Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-01

| AoPl oeonIoSAVo Olsbr1cG, constituting
the county of Morris. In theix repor
will be found evidence to prove the
most glazing frauds, although sale
Richter was granted certificate OF cleo
ton. The evidence before the commit
tee proves beyond all reasonable doubt
that there were enough fraudulent and
Illegal votes cast for Mr.. Richter t.
change the result and give Mr.. W. h
White IA majority.
REPORT OF ELECTION COMMITTEE.
In the case of I. N. Goodwin against
Richard o. Citing for seat in this
house as representative for the Ninety
ninth district, the committee makes a
supplementary report, from which we
make the following extract:
1t will be remembered that YOUR COM
m1ttee made report a few days ago in
relation to these same parties. in which
they found that Mr.. Citing was, at the
time Of the election on the Sth of No
vember last, postmaster of Kansada.
and for that reason was ineligible to be
elected to the legislature, and they re-
ported that for such reason Mr.. Citing
was not entitled to seat in this house.
and that Mr.. Goodwin having received
a majority of all the votes cast in his
county for any eligible candidate for
said office, was entitled to such seat.
But Mr.. Goodwin insisted that YOUR
committee should examine the testi-
mony in the case, claiming that he had
been duly elected by majority of all
the legal votes cast in his district, and
that by reason of frauds practiced by
officers OF election, and by reason of
illegal votes cast against him, he had
been deprived Of certificate from
the duly constituted authorities, to
which in law and equity he was entitled.
Your committee, in compliance with
such request, have made the exami-
nation required. and herewith submit
| the facts found by them. For testi-
mony see House Journal for Saturday,
January 81, 1898.
Your committee find that Mr.. Good
| vim received a majority of the legal
votes cast in Ness county for represent
alive, and submit the following table.
which presents the facts established by
the testimony taken by your commit
tee:
Total number Of votes as canvassed for
Deduct frsudulentiy allowed him in Cen. 's'
ter township, and illegal votes above
Leaving Mr.. Elting's actual vote ....... 500
Total number of votes as canvessed for
Add votes actually cast but not allowed W.
In Center township. ................. 4
Making Mr.. Goodvin's total vote $40
MIR. Fittings actual vote. 538
Majority for Mr.. Goodwin ......... 10
Although Mr.. Richard o. Elting had
been granted the certificate of election,
the counting of the ballots in Center
township demonstrated the fact that
Mr.. [. n. Goodwin had been elected by
10 majority.
THIRTEENTH DAY.
Tuesday, January "a, 1893.
In report Of committee on elections in
case Of j. W. Hair o. John w. Davis will
be found affidavits Of several witnesses,
proving beyond question the purchasing
OF votes by said Davis. The election
committee was instructed to speedily in
quire into the evidence and facts touch
ing the relative right of John w. Davis
and j. W. Hair to seat in this house.
In their report on same date we find the
case OF Morrison 0s. Douglass. The chair
man states that the standing committee
on elections, to whom was shown the Pc
tition of John Morrison, claiming right
to seat in this house as a represent
alive for the One hundred and twenty
second representative district, Gray
county, and alleging that frauds had
been committed in several of the town
ships in said county at the election held
for representatives on the 9Th day of No.
vember last, have taken testimony in
said case and have inetru ,ted him to re-
port as follows:
Your committee sent a subpoena to
E G. Barton, the county clerk Of Gray
county, requiring him to bring before
your committee the poll-books of the
townships OF Cimmarrcn, Ingalls,, Logan
and Montezums, returned to him by the
judges and clerks Of election of said town.
ships, and also the packages Of tickets
returned by the judges Of election from
said townships to him as county clerk.
He testified that the original canvass Of
the county commissioners of the votes
cast in the whole county showed that
o. B. Douglass received $50 votes, and
that John Morrison had received 244
votes for representative of said One hun
dred and twenty second district, and
that said canvass included the votes OF
the townships Of Cimmarron, Ingalls,,
Logan and MonteZuma, as returned by
the judges ana clerks of election to him,
and as such votes were shown by the
original poll books and returns now pro-
duced by him before your committee.
Your committee examined the returns
OF the four townships named, and as
certified by the judges and clerks of
election, they were as follows:
Votes for Votes for
Townships. Douglass. Morrison
Clmmarron. Observation-Disclosures. 81 so
IASS1iS.--.- o.
Logan ............ ........... q 81
Montezuma ............ 80 20
Totals of four townships. 1874 I3S