The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 12.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1903
811(11 (ti
NUMBER 3
the recanvass of the vote changed j
the figwres of tke official returns but :
little anil all the chance was in favor ;
of Barker which was but natural to
expect it would be for the election !
; boards of county were appointed by
McCall
HAS IT FOR
LESS.
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I car.v
; precincte and also the vote ae re-: democratic ..cejmty commissioners j *n these 17 boxes the recanvass of the ; hav. lost inthe past, and probably
ivassed by referee and not abject- and naturally t&ey would be certain ; vote ®iade no material change in the this one will fail. In the mean time
!l ed to by eitter side in the contest so . to count every «?ote passible for the result of Smith and Barker vote. In the manufactured article is becoming
j far as the ballots are concerned. ! democratic catsdidatcs and not be the other 3 precinct the difference in
2n the rectnvass of the vote about quite so strenuous in looking' after'j vote as certified to by election judges
the votes cast far an opposing candi-|al,d as found by referee would indi-
| -CM) ballots were objected to fey the
j attorneys and Referee will pass upon
their legality and have them caunted
and make his findings as to what num-
of the conttstei ballots should be
counted to the respective candidates,
j A cecanvass <sf the denver, 6-le and 8-
, j 2 w ballot baces was obiected to by
I Barkers attorneys for the reason, that
j ballot packages and boxes were not
i foiuid to be in the condition required
to te returned by law. In the ballot
box from 8-2 vt no ballots were found
| buttthey were f«und locked up in^bal-
Three of £he Ballot Bcxes J,01** f™m °T:* andJe^ encl°si"*
j balkrts snowed signs of having been
broken open aud reseated, also when
package was opened many of the bal-
lots which had been stamped in the
device surrounding eagle and plow in
a purple ink showed np with a red
stamp in square in front of Smith's
name. Just how it could be possible
for a voter in in making out his bal-
lot to stamp red and purple was so
puzzling a proposition to Barkers at-
torneys tiiat they_ objected to ballots
being counted and also to a recanvass
f of the vote of precinct which
have been Tampered
WITH SINGE VOTE WAS
Canvassed by Precinct Eler
tion Board.
dates. jcate that election judges were either
So you will obsterve, iu a recanvass incompetent or dishonest or ballots
of the .votes Barker gained 30 votes bad )jeen tampered with after they
in 8 of the precincts, Smith gained | had canvassed the same.
14 votes in 7 precincts, in 2 precincts Had the ballots been foumJ jn lheir
there was bo change, while in the 3 proper |)0xes 8ealed up as they should
precincts (61e Denver 8-2 w) Smith I |lave been and seals on ballot pack-
made a gain of 101 votes. In 17 of affe8 not iookjnfr as they are, the
the voting precincts in the county , fauit mi^lit be laid to Judges who
Barker made a net gain over Smith ' held the election: but the condition of
of lfi votes in the recanvass. In the things now existing would arouse a
remaining 3 precincts in the county | very stron(f 8U8piclon) at ,east( that
Smith makes again over Barker of | bailots had been tampered with by
101 votes in the recanvass. The In- I some one after they faa(1 ]eft the
spectors of election in the three latter | election jud(,es. Tne ballot boxes
precincts were Democrats, appointed | after election, is over are stored in a
by Democrats to hold the election.
Their names were J. J. Brown, J. Sul-
livant, J.W. Foster and from a com-
parison of the vote as shown by re-
turns to county clerk last fall with
room in the court House and not a
very difficult matter for anyone to
get to them and the locks on the bal-
lot boxes are just common padlocks.
Sheriff Barker soon after he went
votes he was entitled to have re-
ceived, and this too without taking
into calculation the votes from these
THE BOXES FROM THE
Other Precincts Appear
to be
REGULAR AND DO NOT
Make a Material Change
in the Vote.
As we go to press this week the
Smith-Barker election contest is be-
ing tried before J. B Dudley who wa s
appointed referee by Judge Irwin to
taken the evidence in the case and
submit his findings to District Court
at the November session. Court
stenographer Milligan is taking
down the evidence and Jackson,
Newelland Ilutchin represent Barker
while Fisher and Williams are look-
ing after Smith's intere-t in the """
case. j ^oWed up so peculiar.
At the fall election of 1902 the j l)0xthe ballot!
ollicial returns of the election showed
that L.P. Barker had received a plur-
ality of (i7 votes for sheriff over
10-1E
lo-rw
io-?w
10-8W
10-4W. ....
9-1E
Franklin ..
Denver....
9-2 W
9-3 W
8-IE. .
8-lW ....
8-2W ....
7-1E
7-2W ....
6-1E
6-1W
Lexington.
E. Norman
W. Norman
Vote a s
shown b y
official r e -
turns of
1902.
42
43 j
52!
34
29;
30
39
671
57
49
57
5K
101;
68|
143
211
lit*
73
54
71
32
37:
44
63
64
551
ko
95
113
71
109
113|
m!
15c
110
vote as found by recanvassing board . . , tV,
. .. , . | into office noticed that the window l
it would seem as though they had ! , , ,, , ,
_ , , , ; room where ballot boxes were stored
given Barker 75 votes he was not en- „„„ , ,, ,
f. , , _ , . , x „ ... .... was open and he called Un-
titled to and taken from Smith J<> n, , , , ,
.... , . , I Clerk s Miller's attention to it and on
investigating it was found that it
had been nailed down but seeui.d to
have been pushed up and nails bent
so that it opened. Mr. Miller refast-
ened window at once. Another
peculiarity brought out in recanvass
of the vote reveals the fact ti t
while in nearly every other •.••■ting
precinct in the c inty save the t iree
referred to so oflen Barker on the
X official returns ran ;i way ahead of his
i I ticket but recanvass of the vote in
• the three precincts referred to
£ throws Barker behind his ticket and
J this is very remarkable in view of
? the fact that 8-2w was Barker's home
T precinct* A recanvass of the vote of
f county, taking the official returns of
€ Denver, fi-le and 8-2w, as the correct
J j vote from those precincts give Bar-
shown b y
recount ot
Referee,
PnUALITYi
14321499
67
81
39
5U
33
27
30
49;
65
53
49
55
68
66
881
8J\
7;>!
135!
194
110
1393'
-
si o
0
Pi
0
0
0
01
0
148 12
108 6
1365 30
' SMITHS NET 0*
1
0
0
0
42
0
1
32
0
0
0
0
115
85
City Eejocti Water in New Well,
At the special meeting of the city
council held last Friday night the
council rejected water furbished by
new city well for the reason that It
was found by a cheni i analysis
not to be what contract with Abbott
and Howartb called for and until it
came up to what contract called for
city refused to use the water. The
trouble seems to be that in curbing
and finishing up well at bottom a
mistake was made and mud continued
to filter through into well making wat-
er muddy and the wood curbing also
seemed to taste the water. It is
thought well can be put into shape
without a great deal of expense so
as to render water all O. K. and that
Abbott and Howarth will soon have
well lixed and city begin using water
again. The city is greatly in need of
the water at the present time.
The Crash in Wall Street-
1 he crash in Wall street is "just
what sensible people have expected
for a long time. No one knew how it
would come—what circumstances
would precipitate it. but everyone fa-
miliar with Wall street has known
the crash would co:ne. Some consid-
ered it overdue, an i some thought it
would not arrive for some months yet.
The reason for it is not far to seek.
It is simply because "promoters" like
J. P. Morgan, John W. Gates and
Rockefeller have been selling "stock"
in various corporations or trust com-
panies, based on nothing but "earning
capacity" in times of prosperity. Be-
cause a busy and prosperous -e>-on
and a "cinch'1 on the market enabled
the steel corporation to make large
profits, the trust promoters were en-
abled to sell to a confiding public,
stocks in that coporation, and in a
similar manner stocks in many con-
cerns were "floated"—stocks that rep-
I resent no actual property, no ma-
chinery, no real estate—just an earn-
j ing capacity in a prosperous season,
; and when the rush season wa- ;>ast,
j when dividends faile 1 to arrive, the
| public wanted to sel. the stocks it had
in two places for Barker and they I 80 bou-ht • Ult every one want-
are confident that under decisions of;t ( , ' ere were "0 buyers,
and the "bottom fell out" a crash
came. Foul- big firm- went to the wall
and more are on the ragged edge. It
hrunk in
in Wall street over four
One
man alone (Keene) i.-. -.id to have
ker a plurality over Smith of 8.i votes
and in the, something like 200, votes
; objected to by attorney's in the re-
canvass and said ballots are in the
hands of referee for his decision the
attorneys for Mr. Barker feel con-
sent that Barker will gain 2 votes
to 1 for the reason that a number ot
theballots objected to were stamped
supreme court these votes will be |
I counted for Barker. On the rest of j
the objected to ballots the parties '
will probably break about even. This! -timated t>h.it ,.iiae-
, . , recent week
being the case a recanvass of the t
htudred millions ?100,00'i,(!00
in the 0-1 e 'I precincts which have been objected
were found loose in to by attorneys and have not been
i the ballot box and not sealed up at passed upon by the referee. When
I all; and while the red and purple
George Smith and the certificate of
election was given to Barker and lu
entered upon his duties as sheriff. a n the 8 ^ w box. showed up with .,
Sometime afterwards, April or May. a stamp :n square in front of Smith's
Smith filed a contest claiming thai name. We counted 14 such ballots in
he had received a plurality of the ! that box and 12 such marked ballots in
yotes for the office of sheriff in the ; the S-2 w box. Another peculiarity
1902 election o> • r Barker. The mat- we noticed on b r ots in these tw 1
ter coming up before Judge Irwin the | boxes was that many ballots had
judge appointed .). B Dudley a- a re- stamps in tre in front of the name
of both Smith and Barker. T iis pe
culiaritv was not noticeable in an
of the other voting precincts in the
county we saw canvassed. We did
not see the Denver precinct canvassed
but learned from attorneys that the
the county clerk opened the ballot
box from 8 2w he found theballots
I marks a.- in 8-2 w did not -how up yet. ff0ne notwithstanding fact the bal-
many of the straight Bat *er ballots jot |jOX w;is ]oci{cj w(th two padlocks
padlock;
and he had t le keys to the padlocks
in his posses.-lon having been turned
over to him by Ex County Clerk
Wynne. In opening the ballot box
from 6-1 e the package of ballot- mediate present i- rono ; n- l, the
vote would indicate that had vote
been counted as cast at the Novem-
ber election Barker's plurality over
Smith would have been nearer 12."<
than i>7 as election returns show.
Brown's Cotton Corner.
At the present time Mr. W. P.
Brown of New Orleans, appears to
have control of the cotton situation
Mr. Brown bids lo cents a pound for
the staple, and none is to ie had. i li-
the most remarkable condition of af-
fair- in cotton existing ic.' the civil
war. and it remains to be seen what
the result will be. As far as the im-
lost five millions. Cent Farmer.
The hoped for rain ■!'
last week; but fortunat
remained cool and corn i
fer much and cotton c
grow fine. A good
this week would st
not come
y the air
1 not suf-
itinued to
rain the first of
donet he
av<
corn much good; but still rain e
come and farmers began to fea
crop would be greatly in iured ;
a consequence did not feel in si
humor as last week. It ooked
day as though it mi^ht rai
to Tuesday night no rain ha
1 not
corn
and as
o good
•very
but u p
' a en.
feret to make a recanvass of the
vote of the county and hear the
evidence in thi case and report his
findings at next term of the district
court. Last Monday Mr. Dudley con-
vened referee's court and on Monday
began a recanvass of the vote com-
pleting the recanvass of the vote last
Wednesday afternoon. After i ot<
was recan vasse.il rtleree
belonging in the 8 2w box were found
but how they got there no one up to
the'present time has explained. On
a careful examination of the ballot
box used in <5-1 e we noticed that on
ballot box printed on the tin with
a paint brush the figures large and
plain *-2 w while just above on a slip
white paper printed with a type
same peculiarity showed up in Den-! writer the figures H-le. On end of
ver box aho and that seal enclosing box was also the name of J. Yande-
ballots in this box also -bowed signs ver and 8-2w. This we think a
I • —v.. > - -p,-- \ ci aiiu o-.w, a ilia we i uiu it a very
court ad-; of having been broken open, in the ciear explanation of how the pack-
journed until Thursday afternoon for Denver precinct the ballot box wa- age of ballot
the purpose of giving time to procure minus one of the locks and lid of bo
bull pool has engineered a successful
corner. The hi: s have the cotton
and those v. ao ui nt be supplied have
but the one source. Many mills, o\v
ever, have shutdown in the east, and
it remains to be seen whether all
spindles will be stopped until the new
crop moves rather than pay tribute
to the coffers of Mr. Brown's corner
Cotton cannot be manufacture 1
profitably if the raw material is helu
at 15 cents. In the event the spindles
r last
Died at her home at Madill I.
Friday the beloved wife of W. t
w - o-uierly ; at Noble Onia-
hou. rhe body was brought to Noble
tor burial. Mrs Reed was a daughter
of (.'apt and Mrs honias of Noble.
Mr Reed had ist purchased a drug
store st Lexington and went down to
.Madill to bring his f ■ .ii 1 y to Lexing-
ton, but found h- wife sick and it
proved her last illness.
do not take the cotton now in hand,
from 8-2w got into the and there is a stoppage of manufact-
G-le box: also in box 0-le the ballot? uring until the new crop moves, Mr.
witnesses whose evidence was thought/ ' owed evidence of having been bent u di should have been in a sealed Brown will have his supply on hand
would be material in showing con- tp at corner, and referee in trying to elope were found loose inthe box. and it will be up to him t > take the | ion to be lit
dition ballot boxes were closed in beiu! up lid discovered that it would |n 17 ou , uf the 20 ballot boxes in tiie new cotton as fast as it i- offered. II and 2tith of th
Last Monday uight a special meet
ing of the commercial club was held
at the club room : and the question of
entertaining the onfederate Ilenun-
iis city on the 2oth
month was
some of the precincts where ballot have been possible to have removed possis-'on of the county clerk th re thi- i.-, the c i-e, the producer will i>e aid £230,0(1 ..a - • ,t
boxes were not found properly re- j ballot package from the bo:, v thout sreniei to be no objection to their 'enefited. Mr. Brown evidently hers In the meet; • •
turned according to law. . other lock 011 bo.x being loosenc . condition by attorneys' for there v - know what he is doing, and when lie . ouimittcc stimate
Below we give a table of votes c.ast . Jf you will carefully study abo '■ nothing to show that they might [ ■ tood in the pit and offered 15 cents, j 00 will be nece.--ary '
for Smith and Barker as returned 1>J' | table you will see that outside I have been tampered with after given th no takers, he was evidently sure f entertainment
the elecf)!)/? judges of the several vot-1 i>f the Denver, 0-le and 8-^v precincts Into the care of the county clerk and of his ground. However "corners" J ihould furnish.
such
discussed
by mem-
• \ecutive
bout $500,
; . t the
N o man
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