St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-05
Beaten at the Polls, He Still
Longs for the Ger
tifieate.
The State Canvassing Board
To Be Appealed To
At Last.
Although It Has No More
Power Than the King
Of Siam.
Some Of The Reasons Why
Senator Davis Will Be
Defeated.

Foiied at every stage of the contest.
the defeated Republican candidate in
the Seventh district will fall back upon
the merest technicality.
EX- Representative Henry Feig, OF
KandiyOhi county, has been telling the
Republican papers how he came to be
defeated in his contest for congress. Of
course he charges corruption in various
forms, but has thus far carefully re-
Trained from naming the particular
localities in which the crooked work
was done. This sort of talk comes with
very bad grace from Mr.. Feig. who is
one of the men who should be very
careful about little matters of this kind.
He is industriOuSly searching for pre-
text upon which to base contest, and
the evidence IS at hand to prove that he
is ready to 90 to any length to get it.
While he has not made the announce
ment in the party organs, Mr.. Felg has
secured an attorney in this city who is
carefully looking around to see what
can be done. This attorney Is none
other than the fair-haired Henry Johns.
who, in contest of his own. quietly
retired from the field as soon as he was
satisfied that he had received fewer
votes than his opponent, The trouble
with Mr.. Feig is that he did not get
votes enough, although there is no lack
of evidence that no string was left UNI
pulled that could bring him single
one. The methods reSOrted to by Mr..
Feig aud his hackers i'll the Seventh
district are known to the people in that
part of the state, who cannot feel eX-
actly pleased at the charges Mr.. Felg is
making. Here is the absurd tale he
gave the Pioneer FresS of yesterday:
Hon. Henry Feig, of Atwater, was in st.
Paul Yesterday Speaking of his contest Tor
a certificate of election to congress from the
Seventh district, he said that while he be-
lieves there were great many tiagrant viola
tons of the provisions OF the Australlnn
system which rendered the secrecy of the
ballot void. he would wait for the announce
ment of the official canvass by the state
authorities before taking any further steps in
his contest. lie claims that in some OF the
voting precincts the Popuists received ali
the votes cast, and that in these precincts the
Republicans and Democrats had no repre-
senlaton on the boards. tie alleges that i'll
one township before the polls were opened
caucus was held where 1t was decided that
all should support The Peoples party candl-
dates. the judges and clerks of election par
ticipating i'll the meeting. Mr.. FeiG believes
in having the vote inspected Ill every dis
trict where the judges have shown disposi-
ton to overstep their authority, or where
illegal votes have been cast.
Hon. Ii. E. Boen, the gentleman who
defeated Mr.. Felg, is poor man, and in
the late campaign fought Singly and
alone an army of b0OdlerS and cOrrup-
tiOniStS. Every voter in the Seventh dis
trict knows that Boen had neither money
nor wealthy packers. and every one
knows equally we'll that Henry Feig had
both. The election is over, and were if
not for the fact that Mr. Feig is show
ing disposition to contest the seat of
man who clearly defeated him, the
GLOBE would not mention these facts.
But the people. at least all who believe
in fair play and justice even to an op-
ponent. should know, and, if Mr.. Feig
makes his contest, shall know a great
many things concerning Mr.. Feig'S cam
paign of which they are at present ig-
nOrant.
In addition to the points indicated in
Mr.. Feig's interview, it is reported tina
Mr.. Feig is relying upon the state can
vassing board to help him, but he is at
present endeavoriug to find out the
names of the district court judges who
will be asked to Ofliciate at the canvass
two weeks later. The point he will
make is that certain votes have been
returned for H. E. Boen,' while all
the others are returned for "Halvor E.
Boen." Mr.. Feig does not pretend that
these two names do not belong to
he knows full we'll that they
do and that Mr.. Boen is always
Referred to as III Z. Boen." In case
these votes are counted separately,
Henry Feig will have more votes than
either ''Halyor L. BOen" or III. E.
BOen."
The question raised is one OF the
mereSt techncality, in any event. and
state canvasSing board cannot be so
made up as to give it moments con-
sideration. The intention of a majority
of the voters of the Seventh congress
SiOnal district clearly was not to elect
Mr.. Feig, and if he should succeed in
getting the certificate lie SO eagerly
seeks it will be by the di5franchisement
of a number of voters, who voted
under the forms of law provided
for them. and about whose action there
is no taint of fraud.
There is no doubt whatever that the
same influences are working to induce
MI Feig to contest the election of his
opponent as we're brought into play at
the celebrated and fraudulent Henning
convention. In case Mr.. Feig is foolish
enough to persist in his course, the full
history of the means by which his name
went upon the official ballots as the
candidate of the Alliance. as well as
the Republican party, will have to be
brought out. because 1t shows conclu-
sively which side did the crooked
work. in the Seventh district. That
this is pretty well understood in the
district is shown by the following from
the AtWater Press, paper published at
MI Feig'S home:
The Alliance Standard, New London
Times. and all other scurrilous sheets are
hereby notified that the Atwater Press has
never supported Henry Feig in single issue
1t has frequently referred to Mr. Feig and his
unsayory record. and has not published
| lire with the intention of aiding him in un-
! deserved political advancement, much less
went to extraordinary lengths TO show de
| votion to the cause of Feig. The Press has
never been an admirer of Feig or Feigism
Let Mr.. Feig contest. A Republican
house would uuseat Feig himself
though his majority were 800, on account
| of that crooked Hennng convention.
ADMIT a CONTEST.
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