Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-25
The Worcester Election Case.

The house committee on elections, Mr., l.. W
Smith of Newbury chairman, continued its trial
Of the Worcester election case in the general COM
mittee room last week Tuesday evening. WoTces-
ter must have been bereft Of its male inhabitants
for several hours. Messrs. Clarence ii. Pitkin
and Hiram A. Huse appeared for the remon-
strants and Messrs, Hiram Carleton and S, c,
Shurtleff for Mr.. Templeton, the sitting member,
The remonstrants put in their case, and last
Monday evening Mr. Tempetons side of the
question was presented The witnesses Tuesday
evening, were Fred Templeton, the town clerk;
II. ID. Vail, Adm Miles, A. NJ. Brown, H. A. Han
cock, Minot Harris, NJ. p. Wheeler and G. W.
Brigham. Mr., Templeton testified in regard to
transactions at the polls on freemans meeting
day, and read the records OF the blllot 1t APP
peiIed that on the twelfth ballot (when Mr.
Tempeton claims to have been elected) 100 votes
were found in the box there were 100 names re-
ceiyed as voting on the list; that the result was
announced "a follows; whole number OF votes,
100; necessary to choice, 60; IIoTatio Temple
ton had Co. George w Durham, 5li scattering,
IA, and there was no choice. Messrs. Vail and
Miles (who were two OF those accused OF voting
twice. testified that they had no recollection of
voting twice, and that they voted for Mr. Dun
ham. Mr. A. Nj. Brown 1.-THE third man accused
OF voting twice. testified that he was unconscious
OF the act aud that he voted the democratic
ticket The other witnesses testified that there
WAS no adjournment from five O'Clock ON We'd
nesday morning till ten, but only recess so
that the meeting was continuous and was not
interrupted. There IL one vote on the twelfth bal
lot unaccounted for There were only 1876 legal
votes cast on that ballot yet 127 we're lett after
deducting the three above mentioned. This one
illegal vote, the remonstrants claim, vintes that
ballot The result OF the eighteenth ballot WAS
as follows: Whole number cast, 1862; necessary
to a choice, S2j Durham, 80; Templeton "a
scattering, 3; and Durham was declared 10 be
elected Mr. Iempleton claims that the eighteenth
ballot aud all subsequent 10 the thirteenth are
invalid because the balloting was not continuous,
on account Of AN adjournment from four or five
o'clock Wednesday afternoon till about ten
o clock the next forenoon.
The house committee finished the hearing ON
the Worcester contested election case yester-
day evening The remonstrants having finished
the presentation Of their side of the case at the
last session, Mr. Templeton, the sitting member,
went on with his testimony IL will be remem-
bered that the twelfth ballot is the one In which
MIR, Templeton claims 10 have been elected, and
that he bases his claim on the assertion that-the
vote having been declared TO be sixty five for
him to sixty-hye for all others-there were
three illegal votes east, two republican and one
democratic, throwing which out, Mr. Temp eton
would have a majority of one II turned out on
examination that there were only one hundred
and twenty-nine votes recorded As having been
cast ON that ballot Deductng the three before
mentioned, there still remained one vote unac-
counted for, The TemOnstrants have claimed
that the presence OF that vote yitatet the ballot
The Rev, Michael Ryan, pastor Of the Methodist
church at Worcester, testified Monday evening that