Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-12-13
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY
IN MAYORALTY CASE
INDEPENDENT JUDGE. 4TH WARD.
TELLS OF DAYS VOTING.-ON
STAND THREE HOURS-CONTRA
Diets FORMER WITNESSES.
THE WITNESSES WERE SUBJECT
ED TO A CLOSE AND SEARCH
ING CROSS S-EXAMINATION BY
MIR. DOUGHERTY.

placed two very important witnesses on
Wise and B. L. Cain.
The examination of Mr.. Wise lasted
from nine o'clock in the morning until
fifteen minutes of twelve. Mr.. Cain was
then placed Oh the stand. The direct ex-
animation of Mr.. Cain lasted until half
past twelve. when the court recessed I'M
til noon.
An amusing bit of testimony late in
the afternoon, was that of John w. HOyt,
who testified that his friend A. Bollack
was "SimOn pure" Democrat and
wouldn't scratch ticket 'even if a mule
was Oh it,"
| Emile Wise. who acted as an lnde
pendent judge i'll the fourth ward, tes-
titled that he and George Conner had been
detailed by Mr. Dwyer. the presiding
! Judge, to mark ballots of illeterate vo-
terS, that Mr.. Conner marked ballots for
those asking for the democratic ticket,
and he marked them for those wanting
to vote the Independent ticket; he and
Mr.. Conner had stayed together most
of the day and did not think there was
any mistake made in marking the tic
kets: that generally when the voter want
ed to vote the Independent ticket he
would say he wanted to vote for the tic
ket headed by Mr.. Cole and Mr.. CriXell
that no voter said merely that he want
ed to vote for the Independent candi
III Il L.. L1a
to how the voters were to approach the
polls, but in the afternoon George Cham
pion argued that too many Reds were
getting to the polls, and Adjutant Gen
eral Hitchings went outside and fixed it
so one could approach at time from
each group.
Mr. Wise stated that most of the chal-
tlenges for the democrats were made by
George Champion, while he did the chal-
lenging for the Independents; that the
challenging would delay the voting
sometimes taking 20 or 30 minutes to de-
eide challenge; that in some instances,
Mr.. Dwyer would send for a lawyer to
decide whether or not a man was le-
gal voter American voters, he said came
| in at any side and sometimes there were
as many as five in the polls at once. The
witness stated that George Champion,
the democratic challenger, was remon-
strated with several times by Mr.. Sea
bury and General Hutchins and that
one time Mr.. Seabury requested him to
leave the polls.
\ The witness said he knew all the Am
orican voters in the ward, all of whom
were literate that 40 or 80 per cent of
the Mexican vote always asked for as
sistance in marking their ballots. The
witness said that. even had they had more
booths. they could have taken care of
only one lliterate voter at time, as
he and Mr.. COnnOr always stayed toge-
ther.
Mr.. Wise said that the voting was
DELAYED an hour and 80 minutes in the
morning. on account of Judge Seabury
Joe Wells objecting to Jim Dwyer serv-
ing as presiding Judge. the basis of the
objection being that Mr.. Dwyer had not
been in the ward long enough: that r.
3. Creager was summoned by Mr.. Dwyer
and that after he had arrived 30 or 40
minutes more were consumed i'll argu-
ments: that the challenging delayed the
vote to large extent, and that 20 per
cent Of the challenging was done by Geo.
Champion He thought all the challenges
were made in good faith and that grounds
for the challenge were always given. He
saw no discrimination in the challeng
ing. He further stated that the election
officers had issued no instructions re
quiring the voters t. get in the groups.
Mr. Wise said Mr.. bennett had enter
cd the polls very excited and he gave
him chair and a glass of water. Mr..
bennett saving he had been interfered
with The witness said that when Mr..
bennett entered there were voters in
the voting place. According to the wit
ness the officers were not idle a moment
during the day and Mr.. Dwyer did not
even stop for dinner but kept stamping
ballots.
The witness said the Americans had
voted all day but the heaviest American
vote was about an hour before the polls
closed.
Cross examined. the witness said he
had book with the names of the voters
which had been given him either the
ufoht hnfara tho alqctinn or on the morn