Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-08

Anaconda, Dec. S.-The election con-
tests which the citizens of Anaconda
and Deer Lodge county have been wait
ing for with breathless silence since
the 9Th day of last November, have been
started. The documents, volumjnous
with allegations, We're taken to the
county courthouse today for filing.
There We're ten complaints in all, and,
as stated in yesterdays Inter Mountain,
the contestants are five of the gentlemen
who ran for the Legislature on the re-
publican ticket last month";. c. Eng
ish, w. r. Allen, M. j. Fitzpatrick,
Charles Jackways and @. II. Williams;
Charles w. French, for sheriff; Angus
tus Short, for coroner; G. M. Sawyer,
for county attorney; Walter c. station,
for assessor and Phil Turner, for jus
tlce Of the peace for Anaconda town
ship; w. B. Winston, for district judge,
and the contestees named are John r.
Toole, j. nj. Madden, Thomas McTague,
Michael Geary and Joseph f. McDon-
nell, Representatives. elect; Jack Con-
ley, sheriff; j. H. Duffy, county attor-
ney; J. A. Hughes, coroner; yelling
Napton, district judge, and Frank Ken
nedy, justice of the peace.
The same allegations are set forth in
each complaint, the only difference in
them being the parties bringing the
suit. Each contestant asks that the
election certificates of the various con
testees be annulled for the reason of
alleged irregularities in all of the nine
precincts of Anaconda, known as cleo
ton precincts Nos. 1 to 8 inclusive;
Carroll, known as election precinct No
10, and Washoe, known as precinct
No 81. The same grounds for the con-
tests are to apply in each Of the pre-
cincts named, and are more specifically
mentioned as follows:
ON FIFTEEN COUNTS.
"a. For malconduct on the part of
the board of judges of election of said
precincts of said county of Deer Lodge,
in that they permitted persons to ap-
proach the voting booths in said pre-
cincts on the said 9th day of November,
A. d. 1900, nearer than ten feet thereof,
while voters were therein marking their
baHlots, to mark their ballots for the
contestee, and his associate candidates
on the independent democratic ticket
and to threaten the said voters who
were in the employ of the Butte, Ana
conda a. Pacific Railway company, and
in the employ of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, that unless they voted
for the contestee and his associates up
on the independent democratic ticket,
they, the voters SO refusing to mark
their ballots, would be discharged from
their employment and compelled to
leave town; and permitted such per-
sons to approach the voting booths, to
see how such voters did mark their bal
lots, thereby intimidating the voters,
and destroying the secrecy of the bal
lot, and preventing the said voters from
voting for and marking their ballots for
the contestant, for whom they had in
tended to vote: and such voters to-
gether with a number of voters herein
after stated would have been a clear
majority. of all the votes cast, and would
have elected contestant instead of con-
testee.
.'b. That persons other than the elect
ors Of said precinct about to vote or
voting, were allowed in the room where
the said election booths in said precinct
We're situated, and in the room where
the said board of election judges We're
receiving said votes, and during the
holding Of said election; and such per-
sons were permitted by such election
judges to solicit said voters when about
to vote and within the building where
said election was held to vote for the
contestee and his associates upon the
independent democratic ticket and said
judges permitted others than electors
about to vote to be and remain within
fifty feet of said voting booths, and to
canvass for and solicit votes for the
contestee and his associates upon the
Independent democratic ticket.
&c. That said judges Of election.