The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-04
HON. II. C. STITERS' llISREPRE
SENTAIIONS, ...-

lion. II. u. OtlVefS, 6uItOf Ol lue
Brainerd Journal and mayor of
that city, attempts to throw dis
credit on the vote of Mile Laos
county, for the sole purpose of
prejudicing our case and bluting
us out of a contest for our rights.
That bluff game won't work, Mr..
Stivers. We are not one of the
kind that tamely submits to
bullying. There was not a dis
honest vote cast or re-
turned from Mile Laos county.
Mr.. Stivers states what is unquali-
fedly false when he says 20 votes
were added to the returns from
this county because it was thought
Dunn needed that many to elect
him. At the time the vote of
Mile Lacs county was officially
canvassed everybody in Princeton
thought Dunn was defeated. We
had conceded our defeat twice in
the UNION, and nearly one week
after the votes of this county had
been officially canvassed. We were
not present at the official canvass.
A tabulated statement of the vote
OF the county was given us by
Auditor VanAlstein's son. We
did not discover any error in the
official vote until we scrutinized
the table in the columns of the
UNION five days after the vote had
been canvassed. We were the first
person to inform Auditor VanAl-
stein of the mistake and he imme-
diately corrected it. The error
was made by his son in copying
the returns. Up to this time we
had supposed that our vote in
Todd county was only 1923. Our
correct vote in that county was
1115- afterwards reduced to 11O5.
In the meantime we had received
letters from all over the district
congratulating us on our election,
also letters informing US of gross
frauds perpetrated in Morrison
county.
In order to offset Morrison
county's rottenness, Mr.. Stivers at
tempts to prove that the Trading
Post precinct vote in this county
was illegal. Now about the Trad
ing Post vote. There are scores of
honest bona .fde settlers in the
north end of this county. In 1883,
they petitioned the governor to es-
tablish a voting precinct there.
The notice establishing the pre-
cinct was duly published at the
time in the Pioneer Press together
with the names Of the judges and
clerks of election. That year SO
votes were cast at that precinct.
This year the officials at St. Paul
informed the settlers that the pre-
clnct was legally established and
no further steps we're necessary.
The same judges that served two
years ago served this year. The
election was fairly conducted; the
judges and clerks were sworn by a
notary public; the names of the
voters were duly recorded on reg
istered poll lists, and the number of
votes cast was certified to by the
judges and clerks of election. We
are personally acquainted with 90
OF the SO men that voted there on
the 4th of last November, and to
our own certain knowledge most
of them have resided there for the
past four Or five years, and every
man of them is legally qualified
voter. The voting precinct is IA
miles south of Mile Laos lake and
is not located on the so-called res
ervation. 1t is part and parcel of
the town Of Princeton, and he who
asserts to the contrary is an ignor-
ant liar. All of Mile Laos county
with the exception of four con-
gressional townships on the west
end of the county is known as the
town of Princeton. No organized
town intervenes between the village
of Princeton and this voting pre-
cinct. Mr.. Stivers' Leach Lake
illustration was made SOLELY fo,. tho