The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-22
TAKES|T INTO COURT
ELECTION AT BLUE EARTH WILL
BE CONTESTED.
Objection Is Raised to the Votes Cast
By Several Gentlemen Who Are
Charged With Not Being Residents
of the United States; Albert Lea
Firm of Lawyers Engaged in
the Matter.

Blue Earth, April 20. A document
typewriter matter reciting all sorts
OF irregularities in the city elec-
tion of April ) have been filed with
Clerk of Court John +. Flynn by Carl
son g. Dunn of Albert Lea, and Bulls
& Frundt OF this city. Mr.. Carlson
was in the city three or four days last
week looking up matters i'll connection
with the election, and the records of
the clerk of court regarding the citi-
zenship of some who voted at the cleo
ton and the voluminous document filed
with the clerk of courts is fairly sur
charged with gross Irregularities. In
fact they remind one of the findings of
the returning board" in the celebrated
Hcyes-Tildcn case in Louisiana in the
dim and distant past But in the pres
cnt case it seems the intent of the
petitioner, John p. Bartel, to get in the
rear'o the returning board" The
question is appealed OH the grounds of
illegal voting and from the findings of
the ''canvassing and counting upon
said question by the Judges of said cleo
tion and from the decision of the can
vassing board whether license for tine
sale of Intoxicating liquors as bever-
age be granted by the council of said
city or not.
Allegation No. 4.
Allegation No recites the fact that
no petition was filed with the clerk
of said city within the time required
by law for the submission of the ques-
ton of voting OH the question of Ii
cense. Allegation No. & recites that
ballots used were not in accordance
with law in that they failed to have
printed OH the back thereof Official
ballot nor was the date of election
OF a fac simile of the officials sigma
ture thereon In fact, the contention
of the petition is to the effect that
tickets used at this election or upon
PREVIOUS elections are in 40 wise u legal
ticket.
The closing of the polls i'll the three
wards receives considerable attention Of
Mr.. Carlson in the complaint. The
counting and canvassing of the ballots
and votes thereat and before the
opening of the ballot boxes, said poll
ing places were closed and the public
present thereat were excluded and the
doors were locked" receives attention
at the hands of Mr.. Carlson, and is de
clared to be wholly illegal and void"
Further that in the third ward more
than five votes in number were pre-
scented in favor of license and the
Judges refused to deposit said ballots i'll
the ballot box
The matter of illegal votes being
cast also receives attention and 1T may
| be matter of news to such good
citizens of the second ward as Oscar
Dybewick. Charles Quady. Julius Block,
\. i. Thomas. Leopold Bihon, Reinhard
Fierke. A. p. Sasse and August Girolt
to know that they are not legal voters,
for the complaint declares them not
citizens of the United States. There
is another trio of pioneers mentioned
in the petition as not sin truth or III
tdcb GeSlucHOS VI iHt HCNo''" ""''
where the majority against license was
recorded, George ID. Macarthur, 5. )
| Black and John Drelme.
| 1t is reported that the next pro-
| .eedir" on the rart of the council foI
| Mr.. Bartel will be the serving of al
injunction on the city authorities re
| straining the city from closing the
saloons until the time for which they
have license to run shall have ex
pired, basing this proceeding on the
theory, of course, that the election
was illegal.