Evening journal., 1906-11-27
Tuesday. November ~, 1906.
HE OUGHT ro-BUT. WILL HEP

KAI HEN, two years ago, Harry A. Brown,
w candidate for clerk of the peace, made
contest before the Republican County Commit
tee, claiming that he had been defrauded Of the
nomination, there were in this city and county
comparativly few people who would accept the
facts upon which he made his charge. The evil
denee produced before the County Committee
was sufficient to have warranted the committee
in correcting the returns of the Shellpot district
and which, if done, would have resulted in the
nomination of Brown. Taking the Shellpot dis
trict alone il those who voted for Brown had
been so recorded and their votes not fraudulently
credited to Winfield S Quigley, Brown would
have had majority and would have been nom-
mated and elected to the office now held by Qug-
ley
The County Committee was so impressed
with the cont exsf a3e Browu that it came iwthin
a very few votes of deciding it in his favor, and
had it not been for certain influence used with
some meSnbers OF the committee, Brown would.
without doubt, have been declared by the County.
Committee the party nominee for clerk OF the
peace. The personnel of the men voting in favor
Of Mr. Brown and his contest was as different as
day is fsShEmgFt TO those who were against him
That Quigley and his friends intended to take
Tic same advantage Dl DlOWu III making MS COn-
test before the Comfy Committee that was
taken of him at the ShelIpot and other polling
places, at that county primary, was evidenced by
the fact that they introduced resolution giving
him only ten minutes to present his contest,
which was to deal with several hundred ballots,
to produce his evidence OF fraud and for his
counsel to make their argument to the commit
tee.
Corroborating affirming and supplementing
the evidence produced before the County Com
mittee in that contest, was the testimony given
last week in the Tyre case 1t laid bare the en-
tire scheme and plot to rob Brown OF his nomina-
ton The election officer testified that he read
upwards Of fifty ballots in favor Of Ouigley that
were cast for Brown, and that after doing the
Job he was paid $40 by one of the election Off
GERS who was then, and is still employed in Ouie-
leys wholesale grocery store and it is also
sworn testimony that Quigley promised to pay
one-haf OF the counsel fees of the election officer
whose crime gave him the nomination and with
it between $4,000 and $4,000. when he was put
on trial for the offense of violating the election
law. The sworn testimony goes step further
and shows that that promise Quigley did not
keep.
1t is also fact that Watson, another election
officer at that polling place, who was convicted
of robbing Brown of his votes and giving them
to QuigIey, was then and is now employed ii
Quigiey's wholesale grocery, and so was New
kirk, another one Of the election officers.
Upon the evidence produced, there seems to
not the shadow of doubt that Brown was delib
erfatey robbed and defrauded of that nomina-
ton.
Up until now, the plot was never uncovered
and there was some room to doubt whether the
nomination and election of Quigley was as
fraudulent and corrupt as alleged For commit.
ting that election crime in the interest OF Ouigley
two men were convicted and sent to JAIL One
lost life position with the government Both
were dsgraced and dishonored, and for what and
for whoms~ That Quigley might snatch from hi:
opponent, Harry A. Brown, the richest Office ir
the State, worth, as Quigley works it, nearly
$4,000 year. AS the case now stands ther,
seems to be left only one thing for man who
claims to have even trace of political and per
sonal honor, and who stands in the position O
the clerk Of the peace (?) Quigley. AND THAT
is TO RESIGN. For him to hold on to til,
office secured in such way is to make himseI
not cnly the Beneficiary but particinant az N,