Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-29

delegate shouted 1--WE have had
enough talking about this business.
Let us stop talking and do something"
Captain Kolb began with the county
of Montgomery, where the capital of
the State is located. Montgomery
County returned majority of 6,254 for
Jones, giving Kolb little more than
1000 votes out of total certified vote
of 5000. Captain Kolb said he had
sworn testimony to show that there
were not over 1000 votes cast in the
county, of which he had received
about 2,7OO and Jones about 1900. Yet
6,254 majority had been counted for
Jones.
Warren S. Reese, an attorney of
Montgomery County, told how, when
they found how they had been cheat
ed, he had gone to the court house to
get certified copy of the tally sheets
and poll list. He was told they would
be furnished at 10 o'clock the next
morning. When they went for it at
that hour they were told that all the
ballot boxes from all the beats in the
county had been broken into during the
night and the contents stolen, and they
were shown the empty ballot boxes.
This was in county in which the
county officers who had charge of the
ballot boxes and election returns were
Jones Democrats, and in which the Ger.
titled returns, as they had counted
them, gave Jones 1884 majority over
Kolb in total certified vote of 5000.
Captain Kolb offered sworn testimo-
ny, procured by house to house can
vas, that not over 1000 votes had been
cast in the county, all told, of which he
had received 1900 majority. A dele
gate said he had seen the poll list from
his beat before it had been stolen away,
and that it contained the names of nine
men whom he knew to have been dead
three years. Another said that during
his term as Sheriff some years ago, he
had put man to death in the line of
his duty, but his conscience was per-
fectly clear now, since he had seen his
name on Jones tally sheet as one who
had voted the Democratic ticket on the
1st of August. Captain Kolb said they
had affidavits from every beat in the
city of Montgomery showing that not
more than 1900 votes had been polled,
and 1861 had been counted for Jones.
A delegate who had acted as challen-
ger at one of the polling places testified
that he had seen thirty Kolb votes go
into the box and only ten come out in
the count.
Lowndes county was counted as Civ
ing Jones 1850 majority. Captain
Kolb produced affidavits and personal
statements from delegates on the floor
showing that he had carried it over
Jones by a majority of over 5000.
, Delegates stated that at Valley Creek,
adjoining Selma, Kolb had 535 votes
and Jones 43. The vote was returned /.
Jones 1856, Kolb 225. At Browns beat
in the same county, only 80 votes were
cast. The election officers returned a
majority of over 400 for Jones. Har-
din's beat, in the same county, voted
90 all told, and returned 756 majority
for Jones. Burnsville beat, where Kolb
had 338 and Jones II, Jones was given
1874 and Kolb 155.
In the city of Selma total vote of
2,642 was counted, or one vote for every
two and fraction of population.
Jones got the town by large majority,
according to the count. The Kolb affi-
davits show that not over 1900 votes
were actually cast.
Another delegate from Selma told
how, late in the evening of election
day, their ticket holders were attacked
at given signal by dozen men with
drawn revolvers, their tables overturn-
ed and part of their records stolen.
They retained record of over 500 men
who had voted for Kolb at that polling
place alone, yet he was counted less
than 800 votes in the entire city.
The returns from Wilcox County
were held back for week, and then
returned 4,SO0 majority for Jones.