Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-05-28
MELTON TOWNSHIP.
Mc00Y's ACCREDITED THIRTY. NINE VOTES SLIPPING AWAY
 FROM HIM.
Votes That Were Cast For Phillips Were Counted
 For Mccoy,

The eSS-Edgte mas been publish ing figures showing a plurality for Mccoy. Under resolution adopt ed by the Central Committee on May II, the contestants have been taking dispositions with reference to the frauds charged in the recent primary. Edgar Brewster has been taking testimony to develope the frauds perpetrated in Melton towG- ship. It will be remembered that the returns show 39 votes for Nc Coy, 9 for Phillips, flor Brewster and for Philpot, making a total of 54 votes cast. The dispositions of the voters taken under the resolu- tion of the committee before an of ficer authorized to take them and when Mir. Mccoy was present by his attorneys, disclose the following facts: At the primary held in Mel ton township on the 7th of May, Phillips received g votes, Philpot 6, Mccoy 8, and Edgar Brewster 6. The dispositions disclose a doubt as to how three men voted who are included in the above list. Three others who are included in the above list and whose votes are ac- credited to Mccoy, are illegal voters. Two other voters not in- cluded in the above, voted at said election and did not reside in the county, but came from Lincoln county on the day of the election. It is not known for whom their votes were cast. This leaves only six voters whose dispositions have not been taken, among whom are the two judges and one clerk of the election, two persons who cannot be found in the township, and one who refused to give deposition, but who had already made affidavit that he voted for Phillips; thus leaving up to date, only five votes un- accounted for, there having been only 53 votes actually boiled.
 From this it will be seen that the "cat has jumped out of the bag" The wool has been pulled from be- fore the eyes of the people, and Me- Coy's 39 votes, as published in the Press Eagle, from Melton township and as shown by the returns of those pres to election judges, are dWindled down to 8 votes for Me Coy, three of which any tribunal, from the proof taken will pro- nounce illegal. The facts as shown by the depositions taken are no longer a question of doubt. All parties in interest were present and the result obtained will be by all men accepted as true.
 Few people, when MT. Brewster filed this contest, alleging these frauds, were willing to believe them. They were startled when informed day or two after the election that the citizens of that township had voluntarily given their afidavits before an officer, showing the frauds perpetrated; but to make it certain, and in or der that no one could say that it was entirely an er porte proceeding, these people have come again and faced the parties, contestant and contestee, and have stated openly, under their oaths before the world, facts concerning this election dis closing the awful condition of af- fairs there, as stated above.
 The Press -Eagle in it's estimate of votes for Mccoy in its issue of the 24th inst, wherein it stated that his plurality was 40, in order to arrive at that result, counted 39 votes for Mccoy in Melton township. This clalmed and pretended plurality is fast slip-ing from the grip of Major Mccoy and our contemporary, and when the people again hear from the dispositions which are being taken n other townships, and which will be present before the Central Committee when it meets ol June l, the Press Eogle's candidate will be hit over the "soiar plenus." It is foolishness and idle talk for any sane man now to further claim any