Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-08-19
Mai. Webb.s Card. No. 3.

p Mr.. EDITOR: At the inception of
this controversy I charged that
Mr. Reeder had disregarded the face
of the returns of election, and given
the certificate of election to Mr..
Gossett, when the returns showed
that Mr.. Anderson was elected I
gave the facts upon which this claim
was based. Mr.. Reeder attempted
to answer the charge but failed ut
terly to deny any of the facts except
that, while admitting that the tally
sheet of the LIST ward counted up 139
for Anderson, he denied that it did so
"PLAINLY." After thus virtually con-
Tossing the truth of the charge, Mr..
Reeder attempted to break the force
of it by bringing certificates to show
how the vote actually stood in the
1st, 5th and 8th wards Independently
of the face Of the returns. He did
this in order to show that, although
he had gone contrary to the face of
the returns, yet he had done what the
outside proof showed was right and
just. This was transferring the con-
troversy to an entirely different field
from where it properly belonged, and
from where / had begun it. It was
entirely optional with me whether /
should follow him to this new field.
IF Mr.. Reeder had stated in his com
munication which appeared in your
issue of Aug. 18th, that J. B. Davis,
one of the judges in the list ward,
had given to him a different state of
facts from what appeared in the GER
tifcate of Manson, Sparks, Hood
and Childress, adduced by him,
and had shown in the certificate of
Jno. Leahy and G. J. Weary, or else
where in his article, that the dis
puted vote in the 9Th ward was a
double and illegal ballot, I should
have dropped the subject and left
Mr.. Reeder s action to the Judgment
of an intelligent public. But Mr..
Reeder carefully concealed from the
public the fact that Mr.. Davis, one
of the judges in the 1st ward, had
explained to him that MIR. Anderson
had received 139 votes in that ward,
and showed him how it happened to
be counted 1873. Mr.. Reeders un-
scrupulous attorney drew the certif-
cate of Jno. Leahy and G. j. Weary
so as to conceal and exclude the fact
that the "ticket" about which the
dispute arose in the 8th ward, was q
double and illegal ballot, although
he was notified at the time by Leahy
that it was a double ballot Mr.
Reeder was also personally notified
by Mr.. Weary that this ticket was 6
double ballot, And yet. MIR. Reedel
brought forward these certificates
concealing the true facts, and offered
them to the public as evidence of the
true facts in relation to the vote IL
the Sth ward. 1 then determined te
follow Mr.. Reeder to his new field d
controversy and furnish to the pub
| lie the true facts, which Mr.. Reedel
and his INSCRIPTIONS attorney had
concealed. -r zofrsozcr Ii
In the LIST ward, I have shown
LIST. That Mr.. Reeder disregarded the
tally sheet. showing 139 votes foi
Anderson, and followed certificate
not authorized or required by law
and gave Anderson only138 votes
End. 1 have shown, Independently Of
| the returns, by the statements Of
Jno.s B. Davis, J. D. Elliott and w,
| g. McAdoo, jr.,- that EIr. Anderson
did actually receive 1879 votes. Now,
admit that,if Mr.. Jno. Reed Is affidavit,