Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-03
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Defendants aver that the complainants
and their supporters came to the Easter
election of 1895 determined to punish all
those who had at the election of 1894 pre-
sumed to exercise in a legal way their
rights qualified voters Of said parish.
They came with boastful overconfidence,
having prepared beforehand to celebrate
the anticipated defeat of their opponents.
Being thwarted in their designs, they, and
they only, have since kept the said parish
in the throes of a newspaper warfare, to
the great detriment of its material pros
perity and its spiritual growth"
The Rector's List.
1t is shown in the answer that January
"a, 1895, pursuant to a practice in this do
oese, Mr.. Torbert, as registrar of the par
ish, made a formal entry upon the parish
register appointing the rector, Mr.. Graham.
his assistant for the purpose of keeping
the register. Mr.. Torbert they say. prior
to the recent election refused to post list
of the names registered in this parish regis
ter kept by the rector and for that rea-
son the rector posted in the church sup
Elemental list of names entered on the
"canonical parish register" kept by himself.
The defendants aver that the methods fol-
lowed by the rector in securing information
required for the parish books is similar to
those followed in every parish in the coun-
try. If it We're true, as alleged by the
compliments. that the votes of seventeen
persons were cast illegally, the complain
ants were present at the election, fully
cognizant of the alleged irregularity, but
permitted the votes to be cast and count
ed without protest or objection, and should
not now be heard to question the same.
The defendants declare that the allegation
that any person or persons present at the
Easter Monday meeting were by ma
jority of said assembly allowed to vote at
said election" Is false and misleading, be-
Cause the meeting was not asked or per-
mitted to pass upon the qualifications OF
voters, as the vestry of the parish passed
upon such questions and under their law
there is no appeal from their decision. 1t
is asserted that three of the votes counted
by the tellers for John P. Torbert were
three bearing the name of ''Talbert." and
that the votes should have been counted
for Mr.. Talbert and not for Mr.. Torbert
1t is declared that the rector of the parish
has refused and still does refuse to meet
with the compliments or to recognize their
pretensions. 1t is declared, also, that the
defendant. William S. Nicholson, who has
resigned from the vestry, was In every
way a legally qualified voter in the parish,
and they deny that at the time of the cleo
ton Mr.. Nicholson was an officer of Waugh
NJ. E. Church.
The BOlted Doors.
In regard to the allegation made con-
corning the boiling of the church doors, the
answer says:
Defendants admit that on or about June
1, 1896 the said vestry took measures to
more effectually ,ecure the parish church
and other church property from the in
trusion of unauthorized persons holding
keys without the consent of the said vestry
or Of the rector of said parish, and they
aver that no person who has any legal
right and duty to enter has been denied
admission to said church and other prop
erty. Defendants further say that from
April Is. 1885, to the present time none of
the complainants have entered upon or de-
manded to be admitted to the said parish
church and other property for the pur-
pose Of supervising, caring for and con-
trolling the property Of said parish
The defendants therefore ask to have
the bill dismissed.