Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-12-12


CRANE VS.. HEEKLE.-Col. Crane,
late republican candidate for Congress
in this district. through G. Irving Di;iy,
of Baltimore, has served notice upon
DIR. Henkle that he intends TO contest
the right oil the latter 10 a seat IN the
18th Congress. The specifications are
twenty-three in number and, stripped Of
legal phraseology, are as follows:
l. That the judges and clerks IN the
seventeenth ward Of Baltimore city
were not discreet, competent, proper
nor duly qualified and sworn, nor Of dit-
ferenl political parties, and that their
conduct was illegal, arbitrary aud vio-
lative OF the freedom of elections.
Q. That the United States supervi-
sors and United States deputy marsLa.s
were prevented by force and violence
from entering into the poll-rooms and
examining the ballot-boxcs, challenging
Illegal voters, or in any manner what
soever performing their duties, where
by / 800 illegal and fraudulent ballots
were unlawfully received and council
for Henkle.
| 8. That in the third and sixth pre-
cincts Of that ward :he supervisors and
deputies were shot, assaulted and in
Inundated, and there and in other pre-
cincts The people were SO terrified and
Intimidated that the contestantlos z, O0O
votes.
4. That IN The second precinct 800
fraudulent votes were polled and coun-
ted for DIR. Henkle.
8. That in the sixth precinct 100 IL
legal votes were so counted.
+ 8. That the list OF qualified voters, as
used in the ward, was not true and COR
rect, and that 1000 legal voters who
: would have voted for the contestant
were omitted, and he thus lost their
: votes, and 1900 fictitious names on
those lists were cast for Henkle.
7. That The residence oil voters was
not noted, as required.
s. That boxes for rejected ballots
were not kept.
o. That the ballots were not read and
, counted nor certificate ofvote made Out
as required by law.
10. That the number of votes was moi
: extended in words, as required.
>, II. That the return judges did not
} make out legal returns.
, IL. That the certificate Of the num-
Der OF votes transmitted to The Governor
is false, and not based, as il purports &c
be, upon an aggregate of the vote Of the
! ward.
4 IS. That by reason OF these frauds in
the seventeenth ward the election wa:
null aud void.
IA. The same allegations as above
I are charged against the voting precincts
\ of Anne Arundel county, whereby the
4 contestant lost 800 legal votes and hi.
competitor received 1000 fraudulent
votes.
i Is. That IN the first precinct Of tha
Y county twenty-eIght fraudulent vote.
a were counted for Henkle, and Ave le
, cal votes for Crane were not counted
16. That in the third ward Of Anna
: polls fly illegal votes were counted TO-
a Henkle, and the poll books are not il
: custody of the clerk ofthe Circuit Cont
as required.
n. That m the third and fifth dis
. tricts OF that county United States su
pervisors were not allowed TO act, ant
4 that there was violence, intimidation
!. and fraud, by which Henkle receives
: in each of SAID districts 3O0illegal votes
and Crane lost 400 legal votes in eacl
district.
: "lS. That IN the second. third, fourtl
J. and fifth districts illegal votes wer'
d polled and counted, as follows 100 il
The second, $50 in third, $50 in fourth
and 400 in the fifth. for Henkle.
: 10. That in the eighth district of tina
: county polls were held in an illegal AM
|. improper place, whereby supporters o
Crane were prevented from voting a
all. bv which he lost 400 votes, am
Henkle received 800 illegal votes.
90. That the list of qualified voter
,f in Calvert county was incorrect, b,
: which Crane lost 1000 votes and Hen
= kle received 1900 illegal votes on fictl
tious names.
e q. That in the secord district oil tina
n county so illegal votes were counte'
!. for Henkle and rs legal votes were lille
n gally lost TO Crane.
II %. That in the third district 81 lille
y gal votes were counted for Henkle an
s 100 legal votes Illegally lost 10 Crane
=. %. l. general allegation that 2. 90
a illegal votes were counted for Henkle
and $500 legal votes for contestan
were illegally rejected; that the ballot
9 were falsely counted, 50 that !. 200 lie
l. gal votes polled for Crane were unlaw
-e fully counted for Henkle, and that Gran
n received majority Of the legal vote
i cast in the fifth congressional distric
- The document is signed ]. PARA
le Crane. with C. Irving Ditty rs counsel
v DR.. Henkle has thirty days in which
:. reply to Col. Crane, but il he shout
= decline TO notice the matter in that va
the contestant will stsll have 10 prov
= his allegations by testimony to the 81
L isiaclion Of the Forty-sixsh Congress:
Ut who win be the judges in The case.