Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
AFTER WYMAN'S WOOL
/. r. Stayton Will Contest His Elec-
tion in the Courts, To-Day.
A COPY OF THE BILL TO BE FILED.
He Says He Will Show COS Illegal Votes
Cast in One Ward Alone.
WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAY Of 1T

prevent James G. Wyman from taking the
Office when Mayor Pearson's term is up
He claims he can show that Wyman was
illegally declared elected, and to-day he
will take the matter into court. His attor-
ney says they can show 60S illegal Wyman
votes in one ward alone. II they can do al
we'll in other wards, he says that Stayton
will have a majority instead of Wyman.
To-day Attorney William j. Bremen
will go into court with the following bill:
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court OF
quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county Of
Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania:
Inc petition of the undersigned qualified
electors OF the city of Allegheny, county and
State aforesaid, respectfully represents: That
your petitioners. being at best rs qualified elec
tors of said city of Allegheny, who voted at the
on the 18th day of February, A, D. 1890. fol
| the election of a Mayor for the said
| city OF Allegheny, aver and say. that the cleo
ZION omcers who held the election in the said
| to court. which said court, after a computation
OF said returns have certified that at said elec.
ti0n James G. Wyman had 6.5Ol votes for the
$ once OF Mayor y of the said city of Allegheny,
and that !. Il. Stayton had $3.50 votes for the
| office OF Mayor of the said city, whereby it was
made to appear that the said James G. Wyman
WAS eiecbeu mayor or the said city of ALE.
gheny.
THE RETURNS ATTACKED.
That your petitioners complain and say that
the returns made as aforesaid are incorrect and
untrue; that the said 1. R. Stayton, in truth
and in fact, received a majority of the legal
votes polled and cast at said election by the
qualified electors of the several districts in the
several wards of said city of Allegheny, and
was, in truth and in fact, duly elected to the
office of Mayor of the said city, instead of the
said James G. Wyman.
Your petitioners further aver and set forth
the following cause of complaint and show
that the said election was undue and illegal for
the following reasons, to-wit:
Flrst-That in the First election district Of
the First ward the election officers received
the votes and accepted and counted the ballots
for the said James G. Wyman. = (Here
are inserted the names of the illegal voters)
and 'other persons whose names did not appear
on the registry OF voters of said district of said
ward, without taking receiving, filing and re-
turning afhdavits and having them severally
subscribed thereto, which were written or
partly written and partly printed, or having
produced witness to make an affidavit and
subscribe thereto, which was written or partly
written and partly printed. as required by law
in such case made and provided.
That the election officers of said First election
district OF said First ward received the votes,
counted the ballots for the said James G.
Wyman. of and other persons who
election because they had not'severally paid
State or county tax within two years preceding
the said election which was assessed at least
two months and paid at least one month before
the said election, as required by law.
That the said election officers of the said
First election district of said First ward of said
city received and counted at said election for
the said James g. Wyman for Mayor as afore-
SAID, the votes of y who were not
legally entitled to vote because they were not
citizens of the United States. and of
and other persons who voted illegally and
fraudulently.
PRETTY BIG JOB.
Then follows the 20 districts of the city,
the phraseology of which is a repetition of
the First district of the First ward. The
bill covers about 95 pages of typewriter
copy and would take several hours to read.
Mr.. Bremen worked on it all night, and
will insert the names of the illegal voters
this morning as soon as they are furnished
to him. For the past two or three weeks
the attorney has had men out working up
the case against Wyman, and to a DIS
PATCH reporter last night he said:
1--WE propose to show the court that the
election boards were incompetent and negli-
gent in their counts. We do not say that
any money was used to purchase votes, but
we will show that there were hundreds of
people who voted for Wyman did so lille
gally. In one ward alone we have record
of 608 illegal votes for the Republican can
didate. The matter has been worked up
carefully, and we will show that Stayton is
legally entitled to election"
STATION NOT ASLEEP.
Candidate I. R. Stayton has not been
asleep. He found that the Republican and
Democratic tickets were dissimiIar in size.
Late in the afternoon on election day
a printing press turned out some
smoothbore tickets, which, although
Democratic in text, appeared, when folded,
to be the exact counterpart of the Repub-
smoothbores never were unfolded in the
count, but passed as Republican tickets
The recount, it is said, will whipsaw
Wyman's majority of 871 in very decisive
manner if there should prove to be one
tenth as many smoothbores as there seems
to be now ample evidence to cover.
There are said to be afidavits in Stavton's
hands from people who swear they saw Mr..
Wyman draw $1,000 in S. bills from bank
on Federal street in the early afternoon OF
the day before election, and numer-
Gus sworn statements from citizens who saw
Mr.. Wyman handing out some of the afore-
said $5 at or near divers polling places in
the course of election day.
TIPS FROM A FORMER CANDIDATE.
Hon. Morrison Foster has given MIR.
Stayton detailed statement in regard to a
contest several years ago Mr..
Foster states as his deliberate conviction,
based on that celebrated contest, that two |
fifths of the votes cast in Allegheny CITY |
elections will not stand the light of day.
Mr.. Wyman has announced around City |
Hall that everybody who worked against |
him in the recent election would be made to
smell birthstone when he got in. This has
had an effect little anticipated by the Mayor
elect. 1t has arrayed as Mr.. Stayton's
most active supporters in the. coming con-
test the most adreit politicians of the North
side. 1t has now become question of po-
litical selfpreservatiOn with James Hunter
Health Officer Bradley, and host of others.
There are other interesting complications.
Hon. James S. Rutan worked actively for
Mr.. w yman land is said to have given 81, 900
TO help the cause along. In return fer these
practical evidences of friendship, Mr..
Wyman, it is claimed, is under contract to
deliver divers delegates to Mr.. Rutan in
The Forty-second Senatorial Convention.
The friends of Messrs. Speer, Neeb and Har-
bison are whetting political meataxes, and
ire actively at work to down the new North
tide Mayor.
The real truth is that Wyman's friends
Ire aghast at the red-hot opposition that
1as spring up, and the utmost excitement
prevails in Northside political circles.
A Demand for $4,000 Damages.
Sophia Lowry yesterday entered suit
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