The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-15
HE EMPHATICALLY DENIES ALL
CHARGES AGAINST HIN.
Three Republican Committeeman Vote
with the Democrats Other
Three Excused from Voting

i ing to resume the consideration OF the
| Thoebe- Carlisle contested election case.
| COUNSEL FOR CARLISLE OPENS
I. f. Hallam, of Covington, KY, APP
peared in behalf of Speaker Carlisle,
while Mr.. Sypher appeared for the CON
| testant. The chairman announced that
the presentation of aflidavits in behalf
of the contestee was in order. Mr.. Hal
lam said ne took the position that suf-
ficient cause had not been shown for re-
| opening the case. The action of counsel
| on the other side in presenting affidavits
| ut the last session seemed to show that
| they concurred in that belief. Among
| the things stated by the contestant in
| his affidavit was one to the effect that
John A. Goodson, chief of police of
CovIngton, and brother-in-law of Care
| Isle, had stated one or two days after
| the election that the Speaker had been
defeated and that Charles Easton, of
Covington, KY, would so testify.
GOoDsON DENIES E8iPHATICALLY.
In answer to that, counsel read an affi-
davit by both Goodson and Easton posi-
lively denying the statement. CoOdson
further denies emphatically the assertion
| made by counsel for contestant that
some relative of Carlisle had approached
Wood, formerly Thoebe's counsel, for
the purpose of influencing him. He
states that he is the only relative of Car
Isle living near Covington, and he de-
clares, so far as he is concerned, he never
in any manner approached or attempted
to approach Wood or any other person
in Carlisle's behalf. Affiant further states
that he met Easton on the morning
after the election and Easton asked him
the result. He replied that he did not
know, as tine returns were not IN. Easton
then said that it would be a id outrage
if Carlisle were defeated by such an
ignorant man.
A REPORTERS AFFIDAVIT.
Another affidavit by Horace Cambron,
q reporter of the Cincinnati Erensng
Telegram, was read, in which Cambron
recites the substance of a conversation
with the Speaker the day after the cleo
tion, in which the Speaker said that he
did not know whether or not he had been
defeated, but If he had been he would feel
n sense of personal relief such as he had
not experienced in ten years. Affidavit
further says that he had several cOnver-
sations with ThOebe. but had never told
him that Carlisle admitted that he was
defeated. On the contrary he had told
him that he CThoebe) was defeated. He
ha1 -, Il
claring that Carlisle admitted his defeat,
but he could not prove this by forward
ing the files of the paper, as they had not
been preserved. This affidavit was cor
roborated by affidavits made by j. G..
Benton, an attorney of Cincinnati, and
Henry G.. Hallam, clerk of the County
Court.
THAT MEETING OF CARLIsLE'S FRIENDS.
To meet the statement made by Thoebe
touching the meeting of Carlisle's friends
on election night, counsel produced
affidavits signed by Judge George G..
Perkins, w. w. Cleary Commonwealth
Attorney, and a number of other gentle
men, who declare that no meeting of the
kind described could have been held
without their knowledge, and that they
knew of no such conference or meeting.
One of the signers of the affidavits,
George C.. Davis, was, said Hallam, the
| gentleman who occupied the room of the
Federal building where the conference
was alleged to have taken place.
John l.. Furber, deputy postmaster,
in his affidavit, says that the post office
| occupies the whole lower floor of the
| Federal building, and that to his knowI-
| edge no meeting such as described had
been held. Nor could any such have
been held without his knowIedge.
Similar affidavits were made by G.. H.
| Davidson and j. c. Tunnel, occupying
the remaining floors of the building.
Mr.. Hallam called attention to the
fact that z. Casey, Janitor of the
Federal building, was the only person
who was particularly named as having
| been present at the conference and as
| having admitted that Carlisle had been
defeated. But that il had been ii xed up
MIR. Hallam produced letter to the
Speaker declaring that he had never at
tended such a meeting and knew moth
ing of it.
| THE POLL BOOKS.
| In answer to the statements impugning
the correctness of the poll book of We
roma precinct, Boone County, counsel
produced and read affidavits by NJ. L.
Garrett, who has the custody of the poll
books, q. Winston and VIM. Piper, Re
publicans, declaring that the books APP
peared TO be correct in every particular,
and the signatures in the handwriting
of the election officers.
j. III. Callahan, who was sheriff of the
precinct, in his affidavit declares that al
the votes were correctly returned, anG
that he witnessed personally the sigma
lures of the judges to the books.
Casey's affidavit declares that TN,
statement was not true in whole or il
part, and that he did not know of any at
tempt to count in Carlisle, nor did he be
lieve that any such conference as was al
| legged had been made.
THE NIGHT OF THE ELECTION.
Hallam said that an obscure charg
had been made by one Charles Maunder
that ON the night after the election Car
Isle had been seen figuring about New
port in the vicinity of the ballot boxe.
and engaged in conversation with Hatch