Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1892-12-09

-NN'J 'e&SA"so sAAS fuSoSich Va SANipS oae
portion of the facts regarding each
incident treated.
The RECORD is ready and willing
to state, and TO prove by abundant evil
dence, that every move made IN Sez
precinct on election day was in the inter-
est of right; that the two gentlemen
(Messrs. Lee and Lynn did not have
vote counted for them which the one who
cast it desired to have counted for some
one else. Nobody has disputed this fact
Mr.. Campbell does not dispute it IN his
letter. Bu!, even if it were otherwise
if fraud, corruption aud intimidation had
prevailed IN Selz on election day--Judge
Winchester and not Judge Campbell
and the associate Justices of the return
ing board would have had jurisdiction in
the matter. through the legitimate chan>
mel of contest by those defeated, and
not, as the chief justice of the supreme
court of Emlnons county would have it
by the gentlemen who were elected Blu,
we are willing to discuss with Mr. Camp.
bell the points he seeks to make in his
letter.
AS to the matter of outside interference
in Se]z on election day. Let us look at
the equity of the case. The whole pro-
ceeding was agreed to by the candidates
present. Mr.. Lock had offered to bet $5
with Mr., Lee during the afternoon that
he (Lock) would have fifty votes. 1t was
Lock who suggested to Lee that, IN order
to facilitate the count, the latter read
off the names on the ballots. He knew
t. p. Lee he knew that he was an hon
est man; and he knew that if there were
fifty votes IN. the box for Lock they would
every one be counted for Lock if Lee
read the ballots. Lee did not act as an in
spector or as a judge the legal fnspcc
tor and judges were present, overlooked
the work, and duly signed the pollbooks
Chief Justice Campbell wakes face
tious over the fact that Mcssrs. Cell and
Lowe acted as writers for the clerks
But no one has yet claimed that the writ
ers had interests in common, and it Is not
likely that there was colusion between
the two. Furthermore, John F. Cell, as
well as Lowe, was sworn to fairly and
lmpartially do the work he was asked to
do by the clerks and it will take more
than the dirty filings and cowardly iutima
tions contained III Campbclps letter to
make the people of this county think 9th
erwise. The only difference between
Campbell and Cell was that the former
"a recent chairman of the democratic
county committee) hoped that the Rus
slams would not be able to vote so as to
have their votes counted, as they were
certain to vote against his pet candidate
for auditor-the. one in whose interest,
Van Beck paid $50 In Selz township
Mr. Cell, on the other hand, wanted the
Russians to have the privileges Of Amer
lean citizenship-wanted them 10 vote as
everybody knew they wanted to vote
! wanted their votes canvassed as they
were cast The result of the vote IN
Selz was of no consequence to Mr. Gel.
personally, lis his name was on both
The tickets. He knew that the Russians
wanted to vote for D. II. Streetcr; and
he wanted to instruct them in ihe nature
of the new law, so that when their re-
turns struck the nest of Strceter's enc
mics at the county building the bribery
gang and their friends could not throw
them out on account of possible mistakes
by precinct clerks--thc only ground on
which the cauvassing board could refuse
TO count them. He wanted to see d. r
Streeter elected, out he had no desire TO
have 1t done unfairly, nor had he gone
| up and down the Russian settlement of
fering money for votes. Streeter had
supported HIM when he ran for register
| of deeds two years before, though not as
strongly nor as persistently as the REC
ORD had supported Campbell for treas
urer in 49, Cell was not "a hypocri1ical,
calculating, cold blooded Migrate, and hc
stuck by his friend. That was all.
| Chief Justice Campbell, in the lettcl
above quoted, shows the slender threads
on which he bases his throwing out of
the votes of Selz precinct, when he grows
so excrutiutingly funny over the fact
that Il stick or gauge was used to show
those Russians who could not read the
Roman letters where to find the heading
"Clerk of District Court" Mr.. Parker
In his remarks before the returning
board, laid great stress on the stick mat
ter. The writer claimed that any appll
ance not forbidden by law--and especially
any appliance which would assist votel
IN casting his ballot for the man or mer
of his choice-was neither legally mol
morally wrong. Campbell himself re.
marked that 1.-THE stuck doesn't cut mucl
of a figure" There was no secret about
the stick idea, for the writer had told I
score of people before election that some
thing of the kind would have to be used
The voters had right. if they wanted to-
to use n notched stuck, or a tape measure
or yard rule, or anything else to aC
them in casting their ballots as they
wanted to cast them. There was ne
way of knowing whether the stick wa:
used by the vcter after he entered thu
booth. If he used it, it was of his OWE
volitlon, and his action in the booth wa.
us free and as secret us though he had no
taken the stick with him. And yet aftel
stating publicly that the sticks cut very
little figure, Mr.. Campbell, IN his Tribun,
letter, essays to influence public opinion
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