The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-01

Il risdiction over these returns, 10 mol
! say that anybody was dishonest, but
men may be dishonest even In the city
OF Charleston. Witness White Bays he
saw the commissioners make mistakes
corrected Mr.. Kockey In one mistake
The fact that Rockey denounces men
!, for discussing his testimony indicates
what kind OF man he Is. At one time
Rockey testifes that he did not examine
the ballot box; at another time he testi.
tles that he did examine II. The con.
testant had right TO demand recount,
though he was not allowed 10 cross.ex.
anime witnesses. The County Court Of
Kanawha Is held intallable by tho mi.
nority. t,F0 .....y R[ l-G
/ THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES.
Oh, well I don't care I cant find wlia!
they say about the 10000 million years
in which Golf could not lose just IA and
Fleming gain just IA votes. My expert.
ence as to the doctrine Of chances has
been that o good deal depends on the
dealer. 'a
MIR. Morris-That's what we thought
in this case. ." -,
Mr.. kee-Alany persons road. those
ballots and Rockey Is shown not to be
above that thing and 1t Is not improb.
able that he read out Fleming ballots
for Got. have not much 10 say rs to
the county OF Brooke. Z
Senator Scott-Couldn't those IA bal
lots have been changed by breaking
open that box2 >! .A'a, -
MIR. Keel want to say that ever since
argument began they have attempted to
get behind the law and the facts. There
is a possibility for everything. 1t is a
question Of probability. want to tell
you further that evidence does not show
that that box was ever tamprred with.
Golf wants the benefit OF possibility.
That box was in the custody Of the
officer who is required to take caru of 1t
and the evidence shows 1t was properly
taken care Of. One man testties to going
out to see what was going to DO done.
Look out for a man who knows some
thing is to be done. After the time he
was peepiug through tho window the
box was deposited with the clerk.
The Senator from Ritchio in mis- nd.
dress etmenated II proposition Of law
which he applied to Brooke county. I
want to Ask him question. When YOU
wrote the report had you read the case
or did you get it from somewhere else?
Senator Alorris-I took it from the
book, from McCreary.
Mr.. kce-This is what thew rely on
then. l do not propose to delay longer
on Brooke. =
Senator Morris-I acknowledge that
there is great strength in your argument
but McCreery in his great work on elec-
tions, 30 highly endorsed by you and
by US, takes different view and agree
with him.
Mr.. Keel do not even yield to Nc.
Creary when I think he is wrong. 20
back to see where he gets it.
plLlNa pELIoN ON ossA.
Senator Morris-We attach no great
importance to that decision. We simp-
ly said it was piling Pelion on Ossa.
Mr.. Kee-Well, you ought to pile
those things on each other. H9
Senator Morris-It may be bud for
you. 49,
Mr.. Keel am glad you attach no i'm
portance to it, there is nothing in it,
anyhow. It is true, as Judge Maxwell
says, that there have been criticisms of our
law as laid down with regard to domicie.
That every man has a domicite is pre.
sumption OF law. The nearest dehni-
tion OF domicile is home. It is not true
that because man is in the public SER
vice, or service Of corporation, he
lives where he is employed. Up to the
time ] undertook to establish home for
myself and wife, my heart always turned
back to the humble mountain home in
the old county OF Pocahontas. II you
were to 10 to Simmons or to Mill Creek
you would find that those men don't
live there. When We consider matters
OF this kind We bring to our assistance
the experience OF ourselves and OF man
kind. The proposition that these men
live where they voted, is as absurd
as the proposition that mems
residences are wherever they are.
! II so, It must be assumed that these
ninety-one men are residents here.
They say that We rejected the votes OF
men who had been on the pay rolls over
q year. It makes no difference. When
you find man there with no ancestry
there, no father, no mother, no home, it
is fair to presume that he has no right to
vote there. l want to 70 little further
with you now. It has been shown that
these darkies were Republican, and we
have a right 10 conclude that they voted
for Got1, all with the exception Of Pleas
Robinson. Let's see the minority re.
port. We have another evidence OF the
fact that all these darkies are Republi-
cans. They hold that Robinson Is not
good witness. Poor Pleas! The only
evidence against his credibility is that
he is the one lone "nigger'' on Mill
Creek who voted the Democratic ticket.
5, ASSAULT ON JOHN COOPER. I
Take this John Cooper proposition
that there was an organized effort on
part Of General Gofrs friends to prevent
the corruption OF the ballot. Here is
what John Cooper says in the Flat Top
Monitor (Cooper's article was read,
criticising sharply the Democratic
authorities) Why did Cooper put on
those reople, as ho says, the foul blot
that they intended wrong? Why? Be-
cause it was the design to get in the
ballots and keep them in. They were
not to be thrown out by defects. Cooper
saw that the officers were duly sworn.
Cooper polled the first vote. Was he
there all day guarding the window
against improper yotes2 He was in the
rear, seeing to his motley crowd OF
miners, worse than your fathers slaves
or my fathers slaves ever were. John
Cooper went from place to place to pro.
tect the purity Of the ballot in his own
way. lie knew there was an arrange.
ment to crowd in these voters md they
did do it. Look through the minority
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