Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-21
THE CONTEST BEGUN.
DONNELLY sERuEs FORMAL NOTIcE
UPON WASHBURN.

DONNELLY sERVES FORMAL NOTICE
UPON WAsHBURN.
The Man Who Bought His Certificate o
Election Will Now Have an Opportunit.
90 Show How He Did It-A New Err
Dawning in Minnesota Politics-Corrup
sooundrels Can No Longer Buy Thei
Elections Interchangeable Contest Which
Every Man Who Desires Free and Fai
Ballot Should Approve.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 10, 1878.
To tho Hon. William D. Washburn Minneapo
lis Mimi:
SIR! You are hereby notified that will ant
do contest your right to o seat in the Forty
sixth Congress of the United States, as q Rep
resentative from the Third (3d) Congressiona
district Of the State of Minnesota. claim II
have been duly and legally elected as tho Rep
resentative from said district at the election
held in this State on Tuesday, the 9th day Of
November, 1878. This contest I base on thu
following grounds;
/. That hundreds Of votes, many more thar
your whole majority, were cast ard counted fo,
you ii the said election, in the said Congress.
sionel district, by persons who were induced to
cast said votes for you by paying, giving and
bestowing to and upon such persons gifts and
rewards; and by promising to pay, give and
hestow to and upon such voters gifts and re-
wards.
II. That many thousands Of dollars were
expended in said election, in said district, by
you and your agents, with your consent and
under your direction. in inducing voters to so
Gorruptly vote for you, who would otherwise
have voted for me; and that said money was so
expended particularly in the counties OF Hem
nepin, Ramsey, Stearns, Wright, Washington,
Anoka Becker, Chsaso, Isanti, Stevens, Kilt
son. Morrison, Polk, Otter Tail Pine, Pope st.
Louis, Mile Lace, Todd Wadena Big Stone
and ether counties of said Congressional dis
trict.
III. That large number Of votes, many
more than your whole majority, were counted
FOR you at said election, which votes we're never
caat by any persons having a legal right to vote
in oaid district but by non-residents of said
district, and of tbs election districts in which
they 50 voted; by workmen employed in the
construction of railroads, and temporarily in
hablting the districts in which they so voted
and who had no right to vote therein; and who
voted many times in different election districts
in said district; and by Indians, and half
breeds and others, citizens of Dakota Territory,
the States of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and
other States of tho Union and of Manitoba
B. a.; and Of counties in the State Of Mime
sofa outside of said Third Congressional
district; also by aliens having no right
TO vote in the United States or
the State of Minnesota; and that these
votes were cast in the counties of Hennepin,
Ramsey, Auoka, Becker. Benton, Washington,
Kidtson, Polk, Chisago, Pine Morrison, St.
Lunis, Wilkin aud other counties Of the said
Congressional district.
". That many hundred votes were cast for
me, at said election in said district, by legal
voters of the said district, in the counties of
Hennepin Stearns, Morrison, Wright aud other
counties of said district, which were not count
eel, returned or cauvassed for me.
Y. That many hundred votes more than
your whole majority, were cast and counted
for yon in said election in the city of Mime
apolis, in the county Of Henuepin. and other
counties of said district by persons who were
compelled to cast their votes for you by threats
and intimidations made by you or your
agents, and with your consent or di-
rection, that, if said voters did not SO
vote for you, injury would result to themselves
and their families by loss of employment and
Of their means Of living, and in other ways;
and that as means to such intimidation the
ballots cast by many of said voters so intimi-
dated, were marked and numbered so that
they might be thereafter examined to ascer-
tain how the said persons voted; and in many
cases workmen were discharged from employ
ment because they refused to so vote for you.
VI. That the election conducted in the sew
eral wards of the city of Minneapolis, on said
9Th day OF November, 1878, was accompanied by
such Irregularities illegalities, frauds briber-
les and intimidations. in the making of the
registration lists of voters, provided for by
law, the colonization of voters, the conduct of
the election officers, and in the reception,
counting and canvassing of the votes cast
thereat, as to render said election in said CITY
null and void.
VII. That at said election votes were cast
returned, counted and canvassed for you as
legal votes, from the counties of Travers =. Big
Stone, Lake, Kanabec Kittson, Otter Tail and
Douglas, whereas the said counties>are not, and
were not, at the date of said election, organized
counties of the State of Minnesota; and the
alleged election precincts therein were not le-
gally constituted election precincts Of said State
or said Congressional district; and the off,
GERS receiving, counting and canvassing said
alleged votes were not officers of said election
districts said countless and the inhabitants
of said pretended counties We're not entitled to
vote IDOn the election of a member of Con.
gress at said election.
VIII That the votes alleged to have been
cast for you at said election in the county of
Isauti in said district, We're not cast or count
ed for you, or returned or canvassed rs proyid.
ed by law.
TX. That the votes purporting to have been
cast for you in said election in the counties of
Polk and Kittson exceed many times the total
number of voters resident in said counties on
the said 9Th day of November, 1878; and the
same never were cast or counted for you; and
the whole election held in said counties and
the return and canvass of the same were fraud
n!ent and void, Respectfully yours,
tGNATIUs DoNNEILY.
Indian Raids In Nebraska,
NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Dec. 20.-A party of
fourteen mounted Indians raided Walkers
rancho, eight miles west of here, thisemorning,
driving away eight horses. They also got a