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

that in said election in said precinct
a vote was cast which had been pre-
pared for use in District One of said
county, and which did not have the
names of either of the candidates
for Supervisor of District Number
Three printed thereon a required by
law, and the voter thereof 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 MI. K. Koonce to cast his
ballot in the box at said election,
over the protest of the said K.
KoOnce and of this deponent but for
ced him to cast his said ballot in an
envelope, though the said R. KOonce
was a bona fide resident of said cleo
ton district had voted in the first
primary without objection or chal-
lenge by any officer of said election
or any other person of his right to
vote and his name was IN the Off
cial poll book of said precinct and he
was "a duly and legally qualified cleo
TOR of said county and district; de-
pOnent further says that after the
polls Of said precinct had been clos
ed the votes duly counted and the
| result a~scertained, 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 was held and was
opened and said contents taken there
from by some of the officers of said
election without the knowledge of
and in the absense of said S. H.
Marter, one of the judges and of
Lucius KOonce, one of the Clerks Of
said election, and that said ballot box
was not thereafter cared for as pro-
vided by law, but was left unlocked
and remained in that condition so
iar as deponent knows and believes
COR us above stated and the time
same was delivered to the County
Executive Committee of said Grena-
Ia County.
Sworn to and subscribed before
J. l.. KOONCE.
Executive Called Together.
Under Chapter 1856, Laws OF 1908,
three members of Committee can
all meetings.
To 0. F. Lawrence, A. t. Neil
wrath, J. A. Blount, H. G. Anderson,
Jim Wood, w. P. Blakely, J. F.
Smith, j. N. Provine, j. N. Roberts,
Minis, j. w. Wood, Idus Singleton.
and Walter Crump, members of DEM
ocratic Executive county committee
of Grenada county, Mississippi, and
Frank Anderson.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
al meeting of the democratic
" executive committee of said
county is hereby called TO be held at
the Court House in said County at
IL O'Clock A. NJ. on Saturday Sep
tember 13. 1919 to consider the conf
ceSt of w. V. Horton OF the nominal
sion Of Frank Anderson as supervisor
of Beat Three of said county, and
you are notified to be present at said
meeting to do and perform such acts |
and things as are provided by law
therein and as you are required to do.
Witness our hands, this 3rd day of
September, 1919.
Members of Democratic county
executive committee of said county.
l.. l.. SINGLETON,
J.. H. WOODS,
S. G.. MINIS, Sr.
Anderson's Answer To Contest
State of Mississippi,
County of Grenada.
To the Honorable County Democratic
Committee:
Now comes Frank Anderson, the
duly declared Democratic nominee
for the office of Supervisor of Beat
Three, Grenada County, Mississippi,
and respectfully shows unto your
that the petition of Mr..
W. V. Horton, contesting the cleo
ion of contestee, is without merit
and sets forth no legal grounds for
the action of your Commit
r%e-opened, for the reasons which
le hereinafter offers in answer to
he claims %interposed by said contes-
1. AS to the allowing Mr.. Wilson
Kennedy, an alleged Republican to
Contestant fails to allege in
lis petition that the said Kennedy
lad not been in accord with the par
y holding said primary within the
preceding years, and that the
aid Wilson Kennedy did not intend
o support the nominations in which
Ie participated; and c~ontestee shows ]
hat al a matter of fact the said /
Kennedy has been in accord with said
democratic party for more than two t
'Sars Immediately preceding said j
limary, and that he intends to sup 9
Ort the nomination in which he par
icipated; and, further, that he has a {
stter from the Attorney General of y
Mississippi, the highest legal officer t
4 the State, in which the opinion is n
iven that he had the right to vote f
l said primary. {
2. AS to the failure of the Off
ers to allow Mr.. R. Koonce to vote. n
his matter was fully discussed and t.