The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-09-19

hlSllCS Vi your pelltlOneT VINO was
candidate for Office in said election.
S. That after the polls Wer,
closed and the votes, ballots, etc.
locked up in said box. the ballot DO,
was taken from the room where tn,
election was held and. in the alb.
sence of one of the judges and ont
of the clerks of said election, wa:
opened and the ballots, etc, were
taken therefrOm, and thereafter sale
box was not cared for in the manner
and form as provided by the statutes
Your petitioner shows further tina,
but for the matters and things afore
said, the result of the said election
would have been different and your
petitioner would have been declared
the nominee for said Office, and that
the mistakes made and errors commit
ted constitutes a fraud upon your Pc
titioner's rights and materially affec-
ted and changed the result of said
election.
That your petitioner has not had,
or been afforded, al opportunity OF
presenting these matters to this COM
mittee, and that the matters and
things hereinbefore set forth are ma
terial and vital to his interest and to
the public welfare.
The premises considered, your pc
t~itioner prayS hat this matter be
heard and determined and that this
committee giant him the relief to
which he is entitled and that it as
certain and declare the true results
Of SAID primary as provided by law.
W. HORTON.
Il. VI. MITCHELL,
COWLES HORTON. Attorneys.
Marter Supports Horizons Contention
State of Mississippi,
Grenada County.
This day before me- NJ. Z. Powell
CIancery Clerk in and for said
county and state, personally appear
ed s. II. Marter who, being by me
first duly sworn, states on oath as
follows: That he was OF OF the Of
ficers who held and conducted the
Democratic Primary election on Tues,
day, August 26, 1919 at Spears pre-
cinct Of District No. Three of said
Grenada County, and State of Miss
isSippi; that at said election one
Wilson Kennedy who was and is st
Republican, was allowed t vote by
a majority of the judges, over tse
protest of one of the judges, that
said judges knew that said voter IA
not a democrat, but was and openly
professed to be a republican, and
that they permitted him to vote in
said democratic primary over the
protest of S. H. Marder, one of the
judges of said election, and contrary
TO the instructions of the State and
County Democratic Committees, and
against the laws of the State of Miss
iSSippi; that III said election in Siad
precinct a vote was cast which had
been prepared for use in District One
OF said county, and which did not
have the names of either of the can
didates for Supervisor of District
Number Three printed thereon as
required by law, and the voter there
Of did not vote for either of said
candidates, and could not do so by
using said ticket; deponent further
says that the majority of said judges
refused TO allow Mr.. R. koonce to
cast his ballot in the box at said
election. over the protest of the said
r. Koonce and of this deponent, but
forced him to cast his said ballot in
an envelop, although the said R.
Koonce was a bona fide resident of
said election district, had voted in
the first primary without Obje1on or
challenge by any officer Of said cleo
ton or any other form of his right
to vote, and his name was on the
official poll book Of said precinct and
he was a duly and legally qualified
~elector Of said county and district
deponent further says that after the
polls of said precinct had been closed
the votes duly counted and the result
ascertained, and the ballots, poll
book, lists of voters talley sheets and
report Of the officers placed in the
ballot box and said box had been
locked as required by law, said bal
lot box was taken from the room in
which said election vas held and was
opened and said contents taken
by some Of the officers of
said election without the knowledge
of and in the absence of said S. H.
Marder, one Of the said judges and
of Lucius Koonce, one of the Clerks
said election, and that said ballot
box was not thereafter cared for as
provided by law, but was left un-
and remained in that condi-
lion so far as %deponent knows and
believes fl a considerable time be-
the time said box was duly
,ocked as above stated and the time
was delivered to the County
Committee of said Grena-
la County. {
Sworn to ad subscribed before me =
). H. MARTER. It
J.. l.. Koonce Makes Affidavit. Ii
State of Mississippi, /
County. 4
This day before me NJ. E. Powell {
Jhancery Clerk, in and for said v
and state, personally appear g
8 Lucius Koonce, who, being by me /,
irst duly sworn states on oath as I