Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-14
ELECTION WILL
BE CONTESTED
NICHOLS GIVES OUT INFORMA-
TION IN INTERVIEW WITH
STATESMAN.
Alleges that Seventeen Illegal Votes
Were Cast in Glenns Ferry Pre-
cinct by Men Employed
on the Canals

The local option election nelQ IN
Gilmore Wednesday of last week,
which resulted in victory for the
vets by a majority of 13 votes,
after one of the hottest campaigns
ever waged in the county, will be
contested by the prohibition forces,
who declare that II illegal votes at
Glenns Ferry. together with illegal
votes at Pine will be thrown out,
through an action to be prosecuted in
court. c. E. Corker who challeng-
ed the votes at Glenns Ferry, and
ceunsed the same to be sworn in by
alleged illegal voters. has secured all
the evidence necessary, it is said, on
which to prosecute case in court
information Of the alleged illegal
registration and voting of II labor
ers employed on canals in the vicini-
ty of Glenns Ferry, but not residents
of the county, was first obtained
from e. d. Nichols, the temperance
worker, who is home from Gilmore
county. where he has been engaged
for several weeks in the local option
campaign. Mr.. Nichols expresses
every confidence that the result Of
the election will be set aside and the
county placed in the dry" column.
There is no question but what
Gilmore county is $50 majority dry, ="
weather had been good we would
have carried the county easily re-
-ga1dsess Of the votes cast at Glenns
Ferry. In Sunnyside we had ma
jority of so votes which failed to get
souz to the polls and vote, the wealth
ssr being rainy and the polling place
20 miles away. We had a perfect
organization in the county and put
up one of the prettiest fights that has
ever been made
: The votes at Glenns Ferry which
win be contested we're challenged
and caused to be sworn in by c. E.
of means, who took an active interest
~Corker, lawyer and business man
in the campaign and who had charge
of the prohibition organization at
Glenns Ferry. The II votes will be
challenged on the ground that the
voters. presenting themselves for
registration and for the purpose OF
voting. were not residents of Gilmore
county, but laborers temporarily en-
ployed on the irrigation works in
that vicinity"
Election Will Be Contested
!. That the results of the local option
election. which placed Gilmore county
in the 'wet" column by a bare ma
iority of 13 votes, will be contested
was the positive statement made by
Mr.. Nichols, who said that sufficient
evidence has been secured to prose
,cute the illegal votes at Glenns Ferry
xvsxh the II votes thrown out, he as
serted that Gilmore county would be
placed in the dry" column, by a ma
1orfty of votes. In addition to the
alleged illegal votes at Glenns Ferry
the temperance worker said there
were a number of illegal votes cast al
Pine Relative to these, however
complete reports had not been re-
oa;vad when Mr.. Nichols left fol-
Boise. so that it is not known wha'
action win be taken with respect &c
the results of the election in that pre-
cinct The work accomplished oy
tbe dry organization in the campaign
was considered most effective IN eV-
arv precinct except that of sunny
side.
An amusing incident occurred II
connection with the fight made IN
sunnyside precinct, where the lieu
tenant of the prohibition forces was
prohibition lieutenant and wife had
ontwitted by the wet" forces. They
received instructions from the county
prohibition organization to see that
ali the votes in sunnyside and vicin-
itv got out to the polling place on
election day, the "drys" having a ma
iority of SO in the precinct, accord
ing to a straw vote taken preceding
election day. The lieutenant was
prevented from executing his share
of the work through the absence OF
his horse and buggy which were
s'hooked" by the wet forces. AS
result Of this loss. some SO votes, up
on which the prohibition forces were
counting failed to get to the polling
place 20 miles away, the voter sre'
naming at home and not venturine
out into the rain, which fell through
out the day.
In Mountain Home the results
were considered most encouraging by