The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-03
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TWOFROm BOON
SAY BOARD REFUSED 10
RECOGNIZE CREDENTIAL<
Marsh's Protest To GiIlespf6
Brings ''Bawling Out From
Police Head

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G. II. Rutledge. an ofEicsf OF tho@
Anti-Saloon league. aud ths Raw
George Edgar Cullen. pastor Of Wec><
Grand-blvd. Methodist church. vero
elected from the election booth OF tho[
"Foist Of de Foist." early Tuesooy
morning.
The election officers ana the polIoo :
declare 1t was because the men r.
fused to show their credentials g.
challengers for the Citixens' leasnG.
and insisted ON blocking the Aislss.
The challengers say II was becanso
they we're identified with the foroeo
OF law and order and declare they
tried to show their credentials. but
that the members of the election
board would not look ct them. ~
The police version Ut the incidenG
Is that the men appeared and took q
stand just In front of the ballot box
SO that the voters could not reach e I.
without crowding by. They were
asked to move to one side. but re-
fused. declaring they had q right a
be there. They were told that IL they
did not move they would have @
leave, and upon their refusal were.
pushed from the booth by s"Bulys
Boushaw and Patrolman Dean. C0ul>
missioner Gillespie declared that 1o
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 90
ders. s,
The men say that they were o..
dered out of the place almost as soon
as they arrived; that the election:
board refused to look at their creden@|
tials, and that number of ''roughn''
were called In to crowd the booth Co.
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 A.
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
an investigation supported the report
OF the officer stationed there.
Police Commissioners John Giles
pie used some rough language TO-
Pliny w. Marsh. attorney for the De-
ltroit Citizens league, when Marsh.
at the head OF delegation. called st.
the commissioner's ONCE to protest.
against the election Of Rutledge ana
Pastor Cullen. The commissioners
curtly dismissed the protest with the
remark that the chairman OF the cleo
ton board was the boss" and that Il
the members OF the Detroit Citixepe'
league were not satisfied with their
treatment either by the election
board or the police department. they
could find recourse I'm the courts
Then Gillespie. according to his own
statement made later I'm the city hall.
proceeded to "bawl out Mr.. Marsh.
II told him Just what thought Of
him In very plain language" said the
commissioner, repeating choice p0r-
tions of his speech II charged
him with publishing untrue state
ments In the Official organ OF the
league and with having recommended
one candidate TO the voters as q
good citizen, when IL Is pretty gem
orally known that the candidate In
question was brought into the CEN
| trail station on one occasion for run
ming a gambling house"
When patrolman assigned to duty
| In the election booth of the fourth
precinct of the Tenth ward, Eight.
!eenth-st. and Michigan-aye.. arrived
for duty shortly after o'clock, Tues
day morning, he found the booth
locked and the members Of the cleo
ton board missing.
The patrolman called the city clerk
and informed him of the fact. City
Clerk Lindsay Immediately appointed
a substitute election board, which be-
| gan its work at once.
| At least an hour later the members
of the regular election board put In
an appearance and demanded their
places. After a lengthy dispute, the
Inspector stationed at Trumbull-ave.
station was called He was poweriess
TO act, however, and, at 10:30 o'clock
appealed to Inspector Lombard, OF
| the central station.
After conducting a careful investi-
cation, Inspector Lombard ruled that
the election board appointed by The
city clerk. should remain on duty.
The substitutes are still on the job.