The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
Frank S. SymmOnds Files Order to Stop Pay
ment of Barnett and Announces Claim
to Title and Salary. @ NE
NAMES MANY ILLEGAL VOTERS.
Challenging Candidate Declares That Election WaseI
legal and Says 500 in Sixth and Eighth Wards
Were Not Entitled to Vote

, Chief of Police Thad Bogans Rev. Hega
mann and others who voted in the tw
wards named.
Barnett Doing the Work.
! Morris Barnett, the challenged ons
has the advantage in that he holds
certificate of election, issued to him Of
the order of the circuit Judge, follow
ing judicial proceedings which deter
mined that he was the choice of tn
people by majority of twenty-tw,
votes. Moreover, he went about hi
| business today as SUCH serenely at
tending to the work of the courts a.
the active prosecutor for the county.
Frank S. Symmonds signs himself il
his notice upon County Clerk Charlie!
L. Holderness, Frank S. Symmonds
district attorney of Kenosha county"
Would Stop Barnett's Pay.
1t is interesting to note that the no.
tice is served just at the end of the
month, before Mr.. Barnett has draw
the salary for himself, his assistan
and his stenographer. This is specific
ally covered in the notice to the coun
ty clerk, which orders him not to pay
Mr.. Barnett or his assistants, and in
the notice to Mr.. Barnett himself, il
which Mr.. Symmonds states that he
himself claims the femoluments" de.
rived from the Office.
please be advised" Mr.. Symmonds
states in his notice to Barnett, @Thai
l claim and have always claimed tn,
right to the Office Of district attorney,
as well as the possession of all books,
papers, etc., pertaining TO said Office
and the emoluments derived there
from"
Many Pages of Names
Symmonds has set out with great
care a long list, containing more than
FIVE hundred names of persons in the
Sixth and Eighth wards, whom he
claims voted illegally, being neither
legally registered voters nor persons
who had presented legal and proper
afidavits showing their right to vote.
The list, partially set out in another
column, covers names of residents of
Milwaukee avenue, Market street, Sher-
idan Road, Congress street and others
Among the many well-known names,
in addition to those of Chief Logan
and George S. Whyte, were those of
Ed Mischief, J. Dunnebacke, Mike Link
Jr., Casper Hahn, Peter Schulien, John
B. Wade, Frank Joerndt and others.
The paper served upon Morris Bar
nett close upon six o'clock Tuesday
evening reads as follows:,
Mr. SymmOnds' Notice
To Morris Barnett, Attorney at Law,
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Dear Sir: ts8sssts
Please be advised that ! am bringing
an action in the Circuit Court for Ke-
nosha county, State of Wisconsin, in
quo warranto, to test your title and
right which you claim to the Office of
district attorney for Kenosha' county
You are further notified that in said
quo warranto action l shall claim as
illegal the votes Of the voters in the
wards named and listed herein respect
lively in Exhibits A and B hereto at
tached and made a part Of this notice;
who voted in the said respective cleo
ton precincts at the last general No
vember election of Kenosha county,
whereby you claim to have been elect
ed to the office of district attorney for
Kenosha county. -..-----4sss.-.
The grounds upon which / claim
such votes to be illegal are that none
of said named voters who so voted re-
spectively in the said Sixth and Eighth
wards of said city, as shown by said
exhibits, were at the time of their said
voting at said general November cleo
ton qualified electors of said respec-
tive election precincts, in that they
were neither legally registered nor did
any of them properly present legal and
proper afidavits showing their right
to vote in their respective wards, or in
any manner to give any legal proof to
the inspectors of said election of their
said right to vote before so voting, as
required by law.
Said Exhibits A and B, you will no
tice, are arranged according to streets
and numbers before the names of each
+ of the said illegal voters, signifying
the street numbers given to the cleo
ton officials of the precinct in which
he so voted. Also please be advised
that | claim and have always claimed,
, the right to the Office Of district attor-
new as well as the possession of all
books, papers, etc, pertaining to said
office and the emoluments derived
) therefrom.
Yours very truly,
FRANK S. SYMM0NDS.
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