The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-08-01

seventeen years, andwho was not
known democrat, had offered to vott
for o. B. Stevens and his vote wal
refused. On Monday, the friends
of Stevens tried to force that vote
into the count.
Failing in this, they then began
a search for repeating votes. The
list OF each precinct was compared
with thet of every other, and nc
repeating vote :or Kendrick could
/ be found.
/ Then, on motion made by my
self, and under the dare of our
chairman. Kendrick was declared
the nominee of the Democratic
party by vote of eleven to seven,
uni 50 you count the vote of our
chairman, (Here permit me to
state. is the first time | have ever
known the chairman OF a commit
tee to vote except in cases of tie.
This right our chairman has not
failed to exercise, whether we tied
or not, and on one occasion he fore
ed tie by his own vote.)
|. Then notice of a contest was giv~
en- and the committee agreed to
meet on the 23rd day of july to
hear the grounds of the contest.
For this meeting, an array ofev
idence, on both sides, was secured,
going t. show the ilIegality of votes
and it was agreed that all counts
contested should be submitted five
days before the 23rd day of July.
Notwithstanding the jeers and
insinuatiops of the Stevens party,
l assert here, that the friends OF
DIR. Kendrick went TO that contest
prepared and willing to give al
honest and impartial hearing. In
demonstration of this, here pre-
sent a set of rules for contesting the
nomination, offered by myself
which am satisfied, were Impair,
tial, and which were solidly voted
against by the Stevens party.
RULES.
1--WE will take into censidera
ton all counts rendered in terms
of the law (on either side), for con
testing, which were rendered fiv,
days before the 2Srd day of July
1883, and no others in the follow.
ing order, and with the following
specified restrictions;
1st. We will investigate and
act upon any challenged pre- 2inct
2nd. We will throw out all
votes polled by minors.
3rd. We will throw out all
votes polled by men who had not
been bona tide citizens of this coun'
ly for six months Immediately be-
fore the nomination.
4th. We will throw out all bah
lots cast by parties who had not
been bona fide citizens of the State
twelve months Immediately before
the nomination.
9th. We will throw out all votes
cast by parties whose democracy is
not established.
9th. We will proceed to con.
slider the validity of tax fifas, being
governed and controlled in this in
vestigation by the Registration
book and Registration law OF this
'ounty, feeling perfectly confident
hat this manner of procedure is
alike just and equitable to each d
the parties at interest, and being
,atisfied that as an Executive Com.
mittee, We have no right to go be,
hind the registered oaths of voters,
thus offering to furnish material
'or the Grand Jury and business
for the Solicitor General"
These are the rules voted down
by the Stevens party.
When this was done, | became
satisfied that nothing that we could
10 would give satisfaction, unless
we should unjustly, as one of the
Stevens party by resolution asked
retire our man who was fairly nom
mated. To this we could not sub,
NIT.
We were then held down to the
very letter of the law as contained
in the Code of Georgia.
Mr.. Stevens had challenged thu
vote of the 18th District which
gave Kendrick a majority of TWEEN.
ty-nine. This challenge was mad,
under section 1888 of the Code
which requires the returns to b,