The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-08-20
MR. TONGUE ANSWERS.
He Denies tho allegations of Mr.. VAN
derburg.

According to Hillsboro dispatch,
Hon. Thomas H. Tongue has served en-
Mr.. Vanderburg and his attorney copy
OF his answer to their complaint in the
contested election, VIII erein Mr.. Wander
burg expected to become member of
the ffty-fifth congress, The answer is
as long as the complaint, containing 30
pages OF type written copy, ald covers
fully every allegation made.
In answer to the principal allegation
made in Mr.. Vanderburg's compliant
Mr.. Tongue says:
3 ''I deny that at said election of mem
Der of congress, held on June /, 1896, in
the first congressional district that you
received any plurality of all the legal
votes cast at such election, or that my
friends had control OF the election
machinery, or that any one by fraudu-
lent methods manipulated the election
returns so as to give me an apparent
plurality in order to enable me to obtain
the certificate of election, or in any other
manner, except to fairly count such
votes of which received a plurality.
deny that my friends, on my behalf or
IN my interests, resorted to bribery or
intimidation, or any other illegal or cor
rupt methods in said election, either to
defeat the will of the people or to give
me seat in the congress of the United
States. deny that in every or any vot-
ing precinct in said congressional dis
trict, my friends or any one else who
served as judges of election, rejected any
ballots with your name marked or desig
mated in such manner as to clearly
show the intent of the voter to vote
for you. either upon the pretense
that such ballots were defective, or
otherwise. AS to whether two or
any of the regular appointed judges in
Toledo precinct, in Coos county, were
able to read or write the English Ian
guage intelligently, or whether they
took the proper oath OF affirmation, Mr..
Tongue has no information upon which
to form a belief. Az to whether the
provisions OF the law touching the ex-
clusion of persons from the polling
! places were observed or enforced in said
precinct, or as to whether ballots were
also prepared in room away from the
booths, or whether A. j. Seeley, Hugh
McLane, as bosses, and ]. L. Parker, as
| foreman of the Coos Bay, Roseburg &
Eastern Railroad Company, or Dan
\ Richards, ae town marshal, used threats
or coercion to voters in preparing bal
lots or paid sums of money amounting
to So to induce them to vote in accord
ance to the wishes of either person, Mr..
| Tongue has no knowledge, and hence
denies that intoxicating liquor was
freely distributed to the voters or Off
GERS of said election, or that the judges
and clerks became intoxicated during
the progress of the election is denied, as
is likewise that the ballots were falsely
read at the canvass Of the votes, or that
the whole or any part of the returns in
said precinct should be thrown out"
| It is alleged by Mr.. Tongue that the
election machinery of Coos county was
entirely in the hands of the political
party of which Mr.. Vanderburg belongs,
and whose candidate he was, and that
the majority of the judges of election ap-
pointed in said county were mem bers of
the Populist party, being appointed by
the county court of Coos county, who
are also of the same political party.
You'll be surprised when you try Hoe
Cake soap, and wish we had told you
sooner. 1t lie made by patented pro-