Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-15
sCCH IN IGNORANT NAN.

S8lU bUSs IL NJuIu De (,-G DutrSeS II
Carlisle w3s ctf5sted
sCCH an IGNORANT MAN.
Another affidavit 5y Horace Cameron,
reporter cf the Cincinnati Evening Tele-
gram was read, in which Cameron reci,es
the substance OF the conversation with
Thoebe, but had never told him that Car
Isle admitted that he w2s defeated. On
the contrary he had told him that he
(ThOeb5) was defeated. He had reVer
sent al item to mis- paper declaring that
Carlisle admitted his defeat, but he could
not prove this By forwarding the files OF
the paper SIS they had not been preserved.
This eff isvit was COrro5Orated by sffi Ia
wits made by John G. Benton, an attorney
Of Cincinnati, and Henry c. Hsllam, CLERK
OF the county court.
10 meet the statements made by Mr.
Thoebe touching the meeting of CarlIsle's
friends on election night, the COUNSEL
produced sn sffitaylt sigaed by Judge
George G Perkins, ~. ". ClearY, com
monwealtb's attorney, and j number of
other gentlemen who declared 10 meet
ing of the kidd described could have beeo
held without their knowledge, and that
they know Of no such conference or meet
ing. One of the siguers Of tae affidavit,
George G. Davis, was, said Mr.. Hsllsm,
the gentleman VINO occupied the room in
the federal buildi g where The conference
was alleged 10 have taken place.
Jonn L. Further, deputy postmaster, Ia
his aft 1svit SAWS that the postOffice occu-
pies the whole lower f0cr of the Federal
building, and that to ais knowledge no
meeting, such as described, had been
held or could any such have been held
WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE.
Similar atiiiavits were mace By T. H
Davidson and j. G. Tunnel, occupying the
remaining floors Of the. building. Mr..
Hallam called attention to the fact
that 2. Casey, isnitor of the
Federal building, was the only
person who WAS particularly named
IS having been present at the conference,
and as having sdnitted that Mr. Carlisle
had been defeated, but that II had be6n
6xed up. Mr.. HslIam produced C&sey's
affltaVit, declaring that the statement was
not true in whole or psrt, aDG that he did
not know OF eny attempt to count in Mr..
Carlisle, or did he hear VI such cobfer-
ence as it WAS alleged had bsen held.
Touching Mr.. Sypher's statement that
Z ". Nelson hSd declined 10 participate
in the meeting Of Carlisle's friends, had
tsken his nat and lefs the meeting when
lts object was explained to him,
Mr.. Hsllsm read letter from
Mr. Nelson 10 the Speaker. declaring he
had never attended such q meeting End
knew nothing Of it. IN answer to the
statements imDugn'ng the correctness Of
poll books Of Verona prsc,nct, the cOun-
sci produced and read stlidayits OF II Il
G4Inett, @ho has CUSTODY Of tne poll
books; 6. WINSTON and William Piper,
Republican, declaring that the books APP
psared 10 be correct
IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
That the sigma rres we're IN the hsndwrit-
ing CT the election Ulcers. j. Il. Gala
hsu, so, 4 of tie precinct, in his all
dsvIr, declares that sill OF the votes were
CORRECTLY returned and that he Witnessed
personally, the signatures Of the judges
10 the books.
Mr H.l next turned bis attention to
the sffl1avis OF J 6. Pierre OF Cincinnati,
10 the ef7cs that with the exception OF
one precinct all CT tie returns OF Carroll
county appear 10 De in the same hand
writing. To meet this he produced an
affidavit Of z E Harrison, county clerk,
who as custodian CT the poll books IL ms
the correctness Of the vote. Mr. Hsllam
declares that sn examination CT the pa-
pers, which could be made by the CON-
mittee Itself, would satisfy them that the
SIGNATURES to the returns we're not in one
hand writing. a. T. Leep, Knight of LIS
Dor of Carrollton, declares ne was presen:
In Thoebe's interests when the vote Of
Carroll county was counted and that he
found the returns
ITO BE FAIR
and beyond a Gu sIion as TO correctness.
j. T. Lewis, Republican and ex-p0st-
master of Carrollton, afirms the correct
ness OF the entries in the poll-book.
Similar afh isvits from five 20 eight pre-
cincss OF Carroll couuty were presented
By Mr.. Hsllam, with the explanation that
he would have procured ali iavits from
the remaining crup.ies hnt fsr the ressnn
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