Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-26
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McooY's ACCREDITED THIRTY NINE VOTES SLIPPING AWAY
 FROM HIM.
Votes That Were Cast For Phillips Were Counted
 For Mccoy.

ing figures showing 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 tows- ship. 1t will be remembered that the returns show 39 votes for Me Coy, 9 tor Phillips, f for Brewster and 2 for Philpot, making 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, aad Edgar Brewster 6. l
 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 l voters Two other voters not in- \ ol,,lo5 ;p tba ahova voto5 at cold
 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 1 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
 onlys53 votes actually boiled.
 l From this it will be seen that the :. feat has jumped out of the bag
 The wool has been pulled from be-
 fore the eyes of the people, and Me- hCoy's 39 votes, as published in the
 Press Edgl4, from Melton township and as shown by the returns of those pres Co election judges, are
 dwindled down to votes for Me-
 Coy, three of which any tribunal,
 from the proof taken will pro-
 nounce illegal. The facts as shown by the dispositions taken are no longer a question of doubt. All parties ir 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 a day or two after the election that the citizens of that
 township had voluntarily given
 their affidavits 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 co parte 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 Eoglc in it's estimate of votes for Mccoy in it's 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 in other townships, and which will be present before the Central ) Committee when it meets oa June l, ,, the Press -Eagle's candidate will be hit over the 'solar plerus." It is
 foolishness and idle talk for any
 sane man now to further claim any e other person than Edgar Brewster l to be the honest nominee of the De