Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-08-18
REEnER,S CARD NO. 2.

DuDIlC; out LlEIO ATS some mhtiSiS
desire the public to know. |
: In the first place it is admitted that
the vote for sheriff Is narrowed down
to one disputed vote in the 1st, 9th
and 9Th wards. As to the 9th ward
vote I do not understand that there is
any longer any doubt bat that GossetG
received IS votes there, just as
counted It,
This is the statement of the officer
who held election, OF two judges and |
the clerk. Nobody contends that had
any right to GO behind the official GER
titicate, although Mr.. Webb stultifies
his whole course in this case by getting |
a statement that the 85th vote in the |
9Th ward was illegal, just as though L
was judge of the election. Mr.. Cam p,
on last Monday, presented official cere
tifieates that one of two Anderson |
tickets, folded together, had been
counted in the 9th ward; that two An
derson tickets, folded together had
been both counted at Roberts
store; and that one of two An.
derson tickets folded together had
been counted at Campbelrs Station.
What did Mr.. Webb do and say then
He insisted most vigorously that L
could not inquire into that matter, that
| all had to DO was to count the vote as
it was reported. But now Mr.. Webb
produces proof that the S5th vote in
9Th ward was illegal, the very thing
he, one week ago, most positively des
cIared had nothing to do with. Mr..
Webb is an artful dodger. The
question was whether Mr. Gossett
| got IS votes in the 9Th ward.
Mr.. Webb instead of meeting this is
sus lodges it by trying to show the
! disputed vote was illegal, but in his
lodging he butts his brains out against
bis last Monday Is argument that had
nothing TO do with the question
whether any vote was legal Or illegal.
| In regard to the 1st ward every body
who has any sense and is not a knave
now admits that Anderson's vote there
was only 1873. just as counted it. The
officer who held the election, the three
judges and the two clerks all certify
EofficialIy that Anderson received 1873
votes, and yet Mr.. Webb wants me 10
disregard my oath and the oaths of
these six men, and act on his own un-
supported and uncorroborated and
unsworn say-so. And because l do
not do this I am villified as kDave.
AS there have been some insinua-
| lions that the official returns have been
| tampered with submit the following
for democratic meditation:
l, W. T. Mason, do certify that was
the officer of the election in the 1st ward
of the city of Knoxville on Thursday,
August s, 1880, and that on the night of
the election after we were through count
ing the vote 1 took the two poll-books,
one tally sheet and the certificate of the
vote and carried them with me to my
house. The next morning tolerably early
I carried the poll-books, tally sheet and
certificate to j. F. j. Lewis. clerk of the
county court. He took the papers and the
| first thing he did was to take the tally
} sheet and count the vote by the tallies,
, then one by one, and examining the GER
tifcate pronounced the certificate all
right" Mr.. LAWS count each time was
, 1873 for Anderson and II for Gossett. This
, accorded with the certificate, which showed
1873 for Anderson and II for Gossett.
q Ga Monday afterwards Mr.. Lewis sent
n for me to come to the court house.
!, went He asked me if had found that
i tally sheet, meaning the missing tally
- sheet from the first ward. / told him
had not. and he asked me to hunt it up
; I went to find Mr.. McAdoo, one of the
Q clerks of the election in the first ward, but
: couldn't find him. When I got back tc
. the court house, saw Mr.. Davis, one O
4 the judges in the first ward. | asked hin
r for the tally sheet He told me that he anC
Mr.. Elliott, the other judge in the frs
ward, had consulted together on the nigh
; after the election, and decided to keep thu
~ tally sheet, but it was all right now, as ht
j had gone and got the tally sheet and ha(
given it to 10 Lewis. Afterwards founC
}. out that Mr. Davis had not given Mr.
: Lewis the tally sheet, and | asked hin
about it. He said that he had not givel
"a Mr. Lewis the tally sheet, but had gOn
and examined it and reported the result t.
Mr.. Lewis. He said the tally sheet Wa
i still in the hands of Elliott. then wen
a. to see MIR. Elliott and asked him for th
tally sheet. He refused to give it up to N
II and said he had been notified by lawye
I Caldwell not to give it up to any body. .
- W. T. MANSON, Officer.
I State of Tennessee, county of Knox. --a
Personally appeared before me, L.. {
is Shepard, acting justice for said county, W
q T. Manson and made oath in due form tbs
the above statement isItrue according to to
3, best of his belief Sworn to and subscribe
Y before me this 10th day of August, 1880.
a p EstEF f|E5 L. G.. SHEPARD, j. P.
i Mr.. Webb Institutes that nave sup
pressed,~or poeketed, some of the RI
y, turns from the 9Th ward. | regre
re that partisan malice or purchased zes
111 should have prompted such false in
- Situations. I here sOlemn!y declar
- that returned every paper receive
I'd by me from the officers holding tn
H. election at all the voting places ey
cept a scrap of paper wit
two double tickets and & on
III single ticket pinned to it, delivere
to to me by NJ. J. r, Gentle, the Office
Is holding the election in the 9Th ware
IF This scrap Of paper contained the TO-
lowing words, and none other: q
10 "These tickets, two double ticket
es were thrown out, and one single licki
Q. was not counted"
+ / The above is every word on Tia
~ paper, and was not signed by any bod,
e nor dated. Not being an official pape
paid no attention to it. On the da
ne after the election the certificates no
- on file from the 5th ward were draw
= Pout and signed. u
y As further evidence that I did nj
lie suppress or pocket any official paper,
submit the following:
- State of Tennessee, county of Knox
~ We, the undersigned, make oath that Il
ty poll-books and tally sheet, copy of eat
Il of which is now on file, one with the clel
: of the county court and the other with Il
D. clerk of the circuit court are alfthe offici
papers executed by US in reference to Il
oF election in the 9th ward of Knoxville, {
- August 9Th. 1880, and that no certificate
b.. f., the result ofssid election, and no certifea
of any sort except the one on said pol
81 books was ever executed by US, e
,. ceot the one now on file in duplicate
- said two offices. This certificate was pr
pared and signed by US on the day aft
he the election. At the time it was prepar
Ia and signed we were told that M. j. ]