The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-05

Attorney For Mays Says the
Latter Will Eventually
Win Out.

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en- route from Tallahassee to Boston,
where ne goes to attend the annual
meeting of the supreme lodge OF
| Knights of Pythias- Mr. Ellis along
with Raney and Oven. F. b. Carter,
| Clark and Clark and F. ~ Winthrop.
| is acting as counsel for D8nnitte ;
| Mays in his contest with ]. Walter
| Kehoe for the democratic nomination
| for congress from the Third district,
and while mere took occasion to ex-
press his personal views of Florida 5
| latest political sensation.
CoincidentaIIy. Mr. Ellis voted for
| Air. KehOe- He says that Mr. KehOe,
as a friend, requested his vote and
support early in the primary and that
he exercised his best efforts 10 comply.
| The face of the returns Os the primary
nominated Mr. Mays. The plan 10
/ take away from Mr. NAYS ybaE the
/ people had given him was not only
offering an insult to the voting public
OF the Third district but was IN
democratic and un-AmeEican to the
textreme- Having always -7yaily sup
ported the party's nOminanee. no mat
/ ter what the circumstances may he
his sentiments in the instance natural
| ~ fell with the lot of Mr.. NAYS and
he offered his professional services to
protect him in something the people
| had rightfully given
| MIR. Kehoe's Next Move.
! Il consider that it is Mr. Kehoes
next move" suggested Mr.. Ellis yes
/ teTday. All the political Chicanery
| that can be brought to use by Mir
| Mays enemies cannot do him any
harm, and we shall win out in the
end The decision of the congress
siOnaI committee has no weight as
! it was simply a majority by one that
!
be entirely and completely annUIled
| by the decision of Judge Malone on
August ), the date set for his hearinG
of the case.
| An illegal yet dramatic incident in
| the contest was the seating of c. ID.
| Clark On June % three ex-membeT=
of the Calhoun county executive com
mittee met and named Mr. Clark "a
| a member of the congressional com
mittee from that county. On June -
the new county committee met and
/ selected Judge Leith as a member
from Calhoun county. On July 10 both
| Judge Leith and Mr. Clark appeared
in Tallahassee and claimed member
ship of the committee. BY a vote OF
| Z to the committee ignored the TegU-
| lar organization in Calhoun county
and elected Mr.. Clark, partisan of
Kehoes This was protested but
to no avail
| AT sahis meeting a second motion
was filed to dismiss the contest or
| the ground that KehOeS protest was
vague and uncertain, in that it failed
| to point out in what particular the
alleged illegal votes were illegal: that
| it failed to show for whom the al
legged illegal votes were cast; did not
give the names of the alleged illegal
voters, and did not show that eIimina-
| finn of tho a1Iae0d IIIo-v11 would
change the result of the election Con
siderable discussion resulted. the com
mittee remaining in session from
Wednesday until Saturday night.
| How the Committee Stood.
| BY a vote of to the committee
oveTTuled that motion, the members
of the committee standing as follows:
For overriding. a. H D'AIemberte,
chairman, Escambis J. F POoTe,
Santa Rosa; ]. r. Wells. Washington;
J. N Miller, Holmes; George ". Ward,
Walton; Milton Pledges. Jackson; c.
D. Clark, Calhoun; and Tom ShUleT.
of Liberty county. Against overruI-
ing the motion were A ]. Afford,
! Franklin; NJ Bates. Gadsden; J. w
Henderson, Jefferson; Black Ashley.
Madison; and Mr. Bolton, of WakUlla
county
Following the vote of the commit
withdrew his protest so far as it re
lated to Calhoun and Jefferson coun-
! ties, leaving in question only fifty
two alleged illegal votes. The face
of the returns show that Mays has a
majority of fOTty-nine votes. and the
only evidence KehOe introduced in
support of his protest was a CCTtifi-
cate from the supervisor of TegiStTs-
ton in Leon county to the effect that
it,
showed that only ten were qualified
voters. or that many who had paid poll
taxes, while the returns showed four
lteen votes cast. PrccinC+ 8 showed
nineteen qualified voters and twenty
IOne cast while Precinct Is showed
lsi1ty-one qualified voters and ninety
four votes cast, which lir-de a total Of
| thirtv-nine alleged Illegal votes in
Leon county
| In Madison the returns from the
lComty committee showed that n Ger
tain precincts thirteen persons voted
whose names did not appear on the
registration lists as Cerudsd by the
supervisor.
Made Sworn AFfidsvits.
! Precinct D. Calhoun county. which
was in charge Of "Sheg" Clark At
noon on the dav of the primary. gave
NAYS only thirty-four votes. when
ffty-two reputable persons made
sworn af1davits that they had voted
for Mays.
The committee made its effort AT
a final canvass in what was termed
Executive session MOdday morning,
land afterwards went into open session
and announced the result
| Immediately blowing this. 7 board
ed an automobile nd was whiTled over
the road to Judge NalOne's residence
lot I hr7-r7c1T- tod
claims before Judge Malone and was
soon hurTying hack to Tallahassee
armed with an alternative writ of
lmandamus-
I awaited until the night session
Iof the committee. when Il was plan-