Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-14
REAL ROUGH HOUSE
IN ESTILL PRECINCT
Election Officer Tells In Contest
Case, of Drinking and Shoot
ing About the Polls

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lets sporadically piercing walls
of the voting place and "Peeping
Toms" with eyes glued to cracks
to see how votes were cast at
tended the primary election in
one EstiA county precinct, accord
ing to evidence at the trial of the
suit of w. L. Kash, contesting the
nomination of Samuel Hurst as
republican candidate for Circuit
Judge.
How bullets perforated the
walls of voting shacks in Station
Camp precinct, Estill county, was
told by Mckinley Rice. He was
serving as clerk of the election.
and three of the bullets "all but
parted his hair" he swore.
AS missile after missile passed
his ear he became restless, he told
the court, and would have quit the
place and go home had he not,
on second thought, concluded it
was more dangerous on the out
side.
Nearly everybody was drunk,
Rice testified, and spelling for a
fight. AT one time, he swore,
shortly after II o'clock in the
forenoon, about forty "drunks"
as he termed them, were milling
about the ten by twelve voting
shanty, firing revolvers and yell
ing like Indians.
Those bold enough to vote. Rice
told the court, did SO under the
eyes of "Peeping Toms In ex-
PLANTATION, he said that in walls
OF the voting shack were cracks
from an inch to an inch and a half
IN width and that an eye was glu-
ed from the outside to nearly ev-
cry crack. When a voter stepped
INTO any one of the three booths.
arranged along the wall, he said,
he found himself and the ballot
targets for eyes peering through
CreviCeS.
Rice was the first of nine wit
nesses placed on the stand by
counsel for the contestee, Thru
these and other witnesses to be
presented the next three DAYS, he
hopes to prove counter charges
that will cause disclosures by the
contestant to seem puny in com
parison, Hurst attorneys say.
Validity of sixteen or more
votes cast for Mr.. Kash in five
Breathitt county precincts, were
attacked by counsel for Mr.. Hurst
today on the ground that they
were voted openly on the table
without the voters being sworn
as to their ability to mark their
their own ballots.
Cross-questioning by Mr.. Byrd
developed the names of seven or
eight persons said to have voted
openly for Hurst.
SubpOenas were issued for 7. |
Fred Lilies, Lexington, president
OF the Swiss Oil Corporation; r.
b. Jouett, corporation lawyer OF
Winchester, and w. L. Kash, and
his five brothers, Eli, Kelly, D. H.
Oliver and Sam Kash. They are
wanted by Hurst counsel to tes-
THY under the corrupt practices
act providing immunity for all
who might otherwise convict
themselves by giving testimony.
In his answer to allegations
set out in the petition of w. L.
lash, contesting his nomination,
Tor Circuit Judge of this district,
Mr.. Hurst charges that the con-
testant expended $4,000 in his
campaign and that a number of
corporations contributed to his
campaign fund. 1t is for the pur-
pose OF proving these charges
that Mr.. Lilies, Mr.. Jouett and the
SIX Kash brothers are now being
sought as witnesses.
w. L. Kash, contestant, is a
Baptist minister; Eli Kash. mem
Der of the State Railroad Conn.,
mission from this district; Kelly
Rash, commonwealth Attorney
tor this district, and practices law
IN Lexington; d. H. Kash, physi-
sian of Jackson; Oliver Kash,
Jackson real estate dealer, and
Sam Kash lives in Lexington.
Mr.. Jouett is brother of E. S.
J ouett, Louisville, attorney for
the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road.