The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-10
CANDIDATE MCCOY CLAIMS HIS Sue
CESSFUL RIVAL is NOT AN
AMERICAN VOTER.
RESULT IN ONECASE REVERSED
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ELECTION
OF C. S. DEVER AS JUSTICE OF
TIE PEACE PREMATURE
SHORT COUNCIL SESSION HELD.
Retiring Members Have Few
Words to Say-News of Mime
apOlis.

Peter Mccoy, of the Ninth ward,
makes a contest against Marshall B..
Lloyd, the gentleman who led the
race for a seat in the city councll
chamber in that ward, claiming that
the said Lloyd bows on his knees be-
fore the British lion and scorns the
futterings of the eagles wings. MIR.
Mccoy asks not that his unsworn
statement be believed, but makes at
fidavit, which he asks the council to
consider In his sworn statement, pre-
scented to the aldermen at their meet
| ing last night, Mr.. Mccoy says:
That heis we'll and credibly in
! formed that the said Lloyd came to
the United States eight years ago from
the Dominion of Canada, one of the
British possessions. That the said
Lloyd had resided in Canada for more
than fifteen years prior to coming to
the United States; that the said Lloyd
| is thirty-eight years of age and is not
a citizen of the United States and was
never naturaliZed as a citizen of the
said United States, and that he is a
citizen of the British empire, and that
the father of the said Lloyd was at
all times citizen of said empire and
was never naturalized as citizen of
| the United States of America.
Accompanying Mr.. McCoy's state
ment was petition, signed by several
residents of the Ninth ward, request
ing that the issuance of a certificate of
election to Lloyd be deferred until he
! shall have made it appear to the salts
! faction Of all that he is a citizen of the
United States.
! No action whatever was taken by the
council in regard to the matter, and
Mr.. Lloyd was duly declared the alder
man from the Ninth ward. Mr.. Mccoy
and his associates will now have to
take the matter into court if they be-
| lleVe their charges to be correct.
A matter Of considerable surprise to
! some of the aldermen, and to a num-
| Der of the spectators present, was the
announcement that G. S. Dever had
not been elected to serve as Justice of
| the peace in the East district. The
error which gave Mr.. Dever the cleo
ton by the narrow margin Of five
votes, was made in the preliminary
statement from the First district of the
/ Ninth ward In this statement +. E.
Hobbs, the now successful candidate,
was accredited with only 1T votes,
while on the official statement from
/ that district he was shown to have re
ceived 127 votes, making difference of
ten in his favor. AS Mr. Dever prior
! to this discovery, had only led Hobbs
by five votes. the latter is therefore
elected with but five votes to spare
! The expense budget covering the
! election, amounting to something over
| 1900, was passed.
Although last nights council meet
| ing was held in lieu of the regular
meeting to have been held next Fri
day night, the only business transacted
was the adoption of the above report
! Of the canvassing committee and the
! passage Of the expense budget Some
! of the aldermen, however, wanted to
hear from those members who had
| been elevated to higher positions and
also from those members of the coun-
Gil who had been elected to serve
another term.
Aid. Harvey, who will, after Jan. 1,
be judge of probate, was the first
victim, and in very happy speech he
| thanked his fellow members for the
many courtesies they had extended
! him, and expressed regret at his early
withdrawal from the body
City Attorney Simpson, who has been
! elevated to the district bench, and Aid.
Long, Adams, Dickinson, Anderson, Cur
rier, Jennings and Nordeen each made
| short addresses A motion to adjourn
was made with the understanding that
before it took effect, Aid. McAllister
| should be recognized by the chair
! The gentlemen from the Tenth ward
who will not succeed himself. in taking
| the floor. stated that as he had been
indorsed by the Good Citizenship
league, he felt little out of place,
which remark created no end of laugh
ter. Following Mr.. McAllister, City
Clerk Haney was called upon and for
the benefit of those who doubted his
! determination to leave the city clerk S
office January next, he stated that he
! had fully made up his mind to do so.
| At the conclusion of Mr.. Haney's re-
| marks the meeting adjourned.