The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-12-24

| counted. 1t was then put in the ballot
| box. There were fifteen or twenty per
sons inside of the guard rail while the
votes were being counted. They were
jackson Pontius, Louis Kasey, John
Smith and quite crowd whose names
do not remember. Most of the time Jack
son Pontius was sitting beside MIR
Kreighbaum, one of the judges, Mr.. Pom
titus took a needle and strung good many
of the ballots. Mr.. Pontius handled
some OF the ballots, but / cannot say
If IL was before or after they
had been counted. There was
some controversy about the countinRof the
votes. Mr.. jackson Pontius accused me
of miscounting. He looked at the top of
the sheet, suppose to see the number Of
votes the candidates for oriDflrmary director
! had. said bad marked two votes for
| Mr. Biechele more than be was entitled to.
They told us so count two votes for all
the Democratic candidates. l did so and
just as got through, Mr.. Andrew Pontius
said "Don't count inflrmsry director as
the votes are for the other man.. The
other clerk said / should remember H.,
and not count the next two votes for Mr..
Biechele. Mr.. jackson Pontius said mo
you don't come that on me l have been
| watching you for some time" He and l
had a few words and he went back to his
seat.
The witness was cross examined by Mr..
Whitacre and said he was Republican
mail carrier. Three of the ballots cast
were not counted. As far as l know, no
| a
lots. The count was not made incorrect
by any people being within the guard rail.
The count was correct. None of the bal
lots were tampered with. The three bal
lots we're sent to the clerks office. Jack.
son Pontius came in on his own accord.
didn't see him mark or defraud any bal
lots. saw nothing irregular except that
| Jackson Pontius was inside the railing
and stringing tickets. The count was
fair. The crowd was mixed, Republicans
and Democrats. The judges made no OBJ
jection TO the people being there.
CsJudge Day again examined Mr.. Reed
who said jackson Pontius was not sworn
to witness the count.
Mr.. Whitacre questioned Mr.. Reed, who
said lie didn't seq Mr.. PontiuS do anything
which t"nded to interfere with any voter
casting his ballot, as he saw fit.
CHRISTIAN wEARsTLER
was the next witness. He was judge al
Loutzanheiser precinct, at the late cleo
ton. He said that when the first inmate
OF the inflrmary offered his vote, he was
challenged. The two Democratic judges
wanted to let them vote, and the two Re-
publicans were opposed toit. Mr.. Kreigh
baum said that as the Republicans had
challenged the votes of the infirmAry
inmates, and the judges were tie, the
votes would have 10 be r, ceived. / DOM
know how many voted, but l understand
between forty and fifty. l marked the
tickets of some Of those who said they
| could not marx them. l helped TO mark
| about half n dozen tickets. They al
voted the Democratic ticket except one
who voted mixed Republican ticket
He was hard OF hearing and handed Mr.
Kreighbaum u paper, on which were the
names Of the people for whom he wanted
to vote. l marked his ticket in accord
ance with the wish expressed on The
paper. He voted Republican ticket ex
cept for Mr.. Biecheie and Mr.. Maudru.
The Rowlen-Weybrec contest wa'
continued Tuesday by the cross examina
ton Of Christian Wearstler by Mr.. Whit
aero.
He was asked il he did not tell some o
the parties connected with the contestan
that he had the information given above
, The witness refused to answer and MIR
} Whitacre asked the justices to compe
him to answer the question. The justice
held that witness could not be compelled
} to answer the question.
Mr.. Wearstler was recalled by Mr.Wbit
acre and examined as to his reason 70
refusing to answer the question. He wa
asked il his reason for refusing to answe
was because his answer would tend t.
. criminate him. He said he did not fee
3 like answering this question.
: us the reason you refuse to answer be
D cause you know your answer would Grim
i mate you ?" asked Mr.. Whitacre.
: ~ will not answer that question: sal
: the witness.
"You have then voluntarily given infol
S nation, in violation of your oath, and yo
s refuse to answer these questions becaus
d you have done So" said Mr.. Whitacre.
~ dou't consider that violating my oati
!. as the paper was on the table and wa
= public property" was the answer.
Q "But you refuse to answer these que
tions because you feel your answer migf
G. tend to show you had violated your oat
a of Office" said Mr.. Whitacre.
= He gave the same answer as that give
= above.
A. J. SHANABRooK
: was then called and said he lived north {
Canton. He said he knew Mr.. Grant, a
Il inmate of the county inflrmary. l hear
. him say that he was satisfied he vote
right and that he believed one of thel
% made mistakes. He said he voted IL
> same as they voted the night before at Il
d intirmary. was at the polls and saw N
% jackson Pontius inside the ropes. sa
y = him talk with the inflrmary inmates, b'
fore and after they voted, On cross e'
- animation witness said he saw Mr.. Pol
a thus do nothing illegal.
!. NATHAN RICE
Is q voter in Plain township was the ne
witness. He was at the polls on electic
r. day and knows Joseph Grant. He said
a. voted right and voted the same as he hi
]. the evening before. He also said th,
had had voting school at theinfirmary +
q week or ten days before election.
, did not say who was the teacher at Il
a. school. The witness saw Mr.. Ponti
i. there but did not see him inside the qua
10 rail. He saw him talking to the inmate
l. inside the school house, before they vote
On cross examination witness said
had also voted at a school, before he vot
at the election.
IN SUPERINTENDENT JACKSON PoNT1Us
n was the next called. He produced re
In ord which gives the names of the inmat