The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-12-04
TO CONTEST ELECTION
T, w. Martin Serves Notice on Au-
gust Thompson, County AS.
SCISSOR Elect.


Thomas w. Martin, the Democratic
nominee for Assessor in the recent
election, by his attorneys, Murbury
x Henslcy, caused to hc served upon
August Thomson, the Republican
nominee for Assessor, and who upon
the face Of the returns was elected
by plurality Of "A votes, IA notice
to contest the election OF Mr.. Thorn
sen. Deputy Sheriff Charles Adams
served notice on the defendant in
the contest last Friday morning.
The notice sets forth the usual pre-
liminary matters and then proceeds
to state contestant Martin 4 grounds
Of contest, which are in substance
as follows:
First. That at the precinct Of
lockwood the regularly qualified
judges of election received the votes
OF the first forty voters who offered
to vote and deposited their ballots
in "a ballot box which was then and
there locked" and that afterwards
the said judges opened the ballot
boxes, took the ballots therefrom
and burned or destroyed them; that
afterwards the judges sent for each
and all Of the said forty voters and
directed or permitted each one Of
them to again make up their ballots,
and again received and deposited
them in tie ballot boxes; that curh
OF said forty votes was thereafter
wards counted; and that said acts
were illegal, fraudulent and nn-
warranted by tn" laws governing
the general election in the State Of
Missouri"
Second. That at said Lcadwood
election precinct, after the judges 81
election had been duly appointed
and qualified and had conducted the
election up to about two O'Clock in
the afternoon, they, without war
rant of law and in violation Of the
laws made and provided for the car
rying on Of the general election in
this State appointed Joseph Butts
and one Prof. Smith rs additional
judges and caused them to be sworn
in and qualified as Judges that said
Butts and said Smith thereafter
acted as judges and especially did
.
voters and make out the ballots Of a
number of voters who could not
read and write; that the ballots so
made out were deposited in the bal
lot box and thereafter counted,
(which acts were contrary to the
election laws of the State
and were unwarranted, fraudulent,
Illegal, and invalidatcs the entire
vote Of said Leadwood precinct"
Third. Contestant further alleges
that one ALERT Woolfert was chosen
and appointed n challenger for the
Republican party at the West Flat
River precinct; that he appeared
and qualified and acted throughout
the day as said challenger; that said
WColfert was an employee of the Doe
Run Lead Company in the capacity,
as contestant is informed and be-
lieves, Of time-keeper for said com
pany; that said company employs
n large number of men and that
said Woolfcrt, as such timekecper
aforesaid, was in possession of all
the names of the employees Of said
company; that, acting AS such chal-
lenger for the Republican party, he
also had IA list Of the voters Of said
precinct as well as u list of the en-
ployes Of said lead company; that
as IA voter or elector presented him
self to the judges to vote, the said
WoOlfert handed out to said cloctor
the ballots, and as he handed him
or them the ballots he took from