The Forrest City times., 1892-09-30
WILL CONTEST.
q. A. stcCutisrs. nnd |. B. Wilson. Poeu lite Cspdidsscs Tor Assessor and Trcas- urer. Respectively win Contest tho
 Election of the Democratic vic-

The present incumbents F. A. Me. | Guitars. assessor and J. E. Wilson treas '. i who we're snowed under at the late election by democratic ballots. are mt contented to take their defeat like little
 men, but they have served notice on
 assessor elect Jas. Brown and Treas urer-elect J. w. Aven. of their inten l ton tu contest the election of said last named gentlemen to the respective | offices, at the next term of tie county cnurt, which convenes October 3,l 1892 1 The contestants McCullars and Wilson,
 in their complaint deny that said Jas. Brown and l. W. Aven received the
 highest number of legal votes
 cast in said election for their respect | i've offices; deny that contestees Brown
 and Aven received the number of
 votes accredited to them by the judges;
 deny that the returns and certificates of the judges and clerks of said cleo ! ton fur Telico, Madison tat Moore
 headl, Franks, Blaekiirh, Johnson and
 Goodwin townships. show correct statement of the number of legal votes
 cast in those townships for contestants and charge the returns to be errone-
 ous and fraudulent They claim to have received a majority of the votes cast for the respective offices and al great length set out the number of votes they did receive iu the several precincts, and claim that the judges erroneously and fraudulently threw out many votes that should have eeen prop
 erly counted for then. and that many votes were enormously aud fraudu-
 lently rejected. and changed and tam ! pered with.
 | ..l.. -f..tu ol,. sx.s
 'that at said election in Franks town
 ship, ]. M. Davis and J. l.. Scott, two of the judges of election at said pre-
 cinct, were active partisans and sup porters of coutestees and that one or both prepared nearly all the ballots of voters who stated that they cnuld not read and write. and unlawfully and
 fraudulently imposed upon and tte-
 ceived voters who desired to vote for
 contestants, and fraudulently prepared I their ballots so as 10 show that they | voted for cuntestees. ur for some one
 else instead of contestants, as they de sired to vote. sS s' Contestants also
 charge that in several townships above named those voters who could not I read and write did not have the assist
 ance at all times of two of the judges ! to prepare their ballots for them as | they wished to vote. but the ballots of
 such electors were unlawfully, errone-'
 ously and improperly prepared by one l judge alone. Contestants also charge
 that the poll books in said townships | were not signed, that fraud WAS com
 mitted and conuived at in said cleo
 tion, to the great injury of contestants and to defeat them for the respective
 offices to which they aspired: that the law under which the election was held
 is unconstitutional and void, wherefore
 contestants ask to be allowed to intro | duce proof to substantiate their whole l sale charges. and ask that the Franks
 township box, so far as it effects the election of assessor and treasurer be declared void. and that said Brown and Aveu be busted from the offices.
 and that contestants recover Sl00O damages.