not legally established eleo-
ton district or precincts, and NO votes
could be legally cast thereat.
g.. Because no such number Of per-
sous voted thereat, but said return was
false and fraudulent.
4. Because tho persons who did
vote thereat were not legal voters, for
the reason that they were foreiguborn,
and had not declared their intentions
to become citizens Of the United States
pursuant to the act Of Congress relat.
ing thereto, aud also for the further
reason that they we're not residents of
the town where voting, and had not re-
sided in the State four months, nor in,
the towns where voting ten days next
preceding said election.
8. Because no registry OF other list
of voters had been made in said towns
As required by law.
g. Because the polls at said pre-
tended election precincts were not
opened, kept open, or closed as re.
quired by law, nor was any legal can
vass or return made thereof by the
judges At said pretended polls, pre-.
cincts or election districts.
Fourth. It is claimed that the votes
in certain specified Towns in the coun.
ty of Lyon were wrongfully counted,
and the reasons therefor are substanti.
ally the same as those given for throw.
ing out the vote of Lincoln county, ex.
cept, that it is not denied that Lyon
county is in the ID District.
Fifth. There was no return of the
vote Of Lyon county made to the Sec.
retary Of State, within the time or in
the manner required by law.
1t is, also, alleged that the votes oi
the Towns Of Erickson, Emmett, Pal
myra, Sacred Heart aud Hawk Greek,
in Renville county, the Town Of West
Newton in Nicollet county, the Town
Of Mazeppa. Wabasha county, and LIE.
Seuer in LIE Seuer county, we're wrong
fully counted for various irregularities
such as illegal votes by non-residents
aud foreigners, persons not duly quail
fed acting as Judges Of elections, un'
lawful adjournments by election Off
GERS, election districts not LOCALLY es.
tablished, &C., 60.
Also, that undue means were used
to obtain votes.
The above is sufficiently full to indi
cate the character of Mr.. Cox's case
It depends entirely, on the success oi
his efforts to disfranchise, on teohnica
grouuds,a portion Of the legal votes o.
the district. In the 9th Judicial Dis.
triot where Mr.. Cox il known profes
sioually, there is, Of course no surprise
He would, atany time, rather win I
case on technical grounds than on it
mer,ts-vould rather do sharp tha,
correct practice.
The document fairly represents tn
Mr.. E. A. Hogue, who has spsn,
some time At Marshall, has gone t,
Granite Falls, and will start \ paper =
that place the 1st Of February.
The official count of tho vote for Su
preme Court Judges, At tho last gen
eral election, shows s J. r. Mcmillan
majority to DO 10,ls2 and F. r. E
Corn.ll's s,s7e.
The Soldiers reunion 1t Marshall
Dec. 30th, was = sucoesA
They resolved to have another, i,
connection with . celebration, On th'