Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-30
we,s cen es'ed be .ause cast on'site Of the
proper District
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we,s cen es'e6 be .ause cast ontsite Of tn
proper district
VERY FLIMsE
TIE evidence Slows thst theIe werS
.ognship lines IN BrsXtOn. The question
c,ias 10 before the COMMITTEES IS to wha,
should be done With these vOtes.
I, was after the Brooke co0n'y case had
bren passed and he confidently expected
tsat General SprigS would vote 70 cast ou'
these votes. He -as surprised to find bin
opposing the rejection, but Brother Ket
said there was sOme doubt about tbssS
votes and suggested that they should be
Classified by striking them cut until proper
time for consideration bad heen giveo.
Ga THE ground he end Me- Morris had
voted 10 strike oil these votes, although
thew did no. believe it olght to be done.
The sneaker had also another reason. he
thought 10 WIS the Brooke cOunty case
over sgain, and If 20 good votes could 70
ont in Brooke, 30 or 40 good votes could
20 ont ia B-sxton to keen them company.
Siuce that tine be bad
CHANGED HIS MIND
however. De did not believe that two
wtougs coold make = right, and lie would
nov 20 90 inst throwing cut Ons Oi these
votes.
Ii toes not appear a. any place on the
county records that the change in the
Braxton district lines Was sv,r recogniz d.
Tne order on which the change was made
was null and void. Yet these people bad
voted honestly, and he would rot now
cast out Oas Of their b-li0ls. Much had
been said abcut the couatl OF Brooke, but
not much On that hlor, except what Gen.
Sprigg had "a q yesterday.
The lsw Of the Slste provided that every
msu should vote IN the district OF which
be wss a bOla fde resident. The same
lsw sdi.j other restrictions to the fran
chbe, ani the speaker
WAS OF THE OPINION
that it was clearly unconstitutional. II
had been practically declared uncon-
siituiionai BY the contest committee when
ir refused TO reject the vote OF number OF
enploVss Of the State in the Weston To-
sare Asylum and the psniten,isry st
Moundsvilie.
Butt1 return TO the Brooke county case.
There never was sny evidence before the
committee TO show that the county had
bsen divided into districts. He held that
-nch proot vas necessary before the votes
could be thrown Ous. Nor, was this all
Tine y,r, witness vino bad been called 70
move ths. Fleet street vas the boundary
,ire hstveen W.l'sbulg and Cross Geek
districts mad testified that it was under
sf,,d ,yb.n the limits of Welisburg We.e
extended that
THE PEOPLE LIVING
ir tha added tsrritory eaould vote in
Wellsburg district Bat there was still
more. q W. mcC0rd. "A resid snt Of THE
added territory, had been appoint
ed Justice Cf tle Peace
Tor Wsllsburg district, aud had afterwards
been elected 10 that otice. Moreover q
petition had been presented by the voters
Of Cross Creek .distric., not added to
Wellsburg, Tor a change in theis voting
place. due 10 the change IN the district
lines, sud this pstition, with all its sigua-
tures. was granted By tie County Court,
and a new election place Was established
AZ DeviuEey's warehouse. That was The
evidence before The committee.
i. showed ths, the district lines Of
Brooke county had been changed,
AND THAT CHANGE
had been rtcozuizsd. The yotera were
leysl. lost and honest voters, aud they
could not be deiuisd, deceived CT disiran-
chissd Thsir votes should be couoted.
At this point in Judge MiXR-ii'7 address
a reces, vas taken until 2.3O o. ma,