Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-17
BREWSTER MAKES
GENERAL DENIAL
Says r H. Williams Has No
Claim To Office of Sheriff
and Collector
REVIEWS
FINDINGS
Says That Much Larger Majority For
Bro" ster VIII Be Shown II Boxes
ire PMrged

Sheriff Edgar Brewster, who wa
on December renominated for shcr
iff and collector by the Democrat.
of jefferson county, according to tn
unofficial and official returns, yes
terday, through his attorneys, Cole
| man and CAN'T, Danaher and Dana
! her, T. Havis Nixon and r. x. Toney
filed an answer to the petition OF r
II. Williams, the defeated candidate
for that office, who seeks to have
the Democratic County Central Com
mittee go into the ballot boxes will
a view tc proving, if possible. thai
he and not Sheriff Brewster was
nominated for the sheriff's office TO,
the ensu!Ga two years
Sheriff Brewster denies the allega,
tons of the contestant in toto, de.
claring that Williams has no founda-
ton whatever for his claims to the
nomination, that the official returns
show him to have q majority of ten
votes and that, if the ballots are re.
counted, it will give him majority
of more than 100
Mr.. Brewster denies that in many
wards and precincts in the city and
county the judges and clerks failed
to prepare and return tabulated
tally sheet of the votes cast or fail
ed tol kaep a copy of the poll books
He denies the charge of Williams
that the Eaugine township and sec
ond ward Judges and clerks proceed
ed to make the count before the polls
were closed. Brewster says that un-
der a resolution of the county COM
mittee the contestant (Williams) was
permitted to and did name one Judge
in each o. said precincts and in
neither the Vaugine township or Sec
on Ward precincts was Williams de-
MED the light to have a representa-
tive present to witness the count and
if he failed to have such representa-
tive present it was entirely of his
own fault. The same denial is made
in the Fist Ward and he also denies
the charge that there were fifteen or
twenty ballots in that ward which
were not counted by the judges.
Mr.. Brewster reviews the charges
of illegal voting made by Williams
in his contest papers, naming sever
al of the men listed as illegal voters
adding that they are legal voters and
that their names appear on the poll
books He also denies the Williams
charge that the ballots were tamper-
ed with in the Second ward and that
there is nc legal reason why this or
any othec box should be thrown out
as seems to be the purpose of the
contestant
In his counter specifications, hav-
ing answered fully the complaint OF
Williams, contestee states that In
this election, as in all others, there
were doubtless some apparent irreg-
ularities On the face of the Poll
books, growing out of mistaken un-
derstandlng on the part of judges
and clerks of the various wards and
precincts as to names given to them
verbally , y the voters, persons vot-
ing who's. names do not appear on
the lists as having paid poll taxes in
Jefferson county, said persons being
legal voters having paid their poll
tax in o.her counties. and in some
instances having paid poll tax by in
itials, while the poll books show full
names and other similar discrepan-
cies which do not in fact show the
votes to be irregular.
The contestant, says the answer OF
Mr. Brewster, was we'll AID ably rep
resented by judges and other Off
GERS of the election friendly to his
candidacy in said election at every
voting precinct and such officers
were alert in protecting his interests
in all cases On account OF the ma
ture Of the charge now made BY
contesta 1t. Williams. the contestee y
forced much against his will IN de-
Tense of his rightful nomination te
file counter specifications Of iliega
and irregular votes cast for the con
| testant, which ne now does.
Sheriff Brewster practically re
views the returns in every ward AMI