The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-27
PLAN FOR THE CONTEST.
FUSS IN NINTH DISTRICT
From Saturdays Daily.


Marshall, December 81. - Judge
Qvale of Willmar opened special
! term of court Thursday afternoon for
| the hearing of motions and making
preparations for the inspection and
Irecounting of ballots cast for judge
of the district court at the last gem
eral election, and for the appoint
ment of three persons in each coun-
| ty in the district to make such in
| spection. Messrs. Davis & Michel
appeared as attorneys for the con-
testant, NJ E. Mathews, and Y. B.
Seward, George T. Olsen and Henry
| N. Somsen appearing as. attorneys
! for the contestee, /. M. Olsen. The
judges appointed the following persons
as selected by the contestant and
contestee, to make inspection of the
| ballots.
After a half hour, devoted to max
| ing arrangements, and in order to
give time to secure possible names
of parties who could be secured to
inspect the ballots in the various
counties. the hearing was adjourned
until 1880, when many motions were
made relative to the contest, and
the attorneys for l. M. Olsen pro-
duced the original certificates of
naturalization of the contestee, also
a certified copy of the same as taken
from the record of st. Louis county
and this section Of the petition as
! filed in the appeal was withdrawn.
Trial at New UIm.
1t was decided that the trial
shall be held at New Ulm. after the
ballots have all been recounted, and
that the committee appointed shall
commence inspection at the Audi
! tors office in Lyon county, on De-
cember 20, at nine o'clock.
/ The judge appointed the following
persons as selected by the contest
ant and, contestee, to make inspec-
ton of the bollots.
For Lyon county Mr.. Mathews Sc
lected Sturgeon Odell, and the con-
testee selected John G.. Schultz, and
these gentlemen agreed upon and
selected Sheriff M. E. Grammar as
third person to make inspection
of the ballots.
! For Lincoln county the contestant
selected l.. P. Johnson Of Ivanhoe,
Mimi, as one of the persons to
make inspection in all of the cleo
ton precincts, and the contestee Sc
lected Charles II. Kelson of Tyler,
MINI. These two persons have not
agreed upon a third person.
Selecting the Judges.
The contestant selected Charles
! Thompson of, Redwood Falls, Mimi,
as one person from Redwood coun-
+ ty, and the contestee selected Albert
II. Emerson of Redwood Falls, Mimi,
and these two selected A. C.. Doliff
of Redwood Falls as the third. For
Nicollet county the contestant Sc
lected M. E. Stone of st. Peter,
Mimi; the contestee selected w. G.
Laumann Of st. Peter, Mimi, and
these two have not yet decided upon
a third.
The contestant selected Fred Pfaen.
der of New Ulm, Mimi, and the
Sleepy Eye, Mimi, and these two
selected Carl Crone Of New Ulm as
the third person to make the in
spectiOn for Brown county.
Rules Governing Contest.
The following rules were made in
connection with the counting Of the
| ballots:
First: The inspection and exam
ination of said ballots shall be had
and conducted in each county in the
+ presence of the county auditor, he
being the legal custodian of the
same.
Second: The examination of such
ballots in each county shall be had
in the office Of the county auditor
of said county, and no ballots shall
under, any circumstances be removed
| from said office.
Third That the ballots from each
precinct shall be counted and ex
amined separately and the examina
ton Of the ballots from one precinct
shall be completed and the ballots
from such precinct resealed as here
matter provided and returned to the
county auditor of such county be
fore the ballots Of another precinc
are produced for examination ant
inspection by said custodian.
! Fourth: No ballots shall be un
4 strung if they can be conveniently
inspected and examined in theil
present condition. If unstrung eacl
ballot as it is removed from the
! string shall be inspected and ex
/ amined and restrung before another
ballot is unstrung. No ballot shall
be removed from the immediate
room where such inspection is hat
or from the immediate view ant
presence of all of the inspectors ap
pointed for said county No mum
bers or marks shall be placed by
anyone upon any Of said ballots mol
shall the same be disfigured or de
faced in any manner.
Fifth: AS soon as the ballots from
a precinct are examined and in
spected, and in the immediate view
and presence of and of the inspec
tors for said county, the ballots
shall be placed in the envelope from
which they were taken and shall be
! carefully sealed and each inspector
shall write his name upon the Ell
velope over the sealed part in sucl
! a way that the envelope cannot be
opened without disturbing the con
, tinuity of the lines in the writing
Such envelopes and ballots shall
thereupon be Immediately turned
over and delivered to the county
auditor of said county.
! Sixth: So far as applicable the
rules and regulations specified in the
election laws Of this state govern
ling the count and canvass OF votes
:, and the care of preservation an6
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