The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-01
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WAsuINGTON. D. C.. June 29 < Special from Juneau) James Wick .ersham last Saturday served formal notice of contest in the 1918 delegate election upon George B. Grigsby, who Was awarded the certificate of election as the result of the vote cast in the special delegate election held in Alas ka June 3rd Mr Grigsby has until July 2S in which to make answer.
 Wickcrsham also asks all summer inisyhich he may take testimony This would allow Grigsby the same time. Following this fach',side has thirty ;days in whtsF36 prepare briefs, then the bearings will be set for argument. ,WtcketbsbAe is opposed to the passage ! of ;'E$$.At;ssaaigeAs recently introduced ,, $sdkag to .seafhMr Grigsby, and ob. 'eslf, to MT. GrisSby being seated and asks: that he atd his opponent agree upon West PYnt and Annapolis ap- pointmehts. ,s
 The plan ef procedure as set forth by Wickersham would consume at least year, and in the meantime, if he gets what he is working for, Alaska would be entirely without a delegate. He alleges that the special election was not legal because all of the pro- visions of the congressional act were not compiled with.
 SOME OF, HIS CHARGES.
 Some of the specifications in the proposed contest over tfe regular 1918 election follows: '.e,-. C. ..--
 Sixteen votes at Ketchikan illegal because the voters were not residents of that place Five at Baranoff and one at Rake for the same reason. Seven Indians at Douglas and 2l at Juneau were induced to vote ille- gally by District Attorney Smiser and Began. Twenty Indians at Sulzer and twenty al Craig are also alleged to have voted Illegally.
 The soldier vote again figures in the contest. He alleges that large num- Der at various precincts voted illegal ly. The number of votes cast by sol dicrs is not specified.
 He claims that he lost thirty-One votes at Jack Wade and the same number in the Steele creek precinct because of the abOlishment of voting places. He alleges that ten votes at Copper Center were lost to him thru a threat made by his opponent, Chas. A. Sulzer, to move the pOstOttice from BliX's to some other establishment Fiftyfour Illegal ballots are declared by him to have been cast at Unalas- ka At Cache creek the polls, he states, were opened at o'clock in the morning, and the twenty-three votes cast are aaid by him to be illegal for that reason He claims to have lost fifteen votes because of the change of polling place from Sour dough to Gulkana. Ten votes are claimed to be illegal at Naknek or account of unofficial ballots being used. Fifteen are alleged to inega at Kusalani because there were two polling places instead of only one. Ht says he lost twenty votes at Nusha gak because there was no election held there. Fifty legal Wickershan votes, he alleges, were not counted by the canvassing board Fifty lega Wickersham votes, he asserts, were refused permission to vote by judges and fifty illegal Sulzer voters permit ted to vote by judges.
 In addition to these few smal items on the political criminal cal endar he makes wholesale charge of fraud, corruption and felonies b, judges, clerks, district attorneys commissioners and election officers a various voting places. He figure that had be got what he was en titled to he would have been returne' winner over his late opponent b about 800 plurality
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