Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-21
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was entitled to receive.
 That at the various precincts in the county there were other illegal votes cast for Mccoy, of which can make proof, If I am permitted to do SO.
 That if the sad Illegal votes so cast for said H. A. McCo-, be strieken out and the ballot boxes from such precincts pnrged Of such Illegal votes, the retn rns will show that election.
 Wherefore, your petitioner prays that before any canvass be made of the votes cast for said office In said the precincts named herein and any other boxes In which there may be illegal votes, be purged Of such ille- gal votes; that your petitioner be al- lowed and have counted for him the one vote mentioned which he was entitled to receive but which was re- fused him, and that the canvass of the vote be made after such illegal votes are stricken and said vote and other votes allowed me.
 Respectfully,
 EDGAR BREWSTER.
 The result of the count was an nounced as follows: Sorrells, l,O6O: Martin, 1,0l0; Brewster, 756, Mccoy, 757' Phillips 555.
 Mr. Murray then offered the Iol- lowing resolutions:
 Whereas, By re-canvass of the returns of the various wards and wnships of the county, of the votes cast at the primary election held in this county June 16. ls9S, 1t was found by this committee that H. A. Mccoy received 757 votes. and Edgar Brewster received 75B votes. and Thomas NJ. Phillips received 556 votes for sheriff of said county; Me Coy having received one vote more than Edgar Brewster, the next lead ing candidat :
 Therefore, be 1t Resolved, By the Democratic Central Committees of Jefferson county, that H A. Mccoy be, and he Is hereby declared to he the regularly legally nominated Democratic candidate for Sheriff of said county; that the Chairman and Secretary of this committee SO certi- ! fy the same. and that his name be placed on the ballot to be voted at the general election to be held In this county September ,, 1898, as the regular and only Democratic candl- date for Sheriff of said county.
 Hon. J. W. Crawford then offered the following substitute which was adopted by the vote of 13 to II:
 Whereas, petition of contest has been filed with this committee charg ing that at the Democratic Primary election held in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 16th, 1898, certain negro Republicans were allowed to vote in Richland township, and that said negro f1edublicans voted in said election for H. A. Mccoy for Sheriff, and also that there were other ile- gal votes cast for contestee in other townships, and that by reason of the casting and counting of such ne- gro Republican votes for said Mccoy, he has majority of one vote only, and that if said negro Republican votes had not been cast and counted for him, he would not have received more votes than contestants;
 Now, therefore, in order that jus tice may be done, and that 1t may not go out to the Democrats of Jefferson County and the world that the Democrats of this county permit negro Republicans to participate in their primaries and to control In their nominations:
 Resolved; That said contest shall be heard by this committee. and the said contestant Is hereby authorized to take proof in the form Of depo- sitions to establish the allegations of his petition, said depositions to be taken upon such notice as Is isrequired in suits at law, and that contestee be also permitted to take depo- sitions upon like notice to refute the charges and to show any illegal votes that may have been cast and counted against him. and that such proof be brought before this com mittee for its hearing on the 18th day of July, 1898, at which time thls com mittee shall re-assemble in Pine Bluff to hear the proof and deter mine the result; and, further, that