The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-12-21
COOK SERVES N
NOTICE OF CONTEST.

ounte notice OF contest on
A. W. Laiferty, in the prosecuting
attorneyship contest. j. D. Bar
nett, G. r. Ball and II. w. johnson
have been employed by Mr.. Cook
"a his attorneys. Mr.. Lafferty gave
to the TRIBUNE the following state
ment in regard TO the contents OF
Mr.. Cooks notice:
"Mr. Cooks notice is, to say the
least, extravagant in its allega-
tons, and is in some respects
amusing. He alleges that 40 IL
legal voters voted for me, and that
seven legal voters who offered to
vote for him were refused the right
to vote. There may have been a
few persons who voted for me who
were not legal voters, but even a
casual reading of the list of those
alleged in Mr.. Cooks notice to
have been Illegal voters, shows the
improbability of his being able to
establish his allegations in this
respect to any great extent.
He alleges that 81 persons voted
for me who had been convicted of
felony or infamous crime. This
list seems to have been taken large
ly from the court records of this
county for the past several years,
without investigating to see wheth-
er the persons whose names were
thereby secured, voted at all at
the late election or not. | know
that quite a number of those in
cluded in this list did not vote at
all, and have good reasons to be-
lieve that nearly all, if not all, of
those who did vote, had only been
convicted OF misdemeanors, or il
felony, had been fully pardoned,
and were not therefore disqualified.
The list includes the names of Geo.
Williams, Henry Potter and VIM.
Banks, none of whom voted at
all at the late election. George
Williams was in the Penitentiary
on the day of the election, and
was not released until Nov. nth
Henry Potter, who is a democrat,
was on his road home from Ar
kansas, and VIM. Banks did not
go near the polls. These are in
stances of alleged illegal voting
for me. This list also includes
the name of VIM VanLuyen who
was convicted in this county,
who was not resident of this
county at the time of his con-
viction, and who has not resided
here since his conviction, and
who was not in this county on
Nov. 9th, last, and could not there
fore have voted here on that day.
The complete list of those alleged
to have been disqualified on ac-
count of conviction of some crimi-
nal offense is as follows: Ben
Trimble, VIM. Garrett, Charles E.
Smith, John Wiser, James King,
Honor Edwards, George Richards,
William King, Bros. Sharp, Geo.
Williams, CHESTER Hubbard, Clar-
ence Sharp, George Jones, Ander-
son Britt, Henry Williams, Wm
Banks, Walker Diggs, George
Craig, William Forest, Henry
Williams, Chas. Mitchell, Hugh
Rollin, Richard Cline, John Smith,
Henry Sanders, Chas. Patterson,
Duden Smith, CELSIUS Robinson,
John Jones, Arthur Hawkins, Jas,
Butler, Henry Potter, Harvey
Adams, Joe Decater, Ira Miller
VIM jenkins, Elmer Barrett, VIM
Colbert, G.. p. Thomas, Waite
Gilbert, Chas. Robinson VIM VA
Luyen, Arch Boyd, James King
George Jones, Chas Hubbard, Geo
Gilbert, John Forest, James Car.
Ter ihoInas George Eos
ter.
1t is also alleged in Mr.. Cook
notice that 81 persons voted for m,
who were illegal voters on accouu
of a lack OF sufficient residence
This list is about on a par witt
the one above mentioned. Il in.
cludes irwin Pace, who happened
to work in St. Louis a while th,
past summer, j. o. Henderson, who
is teaching his second year in oul
high school. g. l.. Hawkins, Supt
of the Middletown school. Albert
Laherty, my brother, who l.
attending school in Columbia, L. l.
Reed, Bart Ford and numerous
other young men who happened {,
be tomnorurilN Opf az flp eount