The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21
So Far Temperance Faction
of Jackson Township Has
Scored Heavily in the Evil
dence Entered.
CASE CONTINUE
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Challengers of the Remon-
STRANGE Will Summon More
Than Six Hundred Wit
nesses Before Board.

The temperance faction of Jackson
township, which has, since Tuesday
morning in the county commissioners
court, been endeavoring to prove the
validity of the blanket remonstrance,
operative in the township since June
3. 1910, anticipated to rest it's case
Thursday evening. The demonstrators
feel they have doubly cinched the le-
gality Of the remonstrance
However, the trial is just begun,
with the "drys" closing their case The
burden of proof as to the alleged lille
Rality of the remonstrance now shifts
to Roy Fl. Fraunberg, who has chal-
lenged the standing of all but four of
the 642 demonstrators on grounds of
an alleged abuse of powers of attor-
ney conferred on Michael Gehring,
Thaddeus Frazier and julius Knipe
! Inasmuch as the challengers Will sum-
mon more than six hundred witnesses,
1t is believed, the trial will likely drag
out for the remainder of the Decem-
ber term of the commissioners court
and the cases then appealed to the cir
cult court.
Appeal is Certain.
An appeal is almost certain as at
torneys for both sides on Thursday
stated several times that in the sub
sequent hearing (meaning in the cir
cult court points of law which were
raised would be definitely settled.
The history of the organization
which was effected to combat the liq-
uor traffic in the township was among
the more important evidence intro
duced by the demonstrators. A. R.
Feemster, who has been one of the ac-
tive dry" workers was the witness
He asserted that in April, 1910, meet
ing was held in the Office of DR.. Mauk
of Cambridge City at which it was de-
cided to demonstrate against the sa-
looms. An executive committee, in
Guiding Thaddeus Frazier, w. H. Do
ney, Fred Stohr, DR.. Mauk, joint repre-
sentative Elmer Oldaker, and J. w.
Judkins, was subsequently named to
have charge of the campaign.
Details relative to the plan of cam
paign, vesting powers of attorney in
| appointment of aids to solicit sigma
lures to powers of attorney cards, and
other information was brought out.
The witness said the power of attor-
ney cards were regularly signed eth
er pen and ink, indelible pencil or on
a typewriter before they were offer
ed to the voters by the solicitors.
They. were then returned to the wit
ness, DR.. Mauk, or Frazier, Knipe or
Gehring, and placed in a vault in the
Cambridge City bank. On June the
| remonstrance was completed and filed
| with the county auditor, subsequently
being approved by the county commits
sioners.
Attorney Kelley for the VETS OBJ
jected to the evidence as being imma-
terial, but was ruled against
Other witnesses before the board
Thursday included demonstrators who
were challenged because of not hav-
ing lived in the tow Wnsnip or precinct
long enough to remonsrate, and others
who, in the absence of the remonstra-
tors, testified as to their knowledge
of the period of residence of the chal-
lenged remonstrator. At noon thirty
two demonstrators who were alleged
to have illegally signed the remon-
STRANGE were proven to have been leg
al voters. Proof as to the rights of H
c. Blair, colored, to demonstrate had
not been conclusively fixed, because
Of the death of one of the witnesses to
his signature, and because he is now
living in Ohio. There were four other
witnesses to be examined as to their
period of residence.
The "drys" admitted that Gilbert
Crossley, the Rev. Hallack Floyd, for
mer bishop in the United Brethren
church, and Jacob E. Wright, all aged
residents. had signed the remon-
STRANGE cards twice and these admis-
sions were the first real points scored
by the challengers since the opening
of the case.