Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-11-14
FINAL COUNT
Will be Resumed by the Board
To-day.
rlany irregularities Discovered
and One Whole Precinct
Challenged.

The County Board of Election
Commissioners met at 1880 Friday
in the county court room, to begin
the canvass of the vote of Christian
county. All of the returns were in
and after limiting the attendance tc
five spectators representing each
party and attorneys representing
each side, the examination and tab
ulation of the votes was begun.
Howell precinct was not certified
to, but one of the judges certificate
was produced and pasted in the
book. The vote was 106 for TAYLOR
and los for Goebel. Lantrip's pre-
cinct reported three more votes than
the stub book showed were taken
from the book. The total was 100,
but two ballots were certified to as
defective, one was spoiled, III
counted for Taylor, "a for Goebel, 6
for Brown, 2 for Blair and one for
Wallace. This showed 161 votes
including 3 spoiled and rejected, or
three too many. One vote was taken
from the candidate receiving the
highest vote in each race in tabu-
lating and the matter left open for
final action.
A formal protest was filed by H.
w. Tlbbs, Democratic candidate
for Councilman, against the counting
of the vote of Hopkinsville No. for
various alleged irregularities and
frauds.
HE charges that the poll was
closed during the election for nearly
one hour, during which time no vot-
ing was allowed and a general
wrangle among the officers and
others was going on all during that
time.
"That John W. Wicks, clerk of
The election, from some cause he
knows not what, failed to sign his
name on 23S state and "a city bal
OTIS.
"That Vince Williamson, the Re-
publican Judge, without any legal |
and in the teeth of the
provisions of the election law,
stamped ballots for several voters
Turing the voting without first
wearing them as to their ability to
'ote
THAT one or more of the officers
It said voting precinct while the
'oting was in progress opened the
'allot box and unfolded a number
t the ballots, how many he is I'M
BILE to state, but said officers UNI
olded said ballots, inspected them
S he is advised, believes and
harges, and which he says was
lost unwarranted, gross and pal
able abuse of their discretion as
Ulcers and was wholly unauthor-
led by law or the rules of pro-
rlety and was so repugnant to the
tier and spirit of the election law
the state of Kentucky as to
tiate the election at said precinct.
"He further states that as anoth-
evidence of fraud at said precinct
lat there were number of ballots
ken from the box at the close of
lie poll that were punched together
nd had the appearance of having
zen put in together and when
ken from the box the margins on
hich was written the consecutive
etc, had not been torn
+, and the ballots for councilmen
ere folded in the ballots for state
icers.
''He said that these frauds and I
were committed by
e Republican officers and that :
ring the day County Judge Polk |
.nsler and County Clerk Jno. p. 7
'owse entered the poll without
thority of law and attempted to +
terfere with the election and
reatened the officers with prose- 7
ton, etc. |
'He further charges that there I
is no fair election held at said \
ting place and il was contrary I
law irraOuIar fraud,,Iaok aodl \