Daily Republican., 1885-07-15
City Council
SPECIAL MEETING LAST NIGHT
THE ENDOF THE LYNN-BAKN.
BILL CONTEST.
INSPECTORS TESTIMONY.

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INspEC7oR,sI TESTIMONY
The special meeting of City Council
was called to order. promptly 1T 8o'-
click last evening, And as soon az the
clerk had finished calling tho roll, the
President stated that the object of the
| meeting was to take action on the peti
ton OF James Lynn, coutcsting tho
election Of George L. BsInh!ll an a
member Of Council.
On motion Of Mr.. Baynard the pati-
! tion as read, and he then moved that
the bail u box OF the Twenty. second
election district be opened and he vot 90
counted. The motion WIS carried on ly
two voting against 1t. The bailot-box
WEB then brought in aud placed Oh
the Presidents desk.
| Mr.. Bayrard moved that a committee
OF tive be appointed 20 acL 81 Inspectors,
assistant inspector, ant clerk 10 count
ths ballots.
Mr.. Merris Taylor offered as 4 substi.
ItIite, that the election Cf5re.s of the
iTwen, y second district be summoned TO
give their testimony in relation to the
counting o I the ballots, and the way
the election was conducted.
Mr.. Baynard objected, as according
to resolution of Council, these Off GERS
were already summoned to appear.
Clerk Hyiand produced tho summons,
and showed that of the five officers the
oailiff could only find two, the Others
having moved away, and been returned
lnouest.
The bailifi stated that he had been in
the Twenty second istr let three times,
and made diligent search, but WAS on y
able to find two of the officers who
held the election, and that he had sum.
moned them. He was told that the
Others had moved away. The ones he
found were John Cloud and George
Simpson, both of whom were pres.
ent.
Mr.. Baynard said that he was will.
ing to accept MIR. Taylor's substitute,
and on q vote being taken the motion
was carried. John Cloud was then
called, and on motion OF MIR. Moore
Mr.. Lynn was given permission TO
question him.
Il John Cloud was sworn, and after
examinipg the ballot.box, testified
THAT when the box was sealed the
strings were run under the handle, and
that now they are over 1t. Immed lately
after it was sealed it was taken away
by Mr.. Wilson, and the last the witness
lsaw of it was that he had 1t under his
arm, and with Mr.. Lynn was going
toward his house. In counting the
, ballots, some were found where the
inspector 3 namo was printed wrong
land then written u ith a lead pencil.
Whenever the witness took these out OF
: the box and off, red them to Mr.. VIII.
son, he refused to count them, and nc
lrecord was made of them on the tally.
sheet.
The ballots after being counted wers
,, thrown ON table which was quite mar
row, and some Of them may have rolled
off. There was 6istui bance NJ th,
polls, caused by two young lnen WAT
came in a carriage and wanted to vote
3 but as they had already voted in the
d Seventh ward, the witness refused Il
I take their votes.
o Mr.. Lynn then commenced to hollel
, and make noise outside. creating &
I disturbance, when II he had kept quie
o the matter would have been settled in
side, where it should have been.
I, The witness was subjected to search
, ing CROSS exam ination by Mr.. Baynard
during which it was brought ont tba
he had acted as assistant inspector a
three elections, but had only signed
the tally-sh at one. The witness
}, said the reason he did not sign the tally
!. sheet at the last election, was that wheI
Mr.. Wilson brought the ballot boz
there was no stamp, and upon lii
lspeakipg about it, Mr.. Wilson replied
that there was no stamp with the box
He then proposed that all voters be
. required to chow their tax receipts, anC
y when the first voter came he produced
q the receipt, but MIR. Wilson would no
: let the witness see it. Other voter
VI came up and presented crumpled pieces
: of paper, which might have been dol
). taxes for all witness knew, and h
% objected to receiving the votes, bu
II When they were received, he would moi
= sign the list.
eI On election day Mr.. Wilson told hin
a a that he did not know anything abou
the stamp, but afterwards said tha
70 when he took the box home he set i
!. down in his parlor, and that his littl
IL boy opened it and took the stamp out
10 and that he did not find 1t until tn
d night of the day of the election. HI
50 also told him that he would not appea
10 as witness in this contest, as he has
done all thedirty Work he intended t
do for Jim Lynn.
In answer to Mr.. Baynard the witnes
:, said there might have been som
r Democratic tickets that were not count
ed he did not know, but he thought
"a Just as likely that some Of them were nc
~ counted az not. He counted the bal
" lots that were thrown out on accoun
G. of The name being spelled wrong, but b
4 had forgotten whether there was TWEEN
Id ty three, twenty-five or twanty-seven
George Simpson was sworn, and ais
1t examined the box, after which he sal
that 1t was his opinion that the tap
81 around the box had been removed sine
III it was sealed by the election officers
y. AT that time il was placed through tn
~ handle, but is now over it. He ais
III rem embered about some of the ticket
being marked, and that they were re
jected by Mr.. Wilson no account, no
n even a scratch, being taken OF then
he He corroborated the testimony OF I'll
at former witness, and said he did NJ
Ist sign the returns because there was n
al stamp there, and also because illegt
n. votes were taken. The two young me
Dir whose votes were taken do not live /
We the ward and never did live there
by their father lives in the ward, but the
Al- do not
Tor Mr.. Lynn asked the witness, " Ho
sh long have you lived in the ward? whe
ot he replied, Mr.. Lynn, you don 't.spea
to me on the street, and you can't spea
to me here" The question was the
asked by Mr.. Moore. and he reptile
ms " about Ave or six years.
lldl Mr.. Baynard said that 1t seemed
th him that the entire proceedings we
he premature. and that the ballot-bo