Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — HI THERE, BLACKGUARD BRINGHAM [ARTICLE]

HI THERE, BLACKGUARD BRINGHAM

“Rooler Me” and all tie to of Tour Cheating Can?! Here are Those Affidavits Which Prove Who the “Liars _j and Villian-” Are. Every Allegation of Crookedness in Wolcott’s Pretended Nomination Is Here Sustained by Sworn Testimony of Unimpeachable Witnesses.

This Was Plain Highway Robbery. Rose Lawn. Indiana, March 29, 1900. A. L, Miller, of Lincoln township, Newton county, Indiana, says that at the Republican Senatorial Convention, held at Goodland, Indiana, on Tuesday, March 27, 1900, for the purpose of nominating the Republican Candidate for the office of State Senator for the counties of White, Jasper and Newton, he was duly appointed and accredited delegate for Lincoln township, in Newton county. That as such delegate he was entitled to cast and did cast the vote of said township at the said convention. > That at said convention, on the first pnd only ballot, when the votes of the delegates from Newton county were taken, he cast the entire vote of said Lincoln township for William H. Coover, of Jasper county. k. And The said A. L. Miller f urther says that at said convention, he held a credential duly signed and executed by Daniel Odle, chairman of the Republican committee of Colfax township, in the said county of Newton, appointing him, the said A. L. Miller, as proxy, to cast the vote of Colfax township in the said convention, and that when requested, he produced his said credentials before the Newton oounty delegates, and the same were ruled out and disregarded by the delegation, and the vote of said Colfax township, was not by the affiant or any delegate, or alternate or citizen of said township cast in the said convention. And that, had the affiant been permitted to cast the said vote, he would have cast for William H. Coover, A. L. Miller. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of April 1900. M 4NN Spitler. Notary Public.

Stole this Man’s Vote Bodi v. ' • | State of Indiana ) Newton County f Albert D. Peck, being duly sworn upon oath says: . That he is a resident and legal voter of Newton county, Indiana,; and' has been for a number of years, that he has resided in the town of Morocco, in said county for the past ten years, that he attended 1 the Senatorial Convention held at j Goodland March 27th, 1900 and; in that convention he held the! proxy from Lake township, in said j county, and was entitled to cast the entire vqte of said township in said convention, and the vote was not cast by himself or by any citizen of Lake township at said convention either by proxy, certificate or by his consent and that the vote as announced by Will H. Ade, as chairman of the Newton county delegation, in so far as it relates to Lake township, was unauthorized and illegal as he had no right to cast such vote and was not agreed to by me or any one in* my behalf as I verily believe. Albert D. Peck. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of March 1900. Daniel M. Graves, Notary Public.