Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-06
But is Simple ii You Under
stand II.
DISPOSITIONS THROWN OUT
by the Warning Factions of the O!d
Free State. One End Reach
ed logically.


affair stripped Of its complexities
Without them, politics would go out IF
fashion.
Particularly and especially would his
De true in the old Free State 81 War
wick where politics are nothing il not
intricate.
The situation is nov 50 involved
THAT the principal actors in the drama
have hopelessly lost themselves in tie
rlaZes Of the ,hichenin., plot.
The scenes that have .ranspired dur
ing the past few days IN the County
curt have been Of Il nature peculiar
and untlu2-rossihle. indeed. only il
the conception Of chance.
The thsateI has been the court room
The scenes have been laid in Stanley
precinct. The acts have been many, tut
the play is ~, Yet finished.
To recall the prologue which led UP
| to the drama noW on--tlc contest now
al ssuc--were cruel 10 the reader. To
rc,alc how ore side got i, and the other
side got left (nuD: how the outs, rs
course, cried fraud: how the ms, salts
| fed. likewise cried fraud: how notices
| We're served: bills and answers filed:
| IA flidavits ta!icn-and t!l" case finally
| came into court--to relate all this would
be to- rciteratc what has already been
published. and would onllshten no one.
| Suffice it that in some mysterious
fashion known only TO the learned Of
law. the case did get into court 1t
really isn't necessary ,iIat the general
pubc should know exactly how i; did
| happen.
On one side Of this contest are Mr..
Sidney Curtis candidate for sheriff.
and Mr.. ii. C. Burnham. candidate TO-!
| missioner Of revenue. These gen
.lemen are in and don't want to set
| out.
Allied Win this side is MI. W. G
Miner ST., Who MAS a candidate for
supervisor.
On the Other side are Mr.. J. F. Bone
Well, candidate for sheriff ana Mr.. W
y. Jones, candidate tpr commissions,
OF revenue. These gentlemen are out
and want to get in.
allied With these is Joe Nettles, cam
tiidate Tor supervisor.
The ms are represented by Attorneys
Baker. Hubbard and I3a tchelor.
| For the outs, appear Attorneys Lett
and Brooke
Now, w G. Minor IT,. was i regis
trar and then a judge Of election. At
Ter the election. MI. ". G. Minor. Jr.
| y
| y, ccinct-and the canyassirg board
:, wartied certificates 10 MeSsrs. Curtis
| ana Hurnham without taking Stanley
| into the count.
Bearing this in mind. the reader may
enter the labyrinth upon the threshold
upon which he now stands. With a clue
| for his guidance
For his further benefit it may bc
stated that the returns en- their face
shcw nlajorities for Nettles and Jones
| When the time arrived for the court
10 consider the s;tua ton as presented
by Stanley precinct, the outs made .
7,oint that there being ~ returns from
Stanley there was nothing before III.
court, as regards Stanley. TO be consd
cred
His Honor sustained this contention
Thereafter the canvassing boart
forthwith assembled and got up a new
abstract, Which was presented TO tins
court.
Mr.. Lett objected. holding that ths
abstract was not admissible for tbs
reason that, to say tia least it Should
have been presented before the expl
ration OF the ten days given the com
p!ainant in Which to file notice OF con
| test.
His Honor. however decided to adni
the abs tract
| But when the ms began to submit
! dispositions, the outs objected saying
that when the dispositions were take:
| there was no subject matter up2i
vhicln there could not be such action, II,
returns having been made at The time
His Honor ruled the contention log
ilal ana threw out the dispositions.
Personal evidence is now being take.