Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH.I
COLUMBUS, December THE papers in
the contest for the election of a Lieutenant
Governor have been prepared by the attor-
neys of Marquis, the Democratic candidate,
and will be served tomorrow on Lampson,
the Republican, who has been declared
elected. The document is formal notice
Of contest, claiming that Lampson, to whom
it is addressed, was not elected and that
Marquis was.
While the contestant asserts that the re-
turns when opened and canvassed by
the General Assembly will show that
Lampson has received 375, ,09O votes against
S75, ,O6S votes for Marquis, giving the former
plurality f22, he will base his contest
on the grounds that true count Of the legal
votes polled will give him majority for
the Office; that enough legal votes were cast
for the contestant and unlawfully excluded
from the count and returns to elect him
that. more than enough votes were counted
illegally for Lampson to give him big
pretended majority.
THE FIGURES FOR IT.
Specifications are given as follows: In
every voting precinct of Adams county 1877
votes were cast for Lampson which were
marked with symbols, indicating that they
had been cast by persons who were to re-
ceive considerations for SO voting. In
Adams, Asbtabula, Athens, Darke, Della
ware, Erie, Franklin, Geauga, Greene,
Hardin, jackson, Lorain and Trumbull
counties votes were cast for Lampson by
persons not electors of the State of Ohio.
Thirty-eight Lampson tickets were de-
posted in the box for land appraiser ballots
In Belmont, Fayette, Knox, Morrow and
Paulding counties, and were counted. In
Ashtabula, Fourthward, two legal votes for
Marquis were thrown out. In every voting
precinct of Clinton county illegal votes were
cast and counted for Lampson, while in all
the precincts of Darke county legal ballots
for Marquis were counted out.
TECHNICAL OBJECTIONS.
In one precinct of Erie county Lampson
ballots which had been left in the box were
afterward counted. In Cincinnati 15 Mar
quis votes were not returned, while the rei
turn of votes for Lampson was too many,
The Fourth ward, Findlay, which gave
Lampson a majority of 113 votes, never
made legal return and should be thrown
out.
A NUMBER OF n0n-feslQents V0teQ 10r
Lampson in the First ward of Wellston,
jackson county. In West Toledo double
Republican ballot was cast and counted, a
Democratic vote being thrown out to make
the tally sheet balance with the poll book.
In Leroy township, Lake county, when two
Republican ballots remained in the box
after as many ballots had been counted as
there were names on the poll book, the
ballots were unstrung and recounted 50 that
two Democratic votes were left in the box.
A BIG DISCREPANCY. p.
In Precinct A, First ward, Youngstown,
Lampson was credited with 247 and Marquis
with 161 votes, making 40S in all, when the
poll books show that but 353 persons voted,
Indicating fraud. In Williams county,
Superior township, two regular Democratic
ballots, and in VanWert county, Ridge
township, one regular Democratic ballot
were excluded from the count.
In view of these facts Marquis, through
his attorneys, George L. Converse, Thomas
E. Powell and James E. Neal, asserts that
he was elected Lieutenant Governor and
demands the Office.