The Detroit times., 1914-11-04
BOUSHAW HELPS
COP TO THRUST
TWOFROM BOOTH
King Of "F0ist of de F0ist' As.
sists in Ejecting Citizens
League Challengers
SAY BOARD REFUSED TO
RECOGNIZE CREDENTIALS
Marsh's Protest To Gillespie
Brings "Bawling Out" From
4 Police Head

O. H. Rutledge. an officer OF the
Antisaloon league. and the Rev.
George Edgar Cullen. pastor OF West
Grand.blvd. Methodist church. were
elected from the election booth Of the
~Toist OF de Toist," early Tuesday
morning.
The election officers and the police
declare It was because the men re-
fused to show their credentials as
challengers for the Citizens league.
and insisted on blocking the aisles.
The challengers say 1t was because
they were identified with tine forces
Of law and order.' and declare they
tried to show their credentials. but
that the members of the election
board would not look at them.
The police version or the incident
a that the men appeared and took a
stand Just IN front OF the ballot box
90 that the voters could not reach 1t
without crowding by. They were
asked to move to one side, but re-
fused, declaring they had right to
be there. They were told that II they
did not move they would have to
leave, and upon their refusal were
pushed from the booth by BILLY"
Boushaw and Patrolman Dean. Com
missioner Gillespie declared that he
had given orders to his men to follow
instructions of the chairman OF the
election board In case disputes arose.
He asserted that the officer obeyed or
ders.
The men say that they were or
dered out Of the place almost as soon
a. they arrived; that the election
board refused to look at their creden-
tails, and that number Of "roughs"
were called In to crowd the booth 80
that the board would have an excuse
TO eject them. They also declare
they saw q man marking ballots for
the voters. They went to Police
Commissioner Gillespie and he is al
legged to have told them he could do
nothing for them, as his men had 70
ported they were In the wrong.
Capt. Marquard went TO the scene
on hearing OF the trouble and after
IN investigation supported the report
Of the officer stationed there.
Police Commissioner John Giles
pie used some rough language to
Pliny w. Marsh, attorney for the De-
troit Citizens league. when, Marsh,
ct the head OF delegation, called at
the commissioner ONCE to protest
against the election OF Rutledge and
Pastor Cullen. The commissioner
ourtly dismissed the protest with the
remark that the chairman OF the elec-
tion board was the boss" and that II
the members Of the Detroit Citizens
league were not satisfied with their
treatment, either by the election
board or the police department, they
oould ind recourse In the courts.
Then Gillespie. according to his own
abatement made later In the city hall,
proceeded to ,"bawl OUT Mr.. Marsh.
Ell told him Just what I thought OF
him in very plain language" said the
commissioner. repeating choice por-
lions Of his speech" II charged
Min with publishing untrue state
ments In the Official organ OF the
league and with having recommended
one candidate TO the voters as q
rood citizen, when II Is pretty gen.
orally known that the candidate In
question was brought into the CEN
trail station on one occasion for run.
ming a gambling house"
When a patrolman assigned TO duty
IN the election booth Of the fourth
precincf of the Tenth ward. Eight
eenth-st. and Michigan-ave.. arrived
for duty shortly after 2 o'clock, Tues
day morning. he found the booth