Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-12-11

election districts of said assembly dis
trict, show that no return or statement
of the number of defective ballots or OF
ballots cast by persons whose vote was
challenged at said election. was re-
turned by the Board of Inspectors of
the several election districts in said
assembly district, in writing, in man
ner and form, as required by section so
of the Statutes of 1896. That canvass
of all the votes cast at said election
shows that / received two thousand
seyenty-three (2073) votes for said Office,
and that you received two thousand
sixty four (2064) votes, and that cor
rect canvass of all the votes cast in the
said First Assembly District of Mara
thon county elects me to the said Office
of Member of Assembly for the said
First Assembly District
end Because the certificate required
by said section so, which is to the effect
that no ballots shall be destroyed until
after, at least, two of the inspectors, of
each election district, one of each of the
two political parties, which cast the
largest number of votes in the district
at the last preceding election, have
severally canvassed said ballots and
severally verified the canvass thereof,
and certified the same over their re-
spective signatures, was not made and
returned as required by law in the re-
turns of the officers of the several dis
tricts.
Sd. Because minors voted at said
election for you.
4th. Because persons not qualified
by law to vote at said election were
allowed to vote and cast their ballots
for you.
9th. For the reason that you were,
at the time of said election, and at all
the times hereinbefore and hereinafter
mentioned, the chairman of the Board
of Supervisors of the town of Brighton,
one of the election districts in the First
Assembly District, in Marathon county,
and by virtue of your said Office, it was
your duty to provide booth in the
manner and form as required by section
45 of the Statutes of 1898, for the use of
the electors of the said town of Brigh-
ton. That you failed, neglected and
refused to prepare such a booth, and
that none was, in fact, prepared by any
other officer, whose duty it was to pre-
pare such booth; and that the place
of the electors of the said town of
Brighton, in no manner complied with
the requirements of said section 45.
That by reason of the fact that you
were a candidate to be voted for at
such general election, held in said town
of Brighton, on the 9th day of Novem-
Der, A. d. 1900, you were disqualified
from acting as an inspector of election,
and that you thereupon, declined and
refused to act as such inspector, where
upon it became the duty of the majority
of the qualified inspectors present to
fill such vacancy, as required by part
of section AZ of the Statutes of 1898. |
That you unlawfully, Intentionally and
willfplly usurped the authority of the
qualified inspectors and
clerks of election, and appointed in
you place one w. j. Colby, man of |
seyenty.three years of age, with defect
i've eyesight, and physically incompe-
tent to perform the duties of the Office
of inspector of election, and that he
was the only member of said Board of |
who belonged to the re-
publican party, which was one of the
two political parties which cast the
largest number of votes in said town at
the last preceding election; that you in
like manner, unlawfully, Intentionally |
and wilfully procured the appointment |
of the clerk of election and of the two
ballot clerks in violation of part 4, of
section AZ of the Statutes of 1885, That
you remained in said room, where The
electors of the said town of Brighton
cast their ballots, during nearly the
whole of the day of said election, solic.
ting votes, and in violation of section |
a544d of the Statutes of 1898, and that
by reason of your misconduct, as here
inbefore alleged, and your fraudulent
conduct, that the election holden on
the said 9th day of November, in said
town of Brighton, is fraudulent and
illegal so far as the same relates to the
office of member of assembly for the
First ASSEMBLY District of Marathon
9Th. That the inspectors, and clerks
of election in said. town of Brighton, at
your direction and solicitation, and re-
quest, assisted in the marking of ballots
for persons not requesting the same,
and in violation of section 54 of the
Statutes OF 1898.
7th. That upon the completion of
the canvass of the vote in the said town
of Brighton, it became the duty of one
of the inspectors of said election to
forthwith deliver the certificate to tae
said Board Of Supervisors to the County
Clerk of Marathon county; that in vio-
lation of the law you procured yourself
to be appointed, for the purpose of such
delivery, and took the returns from the
said town of Brighton, in your care and
where they remained until
delivered to the County Clerk of Mara |
thon county, of all of which you viii
please take notice
In WITNESS WHEREOF, l have here
unto set my hand this 23d day of No
A. ID. 1900.
g. Z. YASDERcooK, Contestant. |
By NJ B. RoSKSBERRY, Wausau, Wis.
Attorney for g. E. VANDERcooK. |
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