St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-14
HAWKINS CONTESTS.
Many Irregularities Charged
in the Election in the
Fifty-Third.
Charges That the Indians on
the Fond du Lac Reser-
walton We're Voted.
President Sanborn Explains
the Difficulties in the
Union League.
Editor Stivers, Of Brainerd,
Talks About His Candl-
dacy for Speaker.

AS predicted the day after the late
election the next state senate will have
4 contest to settle from the Fifty third
legislative district. composed of the
counties of Aitkin, Cass, ItaSca, Hub
bard, Wadena and Carlton. In this dis
triet Hon. w. P. Allen, lumberman of
Cloquet, Carlton county. was the Re-
publican nominee, and Hon. II. II.
Hawkins, of Northern Pacific junction,
the Alliance and Democratic candidate.
On the face of the returns Mr.. Allen
has 10 of plurality over his opponent.
but there are so many peculiar things to
be explained in regard to the vote at
number of precincts that by the time
these explanations are made the ma
lority will be on Mr.. Hawkins side of
the balance sheet.
Yesterday formal notice was served
on MIR. Allen that evidence would be
taken before justices in Carlton county
and elsewhere. In this notice a number
of irregularities are charged, and it is
alleged that no less than Seyenty-five of
the Fond du Lac Indians were voted at
Knife Falls. where vote is polled that
Is out OF all proportion to what it has
been in previous years, and ought to
have been this year. Yet these seventy
five Illegal votes were reinforced by a
whole trainlOad of gravel train elm
pioyeS CT the roAd and WOodSmen,
amounting in the aggregate to IA more
votes. Intimidation in the case of $50
other men Is charged in this same pre-
cinct. Then again it is charged that non
natnrallZed Indians were voted for MI.
Allen in ItaSca county. Various lille
galitles are also charged in number of
precincts IN various portions of the
district sufficient to reverse the slender
majority returned for Mr.. Allen many
times over.
A gentleman from this district was in
the city yesterday, and told the history
of the late election in CaSS county pre-
cinct. 1t seems that the judges had no
them was utilized as receptacle for
the ballots of the voters. No attention
was paid TO the qualifications of the
voters, and when the votes were
counted all were returned for Allen,
when, as matter of fact. many, if not
the greater mum her of them, were cast
for Hawkins. This. it is SAID, will be
established by the affidavit OF the man
whose pockets were turned into ballot
box.
Mr.. Hawkins is born fighter and as
he is sure or falr and impartial hear
ing before the senate, owing to its even
division politically, the chances are that
he will get his seat. If there is one thing
more than another that the rank and
file of the people of this state demand
it is fair elections, and they will not
permit the big lumber companies that
are so greatly interested in matters of
legislation regarding the states pine
lands, 10 vote their men regardless of
law where they please, solely for the
purpose of eleeting member of the
state senate. The specifications in Mr..
Hawkins notice follow:
That seventy-iye illegal votes were cast in
Knife Falls voting precinct by nonresident
Indians VINO lived on the Fond du Lac reser-
walton, and were not naturalized. AT the
same precinct 144 Illegal votes were cast,
namely: Forty gravel train men, 100 lum-
bermen and four other miscellaneous. all be-
ing non-residents and $50 were intimiuated
in the same precinct by fear of discharge
from work; also, at Cromwell fourteen uon-
resident and -naturaliZed Indians voted
Tor Allen i'll Itasca county. No voting pre-
cinct was established at Hartley. yet votes
there were counted. In the following voting
precincts. Hanson. Broke Trout Lake and
Swan River. no poll lists were posted, and
voters non-residents; in Pine River precinct,
Cass county, no registration no poll lists; all
votes illegally cast.