Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-06


In 1896, General Henry V. Boynton made
affidavit as required by the Ohio law that
he was a bona fde citizen Of Cincinnati and
voted at the November Presidential cleo
ton This alone would have disqualified
him under the District code for the ap-
pointment he holds in tile Washington
schools but it is affirmed that he also filed
a similar affidavit and voted in 1900 for the
re election of President Mckinley Then
realizing that at the expiration of President
McKinleys second term he (Boynton)
would be seventy years Of age aud having
secured a sinecure to last him the balance
of his life he turned his attention to COB
bling anything lying around loose in the
District aud landed two jobs, oue'5f which
he was and Is clearly disqualified by law
from holding
There is no doubt in our mind but that
General Boyaton acquainted Commissioner
Macfarland with these facts, but the Com
missioner anticipating no objections from
any quarter Ignored the law, which as one
of the triumvirate responsible TO nobody
he felt automatically empowered to do and
advised his fellow former newspaper
scalper to accept.
Now anybody who desires to pursue this
matter further can write to Cincinnati and
ascertain if Henry V. Boyuton filed an at
hdavit in 1900
Here IS copy of the affidavit filed in 1890
by citizens temporarily absent and so
iourning' elsewhere:
This affidavit must be nclosed and sealed in
an envelope and addressed and forwarded by
mail to the Secretary OF the Board OF elections,
and must be delivered to him or before the
day preceding the last day Of registration.
Registration of Electors in Cincinnati, o.
Affidavit and Certificate for Registration Of
Absent Elector.
Section 2926 H. Ohio Laws Affidavit
may be made before any Judge or clerk Of
any Court Of Record, or Notary Public, or
if in a foreign country, before any Minister
Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States
Washington, District of Columbia, IS.
Henry V. Boynton being duly sworn,
makes oath, and says that he resides at the
ST. Nicholas Hotel in precinct B ward s,
in the city of Cincinnati Hamilton County,
State Of Ohio; that he is an elector of said
city and precinct; that he is now sojourning
at Washington, d. c., and is without the
said Hamilton County; and more than fifty
miles distant from the city of Cincinnati;
that be will necessarily and unavoidably be
absent from said city on all the days of
general registration IN said city 10 wit, on
October TO- Il, IS and 20 in the year 1896.
And the following answers are true, full
and correct to the questions hereinafter
asked touching his qualifications as an
elector, and his right as such to be regis
tered in said precinct under the laws of the
state of Ohio
What is your name in full?
Henry " BOynton.
What is your age2
Sixty-two.
Are you married or unmarried?
Married
And if married are you the head of
family
Yes.
Where do you reside2 Give street and
number, or other definite description.
St. Nicholas Hotel, 8th Ward, Cincinnati
Ohio.
There are several other questions on the
sheet of no importance to this article,
which deals simply with the fact that if
Henry V. Boynton made and fled the fore
going affidavit in 1890 he was clearly dis
qualified for the appointment he holds in
the schools of the District. Aud if it
further appears that he filed a simil afi-
davit in 1900, in view of his recent letters
in the public press, he is guilty of some-
thing worse than being illegally appointed
to his position in the School Board Of the
District
The General will be compelled to write
another card If those unnamed enemies Of
his write to Cincinnati and obtain copies of
his sworn registration as a citizen Of Gin
cinnati sud resident at St Nicholas Hotel,
in the Eighth ward.
The GLOBE is not interested enough u
the matter, as its editor is neither a citi- /
zen Of Ohio nor a voter in the District of /
Columbra, but may be some Of the Gener .
al's numerous enemies are. The columns
Of the GLOBE are open to the General and .
his friends, the unnamed enemies afore-
said to clear up this controversy as to his
qualifications and citizenship
There is dispute or controversy. we
are happy to observe, as to the Generals
able bodied promptitude in pulling down
three salaries in the sixtY-sixth year of his
age and the forty-second anniversary of his
FIRST hold on the public teat Long live the
General