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That the right to vote, by any person, at the Congres- sional election held in the 20th District of Pennsylvania, on the 5th day of November, A. D. 1878, must depend upon the provisions of the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania alone, is made manifest by the first clause of section 2, article 1, of the constitution of the United States : " The House of Representatives shall bo composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States ; and the electors in each State shall have the qualijications requisite for the most numerous branch of the State legislature.^^ By this provision of the federal constitution each State possesses the exclusive right of defining the qualifications of voters, not only for State officers, but also for members of Congress, as they are always the same as those for members of the most numerous branch of the legislature of that State. In Pennsylvania the qualifications of voters are fixed by the consti- tution, and are not left to be regulated by the ordinary law making power of the State. This is as it should be. To define who shall possess the right of suffrage, to what portion of the inhabitants of a State, the sovereignty shall be intrusted, is, in its very unturc fundameiifal ; and should be placed beyond the reach of any department of the government established by the sovereign power of that State. If this were not so, the legislature, which is a mere creature of the sovereignty, might by statute change the repository of this sovereignty, and thus destroy its own creator. Untold evils might result from this. Whenever all the branches of the law making power were under the control of the same party, actuated by party prejudices, malevolence, or desire to perpetuate their own control, they might enact laws which would practically disfranchise all those who differed from them politically, and thus transfer the sovereign power of the State from the whole people to a special 2 !/ ^" '..••• ', jcURtiN vs. 'YOCb'M!. '• • class, the members of which were at the time, in accord iu political senti- ment and opinion with the law making power. This would soon terminate free government. From a government of the people and by the people, it would soon degenerate into the worst species of oligarchy. That, when the qualifications of voters are fixed by the constitution of the State, these qualifications cannot be changed by statute ; that the legislature cannot dispense with any qualifications, which the constitution requires ; nor can it add new qualifications to those required by the constitution ; are corallaries to the proposition, that the constitution in the supreme law of the State. If authorities are needed to sustain a proposition so elementary and fundamental, they are numerous : Page vs. Allen, 58 Penn'a State Reports, 338 ; McCaflerty vs. Guyer, 59 Penn'a State Reports, 109 ; Thompson vs. Ewing, 1st Brewster, 103; State vs. Adams, 2 Stewart (Alabama), 239; Mc- Crary's Law of Elections, chapter 1, section 5. The qualifications of voters in Pennsylvania are the same for all public ofiicers, and are distinctly defined in section 1, article 8, of the constitution of 1873, as follows : " Every male citizen, twenty-one years of age, possessing the following quali- " fications shall be entitled to vote at all elections. " I. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. " II. He shall have resided in the State one year, (or if having previously " been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have " removed therefrom and returned, then six months) immediately preceding " the election. " III. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to '• vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "IV. If twenty-two years of age or upwards he shall have paid within two " years, a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two " months and paid at least one month before the election." These are the qualifications of a voter iu Pennsylvania, and which cannot be abridged, added to, or altered by legislation. Whoever possesses them all has the constitutional right to vote ; whoever lacks any one of these cannot legally vote. Subsequent provisions of the same article of the constitution qualify iu some degree this right of voting. Sect. 4, Art. 8, provides : " All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received, and the number record- ed by the election ofiicers on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot." Section VI authorizes persons in the military of the State, or of the United States, to vote under such regulations as now exist, or may be pre- scribed by law, although absent from the district wherein they are entitled to vote. Section VII provides : " All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens, or for the registration of electors, shall be uniform throughout the State ; but no elector shall be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered." Section VII f of the same article, provides : " Any person who shall give, or promise, or offer to give, to an elector, any " money, reward or other valuable consideration, for his vote at an election, or " for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such considera- " tion to any other person or party, for such elector's vote, or for the withholding " thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or " for another, any money, reward or other valuable consideration, for his vote at " an election, or fur withholding the same, shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at ^' such election; and any elector whose right to vote shall be challenged for such CURTIN VS. YOCUM. " cause, before the election officers, shall be required to swear or affirm that the " matter of the challenge is untrue, before his vote shall be received."' Section XI defines what shall constitute an election district and provide « bow they may bo altered and subdivided. Subject to the provision that voting shall be by ballot, which ballots shall be numbered, and the provi-^ion which in substance requires that the voter shall be free from the otfense ol' bribery, the qualifications of voters in Penn- sylvania arc five in number, to wit : 1st. Age. 2d. Citizenship of the United States for at least one month. 3d. State residence for at least one year immediately prior to the election, unless previously a qualified elector, then six months. 4th. District residence for at least two months immediately prior to the election. 5tli. Payment of taxes within two years, which shall have been assessed two months and paid one month prior to the election. In this case no dispute will arise as to the first three of these qualifications. Wherever it is shown the person voting was under the age of twenty-one years, or was of foreign birth and not naturalized, or had not resided within the State of Pennsylvania for the constitutional period, it will be conceded that the vote was illegal and should be deducted from the votes returned for the candidate. It is therefore unnecessary to occupy any time or space in discussing these three qualifications. As to the fourth qualification a difference of opinion may probably exist. We will state briefly the position we hold to be the correct one upon this subject. What is meant bv the constitutional expression, " Shall have resided in the election district ?" Does it mean that the voter must have been personally present within the limits of the district during all of the time for the entire two months? Would his temporary absence from the district any portion of the two months deprive him of his right to vote? Clearly not, for but few persons would be entitled to vote under this clause of the constitution of Pennsylvania; for few persons ever remain inside of an elec- tion district for two months continuously without crossing its boundaries. Certainly the word " reside " can have no such meaning. As we contcnil when the constitution says, the voter must reside in the election district for two months, it means that he must have his ordinary residence, his home, his domicil there. When his residence, home, or doraicil is there, whether he is at his residence all the time or not, can luake no difference. In the judicial determination by the courts, as well as in the reports of the committee on elec- tions of the House of Representatives, the word residence is held to be equiv- alent to domicil, in its broadest sense. In most cases no question can ari«e as to where a man's residence or domicil is? If he owns property and has a family, where they are situated is universally recognized as his home, or residence, or domicil. Although he may himself be absent in different places most of his time, yet every one i-ecognizes his right to return to his residence and there vote, although he may not have been personally present within the district during any considerable portion of the two months immediately pre- ceding the election. "That place is properly the domicil of a person in which his habitation is " fixed without any present intention of removing therefrom." — Stori/'s Covfirj of Laws, Sec. 43. Judge Story too, claims that personal presence in a place with intent to remain there only for a temporary purpose, and to depart when that is accomplished will not constitute residence. Most of men while engaged in business have some other permanent place or seat of their interests and affec- JioGiyG 4 CURTIN V8. YOCUM. tions, aud which they style home, aud which iu the eyes of reason and common sense, if not in the abstract definition of law, is the place of their domicil. Nor is it always necessary that the man's family should remain at the place of his domicil in order to retain his residence there within the meaning of the constitution and laws. Many people leave their homes with their families and travel, or board, or reside temporarily at other places for health, for pleasure, convenience or other purposes, without losing their residence or domicil at their ordinary or permanent place of abode. In cities it is a common thing for men to take their families to the sea shore, springs, or mountains, or the country boarding house, and remain away for weeks, and sometimes mouths, without ever dreaming that thereby they lose their residence in the city. Should such a one return home on the morning of the election he would undoubtedly have the right to vote ; even though neither he nor his family had been within the election district during any portion of the two months immediately preceding the day of election. The absence of the voter or his family in order to deprive him of the right to vote on the ground that he lacked residence within the district must always be accompanied with the intention to abandon his former residence or domicil within the district, and acquii'e a new domicil or residence somewhere else. — Chase vs. Miller, 41 Pa. State Rep., 404 ; Miller vs. Thompson, 2 Cong. Elec. cases, 118 ; McDaniel's case, Brightley's Elec. cases, 238 ; People vs. Holden, 28 California Rep., 128 ; 13 Alabama Rep., 806 ; 11 Mass. Reps., 330 ; Fry's case, 71 Penn'a State Reps., 302; The Reporter, vol. 8, pages 163-187. When a person moves his family from one district to another, with the intention of residing permanently, or for an indefinite period at the new place and abandons his former home, he ceases to be a resident, within the meaning of the constitution, of the former place, and cannot return there to vote, although he has not been a resident of his new home sufl[iciently long to entitle him to vote there. While, in contemplation of law, every person has a residence or domicil somewhere, and cannot at the same time have two dif- erent places of residence or domicil, still a person otherwise legally qualified, may lose his right to vote by changing his residence or domicil within two months immediately preceding the election. If the voter actually does change his home, domicil or residence, within two months preceding the election, he cannot return to his former domicil to vote ; neither can he vote in the district of his new domicil for he has not resided there for two mouths imme- diately preceding the election. If a man having a permanent home in one district, goes into another district to work temporarily and remains there during the whole or a portion of the two months preceding the election, he may return to the district in which his permanet home is and there vote because he has not lost or abandoned his residence there ; the intention of returning having remained. The taking his family with him to the place where he is engaged temporarily, for the convenience of boarding or any other similar purposes, with the intention of returning to his permanent home after his temporary employment is done, would not cause him to lose his domicil or residence at the former place and thereby deprive him of the right of voting. The intention of not making the place of his temporary occupation his domicil, and the intention of returning to his former domicil as soon as his temporary occupation is done, retains his residence or domicil, and thereby retains for him the right of voting there. The proper application of these various propositions, we contend, will cor- rectly determine every disputed case turning upon the question of residence. That this is a correct statement of the law on this subject, as laid down by elementary writers. Judicial decisions and Congressional determinations, we need only to refer to the elaborate review of the subject contained in the CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 5 report of the contested election ca-se of Cessna vs. Meyers, reported in " Smith's Congressional Election Cases," page 60. Before leaving this subject of residence, it may be })ropcr to refer to the case of the twenty persons who voted for the contestee in the borough of Mill Hall, in Clinton county, when they were residents, and possibly legal voters in the townshij) of Bald ICagle. As to these twenty voters no question arises as to tho abandoning or changing of residence. They resided on the 5th day of November, 1878, at the same place where they had resided a long time prior, and where they had resided for many years when voting properly and legally in Bald Eagle township. The town council of the borough of !Mill Hall attempted, by an ordinance, to extend the limits of said borough so as to include the territory in which these voters lived and thereby to bring them as residents into the borough of Mill Hall. This ordinance of the town council was a mere nullity, without any shadow of legal authority, and had no possible effect in changing the limits of the borough, or township, and of course left every resident with the right to vote in the district that he had voted in, before the passage of the ordinance. These twenty persons, assuming that the extension of the borough was valid and legal, improperly and illegally voted on the 5th of November, 1878, in the borough of Mill Hall, instead of voting where they might legally have voted in Bald Eagle township. While do we not allege that this voting was fraudulent, or done with any improper or criminal purpose, we do assert that it was illegal and in violation of the provisions of the constitution, which requires the voter to have resided in the district where he shall offer to vote, two months immediately preceding the election. But these persons not being legal voters in the borough of Mill Hall and having been proven to have voted for Scth H. Yocum, the contestee, their votes, twenty in number, must be deducted from the votes returned for him. It will no doubt be urged on the part of the contestee that this would be a hard ruling, as these persons have not been shown to have lacked any other legal qualification, but having voted in the wrong district through inadvertence or mistake, they should not be disfranchised for that reason merely. The same argument and plea could be made for every person who possessed the other constitutional qualifications of a voter, but voted in a district where he had no residence. The sovereign people of Pennsylvania saw fit in their fundamental law to require district residence as one of the qualifications of a voter. No person has a right to vote in any district where he docs not reside. No tribunal trying contested election cases under the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania can dispense with district residence as a qualification of a voter any more than it can age, citizenship, or the pay- ment of taxes. If a vote otherwise legal, but polled in the wrong district, could be counted as a legal vote, out of mere favor to the voter, when it wa.^^ supposed or believed that he acted in good faith, the door would be opened wide for the admission of illegal, fraudulent and corrupt votes by non- rasidents of the district. If a vote is clearly illegal the honesty or bomifidea of the voter can have no effect, and cannot possibly legalize it. These twenty votes having been cast by non-residents of the borough of Mill Hall are clearly illegal and must be excluded from the count. As to the fifth and last qualification of a voter, to wit : "A payment within two years of a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," much dif- ference of opinion exists. This difference of opinion arises not so much from any obscurity in the language of the constitution, as from other considera- tions. In fact no language could be plainer than that employed by tho framers of the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1873. Because payment of taxes is not made a qualification of a voter in many States, citizens of such C CURTIN VS. YOCUM. States look upou Ibis provisiou of the Pennsylvania constitution as being wrong in principle, and restrictive of tbe rigbt of suffrage, wbicb, in their opinion, should be universal. This class of persons naturally contend for a construction of this clause which practically fritters it away. With the senti- ment, opinions and prejudices of all such we have no quarrel. Whether the payment of tax should be required as a qualification for voting is a question not open for discussion. The people of each State have the right to make such regulations upon this subject as they see proper, and the people of no other State have the right to quarrel with them for so doing. The people of Pennsylvania have settled this question for themselves, and it is the duty of all, who under any circumstances are required to administer her laws to recognize the mandate of the constitution in this respect, and to execute it faithfully. The provisiou as it now stands in the constitution of Pennsyl- vania is not a new one, but in a different form is found in the three pre- ceding constitutions of our State — those of 1776, 1790 and 1838. The plain and manifest meaning of this provision must not be construed away, or any- wise weakened because some may doubt the propriety or wisdom of its being in the constitution. The words of the constitution are so plain as to hardly admit of two constructions : " If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month before the election." This duty of paying a tax at least once in two years is made a prerequisite to the right of voting and attaches to the person of the voter. It is a per- sonal qualification which the voter himself must possess or he cannot legally vote. It matters not who else may have paid taxes, nor how much tax may have been paid, if the particular voter has paid no state or county tax within two years himself, he cannot legally vote in Pennsylvania for any ofiice. His mere liability to pay the tax, or the ability of the collector to enforce the payment from him is not what the constitution requires — but actual payment by the voter. This provision is in no sense a revenue measure. The liability of the collector to account to the county treasurer for the taxes will not qualify a voter whose name is upou the duplicate, if the voter has not paid his taxes. The collector might settle and actually pay into the county treasury the whole amount of his duplicate, and yet no one voter whose name was upon it be qualified to vote without himself paying the taxes assessed against him. The personal payment of tax is as necessary as personal citizenship, or personal residence. A boy of eighteen could just as well claim the right to vote because his brother is over twenty-one as one citizen can claim the right to vote because another has paid taxes into the public treasury ; one can as easily be naturalized, or gain a residence by proxy as he can comply with the constitutional requirement of paying taxes by proxy. Of course we do not mean to contend that the payment must necessarily be made by the hand of the voter himself, lie may legally employ an agent to pay his taxes for him, just as he may employ an agent to do any other legal act for him. We recognise in its fullest sense the application of the maxim, "(jiu facit per alium facit per se" to this subject. If a citizen authorizes another to pay his tax for him, and it is so paid, this is a valid and legal payment of tax by the citizen. If one pays to the collector the tax of another without the previous knowledge or consent of the tax payer, but he afterwards approves and ratifies it, it becomes his act, and is as valid and binding as though the tax were paid by his own hand. But nothing short of an actual payment satisfies the requirements of the constitution. But the voter himself must make |payment, either in person or by another, at least one month before the election. If the taxes are paid without the knowledge or consent of the tax payer, such payment is not his act, nor binding upon CURTIN VS. YOfUM. 7 him until ho is notified of it and ratifies it ; it becomes his act only from the time of ratification, and if that ratification occurs le.s.s than one mouth before the election he is not qualified to vote by reason of such payment of tax. If a person is not qualified to vote because he has paid no taxes for more than two years, he cannot qualify himself by any payment or ratification of a payment made by an other, within a month immediately procediug the elec- tion. His act of pa3'mcnt must be comi)lete one full month before he has a legal right to vote. In support of this proposition we need only apply and refer to the very clear and lucid opinion of Judge Trunkey, now a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of Marks et al. vs. Park, Phi/a. Legal Gazette, vol. 7, page 24(5. So far we have discussed the actual payment of taxes, without referring to the evidence of such payment. While the constitution provides that an actual payment of tax by the voter shall be a requisite qualification which the legislature cannot dispense with, the legislature may of course provide by statute what evidence of such payment shall be necessary. The legisla- ture of Pennsylvania, by Sect. 3, of the Act of February 13, 1874, has pro- vided : " And when the person oflfering to vote claims the right on the pay- " ment of tax, the receipt for such tax, if signed by the proper officer, shall " be the evidence thereof; if such person does not produce such receipt, then " the payment of the tax may be proved by the oath of such person, or other " evidence, stating when, where and to whom such tax was paid." This act we recognize as a valid and pi'oper exercise of the power possessed by the legislature. It, however, does not and canuot mean that a person possessing a tax receipt is a legal voter, if in fact he has not paid the tax required by the constitution. The tax receipt is simply the evidence of such payment, which the board or election officers must be satisfied with. If it should subsequently appear that the voter had actually paid no tax, the fact that he had such a receipt would not make his vote a legal one. The receipt, though actually signed by the proper tax collector, may have been stolen, fraudulently issued, or ante dated. In either of these cases, if the facts were clearly proven, no one could honestly pretend that the voter was legally qualified to vote, without the payment of tax, because he held such a receipt. The possession of a tax receipt signed by the proper officer, and bearing the proper date, is evidence of the payment of tax at the time, but may be cou- tradicted by other evidence. It is no more conclusive than a receipt for the payment of a private debt. It is sufficient if uncontradicted or unimpeach- ed, but like all other evidence it is liable to contradiction and impeachment. It is conclusive upon the election officers, when the evidence is presented, because it is impracticable for them to enter upon any extended inquiry as to its truth or falsity. In the absence of a tax receipt the payment of tax may be proven by the oath of the voter himself, or by other evidence showing when, where and to whom such tax was paid, yet it would not be pretended if the voter perjured himself in making this proof, that this evidence would make his vote legal, or that in the trial of a contested election case it might not be proven that he had not paid any tax, although he had on the day of the election sworn to such jiaymcnt. We concede that the production of a tax receipt, signed by the proj)er officer, in the absence of other evidence, is proof of the payment of tax. But to say that this proof may not be rebut- ted, when it is not true, in fact, is to make the jjo5«c.'?«to« of a ta.v receipt the qualification of voting, instead of making the payment of tax the qualifica- tion, which the constitution does. If a tax receipt is clearly proven to be false, that it was issued without the payment of any taxes by the party, or that the taxes were paid within a month of the election, and the receipt ante dated, so as to show the payment more than a month before the election, the « CURTIN VS. YOCUM. receipt can have no legal effect, other than to excuse the'electiou officer in taking the vote, but, cannot possibly make the vote legal. The practice of fraudulently issuing tax receipts on the eve of an election, in order to get the votes of persons who are disqualified, because of the non-payment of taxes, is a growing evil in Pennsylvania ; and it is the duty of all tribunals trying contested election cases to give no encouragement to it, but on the other hand, to frown upon it, and to enforce the constitutional requirement rigidly. Another practice of paying the taxes of a large number of voters by political committees, without the knowledge, consent, or direction of the voters, taking receipts for such taxes, and holding them until the day of the election and then giving them to the voter on condition that they vote the proper ticket, is a most pernicious practice, corrupting in its tendencies, and to a very great extent interfering with the freedom of elections. To hold as Judge Trunkey held, that the taxes must be paid by the voter himself, or by some one previ- ously authorized by him to make the payment, or if paid by another without the previous authority of the voter himself, ratified one month before the election, removes all possibility for improper or corrupt influences over the voter through the instrumentalities of political committees. In those States in which the qualifications of voters are incorporated in the constitution, and thus placed beyond legislative interference and caprice, codes of election laws are still necessary. While the legislature cannot de- prive any one of the right to vote, when that right is given to him by the constitution, nor can it grant to any one the right to vote who lacks the con- stitutional qualifications, still it has the power, and necessarily must exercise it, of regulating the times, places and modes in which elections shall be held. The abstract right of voting would be useless to a citizen unless the time, place and manner in which he might exercise that right were regulated by law. Although the constitution determines what qualifications a person must possess in order to be entitled to vote at an election, some tribunal must determine whether each individual claiming this right possesses all the con- stitutional qualifications or not. The law must designate who shall make this decision and may designate upon what evidence they shall decide. Of course it is important that every constitutionally qualified citizen shall be protected by law in his right to vote, but it is equally important that this right to vote shall not be rendered useless and unavailing by other persons voting who have not the constitutional qualifications. All this must be regulated by statute, and in its nature cannot be provided for in the constitution itself. In the exercise of this conceded power of the legislature, many States have enacted registry laws. Where these laws merely attempt to regulate the exercise of the elective franchise in order to secure honest and fair elections, they have uniformly been held to be constitutional. — Capen vs. Foster, 12 Pickering, 485 ; Patterson vs. Barlow, 60 Peun'a State Reports, 54 ; People vs. Kopplekam, 16 Michigan, 342. Wherever they have attempted to impose upon the voter additional quali- fications to those required by the constitution, they have just as uniformly been pronounced unconstitutional. To absolutely require that the name of a voter shall be upon the registry list, in order to entitle him to vote, would be to add a qualification not made necessary by the constitution, and would therefore be null and void. To provide that the absence of the name of a person from the registry list is prima facie evidence that the person lacks the constitutional qualifications, and that he must affirmatively show' his right to vote before his ballot can be properly received by the election officers, is a legitimate exercise of the powers of the legislature. If the unregistered voter refuses or omits to produce before the election board the evidence of CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 9 his qualifications required l)y law, he has no right to complain if the election board should reject his ballot, even though it should subsequently appear that he actually possessed all the constitutional qualifications. The proper and legitimate purpose of the registry of voters is to ascertain in advance who are legally qualified to vote in the district. This list being prepared by sworn officers, elected or appointed for that purfjose, it is pre- pared in advance and is presumed to be correct, and should be received at least as prima facie evidence of the right of parties to vote. No one, how- ever, will pretend that it is conclusive. To hold that the registry list is conclusive of the right to vote of every person whose name appears thereon, would be to make the act of the registration officer of the district the test of the right of all citizens to vote, instead of the actual possession of the consti- tutional qualifications. The right of a person to vote may be challenged, even though his name appears upon the registry list; and should it be made plainly to appear to the election board that the j^erson thus challenged, lacked any of the constitutional qualifications, his vote should be rejected, notwith- standing his name is upon the registry of voters. So also the officer may have omitted from the registry list the names of persons possessing all the constitutional qualifications and therefore entitled to vote; the omission of their names cannot deprive them of the right to vote, if they produce to the election officers the legal evidence of their qualifications. If, however, the election officers receive the ballot without demanding or receiving the legal evidence of the qualifications of the unregistered voter, the vote is ^9?-tma facie illegal, and the burden is thrown upon the candidate benefitted by it to show affirmatively that the vote was legal when voted. An act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, approved April 17, 1869, pro- vides for the registration of voters, and also provides what evidence the unregistered voter shall produce to the election board in order to entitle himself to vote. This act still remains in force in Pennsylvania, except so far as it is amended by the act of January 30, 1874, to make it conform to the provisions of the constitution of 1873. The 10th section of the latter act is as follows : " On the day of the elections any person whose name shall not appear " upon the registry of voters, and who claims the right to vote at said " election, shall produce at least one qualified voter of the district as a " witness to the residence of the claimant in the district in which he claims " to be a voter, for the period of at least two months immediately preced- "ing said election, which witness shall be sworn or affirmed, and subscribe " a written, or partly written and partly printed, affidavit to the facts " stated by him, which affidavit shall define clearly where the residence " is of the person claiming to be a voter ; and the person so claiming the " right to vote shall also take and subscribe a written, or partly written " and partly printed affidavit stating to the best of his knowledge and " belief, where and when he was born ; that he has been a citizen of the " United States for one month, and of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; " that he has resided in the commonwealth one year, or, if formerly a " qualified elector or a native born citizen thereof, and has removed " therefrom and returned, that he has resided therein six mouths next " preceding said election ; that he has resided in the district in which he " claims to be a voter, for the period of at least two months immediately " preceding said election ; that he has not moved into the district for the " purpose of voting therein ; that he has, if twenty-two years of age or '* upward, paid a State or county tax within two years, which was assessed " at least two months, and paid at least one month, before the election ; the " said affidavit shall also state when and where the tax claimed to be paid 10 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. " by the aiBdavit was assessed aud wheu aud where and to whom paid, and " the tax receipt thereof shall be produced for exaraiuation, unless the " affiant shall state in his affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed, or ■' that he never received any ; and if a naturalized citizen, shall also state " when, where, aud by what court he was naturalized, and also produce his " certificate of naturalization for examination." The 12th section of the act provides for the punishment of the election officers if they receive a vote from a person whose name is not upon the registry list without requiring this evidence as follows : " If any election officer shall refuse or neglect to require such proof of " the right of suffrage as is prescribed by this law, or the laws to which " this is a supplement, from any person offering to vote whose name is not " upon the list of assessed voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by " any qualified voter present, and shall admit any such person to vote, with- " out requiring such proof, every person so offending shall upon conviction " be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced, for ever}^ such offense, " to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprison- " ment not more than one year or both at the discretion of the court." The affidavit thus taken showing the qualifications of the unregistered voters are required to be returned, by the act of 1869, and filed in the office of the Prothonotary, aud there remain for inspection with the other election papers. Under this state of the law, what is the status of a vote cast by a person whose name is not registered, and who failed to make the preliminary proof required by the statute ? Is it only prima facie illegal, and capable of being legalized, upon proof that the person giving it possessed all the constitutional qualifications ; or is it absolutely illegal, and incapable of being legalized by evidence subsequent to the election? There is a conflict of opinion upon this point in Peimsylvania. In the case of ]\Iann vs. Cassiday, 1 Brewster, 11, and in the case of Weaver vs. Given, 1 Brewster, 141, it was held that votes received from electors whose names did not appear on the assessment list, without the preliminary proof required by law, were only prima facie illegal and to be rejected, unless adequate proof were made on the trial of the legality of each vote. But in the case of Myers vs. Moffat, 1 Brewster, 230, and Shep- pard vs. Gibbons, 2 Brewster, 129, it was held that such votes being illegal when received, cannot be made legal by the production of evidence of qualification on the trial, which ought to have been produced to the election officers. Mr. Brightly, in his " Leading Cases on Elections," 492-3, pronounces the latter to be the best opinion of the two. We cannot coincide with Mr. Brightly in this conclusion. The effect of it is to make a statute overrule the constitution, to make the time wheu the evidence of qualification is produced, to be of more importance, than the actual existence of the qualifications themselves. If at the time the vote was given the voter possessed all the constitutional qualifica- tions, the vote is legal and ought not to be thrown out, notwithstanding the election officers may have been guilty of a misdemeanor in receiving it with- out requiring the proof of the qualifications of the voter required by the registry law. It is sufficient, however, upon this point that all four of the cases cited were adjudged before the adoption of the present constitution of Pennsylvania, which declares expressly, " but no elector shall be deprived of " the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered." We presume that since this became a part of the supreme law of the land, no lawyer or judge will maintain the opinion expressed in Myers vs. Moffat and Sheppard. vs. Gibbons. McCrary, in his American Law of Elections, Sec. 62, in commenting upon this statute in Pennsylvania aud referring to the very case of Myers vs. Moffat, comes to the same conclusion we hold and says : CURTIN VS. YOCUM. H "Where it is thus shown that persons have voted without proving their " qualifications as rc(iuired by positive statute, it is iucuuihent upon tlie party " claiming the benefit of the votes of such persojis, to show aflinnatively that " they were qualified voters." When a number of unregistered persons voted without niakingthc prelim- inary proof required by the statute, and in the trial of a contested election, no evidence is given to show for whom they voted, what is to be done with .such votes ? Where the number of such votes is large enough to destroy the relia- bility of the return, and there being no proof upon which the poll could be purged, all authorities seem to agree that the return from such jjoll must bo rejected. Myers vs. Moffat siqyra. Covode vs. Foster, 2 Bartlett, page GOO. McCrary Am. Law Elections, sect. 62. Where the number of such illegal votes is not sufficient to change the result from the eleciion district, and thus not sufficient to justify the throwing out of the poll, what shall be done with them ? Two different rules have been adopted by the courts of Pennsylvania. One rule deducts all of the illegal votes from the candidate having the major- ity in the district ; the other charges the illegal votes to the candidates in proportion to the votes returned for them from the district. The first of these rules is recognized in the case of the Commonwealth vs. McCloskey, 2 Rawle, 369, and in Duffy's case, 4 Brewster, 531. The latter rule is recognized and applied in Sheppard vs. Gibbons, 2 Brewster, 128. McDaniels' case, 3 Peun'a Law Journal, 310 ; Cushing's Election Cases, 583 ; Brightly's Leading Cases on Election, 492. McCrary's Am. Law Elections, sections 298, 299 and 300. Many reasons might be given in support of the one rule over the other. The application of either rule may work injustice. When the illegal votes are wilfully and fraudulently polled, the presumption would be that they were polled for the candidate who received a majority or who agreed in party affiliations with the election board. It would hardl}'- be supposed that they would knowingly receive illegal votes for the candidate they desired to see defeated. In such cases to charge the j)roportion of illegal votes to the minority candidate would be manifestly unjust. On the other hand, if the votes are simply illegally polled without the preliminary proof of their qualifications and without evidence to show that they were fraudulent or corrupt, it would be a very violent presumption to say that they were all given for one candidate. Probably in such a case to deduct them from the total vote of the district and divide the residue betw^een the two candidates in proportion to the votes returned for them, would be a close approximation to the truth. We submit to the committee which rule should be applied to the unreg- istered voters in the different wards, boroughs and townships in the 20th Con- gressional District of Pennsylvania, where no affidavits showing the (puilifica- tious of the voters are returned, and no proof given during the taking of the testimony that these unregistered voters severally possessed the constitutional qualifications. Any rule the committee may adopt will be conclusive against the right of the contestee to retain his seat and will clearly demonstrate that the contestant received a majority of all the legal votes cast for representative in Congress, at the election held on the 5th day of November, 1878. Still another and most important question arises for the committee to decide and that is, when, under what circumstances, or degree of proof shall the returns from an election district be rejected and disregarded in the general count. We contend that whenever the correctness and integrity of the return is impeached, when the papers themselves show that illegal votes have been received and counted, that the election officers have conducted the election in such a way as to tarnish the entire proceedings by their own fraudulent and negligent acts, so that the returns are not intelligible, or the election, because 12 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. of such fraudulent conduct is not reliable, it may and does become obligatory upon every and all tribunals trying a contested election case to throw out i'rom the general result the entire return from such election district. And wherever it is shown that the provisions of the election laws have been entirely disregarded by the board of election officers, and their conduct has been such as to render their returns utterly unworthy of credit, such conduct ought and will have the effect of destroying such returns as evidence. The statute to which reference has repeatedly been made, regulating the time, place and manner of holding an election, defines how the election officers shall conduct the election itself. Section 9 of the act of January 30, 1874, provides, that all elections by the citizens shall be by ballot, and in order to conform to the requirements of section 4th, article VIII, of the constitution of 1873, further provides, that every ballot shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received and the number recorded opposite the name of the elector from whom received. It also prescribes the oath, and by whom to be administered to the election officers respectively. Section 10 provides what proof shall be required of persons whose names are not on the registry list of voters ? the mode and manner of receiving the proof, we have already adverted to fully, in discussing the subject of the ille- gality of votes of persons whose names do not appear on the registr}' list of voters. Section 11 prescribes the proof or evidence to be pi'oduced by naturalized persons, and that except where the person has voted for five years consecu- tively in the district in which he ofiers to vote, he shall produce the certificate of his naturalization at the election before voting, and that it shall be the duty of the election officers to write or stamp on such certificate the word " voted," with the day, mouth and year. Section 12 provides how the votes cast shall be counted and returned, who shall take charge of the returns and to whom the same shall be delivered ; how the returns shall be opened and counted, and v,-here the ballot boxes shall be deposited. Each and all, of the prescribed regulations were enacted by the Legisla- ture in order to secure a fair and impartial election and an honest count of the votes cast. The observance of these several requirements by the board of election officers is of the very highest importance ; and while it may not be sufficient cause to throw out the returns from a district where some of the minor details have not been observed, yet, where there has been a gross disre- gard of the important requirements of the statute, or if fraud be shown to exist to such an extent as to satisfy the mind that the return does not show the truth, and that it is impossible to ascertain with certainty what the legal vote cast in the district was, then it should never be permitted to form a part of the canvass ; the precedents, as well as the entire requirements of truth not only sanction, but call for the rejection of the entire poll, when stamped with such characteristics. And it is now the settled law of the judicial tribunals of the country, as well as by the decisions of Congress and the Legislature of the several States, that an entire poll should always be rejected if it appears (1) That the persons conducting the election had no authority to do so ; (2) That fraud was practiced in conducting the election ; (3) That such irregu- larities or misconduct exist as to render the result uncertain. We quote in support of our position the following, authorities : Mann vs. Cassiday, 1 Brewster, 61 ; Thompson vs. Ewing, 1 Brewster, 109; Weaver vs. Given, 1 Brewster, 157; Covode vs. Foster, Dig. Elect, cases, 1865-1871, page 600; Italian vs. Reid, ibid, 831; Washburn vs. Vorhees, ibid, 54; Howard vs. CUKTIN VS. YOCUM. 13 Cooper, Bartlett's cases, page 275 ; MeClure vs. Grav, Leg. Record Penua., 1872, page 1012. The law tluis established by the authorities quoted will compel perforce the rejection of the returu.s from the districts of Woodward township aud Houtzdale borough, Clearfield couuty ; Philipsburg borough, Ecimer, College, Ferguson (new ])reciuct). Liberty, Spring, and Union townships. Centre county ; West Keating township, Clinton county ; Horton township, Elk county ; Old Armagh and Union townships, Mifflin county, and White Deer township, Union county. The testimony taken during the progress of this contest disclosed that in these several districts, not only that in each and all were there gross irregular- ities, but in some the election was tarnished by the actual fraud of the officers conducting the electiou. We make and prove specific charges that the election officers, who were in duty bound under the law to require of each elector a full compliance of the law, did themselves knowingly and wilfully violate the law and permitted others to do so ; that in the district of Wood- ward township the electiou board violate the law in the following respects, viz : 1st. In that they were themselves not sworn according to law. 2d. In that they did not use or check off thd registry list as the electors voted, and no examination of the registry was made. 3d. That the board did not require persons not registered to make any affidavit or other proof of their resideace in the district. 4th. That the board disregarded challenges of non-registered persons. 5th. That the clerk of the board was permitted to administer the oath as to payment of taxes, and that he wilfully administered but part of the oath prescribed, and disregarded the challenge upon this matter. 6th. That they did not require, save in a very few instances, the produc- tion of certificates of naturalization, although they knew that fully one-third of the persons claiming to vote in this district were of foreign birth, and had not voted in the district for five consecutive years. 7th. That one of the inspectors knowingly voted on an illegal and fraud- ulent tax receipt, and the other permitted his son to do so. 8th. That the board allowed all persons to vote who had 1876 tax receipts. 9th. That they permitted seventy and more persons whose names did not appear upon the registry list to vote, and did not take a single affidavit required by law, although the blanks for that purpose were furnished them. 10th. They disregarded the challenges of non-naturalized persons, and left the ballot-box unsecured at the electiou house for ten days after the elec- tiou. We charge that in Houtzdale borough, 1st. That the board was illegally organized and that a legal organization was prevented by confusion and a tumultuous assemblage of persons, and that the polls were not opened in consequence thereof for more than one hour after the time fixed in the law. 2d. That the board did not coraply with the constitutional requirement in that they did not number a single ballot. 3d, That they did not check off the registry list. 4th. That they did not require affidavits and j)roof of residence from persons whose names did not appear on the registry, and permitted a lai-ge number of such persons to vote. 5th. That they did not require the production of naturalization papers, although they knew that one-half of the persons claiming to vote in the district were of foreign birth. In Benner township. Centre county, the contestant has distinctly proven, 1st. That the electiou board was not sworn. 14 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. *M. That the ballot-box was stuffed. 3d. That no affidavits were returned and the law in general disregarded. 4th. That one of the inspectors and a clerk pilfered the ballot-box subse- quent to the election, and that the ballots thus stolen were placed in the possession of coutestee, and remained there more than seventy-five hours, and wex-e then offered in evidence to rebut the proof of fraud by contestant, and that contestee was only able to call and prove eighty-five legal votes out of the one hundred and twenty-one returned for him in this district. In College township. Centre county, the election board returned no list of voters ; negligently disregarded many other important requirements of the election law ; meaibers of the board took from the ballot-box the list of voters, and placed them in the hands of contestee's counsel, by whom they were kept and suppressed. In Philipsburg borough, Centre county, it was shown by the testimony that in accordance with the law, overseers were appointed but were not permitted to act. The election officers did not check off the names of persons as they voted ; no use was made of the registry and no reference was made thereto. That they permitted a large number of persons whose names did not appear on the registry to vote without requiring the proof of residence in the district. In the election districts of Ferguson township, west precinct. Centre county. West Keating township, Clinton county. Old Armagh and Union townships, Mifflin county, there was no registry of voters as required by the law, and no effort made by contestee to purge the poll or to prove the legality of the vote as returned. That in Horton township, Elk county, the room occupied by the officers conducting the election was kept open and constantly filled by persons during the whole day, and that owing to the intimidation of the election officers, no fair election was had. And that in White Deer township, -Union county, the judge and majority inspector, against the protest of the Democratic inspector, adopted a resolution on the morning of the election, that they would not require any affidavits or proof of residence from any persons whose names did not ajypear on the registry of voters, and who might claim the right to vote, and that this resolution was faithfully and effectually carried out, while the most important requirements of the stat- ute regulating elections were wholly disregarded and violated. This, in brief, is a summary of some of the most important reasons shown by the testimony why the districts named should be rejected. And we submit that under the evidence, and the author thus quoted, the committee can not count the returns from these districts without doing violence to the rights of the contestant, and placing a premium upon fraud and gross carelessness. This brings us to the consideration of another question in this case. In some of the districts above named the committee will be asked to count the legal vote proven, should they reject the returns from the districts as claimed by the contestant. That this may be done we do not dispute, for it is well settled both by principle and authority. Where the falsity of an election return is shown, the return may be set aside or disallowed^; but the election itself may stand ; and the legal vote proven to have been cast may be counted in the general result. Washburn vs. Voorhees, Dig. Cong. Elect. cases, 1865-1871, page 54 ; Julian vs. Ried, ibid, 831 ; Littlefield vs. Green, Brightly's Elect, cases, 493. It may be contended on the part of the contestee that no notice can be taken by the committee of the unregistered votes shown by the evidence ; that the coHtestant in his notice that he would contest the right of the contestee to a seat in the 46th Congress of the United States, did not specifically charge and set forth that unregistered votes were cast for the contestee. This was CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 15 not necessary. The contestant did give notice and charge that a large num- ber of illegal votes were cast for coutestee, and every unregistered vote, not proven to have been legally cast, and that the voter at the time of the election possessed the constitutional qualifications as to residence, came within the category of illegul votes, and is covered with this specification in the general charge and notice of the contestant. In the three election districts, namely : "Woodward township and Houtz- dale borough, Clearfield county, and Benner township, Centre county, the contestant called and proved his legal vote during the time set apart by the act of Congress, for rebuttal. Contestee, by his counsel may argue that this testimony should not be considered, and the legal vote thus proven on the part of the contestant ought not to be counted ; that it was not rebuttal, aud that no evidence ought to be received during the time mentioned, that it was not strictly and technically rebuttal. With this contention we do not agree. In the case of Reed vs. Kneass, Brightly's Elect, cases, 416, Judge King, one of the purest and ablest jurists that ever adorned the bench in Pennsylvania, says this, " Rebutting testi- " mony is after all a thing dependent upon a sound discretion of the court, " provided always, that the testimony is relevant ; and the courts of Penn- "sylvania have gone very far upon this subject. To this eflfect we have the " the authority of Chief Justice Tighlman in 4 Binney, 198, where he de- " clares that material testimony ought not to be rejected merely because oflfer- " ed after the evidence closed on both sides, unless it has been kept back by " trick or fraud, or the adverse party would be deceived or injured by it. " The same doctrine is asserted in Deval vs. Burbridge, 6 W. & S., 529, where " Judge Huston declares it requires a strong case, to authorize the absolute " rejection of material testimony in any stage of the cause. Now I myself, if " I am justified in quoting my own experience, have admitted testimony after "the case closed, and for what: to advance and promote right; for those " purposes the rule is, to receive material testimony oflTered at any stage, pro- " vided the offer is made bona fide, under stress of unforseen circumstances " and unaccompanied by trick or fraud." He says furthermore: " It does not " follow because testimony may be admitted in chief, it may not be admitted " by way of rebuttal." It is always right and proper to receive evidence at any stage of the pro- ceedings that is pertinent to the issue, and it can be no objection to the testi- mony that it might have been ofl!ered as part of the case in cljief. It is a matter that lies in the discretion of the tribunal hearing the evic^nce, and that discretion ought never to be exercised in a way so as to exclude material testimony which will i)romote aud advance right and justice between the parties. To this effect we quote : Commonwealth vs. Gaines, 50 Penn'a. St. Rep., 319 ; Hessler vs. McGrath, 52 Penn'a. St. Rep., 533. But we contend that the evidence was even in a technical sense rebutting. Contestant having by his testimony attacked the truth of the returns and the fairness aud legality of the election in the districts, could not presume that the contestee would admit the charges and not reply by showing error in the testimony offered by the contestant, or in some way disprove the serious charges made against these districts. Instead of pursuing this course, the contestee set up a new defense as it were to the charges. Not that the returns were true, or the election fiiir and legal, but that the contestee had so many legal votes in these districts. This did not conflict with the testimony offered by the contestant, but admitted its truth and force. It was new matter, not directly, but only infereutially conflicting with the averments of the contest- ant. It could not be anticipated that contestee would admit the charge? of fraud made against the election aud returns from these districts, and therefore 16 CUKTIN VS. YOCUM. evidence of how many legal votes contestant received therein was admissable as rebuttal, though it may have been admissable in chief. Stetson vs. Cros- key, 52 Penn'a St. Rep., 230. It is entirely consonant, therefore, with the rules of evidence laid down by Judge King and Judge Strong, now of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the committee to receive and give due weight to the proof of the legal votes for contestant in the election districts named, to the end that justice and right may be advanced, and the legal voters of the districts in question may not have their rights overthrown by the gross negligence and fraud of the election officers, supplemented by the frauds of the zealous supporters and partisans of the coutestee. "We have thus briefly, as we could set forth our views of the law upon the different questions arising in this contest. We have confined ourselves to the legal aspects of the case, not stopping to discuss the evidence introduced by the contestant pointing to the corrupt use of large sums of money to secure the election of the contestee. It may be contended that the evidence dis- closed but little of this matter in the case. It is true that the parties who Avere placed upon the witness stand to be examined upon this branch of the case, and who have testified fully upon this subject, took refuge behind the criminal's shelter and declined to answer. Their examination cannot but convince the impartial mind and judgment, that the corrupting power of money was freely used to secure the election of the coutestee. That which is right and honest needs no concealment. Its honesty becomes only the more apparent, the more carefully it is scrutinized and enquired into. Vievv'ed in this light, the evidence so far as given upon the corrupt use of money and the refusals to testify to the questions bearing upon this subject, must convince and convict the mind of any and all, who will examine into this branch of the case. Fraud and corruption do not often appear openly, and are not often practiced before the eyes of the public. Those who engage therein are gen- erally careful to cover up and conceal the evidences of their evil work. For the first time in the history of elections in the 20th Congressional district was money corruptly and fraudulently used to afiect the result and thwart the will of the majority. But, as we think, the eflTort was futile. The law and the evidence in this contest are with the contestant. We believe that a fair, honest and impartial construction of the law applied to the evidence, demon- strates that the contestee is now occupying a seat in Congress to which he was not elected by the legal votes, but that the contestant was elected to the 46th Congress of .the United States from the 20th district of Pennsylvania by a large majority of the legal votes cast for Congress on the 5th day of Novem- ber, 1878. Being firmly convinced of the rightfulness of the claim of the contestant, we ask for no strained construction of law or evidence, but only for a fair and an impartial hearing and a just decision. All of which we respectfully submit. DAVID L. KREBS, WILLIAM H. BLAIR, Of Counsel for Contestant. CURTIN VS. 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'C '^ 'T3 w ^ S 03 S QJ a o go tf a 03 K- ^ ■ 1 C ' ' ° o < ;>^ CO o r^ rH o T-H a Q t^ '-S a ;-i O 1 O i o > >'^ T-l rH (M C<1 CO LO lO a bfl 03 cc o Oi (M O 2 g a o -1 o o o >H ^ CO ^ Oi CO rH Ol ^ tH .2 a li 3 Ui c ; 3 1 c; 1 o o > •—I -*-> .5 o O Si flH Ui 513 O OO 24 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. sti; H «) 02 < o U ;^ « f^ifci o fi &j it 1^) Si Pi ^ o 8 t^ 8 ^ O CO CO a 03 CO bD a >^ a o g OQ >o Sh , CO a, lo CO fl v a 3 aj T o >H a >H co" > ^ o O ^ i-( lO a o^ fl ^ ^ '-C 3 kS %^ o n) O cu o > O rs > OJ o > 5 2 5S o hn iB ;-t ozj';^ CO t— Ol CO C<) -* CO o -* -^ CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO CO o 'T3 a C3 O O "13 bD o o -a i-' .22 -eft I— i o ;^ Si . b>- g S; J5 '^ '- ^ ■^ . a^rz: 1-^ ?- t-S 1-5 K* O 00 CO CO O CO CO to a &. >, a o a a2 t«D 03 Ph O o OD a o 3 O §>^ . 3 I +j I S ^ o M 3 2 2 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 25 g^ H » •< t^ o ^o o w B CJi ^ <« :^ 03 1^ O (x is .'^ ^ 8 a> a >-. . ^ o a o SO t-3CC OQ Oi f>4 O rH CO 1—1 H ^ 3 C2 o -! o O O >H ;>H co" ^ lO -t lO u a •^ \T D 3 1 o 1 a> a> o > ri > rt o o ^ GO CO o r~ CO (M o T-l o T— I th CO CO '^ o CO o o a '^ . goo f-'TS -a a o a >;a ^ .:s "a • % S rH >i^ CO CO a H t~- IS lO ^ Uh a t/J ^ CO a ~i^ a o C/J p^ o o o >^ fl >^-v > o o ct. .:i a ^ S-c o 0') 1 c; 1 o 1 QJ > -1-' cL o ■-0 > O) o > -/2 CO CO TS CO -2 o tH O J^ CO O CO en to c3 CO a o 'a. .a , W See imon o C^ -u • t- % d 3 8 E3 O^"' §^ . >^CO g .sCO > CO T-l O CO ^ ^H ^ 2 Ph fl-S:z2 •X3 3 OS ■sVs O 1 o 1 a> > ■^ . i O'-O -iii > cu O S-i fficia orrec nreg OOP a >-. c3 P-( a o t- lO c<» CO o -4^ CO c<» c<» r^ CO CO Ol 1— t Ol 03 ^ !=-. Ph o s 00 01 a a 3 Ol 1 o o >H , >H ctT ^ CO > Oi T-H o CO 1—1 a a. 3 OS ^ ( ) o o O 1 o o > 1 o o > -TS s r-, o hr. o '— ! O 1- -1 a o o Sh ^ o OCJ a ci CIh a o w 60 O co tH a> OS m a 3 o 3 o o o >H >^ T- ( ^ O 1— I CD ul a ^ 3 o 3 Q o -u o O >■ o > t r1 w o O ^ 5fi o GO 28 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. CORRECTED RESULT IN CENTRE COUNTY. Bellefonte borough — N. ward do. do. — S. ward, official do. do. — W. ward Milesburg borough Unionville borough official Howard borough Philipsburg borough Boggs township Benner township Burnside township College township official Curtin township Ferguson township, old precinct.... do. do. new " official Gregg township Haines township Half Moon township Harris township official Howard township Huston township Liberty township Marion township Miles township official Patton township Penn township Potter township, northern precinct., do. do. southern precinct.. Rush township Snow Shoe township Spring township Taylor township Union township Walker township Worth township official Total. By Harding's Rule. CURTIN. Majority. 138 115 42 32 34 38 141 196 106 22 64 53 104 20 244 212 30 108 81 34 53 94 228 21 257 166 169 95 75 175 52 61 192 67 3519 365 YOCUM. 129 113 77 89 43 46 173 207 107 42 185 35 93 111 63 102 90 57 79 118 129 40 79 102 32 72 78 87 123 195 60 115 108 75 3154 By Mc Crary's Rule. CURTIN. YOCUM. 138 115 40 30 34 35 131 196 106 21 64 53 90 20 246 212 27 108 81 33 53 94 228 19 257 166 169 95 71 158 50 61 195 67 3463 145 129 113. 79 91 43 49 183 207 107 43 185 35 107 111 63 102 93 57 85 119 129 40 79 104 32 72 78 87 127 212 62 115 105 75 3318 But should the committee come to the conclusion that the returns from Philipsburg borough and the townships of Benner, College, Liberty, Spring and the new precinct of Ferguson, should be thrown out, this majority will be corrected accordingly. For the evidence on this point see printed testimony as follows: As to Philipsburg borough, pages 303, 312, 32i, 371 ; Benner township, pages 13, 14, 18, 22, 24; College township, pages 11, 1250 ; Spring township, pages 82, 87, 94, 97, 99, 101 ; Liberty township, page 276 ; Ferguson, new precinct, pages 3124, 3135. CURTIN VB. yOCUM. 29 •2 H o P H t— ( w ■<«5 o rrzr K . feii s O CO H _; ■w -< ^ 'rl O V> !^ w ^ o «55 l# •S ^ Qi ^5 ^-^ 00 (M CO Ci CO 1— i o ?^? '^ a c a o o ii o "•^"^ CI " CD 5 bC O ^^ O OS > CJ 1 r^ 1 zz o o •"^ K-^ m bC «T a U Sm •4-> n w o o GJ o > n > S rl o C E oo c-. O i - a trj o £ CD o bliH C3 O) GO co.S o ' - a i ^'bC - CO, » c >~> N • rf ^ CO ^ Ho <1« s O >> a ^ a . • Oi >Si s •^ a ;« 1 ^ to lo ■5 ce ?> B a H ■e T-i th : CO ->J » ,o «J U o .o » &i ^ i^ ^ "* t^ : &j lo lo : J3 ^ ^ . (In t^ 1— 1 Cu >s t^ TJ e ^ P- ;:§ e. f^ ^ > ^ s ■^ •^^^ g ^^3^ g -t-3 55 >^ Cb a> u O CO ^'6^ SpHT3 ?;< a a o o ^ ;z; 5^ ~o « Cri i-i ?^ h •^ t-Dl-2 -* o . a 8 QQ o 1 00 a 3 o o CO 3 o a 02 a> OQ O n30 CD § CO ^ CO c:) d 3 o m lO &n CO a d ^ Oj w 1 OJ o o o > 'T! a; rl CJ QJ O ^ ^ o GO Oi T-H lO CO '^^ t^ •^ "^ '^ OS OS o a OJ (D a .t^ OS - OQ iJD o © a a o o a> -S — > Oh OQ _ a a CO j-i ^a o _>:> o •-sQt-s a 3 o o 3 Q t^ ;-< 03 ;:h CJ <^ g (M CO Ol cs PI CO 3 03 o hr ,c >H QJ 00 O 'tM CL' a O '^ 00 Q a 1 3 <15 CJ o 3 >H to or> bO '^ a a T3 ■4-J Cl ^ w o o > -u n CJ . c3 ^ -k^ 3 -u h(1 eS Ol a !-< -t-> a o o ^J2; A ^ 3 a CURTIN V8. YOCUM. 31 CO CO CO 3 m a; 3 A o a 3 o o CO a «w o 00 en JZi h> ^ 2 g Q Q Ir-I « r^ <1 .^ ^ 00 « . 10 CD - CN a CD 3 «5 &. ^ '^ QJ 10 ^J a • u CO 3 0^ a 3 ^^ ? >^ - i-T be t- a a ^ .— fcH t^ 1^ 3W ^ 1 "^ i^ "fi O -+< T-i 1-1 'Tt* 10 CD -rfi CO as o o i-H c) CO CO O-tiiOiOlOiOiOiOLQiOOOiO-^ O 10 CO !>\ 10 10 C^OiOlOiOiOiCSOiOtiOS o OOOOCOGOOOCOOOQOtXi "^ ''^ ""^ ^7^ "*sj^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^'^ ^^ ^^ o ^ ^ O a> pOOOOOOOOTS t^i^ a c^ . . A o o tc ;2i : a 2-° o ^ s ^ f^ J « a :io r^ = :£ O I a I cc ;^ ^ : ^ « w 10 t^ G u 3 V ^i 3 t« OJ TS © f) ^ c. • •^ ' — ■ CO Oi 05 CO a T Oi b£ n !>H 02 oT a 1—1 -1-1 ^ c^ 3 a 1 3 1 rs Ol (ji CJ ^ (M a a=f ^'^^ ^ o oil— li— IOTHt^rtlOOi-lOC<> COOiOlOiOOCiCOCO-rt^CMeM (Ml— iC^rHrHT— lir-(i— i -4-J t^OOOOOOOOO a © a >^. . a o a o oooocooo ^T3 "^ 'TIS ^O "^ *T3 ^^ "^ pqpqo:;; a ;:; o • l-S r— I ® a ^ . >-> a &C i — I J — o t/3 g a '^ c^ rz: -^ _2 o H >H oT ^ oo h- 05 'J i-l S-l 3 3 CJ U o CD o > O > '^3 r1 O O ^ ;a o oo CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 33 CO bC C5 (M O H >H o" ^ QO CO CO U .1^ 3 L> o O 1 1 o 1 o o > o > r3 rl o « ■-1 ^ -£ GO t^ Ci O O 1-1 -f o O O 1-H O O O 1— I CO CO 1^ 'O lO OO 00 CO CO CO CO CO tH T—( c^ O O O c 5 c o o o o o ■3'T3 'O ^ 3 S i^ 'n a = ? '^ r^ =^ ^ S ^ - ^ H-( -C 2 "^ rt 3 Oi CO o fcD ci OQ ~ o ^>< >^00 ._ >-> 9 I OO T-( 1—1 (M ej t^CO O [H ►J C C i 1 1 1 i i >• i c; ■f -> 1 Ci CO m 3 5 6 I I ^ 34 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. «^ B t^ < p. ^j o C h- 1 is H o (^ ^ ^ 5- &1. s ^ 100rH(^^-^^00■^T-lOlO^-^CO^— IIOIOO C^ CN CM Cs) (M T-l 'OOOOOOOOOO I f^ n^ nd "^ '^ '~o '^ "^ "^ "T^ c3 ^ !z; OOOOOOOOOO^ "^ "^ "^ "XJ "^ "XJ "^ "^ "^ "^ '^ a =5:2 tz;pq Izi t-5l-2i cs ::i (D c ?5 ci H a '^K* 2 o o > S S 2 ? § § gJ-2 I g o a fh -u) W ■4J ^ -2 g CO fcJO c3 OQ Cfi (jq T— 1 (M d a 3 -i o o o >H >^ h-^ ^ -t lO CO lO CO U ^ !-( ■pj 3 Sh ( J 3 CJ 1 1 O OJ o > o > rt o iH 'eS o OCJ a S o OD ^ CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 35 CO ■ tH CD oT3 a >^ . c3 O a ^; ^: H W iz; w OS « H-f ,0 10 T-H S.2 a « •^ 3 '^^ Q 1 "^ 2^ «3 « .— t^ sa s ou 00 0 ^H -v* .-^ ^^ ->. *— I •/. i-s Ci OJ CO tf CS & a tU C/J CD »>» 't^ T— ( (TO 1—1 ^ a 3 ^ 0. >^ ;>^ cT ^ 'i^ CM 'f u 3 tH •^ 3 — ^ 1 CJ 00 36 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. fH OD < ^ D O f^ tq ^1 tj a ^ o Fs. &5 o ^ o to Ol CO !X> oo CO CO CO -^ T}< "^ Oi •to c3 o a S r2 ^ 6 I"! a T5 Pi sh ■^ a a o o o 5zi iziizi a 3 ?? ^ r^ S a'S bCfcCg g S 3 a ,a O !U S CL, CD o 03 o CN '"i^ 1—1 rN 1— ( JJ a 3 r^ o o o ;h >H lO" ^ CO lO T-H CO T-H a t-l a 3 O o 1 o O > <-) > ■^ o ->-> t! o OJ O ES oo CiOOOGOt^OS'^T— It-h— 'CO(M O O O -«J< CM C^J C-a tH 1— I CO COCO o oooooooooooo a >> cSoooooooooooo a ci a S a> g o pi ^ O O 0^ 1-3 1-5 1-^ .pp^' a a S 2 > . . ^ o tn ^\D S.^ a 3 a a' a 1^' CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 37 CO CO CO r-l rH i-H ^ "^ "^ ^ o o pq H-g a C5 O o CO oc s S § 3 O '^ T— I o I o ,_- > S GO yji(i5D(i CURTIN VS. YOCUM, CORRECTED RESULT IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY. Burnjiide borough oflScial Clearfield borough Curwensville borough official Houtzdale borough Lumber City borough official Newburcjh borough official ! New Washington borough.... ofhcial Osceola borough Wallaceton borough official Beccaria township Bell township Bloom township official Boggs towushij) Bradford township official Brady township Burnside township Chest township Covington township official Decatur township Ferguson township official Girard township Goshen township official Graham township Greenwood township official Gulich township Huston township official Jordan township Karthaus township official Knox township official Lawrence township M orris township Penn township official Pike township Union township official Woodward township Total. Majority. By Sarding's Rule. By McCrary's Rule. CURTIN. YOCUM. CURTIN. YOCUM. 12 34 12 34 201 139 201 139 53 106 53 106 89 108 89 108 30 30 30 30 26 10 26 10 29 21 29 21 86 83 86 83 28 3 28 3 108 104 108 104 100 42 100 42 33 22 33 22 69 65 72 52 118 146 118 146 347 211 347 211 61 173 54 180 87 80 92 75 59 68 59 68 104 125 104 125 63 43 63 43 34 55 31 58 29 47 29 47 48 62 42 68 49 39 49 39 52 106 46 112 79 99 79 99 56 58 64 50- 48 51 48 51 102 29 102 29 249 126 249 126 165 120 165 120 74 57 74 57 149 75 149 75 25 51 25 51 109 93 75 127 2971 2671 2932 2712 300 220 But should the committee come to the conclusion that the returns from Houtzdale borough and Woodward township should be thrown out, this ma- jority will be corrected accordingly. For the evidence on this point see printed testimony as follows : As to Houtzdale borough pages 535, 527, 1858 ; Woodward township, pages 504, 509, 513, 593, 592. CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 39 .1 -• 1 _2 it 3 2 K O , V. ^ — - ^ ^1 d><^ ■^ w a a C «t) o ^. a s 00 CO •2 "Si 3 aSPS T— 1 c "2 ^ lO T-H X t^ • Ol a 1— 1 CO T— 1 a a o o >^ T-H T— 1 a o o a --1 2 s th : rH T—t rH 1— 1 o o ^^ CO « T-H .^ is s .9 T— ( C3 .a t; Pi g 1 c» Ih 3 1 3 t^ t^ t- ^T . ^T" a C^ 1 ft o:' Ci Ci to '^'3 CO : >i 1 a o ■« t— l- O l^ en H g (^ c '^ •B >:> •< CO : a -c P= CO O CO -+I 00 CO o a "^ O E-i CQ 1 3 1 o t^ t— t- 1—1 1— 1 : 5 '7 ^o ^ avS ^ ^ c S', cx ^ 1 g ;> >. y^ be O CC i-H _M C<1 • > ►-5 a o < o o a o >< c3 O a < o cr^ a H M o o > -t-J <^ c o c ■ c ... a r : c : < c c See page 254 138,Yocuni 1 2 t-^. 2 . a -4-3 a :: ^ • 2 - lO '-3 CS rj. i:^ = S X CO ti 1—1 a a t £ ^ 3 o '^-^ ^ be 5 f gO rt o O O C s a 1 3 1 o O 3 c 3 si a c a o o 1^1 , ^ fen lO p T-H fcD CO x" T-H a 1— ' .a a ^< a "? .2'H ^o •- c3 Ik • a : o 1 sw 1 i ? I : o ; c Official vote— C Corrected vote, II o a CO J harles Bowei ohu Edward olin Harvey. H ■z ►- t>'^ ^•- ■J h- 3 1 40 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. s? 1 tf s '>> ^ ■a « .0 h9. s? U [K5H >o >. a •^ „n ^ m s s C<) -2 ^1 r .0 ts a. — HH s ^ 1 H S tH ; CQ CO : trj CO : 0; '^i : (M : oo' tH P^ ?^ X '^ a a, f^ ^ ^ ^ =^ ^W =+-( ^-■' ;S a >^ Ci CD U, Ch f-, c ci 1^^ 5^ %> t^ ">»> 8 55^ « H a; ^ § s H 0.; tH in aj 3 S-l Cl 'I t- a 1 ^ n5 3 >H u CO •I— 1 bD in a n 'a ■4^ r1 w 1 i r^ yj -u r-1 ;;; '-. tc J-t 00 1— 1 I— 1 : t^ . Ph 01 : t- : K r/) Iz; ^ 00 s T— 1 'Z S=u Ph X c a »— CIh w C- k' <1 E CD t<- OJ C -t^ >> a ;h £ w t^ Tn c; X CD P c -^ a c M ;z Iz; K c e c p: c c H; > 1 CD a 3 ;h QO a S-l 3 CJ >.l a CD a 3 •.,-; m 01 >> f-( T? i~* (1> .2 ^ CO a 04 3 a> bl) 0. >H ■cc CO 3 9 a 3 c; H Si CfJ fcfl a; a a -^ ci > •73 r! CD Sm 56 t-i n 00 00 CO t- Oi Ci Oi CO 1—1 1—1 ^ ci ^ w . x J:; CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 41 — — — CO 1— 1 1—1 : 1—1 T— 1 : •^ CO (M (M • lo o lo lo : CO ri< t^ t^ • (M c- 1- : (M C<1 CO CO . •00 . T— 1 : ^ '■ X . o . d- Cl. .<1 (»■ IT d d 6^ c 'TD'TSTS -^ ^ c t^ a Sh E ■^ > "> . . . 'Pr o o d oT e U '-OTi'TZ •'■* c H c O "^ !^ a> : .2 1 Si a a> fc< a :::: o ^ ^ oS^ d o o o H o 1—1 o 1—1 c O O 00 ^ be o 03 O 1—1 3 bO 2| 14 >1< CI, <1 cc -I o S 'I ^ S-, ^ o-i 1—1 S ai C) bi o ci >H a> 1—1 a> c<-> c/,' CD 3 B 1 3 O a> O -^ >H Ih 7? 1—1 bl) CO a 1 o o > o > r-I o o ZJ ;-i iB GO <1 OD o CO o o -z >-. o c3 ■^ c; Cl IpH J r^ y CO o 00 1—1 o 3 fcx: 3 8 ^>H o co" cc CO f^ u~l 1—1 3 1—1 O a T o 3 >^ rn CO bo CO a -. 't: (h 3 w> 1 o o o > o o r^ o O) ^ t-l t£ Si -1 CO o CO cc b£ a eS o as 3 CJ o n bi. >^ Cl ^ o (M W a ^^-1 CO 2 '^ O s 1 3 o o c "= >^ X <>\ tc o\ z^ a u *- * rt 3 Ml o ^ O o •!-> o > o > S ■4-1 rl O tl 5£ CO 42 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. % o 33 o 1—1 1 OO s OS o a ^ 9- a o S Ph a o w O P o w o M 1-3 h-I < hi CO t^ n lO (M M o s bD CS o, ^ • CO °5 tH CO th q a Fi 3 O ^>H bn - 1^ CO S~3 th a .s t: -" 3 SO o 1 OJ O) O % > > -^ o r— 1 -1^ ci o • ^ a; O ^H a ^ OO CO T-H T-H O C<) CO CO lO CO CO t-t^i— lC.00C50iOr- lT-1 t^ t^ t^ t^ t^ t^ t— t- t>> t- !>• t- t^ t' t- :D OO -^ lO CO CO t^ t^ 0^ . 3 a a rfi • H 9 c/j —• -^ . • o ^ O dl^J^agcgia-a^ r^ O SO w >: CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 43 l-H CO 00 T-H CO '^ t^ 00 CO CO CO l>--^"^-flOlOCDlO(MC^CH >^ cs ^ CO r^ '^ u a Si 3 Si o 3 o 1 1 o o > o > ^3 rt o o 5E O *-^ Oi Gi T— 1 l-H l^ t^ lO 'rfl CO CO CO CO CO 00 O oo T-H ao t^ b- CO t^ CO CO QO C<) CO lO C<> O 1-t t- t^ CO CO a o JIh a > — s- :i: ^3 '"' .3 02 « ^ 6 &H S O o or; CO o 00 00 o T-( CO s c^ tJO a Q CL. fcl) OS >. Ch 3 CC S'^D 3 c o o !>^ a !>^ oT > ^ lO o .5 ;_ a s- ,_ 3 es 3 o c; o 1 o O > Oi o > 5 r> > s CJ T « u ^ d^ 44 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. H « QC t^ '^N^ o « a i CO 00 CO CO LO d CM hn CD OS Oh a CE *J CO CO . T— i 4J cu a §^ 3 s>^ a* ;>H^- 05 > ~-* ^ .3 o- a t^ •^ a OS '^^ © 3 1 -u vi > i ^ S ^ 1^ s bO i-i a odP a a 03 ^• fcJO o cc 00 s a a a CD 1 ^ a !>^ 10 > ^ ^ Jh ■^ a a ^ ^^ '-S a OS !-i U 'TS > CD > r3 CD 'c3 cu 'So ^ a oot^ G5 O C<1 ~v CO 'A CO r^ CO H 00 ^ CO < CO CO fM CO 1-1 10 o LO be (^4 OS OL. a> bf) >> c3 s Oh 0, o CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 45 c =« !2; « W O 00 CO 00 00 CD CO a c »■ .H oo' c, ^ 3 a> §>^ . ^t^ > O r-l O GO ^ p; S b ■"■ it's 'o S ?• 5E o J i-H T-i (^q o CO '^ T-H !» lO ^ t^ C^ (M CO CO c5 o O ^ =* 3 S'^ a C c« C3 ^" *^ r^ •^ o t- r— ou CO lO o (M <15 00 hn 00 cr< o C- CO OS T— ( C- CO CO CO a r/? <—• 3 ^ o ^ o O >H a ;>^ co" > (^ o 'Zj 3 cS i-l O 1> I o o > <1> > o c > O Of t/3 r! o *"0 OOP O r-l 00 CD CO CM t^ CO t^ CO CO CO a ID a >-> . . ^ O o a o o: a ;:; 3 3 c3 r~^ "— ' "* on O CO 00 ~r CO (M o O -^-^l U on ei on C CO p.> CO ii> 05 ri) o o 00 CO 00 a o D a o CC ,-t o o >H <_) n ^ O o CO o O I-H CO 1— ( a C- ^^ -*j *— t •~ 3 eJ s-> O 1 O c > O'^ o > > o o H M t^ ^ R "■^ o c K 5^ ^ t^ o tM &1 ^ 53 551 ^3 I ^ tH rH T-l r-l O lO CO t^ ^ CO i:d ■^ O CO o t- 00 CO OOOi— iCO'^CDrHCOCOCOOi— iCNCO'+C^'-t^iOO^t-tMCO Oi— li— iT-ii-li-ICsJtMfMCMCOCCiCDCOOt^l^t^t^t^ i-l OOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOCOCOCOCOCOCOCOCOCOCO 00 (M(MCNCC< ^ li in - a a o cc . 2 oO a 5.= >> CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 47 t— t^ CO - 00 Ci -^ 00 Ol Oi C^ Ci O C- t— CO CO CO CO CO CO d -u . o o o o o o ^ 'O T3 TS '73 'T3 TS c3 d 6 o d d d $^•^3 T3 TS r^S TS 'TJ c o .2 a T3 rf 1^ 9 bO '^ "c3 tj ^:;:; o ^ o f^ a '^ !^ O t-5 H PQ 1-5 CO CO UTi bn cS a- Q ^ >H 1—1 ^ 00 (M cn u U ;-■ 3 !^ c ; 3 1 CJ O) o > O > '« ri CJ O Vl ia u OQ 48 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. CORRECTED RESULT IN CLINTON COUNTY. Allison township Bald Eagle township Beech Creek township Beech Creek borough official Chapman township Colebrook township Crawford township Castanea township official Dunstable township official Gallauher township Grugan township Greene township official East Keating township official West Keating township official Lamar township official Leidy township Logan township Logansville borough Lock Haven — First ward do. Second ward do. Third ward do. Fourth ward Mill Hall borough Noyes township official Pine Creek township Porter township official Renovo township official Wayne township Woodward township Total. By Harding's Rule, Majority CURTIN. 6Q 51 79 34 62 22 52 33 56 41 45 182 17 20 125 31 179 63 154 146 117 138 39 77 101 93 291 81 130 2525 YOCUM. 103 76 60 55 73 37 34 29 49 13 8 64 26 25 177 45 17 31 157 137 127 121 18 94 102 264 49 80 388 2137 By Mc Crary's Rule. YOCUM. CURTIN. 63 51 80 34 76 20 52 33 56 41 45 182 17 20 125 27 179 63 154 146 117 139 39 77 101 93 291 81 130 2532 352 106 78 60 55 73 39 34 29 49 13 8 64 26 25 177 49 17 31 175 137 133 121 66 18 102 102 264 49 80 2180 But should the committee come to the conclusion that the returns from West Keating township should be thrown out, the majority will be corrected accordingly. For the evidedce on this point see printed testimony pages 732 to 749. CURTIN VS. YOCUM 49 >^ ffl H "-^ pt P o O H U H H \^ M N K-1 w w ^ •2 1 s 8 Oi ool ta . '■^ 3 BSPS O m a U 1— ( T— ( ; 1 o a o n i 8 1 (5 t^- : T— 1 : 1 a c a "v % C c ■ rH . 1—1 cL a a> CO "Sc i o i 1 a c c o CO a o o >< 3 a ^ TO >^ .as I-* o H ^lO i^.a 5-r o O a i o 3 o iH ;h 33 „ hn 1^ a c:; n ^ *•-. f-! 3 « O ^ 1 o c > "2 n o o Si S£ o o;^ -^OiCOOO-fCDCOCO l^ t^ t^ l^ l^ O Oi t^ a: , p > si a, -5 <^ c3 O O ."ti Qj Cun3 --o o s-i X *^ • . CO C3 O O ^5zi a o tc-5 5-2 Ho S^-= S2 a^- rt rj rt « HH a OT :c ei .i. tr s 1-5 t-5 ^ ^ 1-5 <^ CO a 3 o o 00 3 o §-5 W >-i o T-H g co'=^ ^ I- C? 3 if o o O '^ - CO (>« .2 I - 5e o'3 50 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. o ^ T-H I ?; T-\ P3 >> h tN g Oi o >. a a.- ^ ■-a f-ii a e a> ?^ &, ^ < o 1 8 ;3 -u (D ' -u ^ a CI _2 i=i a O O^ o O ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^n^ C ^ a cs.S o a s O P i:! -3 Q^ ja &:_a S o^ H P^ H P^ W 1 a 3 o o ,_^ O 1^ 1 d O) --! g S-i "r! rn r/) *^^^^ ni l-^ -i-i Oj T-! ^ p- o '^ CO lO tH O ■I— 1 !-l o 3 < 3 co" 03 C<1 esjD T-H a a Ti rrt 3 w O 1 Oi -t-> i^ o > o > Cl o 0^ o •m Eg OO O CM tH 1—1 _^ GO 00 -fCOOCOCOt-CMOSCMCMlOOiOOCO CMCMCOOOOOGOOO 1— a a o 2 a; a 'TS a n3 ^ 'm • ^'m ff3ooooooooga> . . O-'^ '^iT3'T3'T3'X5 7''^ T^T' ,2^ 3 a a a /T3 T3 o coo O) O '- 2 o a Oh O) O ^^ 'TS S <3 rj O o =3 "S! oj i< », a :sv.O C3 c3 cS^g^p4^^ o "^ t, ya C3 -^ 1—1 y 0*3 o CQ 02.2 . > ^ a 03 r5 LT CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 51 C<1 (M C^l CM C . 'TT '^ . . . . '^ f^ . . . . £Oci3i^0OOOoC30O00 CL,'^ fc, Ci'w T3 'TS 'T3 ^H CU-a ^3 '^ 'C a a a a a o o o o o a u S a a a c o be bfl rj -r O r— ( ^ Ih -'^ "Z ^ c 1^ <^ a ^ "ii i>-> «>^^ >>a pq o -a o ^Q ^<^ WS I s| ^ a^^^cq^ a g^"^ a ;^ •-2 (-H o a a CO O c3 w QQ O t? o o H • ^ ;>^ -+ OO IC- o •-3 Sa ?.| ^^ o O OQ-^ a lo t! o a ^O a 1 a o o ^^ O 3 ^ ^ tH tJO 'f a a "3 ■!-' c5 ~ 1— 1 = 1^ O . 1 '^ 2^ o ^ ci o ._. o o t< =£ ^ CO CO CO cc !2i;z; -o H a 3 o o !>^ CO 3 _o 3 ^ a ^ •r; w ai >^ c3 o a i-H 3 ^'r ^ o -o C/2 a t- 3 a I 3 O ?25 CO 5M o ,_ 52 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. ^ M c3 H OO a r^ ^ !^ O) ci -. O O) i- 5b «+-, ^ a a o o ^ a a o o o o tH ^ to Oi fl V, a O >- 1 Q) r3 H -1-J 02 fl) >^ c3 r- 1 b OJ 'C § '-^ ■ v.. (-5 '^ (—1 lO C<1 o 1—1 q Ol ^ b! o ci o ^^ o ^ OJ cr> C/J o rH ^^ <:d • ^ ri^ -*-^ CM 3 av 3 o O on 'K o tdO 1—1 a ^ t; -i-> rf> 3 W •^ O OJ o > (-1 > -rJ (-! o O Sh m o OO, cc be p a o !zi CO 3 O -3 CD OS o • OO -f lO ■= a (D O bJD o OJ ■X' 02 « CO 3 I I 3 ai o i — ■ O 3 >H >- i>r"bo o a I - o _ >^ I— I -t^ «5 o OO 05 10 (M Cq LO C5 05 o , >■ ^ o (K iS >-H * OO CO CO OO CO CO C3 o a o If-I >— I ^ cc a o '-S • -^ s Ol ^ ^ ^ a ^ a 3 a^ DO §>^ . K*^ co" § - CO(M O C^ ^ c^ a o- a "£=: •^ 3 oi hO o 3 1 ■>-> 2^3 P^ s " ^1^ c3 " 5b T ?-^ a> '^ S a OOP OQ CD a a a D o o o t>^ ;>^ c 3 s- O O 1 f ■) i C > o > r*. o OJ Lh m o O O o lO o !>. ~V CO OO '^ OO C<1 as . (X) o a o M M -*^ '-' a o .a o a lO o T— I 03 CC 3 § 3 a O CJ J> o > o > 0) , — 1 eS ^ y «H se o GO 54 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. CORRECTED RESULT IN ELK COUNTY. Benezette township Benzinger township Fox township Highland township Horton township Jay township Jones township Millstone township Ridgeway township Spring Creek township. St. Mary's borough By Harding^ 8 Rule. CURTIN. YOCUM. 65 52 286 27 126 130 16 5 40 68 34 40 67 58 22 5 106 200 13 14 223 40 Total. Majority. 998 359 639 By Mc Crary's Rule. CURTIN. 57 287 117 16 38 34 67 22 95 10 223 966 274 YOCUM. 60 26 139 5 70 46 73 5 211 17 40 692 But should the committee come to the conclusion that the returns from Horton township should be thrown out, this majority will be corrected ac- cordingly. For the evidence on this point see printed testimony pages 951, 1060, 1066, 1069, 1070, 1072, 1074, 1076, 1081, 1090, 1096, 3930, 3933. CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 55 H O U o tz; ^ 1 U^ w ^ - • 5 •f»» -^ -•e ^ s w O — o .■^^ T— ( <>, ■^ 3 a <» ^ ^ c3 « n I. n a ^ CD -< 1 o « ;i^ a ^ irt a t— 1 T— 1 th : ^ 'c: ^ o s- Q i» '-f T-H lo : » c^ i^ o CD : -i< «^ T— 1 Cl Oi ^ ^ T-i (M (M : K H n ^ 1 r-( o ^^ M ■S* -73 PQ ^ a C/J 3 is &» >» &, h5 W '*C3 ^— ^ s s 03 1 1 Not of age. Non-residen do. Non-resistry ^ V ^ oo e CTi S S "s. rSli^ M a be be ,1 ^ww S'^ 'a fei C< Si C3 t-^ >P^ ^f: i 1 o CO 3 o t^ t^- O T-H fM rH •d O 3 0'> ^ fiJ t^ rf) CS T—l a o OU t-, •r-\ 3 c; a 1 p o <15 o ^ 3 u f-r OT CO b« T-( a n ■^ C3 u GO b- CO cc CO • fcC o O o a o tzi ^^ -a bJD o o CO CO 3 3 « 1- H Q r^ CO o r-l a -J O W o >H o" cc t^ a ■4.J tH ;-i CO 3 1— ( O a 1 a> o 3 Sh CO r-5 tJ3 t^ a a-p 3 rt W o 1 o o o > o > 13 t-, 5£ oo CO -f CO CO o a-> -^ la ^ a CO fc^ o a is a g.2 c! . — o ^ V "r g § 3 ^a 00 00 a 3 o 3 o tX) o a C.5 O D T-i "bfi 10 s = W I - S > O Si 00 56 CUBTIN VS. YOCUM. o S ?t Pi « V. ^ t^ S 1 13 , a> 5rs o a S o • ^ w ^ -^ ■^ ,__ C5 o 1 1 a •)-^ ^ o JH W J^ |» t^ "»<> e Crj ^ ^ 5» s ^ 5?i ^ O H O hJ -< U< ■ fcM t^ [-1 o m 1—1 a> ho rt G- o ^ >^o -t- t^ „ t^ a a "S •-3 3 1=^ 3 1 O © 2^ C3 O .— o o u se ,^ OCJ a o a. < w CO tH a O >H C<1 3 P4 o 1-1 s CD S beg , a CO 'o O) ^ c^ a CJ 3 1 o 0) o ^ 3 •^ 1—1 ^ bJL T-( a 2 'T3 -4^ ri w O 1 Oi -i-> a:> o > o > ^3 m o o ^ 5E GO ^ 13 a Oh <1 cc CO g a o o CO Q Q ^o « o W. CO IT CD '}ia o a a'S I - CO S a o o >^ CO 3 Q O . OS O C<1 CI- < . a CD S-, (M a i? a'^ affi I— I -*^ OO CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 57 CORRECTED RESULT IN UNION COUNTY. Buffalo towuship East Buf I'alo township West Buftiilo township official Gregg township official Hartley township official Hartleton township official Kelley township official Limestone township official Lewis township official Lewisburg borough — North ward.., do. South ward... do. West ward Mifflinburg borough — East ward.... do. Westward... New Berlin township official Union township official White Deer township official Total. Majority. By Harding's Rule. CURTIN. YOCUM. 141 174 66 170 106 142 115 106 122 133 33 35 55 166 84 102 63 95 127 170 70 146 i 51 84 1 59 77 1 70 80 i 60 88 74 88 149 229 1445 2085 640 By Mc Crary's Rule. CURTIN. 122 63 106 115 122 33 55 84 63 123 66 47 59 70 60 74 136 YOCUM. 1398 193 173 142 106 133 35 166 102 95 174 150 88 77 80 88 88 242 2132 734 But should the committee come to the conclusion that the returns from White Deer township should be thrown out this majority will be corrected ac- cordingly. For the evidence on this point see printed testimony pages 1196 2996. 58 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 6 S s^ rt « <» t N f^ s 0« ■^ ^ o =: a . ^■2 6 •2 S pj« ». O "0 JI" ESH b£ b ^0 — cS S K f. >, •* n o H p O O H « t^ O S ►"J O w HH 5f5 is r^ M S o e &» ;i3 &5 o ZD ;z;(z; OO a a S ^ a eS O OQoo a9 OO be a 'S o . I '^ 0) P^ 5E O OO o a t^ J^ilz; 3 ^o ^1 w ^^ O a g o « o T5 i. S', -20 o fl o H •eg hJ Pu g lO -«1 1-1 lO Ul <:d i-H ^ a o ^ w m' LO 'IS lO S- 1-1 3 3 I o a> ■^ a; T-l 5 "is 1—1 -l^ cS ^ O >- ^ 3 OO ^ -^i ^ 3 [/J a c < O -73 1—1 T-l ^ >> CO a . t- ^ 3 a 1 CO .5 a "J -i-' C^ 3 te O 0/ OJ c > o > fTl o o b 5fi OO CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 59 CO CO 00 05 CO a, c OQ a o g o o Q ^l g'S P^ t— ) •2 ^M w 1 ^ ■is o3 ^ ^S O EH .ss w < 1—1 1—1 pH 1—1 P <3 T-l 3 IS 0^ s Ch o-t ID O CCi-t a cH ^ -f fcfl o a 1— t "^ a s-i •t eS ?K o ^ O -vJ 5P O GO cc CO OS S 3 O o 3 o 3 a >, iz; b4 O o H JZi O H . -» H . o -!l 1-1 C5 rH a tUCk c3>H o '^ o t— ^-^ a • >-i I- 3 OS (J a 3 cj O '^ o ? lo" bJC t^ 3 3 'P t^ o3 ^W V^-^" K O s > ^7> <=i 9. .— a> O S-, m ^ GO P. a a; <1 cc g 3 O o 3 o Q a ^1 Ci tJD a .g-H > <-) > rS Q) rt O O «8 o GO a < 03 ^< a o CO o g 3 o o 05 3 G i G ;=^ g 00 ' 3 G I, o tfl rH 3 a^ i o _ > tp o GG 00 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. «5 s CO PS ^ >; "t^ £ -^ t^ .s Cs T3 :s a e a> 551 0, ^ ^ m -ts "^ — ' Jj , ^ >% ^ CO bo ^ s a ;^ 1 o 3 Q Q o 05 3 oi O OJ ^ Oi CD 04 3 a 'a I - 00 &, m be 10 o o >< 10" CO 3 O o T-H Tfl ■Ti 1— 1 a Oi n bf) CJ a->. a> iTi C/J C75 a CO T-H T— 1 3 c 3 ^ ^ ^ CO iXi hO ca a -TS ;« OS 3 H 1 a> O) > >n3 O) •4-J rt cu u 56 La 00 CURTIN V8. YOCUM. 61 op d. X a a, < 02 to S 3 o c 3 o >~t B ■^ ei TI u Ch ..< "" — ' ro T-l lO CO 1—1 1—1 T— ( s be 3 o c^ a> (rj" CC 1—1 ^^ CO ■^ o »k 1—1 3 a o 1 D 1 O OJ O 3 of w Ol bU 1— I a a 'TS ti u. 1 o -i-> k o > n >- •73 63 V a> CJ b. 5S o a E 3 O c 3 be 'O o ^ .^ -:*< 1— ( Ci' CO a T— 1 o cu -f Oi ^ 3 r-T OQ f>j bO 1—1 s n 1^ ■«-* r! 3 w O o (1) o o > S -4-2 n CJ OI c t.1 56 I. o OU 62 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. CORRECTED RESULT IN MIFFLIN COUNTY. By Harding^ s Rule. CUBTIN. YOCUM. By Mc Crary's Rule. CURTIN. YOCUM. Armagh towuship (old) Armagh township (uew) Bralton townshij) Brown townsh i p Decatur township Derry to wush i p Granville towuship Lewistowu borough — East ward do. West ward.... McVeytown borough official Menuo towuship official Newton Hamilton borough Oliver township Union township Wayne township Total Majority. 104 75 95 107 96 196 152 184 167 80 109 32 113 123 124 142 90 71 90 94 172 115 171 155 54 119 41 90 153 94 1757 106 1651 6 72 97 94 85 172 158 187 174 80 109 32 115 10 127 1518 86 9 93 71 103 105 196 115 171 155 54 119 44 90 13 94 1432 But should the committtee come to the conclusion that the returns from the townships of Old Armagh and Union should be thrown out, this majority will be corrected accordingly. For the evidence on this point see printed tes- timony as follows : As to Old Armagh township page 1126 ; Union township page \VaQ. CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 63 GENERAL RESULT IN THE DISTRICT. Official Vote. By McOrary's Bide.l By Harding's Bule. CURTIN. YOCUM. CURTIN. YOCUM. CURTIN. YOCUM. Centre county.. Clearfield " " .. Clinton county.' Elk county Mifflin county.. Union county.. 3535 3034 2565 1010 1782 1455 3486 2914 2264 803 1767 2220 I 3463 2932 2532 996 1518 1398 3318 2712 2180 692 , 1432 2132 3519 2972 2525 998 1757 1445 3154 2672 2137 639 1651 2085 Total 13381 13454 12839 12466 ■ 13216 12338 Majority 73 373 878 Official majority — Yocum 73. Actual majority, McCrary's rule — Curtin 373. Actual majority, Harding's rule — Curtin 878. It will be observed that the above result has been reached without im- peaching the regularity of the elections held for Benner township and Phil- ipsburg borough, in Centre county, Woodward township and iloutzdale bor- ough, in Clearfield county, or Horton township, in Elk county. As to these districts, the contestee practically concedes the allegations of the contestant by abandoning the official returns and undertaking to establish the true result of the election, such as it was, then and there held by evidence aliunde. The issue thus tendered was promj)tly accepted and a large amount of testimony taken, to whicli we respectfully refer the committee. It will be seen that in Woodward township, Clearfield county, the contestee was found to have received a legal majority of but THREE votes, instead of the 91 fraudulently returned for him. (See pages from 494 to 564, from 1785 to 1886, from 2219 to 2295, from 2193 to 2214, and fn^m 3408 to 3606.) In the borough of Houtzdale, same county, instead of a returned majority for the sitting member of 14, there were in fact 56 more legal votes proven to have been cast for the contestant than for the contestee. (See pages 545 to 549, 1630 to 1650, 1806 to 1809, 2184 to 2311, and from 3427 to 3687.) As to Horton township. Elk county, see pages 1058 to 1104 and 2606 to 2856, where the contestee again signally failed to justify his returned majority. Considerable testimony to the same effect was taken relative to Philipsburg borough and Benner township, Centre county, to which we would invite the attention of the com- mitter, were it not merely cumulative of a majority in favor of the contestant already sufficiently decisive for all practical purposes. But we must insist that the returns for White Deer township. Union county, should be entirely excluded. The officers had just sworn and subscribed a sol- 64 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. emn oath that they "would not receive any ticket or vote from any person withou requiring such evidence of the right to vote as is directed by law," that evidence being the " written or partly vrritten and partly printed affidavits" of the claimant himself, and also an " additional written or partly written and partly printed affidavit of at least one qualified voter of the district," stating the facts upon which the right to vote is claimed. (See Sec. 10, act January 30, 1874.) And yet it is incontestibly proven that the election board of "White Deer township not only omitted to exact this requirement, but deliberately passed an official resolution to ignore and disregard it. (See printed testimony, page 1196, where one of the inspectors swears: " We did pass a resolution that we would call NONE hut the person claiming to vote, and we would swear him (them) and ask them questions concerning their right to vote without reguir- ing any written or printed evidence either from the voter or any one else." Af- ter thus formally and officially resolving to nullify one of the most vital pro- visions of the election law of the State, and by so doing violate their official oaths, they proceeded — not to hold a legal election — but to receive votes mi the basis agreed upon, resulting in a majority of 115 for the sitting member, 42 more than the Official District Return under which he took his seat. Fur ther comment is unnecessary. APPENDIX. UNREGISTERED VOTES, NOT PROVEN, IN TOWNSHIPS GIVING MA- JORITIES FOR CONTESTEE. BELLEFONTE BOROUGH, CENTRE COUNTY — WEST WARD. iS'lLl ^'-^'^e of Voter. No. on Poll Lid. Name of Voter. Total. 87 76 98 Roland Craig, Daniel Hoover, Charles Hall, 79 80 Peter Foot, Josiah Fute, 5 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 174 and 205. MILESBURQ BOROUGH, CENTRE COUNTY. 123 I. P. Boulcau, 119 John H. Hahn, 117 William Furcy, 42 Byers Price, 100 James Heverly, 115 I. W. Shope, 121 Isaac Sager, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 242 and 260. HOWARD BOROUGH, CENTRE COUNTY. 7 James Morrison, 17 John B. Holder, 13 John A. McGee, 60 W. N. Neff, 69 J. B. Akers, 80 M. J. Hays, 47 George AV, Council, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 189 and 207. PHILIP8BURG BOROUGH, CENTRE COUNTY. 141 Austin Atherton, 224 W. H. Imbodcn, 53 W. G. Bardry, 310 J. 15. Kernes, 205 J. C. Braden, 47 Henry Lehman, 51 John Grain, 320 William C. Lehr, 221 James Carter, 332 E. Plunimer, 294 Andrew Clare, 333 James Ryan, 55 John Fish, 313 James Trimmer, 133 Luicc Frank, 43 Orlando Weston, 308 John Ginghery, 248 James N. Way, 274 Isiah Hunt, 116 William M. Ross, 336 William Hess, 258 Haymer Saway, 209 T. C. Jones, For poll an d registry lists see printed te stimony, pa gos 287 and 391. 23 APPENDIX. BURXSIDE TOWNSHIP, CEyTRE COUNTY. Xo. on Poll LiM. Name of Voter. Xo. 071 TkT f fT 1 Poll List. ^"'"""-^ ^'^- Total. 48 50 1 Mont Askey, George Roseucrans, : 1 20 John Oliuger. 3 For poll and registr}- lists see printed testimony, pages 231 and 266. FERGUSON TOWNSHIP, EAST PRECINCT. CENTRE COUNTY. W. C. Myers, D. W. Miller, Wm Miller, JonathaD Musser, A. R. Markle, J. H. Ro... O. M. Whipple, Henry Webb, Jacob F. Weibly, George Wilson, R. P. Craig, E. C. Frye, Henry A. Garner, George H. Woods, J. C. Johnson, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, page? 248 and 274. HALF MOON TOWNSHIP. CENTRE COUNTY. 89 Samuel J. Atlee, 36 91 F. G. Arehev, 119 240 A. G. Arehev, 133 52 W. H. Bennett, ' 166 231 W. H. Bumsarduer, 241 6 J. C. Eckel, 22 20 Andrew Firns, 9 196 Charles Fiwer, 46 56 George Griem, ! 50 65 James Glasssow, 199 24 Daniel Harpster, 1 3M J. G. Hess, 1 49 118 125 J. C. Houser. : 186 George E. Harper, ^^ 280 S. K. Hess, 90 174 Adam H. Krumriue, 43 Ru.'^ell Bigelow, ^ , 127 Durbin Wrve, 60 John Cowfer, 128 J. W. Bean, 39 J. H. Deaver, 94 John ^r. C. Miller 71 David Miess, 118 J. F. Pavne, 24 Chas. Peary, 85 B. A. Swoop, 96 Frank Stevens, 137 T. W. Gray, 77 Wm. Wrve, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 234 and 201. HUSTON TOWNTHUP, CENTRE COUNTY. 24 Charles Richards, 150 Stuart Reid, 59 j Charles Swisher, ' i For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 146 and 156. HOWARD TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 116 i Wash. Daugenbaugh, 159 ! John Barklow, 28 ■ Jesse Lucas, 124 Wm. Chatman, 151 ! Alfred Shank, 174 : Hays Shank, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 195 and 20S. APPENDIX. PATTON TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. No. 011 Poll List. 42 98 75 57 Name of Voter. Geo. W. Behrer, Lau Beck, Simon Nolen, Harry Reeser, No. oil Poll List. 69 131 87 94 Name of Voter. Alfred :\[iller, T. G. Miller, William Rockey, Caleb Kepliart, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 221 and 258. Total. SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 26 I. A. Crissraan, 171 David McCloskey, 138 Pat'k Heatou, 38 John Redley, 161 John Harshberger, 144 Wm. Thompson, 200 Thomas Healy, Jr., 147 Alfred Thompson, 194 Philip Krollraan, 39 H. M. Watson, 176 James Linn. 66 Philip Walker, For poll an d registry lists see printed te stimony, pages 217 and 263. SPRING TOWN8I IIP, CENTJ IE COUNTY. 383 Wm. H. Alters, 318 Abraham Hammett, 298 S. A. Bell, 397 Uriah Housel, 325 Wm. Bitler, 417 Israel Hoover, 400 Andrew Breon, 108 M. A. Kirk, 409 Wm. Barn hart, 370 Michael Kelly, 332 L. P. Cor man. 304 Richard Luitz, 346 John Gorman, 254 W. H. Mallory, 351 Chas. Gorman, 305 James Minich, 395 B. F. Creamer, 322 Jonathan NefF, 160 Wilson Davis, 328 John Osmer, 110 Andre Emil, 413 John Pease, 193 Henry Everly, 241 Wm. Rauckhauser, 282 Calvin Eckly, 355 Samuel Rice, 171 Stephen Frost, 378 Irwin Taylor, 324 Frank Folchert, 405 George Tress! er, 342 J. JSIilton Furey, 122 Saudford Wilson, 177 G. P. Gent7X'll, 209 George Eby, 222 David Hendershot, 279 G. W. Noll, 244 John Hines, 365 John Roundtree, 313 Ho. K. Hoy, For poll an d registry lists see printed te 5timony, pac ;e8 225Hnd 271. TAYLOR TOWNS HIP, CENTI IK COUNTY. 91 Herbon Blowers, 21 Jonah Griffith, 50 T. G. Vaughn, 26 A. R. Price, 76 Daniel Moore, 12 89 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 199 and 210. APPENDIX, DERRY TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 97 J. J. Akers, 101 Jacob Smith, 325 Stewart Albright, 361 J. Stuck, 345 Geo. W. Ayres, 417 James Smith, 54 Daniel Ayres, 372 W. Hewitt, 351 W. R. Price, 96 Jerry Janoe, 353 D. R. Price, 75 John Koou, 425 Win. Pretty leaf. 162 H. Kaley, 407 Jno. Pennypacker, 403 Saml. TomlisoD, 416 David Rupert, 105 Christ Miller, 257 James Bushman, 120 S. J. Myers, 258 R. Barger, 123 P. T. Mertz, 1 Homer Cropper, 173 Daniel Mowry, 20 W. Carln, 159 Millord Muthersbaugfe 40 John A. Cramer, 370 D. H. Meek, 82 S. Chesnut, 294 D. S. Price, 331 J. C. Cubbison, 303 A. J. Ready, 274 James Dreese, 306 W. H. Roges, 358 Thomas True, 310 J. S. Reddy, 145 R. C. Graham, 245 R. H. Stewart, 326 M. Garver, 261 S. Strail, 413 E. F. Gross, 206 W. R. Triester, 195 John Hall, 378 W. M. Temple, 375 M. C. Radcliff, 341 Geo. N. Ulsh, 63 Jacob Shoop, 330 W. H. Vanorman, 74 James Stewart, 989 Peter Wertz, 88 J. W. Sayer, 404 W. J. Yeager, 52 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1133 and 1110. 121 89 156 23 NEW ARMAGH TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 170 Fredrick Pecht, 147 W. D. Ramsey, 37 Robert Shaw, Daniel Krotzer, Henry Miller, James C. Negney Charles E. Philips, 26 Uharles ii;. Jb'hilips, | For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1149 and 1120. BROWN TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 30 George Bell, 175 W. E. McMinn, 39 John Bell, 201 G. F. Miller, 119 John A. Bowers, 173 H. T. Peters, 184 Bates Bell, 19 James Reed, 234 Silvester Ecard, 137 D. W. Reynolds, 79 M. R. Ferguson, 179 George Rights, 68 Jos. Galbraith, 1 78 James A. Swint, 113 Henry Harmon, 99 John H. Taylor, 126 John W. Hunt, 81 Foster Taylor, 89 John M. Tunison, 185 James Taylor, APPENDIX. BROWN TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. • Name of Voter. Total. 155 12 158 171 Joseph Kelph, Samuel Mills, J. B. Morrison, George Mull, 188 52 115 23 M. P. Weaver, Simon K. Yoder, Sr., John D. Yoder, H. G. You, 28 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1143 and 1115. NEWTON HAMILTON BOROUGH, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 14 J. W. Robinson, 22 j L. Hoi Hugs worth, 65 I J. S. Norton, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1147 and 1119. DECATUR TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 166 Jacob C. Arnold, 213 79 James Bryant, , 38 119 J. C. Burkholder, 74 90 J. W. Free, 179 14 H. J. Gross, 178 27 F. W. Grininger, 1 205 109 George Gardner, 149 32 David Hook, 212 122 John Heury, 103 135 Ellis Hummell, 138 136 Ceylon C. Hummell, 120 214 Hiram Harpster, 17 Robt. W. Ingram, Levi Kerstetter, Erastus Kemerling, W. L. Muthersbaugh, Simou W. Arnold, Charles W. Oldt, M. G. Kiggle, Henry Raley, Howard Strawp, Luther Scott, Philip PL Will, Jas. Yetter, 24 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1153 and 1113. 78 86 106 115 123 144 151 185 189 208 239 263 265 273 20 41 69 85 UNION TOWNSHIP, Reuben Axe, Sr., Wm. F. Axe, Isaac Axe, Wm. G. Aultz, Wm. W. Axe, James Alexander, Robert A. Alexander,! Howard Alexander, Peter Anthony, Henry A. An round, Reuben Axe, Jr., W. R. Alexander, R. ]\[. Alexander, Alfred Aultz, C. C. Bennett, Jonathan Y. Byler, James N. Bennett, Cyrus Brindle, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 147 160 169 182 184 197 202 2l6 222 269 276 11 18 55 80 9 46 56 Samuel Kauffman, John F. KaufFman, Samuel Kucpp, J. D. Kellv, Christian Kauffman, David H. Kauffman, Sinison Kcnagy, Wm. 11. Kosier, Ellas Kenagy, John H. Kurtz, Jacob Koon, H. A. Lantz, W. O. Lantz, J. J. La.shell, J. P. V. Libkisher, Samuel R. McClay, Wm. McNabb, Hon. Robt. P. McClay, \J .a.j irrrjiMj±.&., UNION TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Foil List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. A. Total. 87" John C. Briudle, 62 Charles McNabb, 111 George Beck, 64 Samuel Macharaer, 119 James M. Bullick, 74 J. H. McClintic, 133 Elpha C. Biglow, 96 James T. Wills, 156 S. B. Byler, 113 J. H. McClay, 183 Jonathan L. Byler, 138 K. P. McClay, Jr., 224 Richard Brindle, 157 J. D. McClinket, 228 Solomon U. Byler, 163 J, H. Morrison, 259 Emor N. Bulick, 39 J. A. McClure, 266 Levi K. Beyler, 174 H. W. Matterson, 267 Eli Byler, 191 D. A. McNabb, 170 Henry Bawel, 214 William J. McCauley. 277 Rudolph Byler, 235 James McCormick, 278 George Byler, 243 W. McCauley, Sr., 10 Joseph Campbell, 272 Jessee McCollum, 44 Samuel Cogley, 14 W. C. Nelson, 47 Rev. R. Campbell, 203 Joseph Osborn, 94 John Carolus, 204 George W. Osborn, 104 James A. Conner, 238 Charles Osborn, 122 Robert Campbell, 141 Daniel Peters, 128 Williamson Cummins, 161 Jonathan Plank, 131 N. R. Kriger, 172 C. B. Peachy, 132 Robt Clinger, 210 Joseph Potts, 143 A. W. Campbell, 220 J. R. Peters, 158 J. 0. Campbell, 225 Samuel Y. Plank, 177 J. A. Campbell, 233 Christian E. Peachey, 196 R. D. Campbell, 40 Charles Rodgers, 212 Milton Campbell, 51 Charles Rodgers, Sr., 240 John Clinger, 114 William Rusler, 242 Samuel Clinger, 155 Lemuel Rusler, 250 John Carson, 187 Wm. G. Roper, 255 Alonzo Russler, 200 Lewis Reel, 258 George Corolus, 205 John Koser, 274 Willis Clinger, 192 Joseph L. Roper, 53 Robert Dixon, 244 Samuel M. Riden, 226 Jacob K. Detwiler, 32 M. D. Snyder, 246 David J. Detwiler, 35 J. D. Stroup, 22 Henry Evans, 68 George Smith, 213 Amos Ealy, 112 John Saukey, 21 A. L. Focht, 117 Levi W. Smith, 37 John Fultz, 146 William Smith, 254 John Ealy, 221 John A. Steele, 48 Adam Finkle, 232 Lawrence Stroup, 50 David Fultz, 245 Edward Stump, 54 Rev. David J. Foulk, 251 Adam Steely, 59 W. W. Focht, 253 James Scott, 84 Isaac Frankhouser, 268 Benjamin Smoke, 95 Henry Fox, 42 George Trostle, , APPENDIX. UNION TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 100 Rev. Moses Floyd, 57 Henry P. Taylor, 126 Michael Fox, 60 Pat Troy, 178 Jacob Finkle, 199 A. M. Thomas, 217 Dr. J. B. Floyd, 173 Hampton Utts, 252 Samuel G. Fultz, 6 Isaac Wartmau, 275 Samuel Finkle, 45 David Weiler, 13 W. C. Gardner, 71 William Wagner, 16 JoliH Gihbony, 150 R. A. Willis, 23 A. G. Gibbouy, 162 Adam Wudemau, 31 A. B. Garner, 206 J. W. Wilson, 61 John Gillilaud, Jr., 219 Willis C. Willis, 65 Levi C. Glass, 230 Henry AVithers, 66 Charles B. Gibbouy, 1 Benjamin Yoder, 81 J. R. Garver, 3 Ben. P. Yoder, 137 Levi Glass, Sr., 15 Jacob N. Yoder, 152 A. F. Gibbony, Sr., 72 Jonathan K. Yoder, 175 S. G. Gillilaud, 76 Solomon K. Yoder, 198 E. B. Grassmer, 82 Wesley Young, 207 S. W. Gillilaud, 88 Christ. G. Yoder, 231 William Gibbouy, 90 Israel T, Yoder, 249 Wesley Gooden, 92 Christian H. Yoder, 256 Howard Gibbouy, 91 Levi B. Yoder, 264 Wm. T. Gross, 93 Christian Z. Yoder, 5 Samuel Haffley, 97 Levi D. Yoder, 12 Miles Haffley, 105 Samuel K. Yoder, 24 Levi Hostetter, 107 Jonathan N. Yoder, 26 Edward Harmau, 109 John L. Yoder, 27 W. J. Haffley, 73 Isaac K. Yoder, 30 Wm. B. Hurraan, 120 David Young, 33 Jesse W. Hortou, 130 Richard Young, 36 H J. Hortou, 135 Abraham Yoder, 43 G. G. Harm an, 139 Peter Yoder, 48 Adam Hartzler, 153 Johu H. Young, 58 Jos. B. Hostetter, J 59 John H. Yoder, 101 Clinton Haffley, 166 David H. Yoder, 108 Joseph Hobaugh, 154 James Young, 110 David K. Hooley, 168 Johu N. Yoder, 118 Solomon Heninger, 176 Daniel C. Yoder, 121 A. C. Heunerson, 488 Yost Yoder, Sr., 124 M. F. Hudson, 236 Joseph C. Yoder, 125 Solomon Harmau, 241 Jacob Young, 129 David Hostetter, 260 Christian P. Yoder, 142 Joseph Y. Hostetter, 262 Levi Z. Yoder, 148 Wesley Hemiuger, 28 Jacob Y. Zook, 171 John Hayes, Sr., 70 Daniel Zook, 179 Levi G. Hartzler, 75 Benjamin Zook, 186 John Harkness, 70 Jacob B. Zook, 195 Jacob Hull, 83 Jonathan S. Zook, APPENDIX. UNION TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 201 Joseph Haffley, 89 Moses F. Look, 211 S. C. Haffley, 98 Simon K. Zook, 237 Lewis Harmon, 102 John P. Zook, • 248 Solomou Z. Hartzler, 136 David H. Zook, 257 Yost Hartzler, 140 Jacob Zook, 261 Jonah Hayes, 167 Solomon Zook, 271 James Hayes, 180 John G. Zook, 279 Christ Hooley, 154 Christ. J. Zook, 181 Wra. S. Jones, 1 34 Isaac Horton, 2 B. F. Klepper, 209 Joel Zook, 29 Wilson Knepp, 218 Enoch A. Zook, 103 John B. Kautfman, 227 John D. Zook, 134 George Koser, 253 For poll an d registry lists see printed te stimony, pa ges 1156 and 1122. OLD ARMAGH TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 9 Peter Barefoot, 114 Robert Cummins, 10 A. A. Brown, 117 Samuel Culberson, 68 W. F. Alexander, 123 H. J. Close, 142 Hugh Aitkens, 135 James N. Carson, 134 Lot Armstrong, 164 Isaac Coldren, 212 C. R. Alexander, 166 W. G. Carson, 216 R. B. Alexander, 167 J. H. Camp, 77 John Barger, 169 J. M. Crissman, 162 Ed. Krichbaum, 170 Saml. D. Coldren, 132 Isaac Bobb, 186 Austin E. Coleman, 168 Leonard Barger, 199 William Coldren, 177 Peter Bailey, 228 John Chamberlain, 181 E. A. Barger, 241 Samuel E. Close, 195 Frank B. Baker, 250 W. T. Close, 233 S. S. Barger, 5 James Davis, 238 A. F. Black, 6 James Davis, 11 L W. Coplin, 14 S. V. Dye, 12 John Coutner, Jr., 37 Thomas Depo, 17 Owen Coplin, 118 Wash Delauey, 24 G. W. Crissman, 180 Elias Dean, 27 John Camp, Sr., 201 J. P. Derr, 35 James Contner, 203 W. S. Dellett, 71 W. H. Culberson, 234 J. I. Dellett, 96 A. E. Close, 46 W. H. Ebaugh, 153 S. S. Cottle, 156 Wm. Ehrnfield, 111 Thomas Close, 184 Jacob R. Elliott, 193 J. N. Emill. 174 Lewis Houser, 3 Jos. D. Forrey, 97 C. Hartmau, 43 David Felmly, 103 Joseph Hoar, 85 Robert Forrey, 140 Thomas B. Henry, 127 Jacob Felmly, 145 Joseph Hassenplug, APPENDIX. OLD ARMAGH TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY — CONTINUED. 'No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. L. M. First, G. W. Fleck, William Grem, John N. Gwinu, Walter Graham, John D. Gommill, Levi Gearheart, D. S. Graham, A. W. Graff, John Gemill, Adam Greer, Uriah S. Hoar, W. P. Henry, E. P. Harvey, Samuel F, Henry, O. P. Harpster, Ezra M. Hoopes, Nelson Hoar, John Hunter, Perry Hassiuger, John Havice, Samuel J. Havice, John Hall, W. C. Linthurst, Samuel Lirabert, Samuel Linthurst, John P. Linthurst, John Magary, John Mabin, W.C. McClenahen, James C. McNitt, H. McCliutic, Thompson McManigal Jacob Maben, Samuel McClay, Andrew Maben, David Maben, P. B. Moore, Chrisley Myers, D. F. Moore, Thomas B. McNitt, John McDowell, James McNitt, Henry Moore, F. McClintic, John L. McNitt, Wm. H. McLenahan, Wm. McClintic, No. on Poll List. 112 124 175 190 202 208 213 198 209 219 230 109 110 129 82 95 108 151 191 242 84 161 197 137 143 147 159 119 122 126 131 157 163 172 194 204 229 254 67 146 150 125 245 40 36 106 196 205 Name of Voter. Adam Henry, G. M. Havice, Amos Hetrick, Philip Hassenplug, Abraham Harsbarger, A. S. Harshbargar, Joseph Hartman, Wm. Hawk, John Hartman, C. Hooley, J. T. Hassenplug, Frederick Havice, John W. Havice, A. J. Johnson, J. S. Killmer, Saml. Kesler, Emer Kibb, Jacob Krise, John Kohler, W. C. Hosier, Thomas Lougwell, Henry Lehr, G. W. Linthurst, Samuel B. McNitt, John C. McClintic, Thompson McCormick W. D. INIcNitt, Elliott McDowell, Eugene Miller, Joseph Mouch, Wm. McNitt, G. McClenathan, C. F. McCormick, A. B. McNitt, M, M. Naginey, Joseph ]\rathews, John Miller, J. R. Maben, John D. Naginey, W. C. Naginey, John R. Nale, Samuel Neese, W. W. Nale, J. W. Ocker, John B. Piatt, John Pccht, Frank Pecht, Wm. Pecht, Total. 10 APPENDIX. ( DLD ARMAGH TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN < :30UNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 101 James McManigal, 98 William Thompson, 107 C. B. McClenathan, 144 Albert Thompson, 75 John W. McClelland, 116 Ner. Thompson, , 55 Wm. Payne, 179 Saml. P. Triester, 66 C. E. Ramsey, 183 James Thompson, 76 John Rapp, 220 Jake Triester, 104 Lewis Reed, 248 0, B. Thompson, 139 Joseph Kamer, 74 Warner Underwood, 141 J. L. Russler, 138 Newton Underwood, 152 Hamilton Ramsey, 19 William Wilkey, 115 Daniel Ramer, 28 David Wylan, 133 John Riden, 29 Alexander Wray, 182 George Reed, 54 Joseph Wagner, 192 W. I. Rusler, 60 Henry C. Worley, 214 Fernando Rogers, 65 S. S. Wagoner, 218 E. M. Russle, 79 Wm. Wylan, 21 John A. Shoemaker, 87 John W. White, 25 S. G. Shannon, 100 Samuel Worley, 52 Josiah Showalter, 136 James Wylan, 70 W. A. Sterrett, 148 Lawrence Wall, 88 Freman Shipton, 120 Isaac Ward, 128 Samuel Stringfellow, 130 Taylor Wagoner, 176 Reuben Stump, 171 Jacob Wagoner, 178 Henry Shirk, 221 Peter Woodburn, 185 H. P. Seigler, 222 T. M. Williamson, 188 Reed Sample, 237 W. Worrell, 215 W. E. Stringfellow, 246 G. W. Young, 225 S. R. Spangler, 31 H. A. Gwinn, 239 Joseph Stringfellow, 34 John Contner, Sr., 249 F. E. Sunday, 64 R. J. McNitt, 41 Roland Thompson, 154 W. W. Dillett, 243 C. H. Williamson, 155 J. A. Cottle, 247 James Wagoner, 158 C. J. Ehrenfield, 7 James Rusler, 210 Cyrus Alexander, 38 John H. Rager, 251 Ewd. Ritter, 53 Moses Thompson, 252 Robert T. Close, 57 Ira Thompson, 23] For poll ai id registry lists see printed U istimony, p£ iges 1139 and 1121. ALLISON TOWNS HIP, CLINI DON COUNTY. 30 W. H. Bridgens, 77 Wm. Tidlow, 130 Harvey Keiffer, 156 John Logue, 145 Howard Witzell, 169 Isaac Fogel, 89 Geo. Esenwine, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 866 and 845. APPENDIX. 11 COLEBROOK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 866 and 840. No. on Poll Lid. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 50 17 45 Patrick Donahay, M. L. Eaton, John Murphy, 54 38 15 C. F. Earon, Wm. Grugan, Thoma.s Ryan, fi LEIDY TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 21 James Couch, 86 Scott Dickenson, 26 Daniel Glosner, 57 Charles Dodge, 83 Samuel Nelson, 13 M. K. Nelson, 43 Baxter Roberts, 1 Nicholas Watt, 60 Milton Summerson, 85 John Wilson, 4 Davies Walters, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 884 and 854. U BENEZETT TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 38 Geo. Daugherty, 112 84 Robert Jones, 63 55 T. J. Lewis, 90 13 John Mahen, 124 126 John IMiller, 37 107 Abner Ober, 131 114 John Ober, 14 129 David Schwertd, 67 104 R. J, Wiuslow, John Tattle, Thonias Boyle, James Biglan, Hugh Brennen, William English, John H. Fink, L. D. Hawley, Samuel Rathburn, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 969 and 964. 17 FOX TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 71 Charles Brandmiller, 161 Cornelius McCusker, 148 Joseph Brahm, 261 Peter Ponser, 233 John Brown, 35 Eugene Thompson, 239 Isaac Brown, 253 Ephraim Denton, 45 Anthony O'Chase, 220 Edward Goodman, 65 John Copelli, 76 James H. Keeley, 250 Thomas Craig, 157 Andrew Lintner, 156 Frank W. Clafferty, 269 Thomas Thomas, 23 Wellington Emmett, 141 John Wonderly, 212 Samuel Kelly, 272 Thomas Moriarty, poll an d registry lists see printed te atimony, pa ges 971 and 956. HORTON TOWl *SHIP, ELI C COUNTY. 128 E. C. Bennett, 79 Richard Himes, 66 Lewis Frants, 92 John Hyatt, 46 Isaac Graham, 116 Henry Halst, 103 George W. Gardner, 7 Henry Yale, For poll and registry lists see printed tostimony, pages 973 and 903. 20 12 APPENDIX. JAY TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 87 Wm. J. Erieg, 29 Charles J. West, 74 Patrick M. Pike, 55 James A. Burke, 88 T. F. Furley, 93 Edwin W. Gray, 6 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 975 and 963. RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 350 John Anderson, 179 William McChesney, 13 Joseph Black, 93 Frank Paullman, 206 Charles Brack, 313 A. J. Parker, 307 Fred Baretzsky, 224 Charles Quinn, 71 Pat'k Collins, 254 C. P. Guinn, 178 Thomas Conlin, 83 James Harm, 347 Henry Iloff, 254 Fred'k Hemke, 211 Henry Dahlor, 118 Jacob Steis, 216 John Dolan, 329 Jerry Sheean, 292 John Dallenback, 138 Henry Warner, Jr., 12 Michael Egler, 280 Jno. Boyle, 129 Dennis Flynn, 35 Dennis Healy, 262 Swen Froberg, 339 Henry Iloff, 230 D. Farrell, 347 Henry 11 off, 64 J. M. Gillette, 240 Taylor Rhine, 256 Christian Lindgren, 107 Joseph D. Stone, 46 Peter Mann, 231 John Schilk, 34 For poll an d registry lists see printed testimony, pages 978 and 965. JONES TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 167 Victor Abot, 13 Marshe Myers, 125 Daniel Craukin, 47 Michael Myers, 156 Louis Van Flick, 91 Tim Moser,' 151 John Henderson, 90 Peter Myers, 180 John Hausman, 174 Fen O'Garry, 181 Lome Hertzman, 165 George Powers, 68 Edward Johnson, 30 Frank Wauk, 80 Martin Lowe, 15 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 976 and 959. SPRING CREEK TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 8 Mathew Chandley, 38 Lester Schools, 49 J. H. Carbon, 18 Wake Brockway, 35 Saml. Hildebrant, 41 John Lahive, 46 James Q. Sweeny, 40 George D. Messenger, 24 John Kelso, 29 Jacob Wingard, 14 Levi L. Miller, 11 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 981 and 965. APPENDIX. 13 WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. No. on Foil List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 69 Martin Broward, 360 Jacob F. Erdlcy, 78 Richard Beuuage, 104 John S. Miller, 142 George Botiu, 214 James W. Noll, 164 John Bitting, 198 J. M. Bawling, 372 Jno. L. Bitting, 292 James Brcssler, 400 Sim Biddle, 317 Saml. J. Ranck, 371 E. Cramer, 15 W. P. Ritter, 293 Alfred Dennis, 265 John Stadden, 373 John Erb, 407 Jacob J. Katherman, 288 Wm. R. Tollmer, 24 J. A. Sanders, 252 R. M. Griffy, 92 John J. Smith, 278 J. N. Guyer, 136 Geo. W. Scheuery, 110 Geo. U. Hertz, 183 Saml. P. Smith, 215 Wm. T. Huff, 221 John Trait, 228 H. R. Hutchison, 75 H. A. Weless, 34 Daniel Kolp, 79 James Ziglcr, 73 David Kawk, 403 J. R. Runk, 135 Phaus Koser, 35 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1230 and 1234. BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. 30 85 183 238 245 96 254 262 61 339 91 316 13 14 63 150 169 194 244 251 280 281 284 297 353 J. F. Brown, Jack Bottiger, Geo. W. Bigler, J. K. Berkamer, David Beaver, Jack Benjamin, J. W. Grouse, Solomon Clase, Lewis Dauberman, Reuben Feasted, W. R. Gerhard, W. F. Glover, Saml. H. Himraelreick Wilson Herman, Flert Hauck, John Hafer, Joseph Harman, Ellis Heimbach, Israel Helrig, Clarence Hauck, Samuel Hackenberg, Jas. A. Hackenberg, John Hoy, Calvin Horael, Geo. A. Turner, 405 228 31 83 190 325 184 225 141 271 311 219 70 77 87 163 246 263 302 315 360 158 278 285 Jacob S. Helvick, Wm. L. Irwin, Daniel Joels, Joseph Lebard, J. P. Miller, G. F. Miller, H. B. Rilly, Isaac Ruhl, Wm. A. Walter, Solomon Renner, James Rigel, Henry Rcimert, J. W. Spangler, Wilson Smith, Lewis Shaffer, Simon Snyder, William Stoot, Jacob Yj. Shrader, XJlrich Strickler, Johnson Shell, Charles Steniger, Jacob Weinghard, William Wolfe, Wm. C. Wixongaren, 451 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1238 and 1241. 14^ APPENDIX. EAST BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 22 151 107 147 138 117 James Beacham, Milton Brouse, Albert Dewire, W. B. Ervin, Frederick Micely, John G. Smith, 75 211 172 187 235 John G. Smith, Charles Schruck, Isaac Young, David Young, Francis E. Brown, 11 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1223 and 1225. LEWISBURG BOROUGH, UNION COUNTY — WEST WAED. 50 71 120 143 36 49 33 Geo. M. Bennett, John H. Betzer, Samuel Brocius, Frekerick Davis, W. T. Grier, John H. Gray, Leopold Koch, 28 29 30 107 6 92 William Lloyd, Noah Lloyd, John Lloyd, William Lloyd, Wm. W. Musser, Thomas F. Stannard, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1220 and 1221. 13 LEWISBURG BOROUGH, UNION COUNTY — SOUTH WARD. 91 S. C. Carroll, 233 J. C. Catherman, 180 C.L. Fry, 187 Wilfred Gerhard, 70 John Hauck, 77 James Knittle, 120 Josh Neyhart, 227 198 147 175 140 148 P. B. Stahl, Brady Thompson, H. C. Wolfe, A. (C.) Waldron, J. T. Gallagher, H. C. Hall, 13 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1215 and 1217. LEWISBURG BOROUGH, UNION COUNTY — NORTH WARD. 177 L. R. Asten, 117 W. B. Hefelfinger, 303 Joseph Burris, 11 W. S. Lineback, 190 Jacob Defrain, 192 Wm. Thomas, 104 Samuel Torum, 3 J. F. Walker, 118 Miles Irwin Greenwalt, 114 H. N. Wendel, For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 1208 and 1211 10 APPENDIX. 15 BURNSIDE TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 92 Bee, Jacob 159 NefF, Gideon 192 Bates, F. C. 233 Nichtly, John 209 Brother, Charles 83 Penticofi", Jacob 94 Brickley, Jerry 23 Rummell, Charmsbus 79 Dunmier, Peter 175 Riley, J. C. 95 Fulton, Albert 27 Stiffler, Peter J. 179 Fulton, Daniel 30 Smead, Henry 188 Fry, Amos B. 46 Souman, Harrison 251 Good, Amos ^' 100 Selring, Abner B. 205 liultou, Edward ; 101 Selring, Wm. C. 4 Keira, Daniel .' 151 Smead, Jackson 32 Kneedler, Joseph ■ 240 Thompson, Aaron 223 Kane, Harry , : 158 Westover, Wm. 190 Laugdon, David 191 Walls, Johnson 48 Millison, Samuel 260 Westover, John E. 77 Nichtly, Henry 31 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 719 and 714. GULICH TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 19 Ausborn, Aaron 150 24 Bowers, John 12 118 Croyle, Philip 99 175 Croyle, Wm. 76 154 Elliott, E. 138 36 Fulkerson, S. 0. 124 46 Fox, Fred. 33 61 Foster, Joseph 155 112 Flynn, Daniel 132 95 Gibuey, Benjamin 170 Ginter, James Hunter, John KnofFs, Saul McFarling, Robt. Osborn, Hugh Rebmes, Wm., Sr. Stiles, Edward Sedswick, J. M. B. Tipton, Mathew Tipton, Wm. 20 For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, pages 726 and G55. WOODWARD TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 146 Albot, Jackson 39 Freeman, John 7 Brewer, D. H. 187 Fanney, Peter 15 Boyer, A. D. 43 Goss, A. J. 243 Bowen, Richard 58 Gyles, Edward 75 Canty, P. M. 79 Greaves, Cartwright 164 Croyle, Jeff. 173 Gould, John 190 Casey, Michael 209 Garrity, Joseph 218 Carl, William 266 Gill, J. W. 303 Davis, T. P. 230 Garrett, Joseph 41 Denny, Joseph 28 Hamil, James 124 Delauder, John 34 Higgins, Joseph 134 Donovan, Daniel 253 Harrison, Joseph 193 Edy, W. 264 Haines, Edward 227 Elridge, Burton 267 . Higgins, S. G. 16 APPENDIX. WOODWARD TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY — CONTINUED. No. on Poll List 293 119 162 217 162 201 220 154 225 21 156 213 263 18 26 24 120 166 282 284 9 16 109 125 142 179 183 186 197 202 232 258 261 277 Name of Voter. Hoffman, John Hull, Anthony Hill, William Hill, Levi C. John, William John, William T. Jenkins, Geo. JandaJy, Joseph James, Thomas Kline, Oscar Kephart, Joseph Kline, Allen Kelly, D. J. Kneppenburgcr, Hiram Kanlen, John S. Lacey, James Luzier, Abraham Larrigan, Thos. Lloyd, Edward, Jr. Loffard, Joseph McHenry, D. M. Miles, S. W. Maxton, A. P. McGuire, John, Sr. Miller, Jeremiah Mullaney, Thomas McMouigal, David Morris, Hugh Mobart, John McHugh, A. J. McHugh, E. M. Magee, John Maher, Edward Martin, Joseph For poll and registry lists see printed testimony, No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 279 Morgan, Richard 280 McFilony, Edward 281 McGowan, Frank 298 311 McArchy, Daniel McGrath, James E. 312 14 169 Maher, Joseph D. Neff, A. G. Norton, C. L. 180 Nollern, John 229 O'Connell, John 275 Owens, Roger 143 Palmer, John 31 Rowles, J. M. 88 Ross, Ferm 150 296 Reese, Joseph Rosevere, William 301 295 Rowley, H. C. Reese, John D. 55 Smith, G. W. 56 59 Shoff, Bigler Stone, M. W. 83 Stabband, Walter 153 Sullivan, James 188 Steele, Thomas 274 Strout, Joseph 107 Tate, John 211 Tobin, Richard 255 Vlance, William 226 94 Waterson, Joseph Westover, Aaron 196 Weeble, F. C. 278 Watkins, James 297 Whitehead, Robert 307 stimony, pa Williams, T. S. ges 640 and 657. 96 APPENDIX. 17 GIRARD TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. No. on Foil List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 16 Geo. W. Wilson, 70 Thomas Thompson, 29 Ephraim Wetzel, 78 Joseph Leigey, 40 Jacob Shope, 86 Daniel Stover, 62 Henry Rousey, 93 Moses Thompson, 65 Eraiei Rougeux, 9 For poll an d registry lists, see printed testimony pages 634 and 651. GRAHAN TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 4 George C. Forcey, 52 John Enright, 10 Henry Hubler, 73 Daniel Collar, 13 T. Hubler, 74 John Deanly, 20 W. H. Lansbery, 94 M. B. Smeal, 24 A. G. Herren, 105 L. H. Pace, 25 James H. Hurael, 113 Isaiah Smeal, 30 AV. M. Shemel, 122 Peter A. Lansbery, 50 Henry Hurael, 15 For poll an d registry lists, see printed testimony pages 712 and 665. LOCK HAVEN — FIRST WARD, CLINTON COUNTY. 164 A. J. Brown, 107 Winslow Poorman, 309 Perry Bird, 385 J. H. Rodig, 251 G. H. Caldwell, 27 Sigismund Siraonds, 271 John M. Fry, 215 Albert Sheid, 263 Frank Herd, 252 Richard Shradt, 261 P. Keller, 256 Gotlieb Smith, 267 John Ordner, 332 Henry Smith, 29 E. L. Packer, 134 C. A. Wise, 90 John Probst, Sr., 211 Henry Yearick, 18 For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 900 and 855. LOCK HAVEN — THIRD WARD. 113 Thomas Crowly, 242 237 Martin Carey, 230 224 Adolph Gans, 77 CLINTON COUNTY. Peter Jacoby, George McDermott, W. A. Simpson, Jr., For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 905 and 858. LOCK HAVEN — FOURTH WARD. CLINTON COUNTY. 285 I Samuel Snyder, [| | For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2537 and 2597. BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 50 I B.F. Bottorff, |! 124 | H. C. Niles, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 874 and 847. BEECH CREEK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 73 I W.L.Miller, || | For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2525 and 2578. 18 APPENDIX. CHAPMAN TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. No. on Poll List. Name of Voter. Total. 146 28 36 144 14 99 103 Henry Donly, Isaac Hurd, V. J. Howard, Durell Johnson, Jacob E. Kline, William Keller, Fremont Kinley, 90 37 26 105 120 121 140 Charles R. Miller, Wm. Percing, Samuel Shampane, Rudolph Slifer, George Snyder, Edward Smith, James Weudall, 14 For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2521 and 2582. 152 32 193 153 PINE CREEK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. M. F. Cryder. Charles A. Fry, Albert Ferguson, Charles Henry, 63 172 95 39 Robert Kissell, Wm. A. Kissell, Nelson Rouck, Samuel M. Simmons, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2566 and 2579. 159 166 LEWISTOWN — EAST WARD. 133 MIFFLIN COUNTY. Smith, James W, Clark, John C, Yearick, David, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2919 and 2945. MIFFLIN COUNTY. McCook, George, Reese, Edward, 177 160 Rodgers, Samuel, LEWISTOWN — WEST WARD. Corbett, George, | 170 Dunkinson, Samuel, Glazier, Wm. H, Miller, Scott, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2914 and 2942. BRATTON TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 150 I Kauffman, J. A, || 130 | Miller, B. J, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2924 and 2948. 83 248 39 322 252 186 246 GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. Barclay, J. C, Crum, Simpson A., Crisswell, Thomas, 96 107 178 Pennypacker, S. E, Shoemaker, John A, Steely, Jacob S, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2932 and 2952. OLIVER TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 169 I Allen, J. H, || 158 | Rhodes, J. K, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2937 and 2954. WAYNE TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 86 Rhodes, Samuel T, 173 j Clemens, George, 24 j Harsbarger, Joseph, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2928 and 2950. BENZINGER TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 114 Frank Buckhite, 36 Michael Neubert, 323 Stephen Busk, 128 Valentine Neubert, 33 Joseph Hahn, 54 Rev. Sigfried, 155 Martin Johnson, 242 Herman Stockman, For poll and registry lists, see printed testimony pages 2685 and 2857. HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES, FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. A. G. CURTIN VS. SETII H. YOCUM. » I ^ I » CONTESTED ELECTION FROM THE TWENTIETH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. CONTESTEE' S BRIEF. The principles of law appliealjle to this contest, and involved in this case, are for the most part so plain, simple and elementary, that it would be affectation on our part to cite authorities to maintain or sujjjjort them. We seek not to disguise any portion of the proof, by any extended argu- ment of the law, but invoke the attention of the committee specially to the facts in evidence as showing how utterly groundless are tlie charges made by the Contestant, and further as demonstrating clearly tliat Contestee was elected by a majority more than double the official majority returned. This conclusion will inevitably follow from a careful investigation of tlie entire testimony in the cause. In every investigation of this character it is reasonably to be expected that those who are to sit in judgment upon the cjuestions involved, represent- ing directly as they do the peoj)le, will be governed rather by that broad common sense view of the case, which includes as well the real as tlie alleged reasons for the contest, tlian by any technical process which would seize upon some mere presumption antagonized by all the proof, or on some isolated fact, as the basis of judgment. This case, tried by thi« reasonable rule or test, we have no fear as to the result. It will confirm the voice of the people as expressed at the polls on the 5th day of November, A. D., 1878, and ofiicially embodied iu the certifi- cate issued to Seth H. Yocum, the sitting member. What was the real cause of the defeat of the Contestant by the people at the late election? If there was a clear, obvious and decided reason why contestant could not succeed in the attempt before the people to secure a seat in Congress, it has much to do in explaining the reduced vote and majorities for Contestant in manv of the election precincts in this congressional district. 2 CUR'I'IN VS. VOCIJM. It will be ob.scrved thuttlio reasons assigned, in the notice of contes^t, are that in some way (not explained by him) there were so many frauds perpetrated upon him, and such cxv.nbinations of fraud massed against him, that he failed to have a fair and legal mode of securing his election. This is, in this connection, worthy of note, that these alleged frauds did not affect any other candidate on the same ticket. The election on the 5th of November, A.D. 1878, was a State election, in which the people of Pennsylvania were called upon to vote for a Governor ; it was thus such an election as to bring out the full vote. This congressional district is composed of six (6) counties. The majority for A\ H. Dill, Democratic nominee for Governor, over Governor Hoyt, in the same district, was three thousand seven hundred and thirty-two (3732). A comparison of the vote for Governor with Contestant's vote for member of Congress, shows that many who voted for Dill refused to vote for Contestant. This will, of itself, show a division in the Democratic party as to the congres- sional nominee. There was also a Greenback candidate for Governor — Mr. JNIason — who received a large vote in the same district. For Congress there Avere but two (2) nominees, namely, the sitting member, who was the regular nominee of the National-Greenback party, and who also received the entire vote of the Republican party — they having declined to make a nomination against him ; while Contestant was the nominee of the Democratic party, which nomination caused a division in the party itself to such an extent that many Democrats declined to vote for him, and were active in opposition to him, and some of the leading Democratic organs in the district refused to announce his name as a candidate, or support him, while a large proportion of those who did vote for him, did so reluctantly. The reason of this political division consisted in the fact that Contestant was not recognized as a Democrat by the masses of the party, whose candi- date he was. Hence the defeat and the reason of it. This important factor, standing, as it does, at the very threshhold of this contest, and explanatory of its character and merits, is so Avell understood and universally known, and so much a part of the history of the contest itself^ that any direct testimony to establish it would seem to be unnecessary ; but if required, Ave refer to the tabulated statement of the ofiicial result in this district, and to the following pages of the printed testimony (page 580.) What are the qualifications of an elector in Pennsylvania ? They are found in Section I, Article 8, Constitution of 1873, as follows : " Every male " citizen twenty-one (21) years of age, possessing the following qualifications, " shall vote at all elections. " I. He shall be a citizen of the United States at least one month. " 11. He shall have resided in the State one year (or if having previ- " ously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall " have removed therefrom and returned thereto six months) immediately "preceding the election. " III. He shall have resided in the election district, where he shall offer " to vote, at least two months immediately preceding the election. " IV. If twenty-tv;o years of age or upwards he shall have paid, within " two years, a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least " two months, and paid at least one month before the election." The qualifications of electors under the Constitution of Pennsylvania are five in number, namely : 1st, Age. 2d, Citizenship of the United States for at least one month. 3d, State residence for at least one year immediately prior to the election ; unless previously a qualified elector, then six (6) months. 4th, District residence for at least two months immediately prior to the election. 5th, Payment of taxes within two years, which shall have CURTIN VS. VOCUM. 3 been assessed two months, or more, iind paid one juontli.or more, prior to the election. As is stated by contestant in liis 1)ricf', there will probal)ly be no dispute as to the first three qualifications above named. As to the 4tli (jualification, namely : District resilience, \vc do not deny the construetion contended i'or by contestant, that residence means domicii, and that if a man have his domicii in an election district for two months im- mediately ])rior to the election, he responds to this qualification ; and if he has not, he then fails in one of the requisites of a legal votei". Residence is a question of intention, and so defined by all authorities. The material in(iuiry in any controverted case is, how is that intention to beshowu? and among different kinds of proof, which proof is to be given the greatest weight? The acts and conduct of the party at the time it is al- leged he gained or lost his residence, or his testimony as to what his intent at the time was. If the latter rule be adopted, then the votei", interested as he always is, in sustaining his vote when attacked, has it in his power upon a friendly cross-examination to establish his residence in the district where he voted ; when upon the contrary every fact and circumstance connected with, or attending the removal from the old, or the acquisition of a new residence, contradict him. "We contend that the former test, that is, the acts and conduct of the party at the time, arc of much more value, in determining the fact, than his testimony after he voted, and when his vote is attacked, as to his intent. Sec McDaniel's case, Brightly's Leading Cases on Elections, Page 246. While residence is a question of intention, yet under the laws of Penn- sylvania that residence, which is requisite to a voter, is defined to be, a resi- dence in pursuit of one's latuful calling, or the place where he attends to his ordinary civil rights and duties, and this upon the principle, that there is the place where he is best known. (See Allentown Election Case, 8 Philadel- phia Reports, Page 575). (Taylor vs. Redding, 4th Brewster, Page 439). As to the Fifth qualification, the payment of a tax. That a payment of tax by the voter is requisite, is undisputed. The only /'oint in controversy is as to wliat amounts to payment, within the meaning of the Constitution of Pennsylvania ? It is conceded by contestant's argument, (Page G), that pay- ment nuiy be made by an agent of the voter, provided the voter ratifies the act of the agent at least one month prior to the Election. To this latter proposition we do not assent, lie tnaintain that the voter may ratify the act of the agent in paying the tax at any time prior to his depositing his vote in the Ballot Box, even on the day of the Election. And further, that the act of the voter in voting upon such payment of tax by another, knowing the same to have been paid, in the absence of other evidence impeaching the payment, is evidence of ratification^gif/a)'/;;^/// of taxes by an agent subsequently rati- fied by the Elector, is a sufficient qualification. Dauphin County Election, 32 Legal Intelligencer, Page 59 ; Marshall vs. Baldwin, ibid 20S. And such has been the uniform decisions of the Courts of Philadelphia, upon cases in which this precise (juestion was in issue. In the registration of voters, the law requires a personal application to the Assessor by the voter ; but in the Constitution requiring the payment of the tax, and the Registry act, e xaotia g the provisions of the Constitution, it ^ is nowhere rc(iuired to be paid l)y the hand of the voter. If therefore the ^ act be done, within the proper time, the spirit and policy of the law have '^ been complied with. A minor, on arriving at age, may ratify a promise made during his minority, and the sa ti fc ^f a o t i on relates back to the date of the y promise. It thereupon iiccomes a promise binding in the law, upon the in- ' 4 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. (livi'lual, not from the date of ratification, but from tiic date of the ])romisc'. What diflereiic'(! in j)riiici])lc can there he between .sueh a ease, and the (luestion here ])resented ? This view is in accordance with tlic uniform practice of both parties, under our present Constitution. But if the hvw ba, as to the payment of tax as chiimed by eontestaut in his Brief, then it is worthy of remark that he is utterly re_<:^ardless of this, his own Rule, in the abstract containing his list of voters which lie admits were illegally cast for him, and his opponent, re- spectively : for ia every case where the vote would be illegal under the Ilule, and it is proven to have been cast for Contestee, he charges it as an illegal vote ; but where the proof shows .that such vote was cast for Contes- tant, in every instance he counts it as a legal vote. We have but one further remark to make on this point the enforcement of this Rule as contended for by Contestant, will greatly increase the number of illegal votes shown to have been cast for him. In Contestant's Brief (Page 7) it is conceded that a tax receipt is not conclusive, but only prima facie evidence of the payment, and where it is shown that the tax was paid, in fact within one month of the day of Elec- tion, or was never paid at all, and the Receipt antedated, that the Receipt is worthless. To this doctrine we most heartily subscribe. If the tax was not paid in legal time, the defect could not be cured by a receipt dated back. But if the tax were paid in legal time, the antedating of a receipt, so as to correspond with the actual day of payment, however improper the practice may be, could have no effect to destroy the right of the Elector to vote upon such payment of tax. Under the operation of this Rule, suppose it should appear that an active partisan of a candidate should on the day before the Election go to the col- lector, with a list of names of voters, and pay or agree to pay their taxes, and on the same day, to-wit : the Fourth (,4th) of November, 1878, obtain from the collector receipts for such persons, antedating them to the 3i'd day of September, 1878, and then on the following day, at the Election, give each one of such persons a ticket for such candidate, and go with him to the Polls, and at the Polls hand the voter such antedated tax receipt, upon which the Election Officers received the vote ; and suppose further, that after said election, (such candidate having been defeated) said partisan, in order to conceal his fraud, should go to the voters and request them to destroy the receipts, would such persons so voting be regarded as legal voters ? We think not. We regard such a case as a fair illustration o. the pernicious character of a practice of which contestant complains. For such a case, in the interests of this Contestatit, we refer to the printed testimony relating to Hoiitzdale Borough, Clearfield county, (see Pages, 1642-1650-1632-1638-1820- 1822-2191-2293-2294). See also the testimony of Benjamin Hartshorn, (Pages 1672-1674) and Albert McGeary, (Pages 1655-1658) and John T. Stage and others (Pages 2071-2072-2077 and 2085) relating to Curwensville Borough and Pike township, Clearfield county. If the Rule be as stated by Contestant on page 8 of his Brief, that pay- ment of the taxes of a large number of voters, by political committees, without the knowledge or consent of the voters, is not a good payment, then a very strong illustration of the evils flowing therefrom would be where a chairman of a County Committea would make such payment, out of the cam])aign funds, as was done by the chairman of the Democratic Committee of Clearfield county in the interest of Contestant, and perhaps with his ap- proval, on the night of October 5th, 1878, by which operation the taxes of Thirty or more voters were paid, without their knowledge or consent, in many instances, and the receipts distributed to them on Election day; CURTIN VS. VOCUM. 5 which pcr.-ons voted for Contestant and are counted as lc;:al voters for him in his Brief, Reference in \m)()i of thi.s is made to printed testimony, (Pages 56G-102:Mr)r)l-U)!)7-581 and 8G7.S) rehiting to Ck-arfiehl horough and Law- rence township, Clcarliekl county; also (Pages 21o:}-21or)) relating to Bell township in said county. It is scarcely neces.sary to state that under the Constitution it is not requi- site that tax should be assessed ivithin the two years — simply the payment must he made within the two years. 8cc 2 Brewster, 138. V>\\i'\i\ii abso- lutety necessary that the tax he assessed upon the individual himself. Catlin vs. Smith, 2 8. & R. page 267. It is charged by Contestiint in his notice of contest, and argued in his brief, that the returns of certain election districts should be disregarded and the entire poll set aside, l)ecause he alleges, 1st, That the election officers were not qualified. 2d, That fraud was perpetrated in the conduct of the election. od. The existence of such irregularities or misconduct as to render the result uncertain. We will consider these allegations in their order. In a number of districts, (as many on the one side as on the other), the election officers were not properly sworn. "We contend that such failure does not vitiate or affect the return, and that for this cause the returns cannot be set aside ; and that the election officers are nevertheless officers de facto, and their acts are valid as to third parties and the public. It is sufficient if the officers have color of authority. The recent judicial decisions of Pennsylva- nia are all to this effect, and the acts of an officer de facto are as valid as those of an officer de jure. Stevenson vs. Lawrence, 5 Phila. R. 88 ; Boil- eau's case, 2 Pau'e., 503 ; Baird vs. Bank, 11 S. & R., 414. _ '•' In this latter case the court say if the officers of election fail to perform their duty the law provides a penalty, hut the election is not therefore rend- ered void * * * The principle of colorable election holds not only as to the right of electing, but also of being elected." Jukcr vs. Comth., 8 Harris 48o ; Thompson vs. Ewing 1 Brcwst. 99. The decisions of other States are to the same effect. :Miiriken vs. Fuller, 1 Bartlett (N, Y.) 176. Clark vs. Hall, Ibid 215. Flander vs. Hahn, Ibid 443. Blair vs. Barrett, Ibid 313. This question was reviewed at length in the case of Barnes vs. Adams, which arose in the Forty-First Congress, reported in 2 Bartlett (N.Y.) 760. Most of the cases arising both in Congress and in the courts, were cited and examined and tlu* conclusion was reached both by the Committee and the House, that in order to give validity to the official acts of an officer of elec- tions, so far as they affect third parties and the public in the absence of fraud, it is only necessary that such officer shall have the color of authority. The report of the Committee in this case was adopted by the House after full discussion in July, 1870. See Congressional Globe, pages 5179 to 5193. The same question was decided in Eggleston vs. Strader, 2 Bartlett (N. Y.) 897 In People vs. Cook 4 Selden (N. Y.) it is held as follows : " The doctrine that whole comnmnities of electors may be disfranchised for the time being, and a ?ninority candidate forced into an office because one or more of the judges of elections have not been duly sworn, or were not duly chosen, finds no support in the decisions of our judicial tribunals. See also McCrary's American Law of Elections, Sections 77-78 and 79. As to the other specifications of irregularities on the part of the election officers, the evidence utterly fails in any particular to point out a single fmudnient Jtet of any officer. S^ijrbt errors of judgment may occur, and no 6 CURTIN VS. VOCUM. doubt will hereafter occur ; but that there was any attempt by any election board in this congressional district to do an act contrary to law, or to in- fluence the election by improper conduct, or to assist, combine, conspire, or act with any partisan, in the interest of Conteste?, or in any manner to pre- vent, alter, or change the free ballot of the people, or to falsify the result of the election, or in any way or manner .'to control the electors or influence their judgment, or knowingly or willingly receive the vote of an}"- one, not legally entitled to vote, or refuse to receive the vote of any one legally en- titled, we utterly deny ; and in this investigation and upon this point we in- vite the closest scrutiny into the conduct of the several Election Boards im- peached. The evidence is full of the testimony of the election ofiicers, called by both sides, in this contest, and in no single instance is there anything shown affecting the honor, honesty, motive or purpose of any ofiicer; while upon the contrary it is clearly and fully shown that each and all acted bona fide, and with perfect fairness, indifferent as to the result. This is the first contest that has ever arisen in this district. The character of the people composing the district is such that of itself would repel the charge of fraud in this election. Almost the entire population is devoted to agriculture. In scarcely any one of the counties can there be said to be even a floating vote. The vast majority of the people of this district are natives of the district. They are " to the manor born." They arc educated to labor, and not to practices of fraud, as charged by Contestant. In addition to this, the organi- izations of the large majority of the election boards were in the hands and under the control of the partisans of Contestant, and have been for many years under the control of the Democratic party. Five counties out of the six are, and always have been, Democratic ; each one of these five counties gave Contestant majorities, and but one (Union) gave Coutestee a majority. It is w^orthy of notice that in the county of Union there is not, in the notice of contest, a single charge of fraud or fraudulent conduct on behalf of the election boards, or any of them, or any irregularity in the election. It will be further noticed in the testimony that Contes- tant, during the forty days allowed him to take testimony, failed to prove a single fraudulent or illegal vote, although the county w-as searched with diligence from one end to the other. Not a single illegal vote for any cause ! And yet in view of this fact contestant in his brief admits ten illegal votes for himself ! We propose now to notice the charges as to these several election districts in detail, and we will state the substance of the testimony in reference thereto^ as proven both by contestant and contestee. First — As to PhilipsMirg borough, Centre county : It is alleged by Contestant that overseers were appointed according to law,, but were not permitted to act ; that the election ofiicers did not check off the names of voters from the registry list, as they voted, and that a large num- ber of persons were permitted to vote who were not qualified, &c. These overseers were J. J. Lingle and Albert Owen — both partisans of Contestant and life-long Democrats. They both swear that they ivere not dis- turbed in the performance of their duties ; that they remained at the polls with the election officers during the entire day, and ^'were treated with the ut- most courtesy!'' But in law they were not overseers ; they were in fact partisan intruders of Contestant. The act of Assembly, approved January 31, 1874, Ph. L. 33, Section 4, under which they claimed to be appointed, provides that upon the petition of five or more citizens, it shall be the duty of the Court of CUUTIN VS. YOCUM. ^ Common Pleas of tlic proprr cnuiity, all the law jnd^^es able to act at the time conairritii^, to apijoiiit /iiv yV/r()duce(], is a cardinal rule of evidence, and yet Contes- tant, well knowing that the contents of the halhjt box in this district would .surely and iully prove or disprove his allegations, took not a single step to preserve them ! although he knew that before the time arrived lalien Con- testee eouhi begin the taking of his testimony the boxes would be opened and the contents destroyed. When this was perceived by Contestec he presented his own petition to the courts of Clearfield and Centre counties, praying ^the court under the laws of our State, in relation to like contests, to grant an order on the several election officers in the districts where the returns were attacked by Contestant in his notice of contest, to preserve the contents of the ballot boxes, so that they might be produced in evidence before the Commissioner. This application was resisted by counsel in the interest of Contestant, and the court thereupon refused making the decree, as will be .seen by ref- erence to the printed testimony. This resistance to the preservation of the ballot boxes was made after the testimony in many cases developed the fact that the election officers had inadvertently placed in the boxes, and sealed up the same, certain important election papers, to wit : lists of voters, affidavits of non-registered voters and registries ; some of which they should have returned and filed with the Pro- thonotary. The assertion therefore by counsel in their Brief, that Contes- tee suppressed evidence is unworthy of further notice. The, investigation of Benner township, however, revealed the fact that Contestec had received one hundred and twenty votes and Contestant but ninety-nine, and the majority for Contestec should have been twenty-one instead of thirteen, as the official returns made it. TiriKiJ. — College township, Centre eounty, : The allegations are: 1st. The election board returned no list of voters. 2d. Disregarded many important requirements of the law. .'}d. Members of the board took from the ballot box the lists of voters and i)laced them in the hands of Contestec's counsel by whom they were sup])ressed. The evidence taken by ConJestant and Contestec shows that the officers were sworn, and it further shows that all the iniportani and material re(iuirenieiits of the luw were observed. That the list of voters was placed in the ballot box and, although bitterly opi)o.-;ed by counsel for Contestant, wa.s offered in evidence by Contestec. Counsel .seem to forget that any effort to supj)ress evidence and exclude the light which could have been obtained by a preservation of the ballot boxes were made by them as representing Contestant. The officers of College township produced the list of voters and ball) that the justice swore the judge, and the judge swore the rest of the hoard. It will scarcely he contended tliat such an irregularity could aflcctthe return oC election ; neither will the ( 'ont<'stant agree that the returns ironi Wallaceton horough and Morris township, where all the officers were sworn hy u justice of the peace, or those from Chest township, wliere the record sliows ■ they were not sworn at all, shall be disregarded ; for in all these districts, in the same eoujity, he received large majorities. 2 — That no registry was used by the board, nor names cheeked from it as voted, is an allegation not sustained by the testimony, and is distinctly dis- proved l)y George W. (^uinn, the Democratic judge, (page 1874), who him- self kept the registry list, and in every instance referred to it, excej)t where he knew the voter's name was thereon. 3 and 9 — The third charge, that no proof of district residence was required of non-registered voters, is contradicted l)y Contestant's witness, John Sandrock, one of the Inspectors, (pages 500-508), and l)y George Quimi, Judge, (pages 1 874-1875) called by Contcstce. And the ninth charge, that no affidavits in writing were taken from such voters, is disproved by IMr. Qninn, (pagel87o) who states distinctly that such affidavits were taken and deposited in the ballot box, instead of forwarding them with the returns to Clearfield, as was done in many other districts. AVhile this is the condition of proof, as to what was required of non-registered voters, in that district, and is uncontra- dicted, except by negative proof, in the following districts, in the same county, which gave majorities for C-ontestant, no affidavits of non-rc^istercd voters were returned, to-wit : Clearfield, Newburg, Osceola and Wallaceton boroughs. Bell, Bloom, Boggs, Chest, Ferguson, Jordon, Lawrence, Morris, Penn and Pike townshijis, (see pages 1601-1002 and exhibits); of these, in Chest, (page 8074), Jordon, (page 2167), and Morris, (page 2178), there is affirmative proof that no affidavits in writing were taken from such voters, and in Bell, (pages 8511-3512-8518 and 365'8), and Pike, (pages 8510-3516) townships, the unregistered voters themselves were called for the purpose of qualification, and testify that no ])roof whatever was required of them by the board, yet the Contestant would be unwilling to have the returns from these districts taken from this count. lu order to preserve the contents of the ballot boxes, and thereby relieve this case from any dispute as to what papers were required, or taken, and de- posited by the board, an a])plication was made by Contcstce on January 25th, 187i), to the court of Clearfield county, asking for an order to preserve the contents of the ballot boxes. This a])plication was opposed by Contestant's counsel, it being urged by them that it would be too expensive to provide new ballot boxes, (page 1608). The result was that no such onlcr was made, and the contents of the boxes were destroyed, at the next townshi|) election on Feliruary 18th, 1870. AVhile this course was pursued by Contestee's counsel, the Contestant's counsel took a more direct route. Having begun the in- vestigation and learned that the ballot box of Woodward district was at the same place and in the same custody it had been at all previous elections, and where so far as any testimony indicates it was wholly free from tampering, they directed that it be placed in difierent custody, (pages 516 and 18G9;. Accord- ingly a Justice of the Peace, who hail no more right to the custody of that ballot box than any other citizen of the county, (page 2250), obtained pos- session of it, and by direction examined its contents. He [x?rformed this delicate office secretly and privately upon two or three occasions. He wanted to see if eertain persons, whose names Imd been handed him, by thp 12 CURT IN VS. YOCUM. Democratic ('onstable, lliggeus, had voted. lie al.so wanted to .see if there were affidavits of non-registered voters. Having satisfied himself upon these essentials, he then directed his atten- tion to the individual ballots, to discover how some of his neighbors had voted, (pages ol) a number of persons on the ground that their iiames did not appear on the register}' list. The election board held, that the parties had a right to vote on account of us having no assessor in the tcjwnship to register them. They did not require them to sign written affidavits, and produce affidavits by other* qualified electors." The challenge here was not /or any specific cause, other than non-registration. Wliether the board required proof, other than b}^ written affidavits, is not asked the ^vitness, nor stated by him. No witness swears he challenged a single voter for any cause upon which his vote could legally be excluded, and the board disregarded his challenge. This dearth of proof, on so important a charge, is significant. Put alongside of this, the testimony of the Inspector, John Sandrock, Contestant's own witness, [page 506]: " We required of them, first that they were either native-born " or naturalized citizens of the United States, and that they had been in the " State over one year, and six (6) moxths in the county, and thirty (sixty) " days in the township, and that they had paid a State and County tax " within two years and not later than thirty days previous to the election, " and [page 508]. Question. Was any person permitted to vote at that " election, whose right to do so was challenged without being required to " produce legal proof of his right to vote? Answer. No sir, there were " not. Question. When a naturalized person claimed the right to vote, " and his citizenship was called in question, was he required to produce his " papers, or make such other proof as the law requires ? Answer. These *' were called to produce their papers, and give such proof as the law re- " quires." 5 — That the clerk of the board was permitted to omit part of the oath, as to payment of tax, in qualifying voters. Luther swears to the fact that some of the voters were only asked if they had paid tax within two (2) years. That such omission was wilful, even he docs not pretend. But as to the fact of such omission he is contradicted by Contestant's other witness, who«e lan- guage has just been referred to, and who had better o})portu:iity for knowl- edge of the fact, and has exhibited no bias, one way or the other, and is cor- roborated by David Westover, the other inspector, [page 510], and by George Quijin, the judge, [page 1873.] ( I'KIIN VS. YOft'.M. 13 G — Tlie sixlli cluirgc alleges tlu; hoanl did not re'|U'ro prudii.-tion of iiatu- ralizalion certificates, save in a few instanco.«, Tiic testimony of all the' nieinhers of the board is, that all persons who had voted leas than five years on naturalization papers, were required to produce them, except in those cases where the board, or some of its niend)ers, had seen the j)apers of the voter at former elections, and knew he was (jualified [pages oOd, oOH, and 510 and 187.'!.] While this was not a strict compliance with the terms of the law, it was doubtless as full compliance as the board honestly believed was re(iuired. That many of the pajjcrs were exhibited to the board, is evi- dent from the nundier which incidentally appears by the testimony taken in j)roving votes in this district to have been endorsed by the board, allhough it is not probable that near all which were produced were so endorsed. It appears that the papers of the following voters were endorsed, "Votcii at Woodward, November 5, 187S," to wit : Joseph Reese, page oil. Whitfield Kddy, page 178."). John Thomas, ))age 18o.'i. Josei)h Wilkinson, j)age 1871). Phili]) JJenard, jiage 188(). Thomas Steel, i)age 2271. Jacob Cam})bell, page'o5-'>G. Thomas Larigan, page ')041. iMichael Kelly, page .''418. Solomon Longstader, page 0451. The first six of these voted for Contestee, and the last four for Contest- ant, which proportion indicates that no discrimination was made against Con- testant in this ro(iuirenient of voters. Besides the proof furnished by the endorsement on these ])apers, nearly every voter who was asked the (juestion, testified that he was recjuired to make proof of his right to vote, when that right was cpiestioned or his name not on the registry. 7 — That one of the inspectors knowingly voted on a fraudulent tax receipt, and the other i)erniitted his son to do so. Neither charge is sustained by the proof Sandrock, inspector, [pages 507, 508], paid his tax in good faith about sixty days before the election to another partv who agreed to i)ay the collector, but failed to do so until less than thirty days before the elec- tion. While he loses his vote, the Contestant's own proof shows that he had no knowledge of the actual date of i)ayment to the collector, nor of the antc- dathig of the lax leceipt, and that when he voted he honestly believed he was a legal votvr. If (he fact of his being an illegal voter affects the return, then the retu.rn of IJell townshi}), in the same county, which gave Contestant a majority, is effected in the same way, for one of the inspectors, William O'Dell [page 2150], was an illegal voter by non-payment of tax. The ob- jection to tlie other inspector — David Westover — assumes, without proof, that lie knew his son — Aaron Westover — was above twenty-two [22] years of age, and knew he had not paid tax in legal time, and knowingly permitted him. illegally, to vote. These tilings cannot be taken as truth, without some kind of proof, and there is none. It is not even attempted to show that his atten- tion was in any way directed, by challenge or otherwise, to his son's vote, and the testimony of the son is, [page 525] that his fatlior knew nothing about when his taxes were paid. 8 — That all persons were allowed to vote who had 187() tax receipts; if by this is meant that all persons whose tax receipts were dated in 1870, prior to November 5th of that year, then there is no proof of any such allegation. At mo.?t it amounts to an attetiipt, by putting words in the mouth of a wit- 14 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. iu'.s.s, to confound the cases of receipts dated in the latter part of that year, \vith those over two years old in date. 10 — That the board failed to deposit the ballot-box in the proper custody. The proof is that the clerk, who was the justice of the peace residing nearest the election house, proposed to take charge of the box, andrGeorgc Quinn — • the Democratic judge — insisted that it remain at the election house, for the reason that such hud always been the custom at other elections [pages 1874 and 2251.] There is no proof whatever that the ballot-box was touched, or its contents in any way disturbed, during those ten days nor until it was im- proi)erly seized and clandestinely examined by a partisan of Contestant. That the failure to deposit tlie box in the proper custody can affect the return, will scarcely be contended. If so, then the returns of Knox town- ship, [page 2225 and 1691], and Morris township [page 2173 and 1749], in the same county, which gave majorities for Contestant, are effected to the same extent. The testimony of the members of the election board of Wood- ward is that the box was properly secured when it left their hands. The testimony of Joseph G. Higgins, who next received it, is that all the divis- ions of the box except one were closed carefully ; whether they were sealed or not he cannot say, and in this he contradicts Luther, the final depository of the box. But the testimony shows that it was quite as well secured as were the boxes in Chest, Knox and Morris townsliips, in the same county, with which no fault will be found by Contestant. Eighth — Houtzdale borough, Clearfield county. The allegations relating to this district are : First — That the board was illegally organized, and a legal organization prevented by ccnfusion and a tumultuous assemblage, and in consequence the polls not opened for more than an hour after the time fixed by law. Second — That the board did not number the ballots. Third — That they did not check off the registry list. Fourth — That they did not require affidavits and proof of residence from non-registered voters. Fifth — That they did not require the production of naturalization papers frona foreign-born citizens. 1 — The facts proven as to the first charge — the organization of the board — are: The officers elected were Sharbaugh, (Democrat), Judge. McDermott, (Greenback) and Charleton (Republican), Inspectors. On the morning of the election, both Sharbaugh, the Judge, and Charleton, the Inspector, were absent, and McDermott, the other Inspector, alone being present, appointed Dennis White, (who was of the same political faith as himself), Judge. The complexion of the board, caused dissatisfaction among those who were opposed to the Greenback party, and some dispute arose. The princi- pal actor in this disturburbance was a Democratic Justice of Houtzdale, who was an active partisan of Contestant, and who had distinguished him- self on the day before by ante dating tax receipts, and on that day by dis- tributing them with tickets for Contestant, and subsequently by advising the voters to destroy such receipts, and to whom we have already referred. He alone is shown to have used violent, or threatening, language. Because of this dissatisfaction the newly appointed Judge did not wish to act, and after a delay of an hour J. S. JNIoore, (Republican), was selected by the persons present to fill the vacancy in the office of Judge. The absent Inspector's place was filled by Robert IMcNamara, (Democrat), he having at the preceding borough election received the next highest number of votes for Judge, which fact entitled him, under the law, to the place of the absent Inspector, (page 536-539-1877 and 1878). The law provides that wliere a vacancy in the board continues fot* one hour, the voters present CURTrV vs. YOCUM. 15 are entitled to select a person to fill it. There hein^ no stcp-J taken hy D.nnls White to fill tlu' duties of his appointment and no orjranizatiori of the hoard, we sul)niit that the selection of Moore, as .Indite, was p.o- per and le^al, and that both vaeaneies were filled as the law provides. If the law were otherwise the Denioeratic Justice and his crowil rruirht have wholly j)revented an election. But even if the ori;anization of the board was not strictly regular, in the absence of fraud or unfairncs.s practiced by its officers, there wa.s at most an honest mistake, and that made to avoid the imj)utation of unfairness, and at the instance of Con- testant's warmest friends. A like case occurred in Decatur township, in the same county, where the board appearing all to be of one party, the Judge at the request of Contestant's supporters appointed that one of their number, who at the preceding election, had received the next high- est number of votes for Judge, as Inspector, instead of the regularly elected Inspector, (page r)72), and no such irregularity has ever been held to efTect the return. A nuich stronger case against tlie validity of a board, is that in Bell township, the same county, where Contestant received a majority, and where an unsworn supporter of Contestant took the place of the Republican inspector, who was called away, after the l)olls had opened, and proceeded to attend to the duties of inspector du- ring the balance of the day, although the returns were afterwards signed and certified by the absent inspector, who could have no knowledge of their correctness. 2 — The omission to number the ballots was an oversight which is fully explained by the testimony of the members of the board, and in any event could bave no greater effect on this district than the same kind of omission would have on the returns from Jordan township, in the same county, whieh gave Contestant a majority [page 2167.] — That tbe board did not check off the registry list, is not sustained by the proof, and is contradicted by the Democratic inspector [page 18'")^)], and no such strange result appears as in Brady township, in the same county, where Contestant had a majority, and where the registry list w'as checked and ballots numbered ; and yet the names of D. D. McHugh — who was not in that county on election day [page 583], and of Frederick Knorr, who was in the district, but was not at the election at all that day [pages 1701) and 211-")] — both appear on the list of voters numbered respectively 458 and 100 ; while the name of F. B. Williams does not appear on that list, although he swears positively [page 1658] that he voted in that district at that election. 4 — That affidavits wdre not required of non-registered voters. This alle- gaticm is shown not to be correct by Contestant's own witness [page 580], and it appears by that witness, corroborated by another witness [page 18')!)] called by Contestce, both of them officers of the board, that such affidavits were required and deposited in the ballot-box, where they remained until the borough election of February 18th, 1870, when they were destroyed. 5 — That foreign-born voters were not required to produce their naturali- zation certificates. This is contradicted by the proof [pages 528 and 1850] ; upon the several charges against this district, we respectfully invite attention to the testimony in full of James H. Moore, judge of election, [pages 527- 531], and P. McDermott, inspector, [pages 585-589], which is relied on by Contestant, and also to the testimony of Dennis White [pages 1877-1870], and Robert McNamara, a Democratic inspector, [pages 1858-1860]. This testimony, taken together, establishes that the election was fairly and honestly conducted, and wholly disproves any allegation of unfairness or fraud. To this may be added that it is rather significant that in this district, so com- plained of, Contestant admits [page 32 of his Brief] that out of eleven (11) ]6 rtiKTiN vs. vot;i!M. ])r()/('ii illi'gal votcs.eiu'lit (8) of tlioiii woix; cii.>t lor liiin. The ti'iieo)uiit of illfgal votes shows that he received a slill larger l)enelit iVoiu whateviT wioiig was (h)iie in this distrieto We confidently submit that there is no ground whatever upon which the returns from eitlier of these districts — Woodward or Houtzdale — can be rejected. In view of the strained attempt by Contestant to impeach the con- duct of the election ofiicers as fraudulent and unfair, and the undue advan- tage which was obtained by successfully op[)osing Contestec's application for the preservation of the contents of the ballot-boxes, while he obtained access to that one in reference to which he raises the dispute as to what it con- tained, it is singular that so little has been devclo])ed in support of the charges made, and that the only material part of that little comes from those who were actively engaged in working up Contestant's case. The Demo- cratic judge of the election board of AVijodward was the most experienced member of that l)oard, liaving before that time frequently held positions on election boards. The Democratic inspector of Iloutzdale was the oldest and perhaps the best informed member of that board. Both these men swear they voted for Contestant, but there is nothing to show an undue bias for him on their part, either at or since the election. They were both called as wit- nesses by Contestant, but not a question touching the conduct of the election by his counsel. They were both called by Contestee, and their testimony shows the entire fairness and freedom from bias with which the elections were conducted. AVhile we did not apprehend that a careful examination of the evidence could result in any action by the committee which would disregard the returns from these districts, the Contestee has called a large number of voters in each of them and proven their qualifications. We elsewhere in this Brief state fully the reasons why such proof of votes cast for Contestee can- not in any event be set off by like proof of votes for Contestant offered in rebuttal. When the Contestant asks that a return be disregarded, and makes his attack upon the i)oll of a district and goes no farther by his case-in-chief, he cannot in rebuttal prove votes for himself. He may contradict or rebut the proof offered by his opponent, but he cannot then luake out a ])art of his case-in-chief. If there is any case in which the rule as to what is evidence- in-chief and what in rebuttal should be strictly applied, it is in a case like the present, where each party is limited in time and in character of i)roof by a statute which gives the defense no o])poi'tunity to answer what is offered in rebuttal. Ninth — IV^s/ Keating township. Clinton counly. The allegation here is, (in Contestant's Brief',") there was no registry list, as required by law. Referring to the notice of contest, page 24, section 08, we find that there is no irregularity alleged against this district ; we might, therefore, dispense with any discussion upon th.s subject, but we desire to refer the committee to the testimony, for the purpose of showing how baseless in law and in fact is this allegation. Suj)pose, however, for the sake of the argument, that the County Com- missioners fail to lurnish a registry of voters to the election board, does that vitiate the election ? Are honest voters to be disfranchised because some in- ^, in fact tlie only evich-nee eonsisted in tlie jjroduction of the.se rejxistry lisl.s ; ihat it wsis in ihe jHiwer of ('ontestant to ])ro(Uico tliein, and that ii|)()n a i)ro])er petition ad- dressed to the Court hy Contestant an order eouhl readily he oh'.ained to open the boxes and j)roduee the eontent-s befor^' the eoninii.', K. Kerlin Elias Breon William Hassinger. Non-payment of tax Non-payment of tax Non-payment of tax Non-payment of tax Non-registered and non-pay ment of tax* Non-re.oident No citizen.ghip, naturalized too soon Non-payment of tax Non-resident Non-payment of tax Non-citizenship Non-paymentof tax Non-residence Non- payment of tax Non-payment of tax Non-resident Non-payment of tax 7 fraudulent votes counted for Curtin Total Illegal. 12S7 1287 1287 1287—3069 3201 3184—3185 3118 3120 3122—3123 3139 3140 3150 3164 3192 3193 3197—3198 3204 1263—1264 241 Official vote— Curtin 107; Yocum 120. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 83 ; Yocum 120. "^Admitted by Contestant. BOGGS TOWNSHIP. Franklin Hoover Bribery 1294—1295 James McClain Bribery 1294—1295 William Brown Non-residence 1295 Allen Bathurst Non-residence 1297 — 1298 John L. Croft Non-payment of tax. 1298 1302 Alios Kohlbecker (or Alois Coldecker) Bribery 3075 1325—1324 E. C. Poorman Non-reo'istered... 214-254-1575 E. ,J. Grassmire Non-reo'istered 214-254-1575 John Dixon Non -registered 214-254-1575 Hugh Sharp Non-registered 214-254-1575 Thomas Poorman Non-registered 214-254-1575 Joh n Gor m any Non-registered. 214-254-1575 .Tohnson Warner Non-ren'istered 214-254-1575 Martin Haines Non-registered 214-254-1575 Charles Smoyer Non-registered 214-254-1575 Total Illecrai Official vote— Curtin 196; Yocum 209. Printed testimony, page 137. Corrected vote— Curtin 181 ; Yocum 209. CUUTIN VS. YOCUM. 33 CURTIN TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. Ground of Illrgaliti/. Page. Illegal Vote. Name of Illegal Voter. KOU WHOM CAST Cur tin Yocum * Harry Watkins Non-payment of tax 330G— 1332 1 Total illegal 1 Official vote — Curtin 54 ; Yocum 3"). See page 137 printed testimony. Corrected vote — Curtin 53; Yocum 35. *Admitted by Contestant FERGUSON TOWNSHIP (EASTERN PKECINCT.) John C. Eckle Adam H. Krumrine. James Arcliv William Mil'ier Non-regietered.. Non-registered.. Non-registered.. Non-registered . Total Illegai. 248-274-1352 do. do- 15% do. do 4! Official vote — Curtin 104; Yocum 124. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 100 ; Yocum 124. GREGG TOWNSHIP. F. B. Hosterman. Non-payment of tax. Total Illegal 110 Official vote — Curtin 246; Yocum 68. See page 137 printed testimony. Corrected vote — Curtin 245 ; Yocum 68. HAINES TOWNSHIP. C. N. Philips. Non-aesessed and non-pay- ment of tax Total Illegal. 3333 Official vote — Curtin 212 ; Yocum 107. Printed testimony, page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 211 ; Yocum 107. HALFMOON TOWNSHIP. James Cross. ^Non-payment of ta:: Total Illegal 1303 Official vote — Curtin 31 ; Yocum 103. Printed in testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 30; Yocum 103. *Admitted by Contestant. HARRIS TOWNSHIP. James M. Way. Non-resident Total Illegal.. 105 Official vote — Curtin 108 ; Yocum 57. Printed teatimony page 1 37, Corrected vote — Curtin 107 : Yocum 57- 34 CtfRTlN VS. YOCUM. HOWARD TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. Name of Illcr/al Vota: Ground of Illcr/aliti/. Page. 1 Illegal Vote. 1 FOR WHOM CAST 1 Curiin Yocum Frank Con fer Non-reo-istereil 195-208-1593 1 Total Illegal 1 l| Official vote — Curtin 81 ; Yocum 86. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 80 ; Yocum 86. HUSTON TOWNSHIP. Joseph Brown Bribery 1314 -1315 Official vote — Curtin 34; Yocum 124. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 33; Yocum 124. LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. *S S Kunes Non-payment of tax 1317 1323 1 1 : 1 Amos Rupert Non-payment of tax 1 Total Illet^al ' 2I Official vote — Curtin 54; Yocum 130. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 52 ; Yocum 130. *Admitted by Coutestant MARION TOWNSHIP. Daniel Delancy 'Non-payment of tax William Leoder Non-resident Total Illegal Official vote — Curtin 94; Yocum 43, Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 92 ; Yocum 43. Official vole — Curtin 21 ; Yocum 112. Printed testimony page 137 Corrected vote — Curtin 20; Yocum 110. CURTJN VS. YOCUM. 35 ItUSII TO'WXSini', t'KNTKK COUNTY. Name of Illegal Volcr. Ground of lUcgaliti/. Pajc. 1 Illegal Vote. FOR WHOM CAST Curtin. \ Yocum .loll II Nason Noii-resiilence l;U9 1557—1559 1559—1558 1562 1 1 1 I IX N. Bartoc Not assessed and non-pay- ment of tax Non- payment of tax Non-payment of tax Lewis Fike Thomas Cartwright Total Illegal 4 Official vote — Curtin 95 ; Yocum 95. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 91 ; Yocum 95 SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP. Daniel Sliank Non-payment of tax. 1 Total Illegal 54 Official vote — Curtin 75; Yocum 130. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 75 ; Yocum 135. SPRING TOWNSHIP. Wm. !McGo\van... Thornton Hunter. William Morgan.. Wash Johnson.... Miclial Cratty Stephen Frost George Noll Samuel llice L. P. Corman John nines John Corman W. H. Alters Wm. Barnhart.... Tlico. Aikey Non Non Non Non Non. Non- Non- Non- Non- Non- Non- Non- Non- Non- payment of tax. payment of tax. registered payment of tax.. payment of tax., registered registered registered registered registered registere I registered registered payment of tax.. ('harles Corman Non-registered James Emerick jNon-paymcnt of tax.. Abraham Baird 1 -Non-payment of tax. J. F. Lutz *^' Non-payment of tax and non-residence. 1315—1316 1715—1717 93 94 120 126 1320-225-271 do 1327- do do do do do do 1327—1333 1347—1315 1340-225-271 1347 1593 1590 Total Illegal. 151 Official vote — Curtin 177 ; Yocum 240. Printed in testimony page 1.37 Corrected vote — Curtin 162; Yocum 237 *Admitted by Contestant. i(> CURTIN VS. YOCUM. TAYLOR TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. Ground of Illegality. Page. 1 Illegal Vote Name of Illegal Voter. FOR WnOM CAST 1 Curtin \ Yocum Heb Blowers Non- registered „ Total Illegal 199—210 1591-2 1 1 1 Official vote — Curtin 52; Yocum 65. Printed testimony page 137 Corrected vote — Curtin 51 ; Yocum 65 WALKER TOWNSHIP. John Vonada J. V, Twitmire... Hezekiah Sprohl. John Sproul Samuel Sproul Non -registered Non-registered Non-payment of tax. Non-payment of tax. Non-payment of tax. Total Illegal 1321—1423 1449 do 3287 328S 3290 Official vote — Curtin 199; Yocum 111. Printed testimony page 137. Corrected vote — Curtin J 94 ; Yocum 111. WORTH TOWNSHIP. Leonard Sharrer. James Murray Non-registered .. Non-registered ., Total Illegal. 178-206-1348 do Official vote — Curtin 67 ; Yocum 75. Printed testimony 137. Corrected vote — Curtin 65; Yocum 75. CUKTIN VS. VdLL'M. 37 CORRECTED RESULT IN CT^NTllE COUNTY. ELECTION DLSTKKT.S. Bcllofonte borough — North ward Bellcfontc borough — Soutli ward Bcllefontc borough — AVcst ward Milesburg borough .official Uniouville borough official Howard borougli official Philipsburg borough Benncr township Boggs township Burnside township official College township official Curtin township official Ferguson township, (East precinct) Ferguson township, (West precinct) official Gregg township Haines township • Halfmoon township Harris townsliip Howard township Huston township Liberty township Marion township Miles township official Patton townshi]) Penn township official Potter township, (Northern precinct) official Potter township, (Southern precinct official Rush township Snow Shoe townshij^ Spring township Taylor township Union township official "Walker township Worth township Total... Majority Curtin. \ Yocum. 1.34 133 111 113 41 84 32 98 34 43 38 53 136 198 83 120 181 20!) 22 46 64 185 53 35 100 124 20 111 245 68 211 107 30 103 107 57 80 86 33 124 52 130 92 43 228 79 20 110 257 34 166 74 169 79 91 95 75 135 162 237 51 65 61 116 194 111 65 75 38 CURTIN VS. YOCUM CL EA RFIELD CO UN TV. CLBABFIKLD BOROUGH. it! -wj «o .0 Name of Illegal Voter. Ground of Illcgallbj. Face. Illegal Vote. FOR WHOM CAST Curtin | Yocum *John AV. Shupert Non-payment of tax. Non-re8i(Jence • 1604 1605—1627 1607-1625-28 1650 364S i •lames A. Mullen J no. Kettlebarger Non-payment of tax- Total Joseph n. Jones Not A. Ivauffman 5 Official vote — Cnrtin 202; Yocum 140. Printed testimony page 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 197; Yocum 140. ^Admitted by Contestant. nOUTZDALE BOROUGH. Not. *Daniel Soult * James Bradley... *Pat Muleahey *Ricbard Lillv *Edwd. Blake *John McCloskey., *Richard Bo wen... *Patk. Cavanaugb. Micbael Gouldin... Thos. Gibbon, Jr... Non-payment of tax Total 2190 1631 2197 1634 1638 1641 1820 1822 1639— 1642 1 636-1642-44 1 1 10 Official vote — Curtin 97; Yocum 111. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Cnrtin 87; Yocum 111. '^Admitted by contestant. NEW WASHINGTON BOROUGH • ■ ' 1 jWm. Mehaffey Non-residence 21601730-32 1 1 j Total 1 Official vote — Curtin 29; Yocum 21. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 28; Yocum 21. WALLACETON BOROUGH. Not. Abram Hummel Non-payment of tax] 2159 1 i Total 1 -2165 1 1 1 1 Official vole — Curtin 28 ; Yocum 3, Printsd testimony 629. Corrected vote—Curtin 27 i Yocum 3. f;i;mm vs. yocum. 39 BECCAUIA TOVVXdHIP — CLEARFIELD COUNTY. "H^ .2" Si I Name nf Illef/ul Vofcr. Wm. Ball Geo. W. Dewalt Peter Kissel! S. C. .Shofl". J no. S. Caveniler.... *Chri8t. Frederich... ■*Stepheii Frederich Ground of Illegality, Pagp. I Non-payment of tax Total 1775—1823 1781-1817-23 1782-1818-23 1785-1824 2183 1804 1816 Illegal Vote. FORWHOMCAST Curtin. Yoeum Official vote— Curtin 110; Yocum 109. Printed testimony 029. Corrected vote — Curtin 103; Yocum 109. ^Admitted by contestant. BELL TOWNSHIP. *.Taiiics Molt ]Nonpayniciit of *.Tackson Ramalay l " '" Wm. O'Dell " " Official vote — -Curtin 102; Yocum 42. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 99 ; Yocum 42. *Admittcd by Contestant, BBADY TOWNSHIP. David Snyder Non-payment of tax. Non-i'esidcn(^o 2109—2142 2140—3641 2101—2141 2116 2118 2131—3680 2105 2120 2121 j 2122 2124 1918 2124 1771 1653 2111—2115 495 620 I'" 1 1 16 ^V. V. Shannon .lohn liar wick Non-payment of lax. Non-payment of tax. Nonpayment of tax and alien David iShatier Pat (iuirk C. IT. Farncr Non-payment of tax. 11 U .i a a a U 11 (( <( (( a tt t( a ti a 11 <( u u a ^i i( a a tt illegally rojoctod Yo- cum voter *J. A. Durfee *Jno. W. Rickert *W. D. Yoas : *Geo. Shugarts *David McKinney Mas. B. Nolder *Sam'l 'I'roy *Dan"l Place Not. F. B. Williams Not Washington Dixon Geo. W. Moore Non-payment of (ax. Total 1 Jamea Murphev 1 2 Official vote— Curtin 355 ; Yocum 219. Printed testimony, 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 339; Yocum 217. ^Admitted by Conteetanl. 40 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. BOQQS TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. Name of Illegal Voter. Ground of Illegalily. Page. 1 Illegal Vote. "5o <; 1^ FOR WHOM CAST 1 Curtin \ Yocum Fenton Phelan Non-payment of tax. Same Total 1927 1922 1 1 *Uriah Bunibarger 2 Official vote— Curtin 77 ; Yocum 56. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 75 ; Yocum 56. *Admitted by Contestant, BURNSIDE TOWNSHIP, Dan'l McCracken. Dixon Vertz Non-payment of tax and bribery Same Total , 1726 1723—1727 Official vote— Curtin 61 ; Yocum 204; Printed testimony 629, Corrected voted— Curtin 59 ; Yocum 204, BLOOM TOWNSHIP. Jacob ' Gearliart Non-payment of tax. Total 1699—2133 1761 1 1 1 Official vote— Curtin 33 ; Yocum 22. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 32; Yocum 22. CHEST TOWNSHIP. Jacob Penninffton Non-payment of tax. Total 1729—1764 1 1 1 Official vote— Curtin 99 ; Yocum 80. Printed testimony, 629. Corrected vote— Curtin 98 ; Yocum 80. DECATUR TOWNSHIP. Not. *Gabriel Lucas.... Milton L. Owens.. John Kelley M. Johnson Fred Shields Benj. F. Kephart. Non-payment of tax. Total . 1712 1753—2156 1790-2-1935 2158—2159 604 1934—1935 Official vote— Curtin 105 ; Yocum 127. Printed testimony, 629. Corrected vote— Curtin 99 ; Yocum 127. ^Admitted by Contestant. FERGUSON TOWNSHIP. Nathaniel C, Tobias. Non-residence. Total... 1755 Official vote— Curtin 63 ; Yocutn 43, Printed testiraony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 62 : Yocum 43. CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 41 GRAHAM TOWNSHIP, CLBAKFIELD COUNTY. 1- Name of Illegal Voter. Ground of Illegality. Page. 1 Illegal Vote. •1^ KORWnOMCAST 1 Curtin. \ Yocum Not. R, Weight Non-payment of tax. Total 1733—] 1759! 1 ' 1 1 OflBcial vote— Curtin 48 ; Yocum 80. Printed testimony G29. Corrected vote — Curtin 47 ; Yocum 80. GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, Tlioraas Smith iNon-residence. Total.... 2103 Official vote— Curtin 49; Yocum 39. Printed testimony 029. Corrected vote — Curtin 48 ; Yocum 39. GUELICU TOWNSHIP. Not. Wm. Shaw Aaron Oaman (or Ausborn) Non-reeidence. Total... 2232 1818 Official vote — Curtin 52 ; Yocum 127. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote — Curtin 50; Yocum 127. KNOX TOWNSHIP. Not. S. Snyder Bloom Not. David W. McCracken. Non-payment of tax. 1900 Non-residence 1695 Total Official vote — Curtin 102; Yocum 29. Printed testimony G29. Corrected vote— Curtin 100 ; Yocum 29. Official vote— Curtin 249 ; Yocum 136. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote— Curtin 244 ; Yocum 136. MORRIS TOWNSHIP. Not. Not. John Rupley Geo. R. Hart Jac Sancroft George Trimble, ^K^r.''^ Non-residence.... Bribery Bribery Not naturalized. 1739-50-00 2171 089-2171 432 Total Official vote— Curtin 106; Yocum 124. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote— Curtin 162; Yocum 123. , LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP. Joseph Redinger Non-payment of tax. (1 '(( u a a u (( (( (< a (< (1 Total 1710—1745 3653 1622 3657 1696 Not. Thomas Toot (or Loots)... II. E. Lciiich Not A.J. Lenicii Christ Stafford 5 1 1 11 3:1 42 CURTIN Vs. YOCUM. PIKK TO-WNSHIP, CLKARFIKLD COUNTY. Not. Not. Not. Not. *Josepli A (1(11 Pin an. "John F. St.^ge *Lewi.s Olmsted *John Anderson *Seyniour Ross Edward Miller Rev. Smith Pratt... Albert McGarey Wm. Pyles Arnold Bloom George D. Murphey Non-payment of tax. A. A. Wright. Peter Ellinger Wesley Smith Tim Riley (or Reely) Woods Appleton W. U. Stage Robert Addleman.... Ben Johnson iNon residence Bribery Illegally rejected Yo- cum voter Illegally rejected Yo- cum voter Non payment of ta.x. Not naturalized Non payment ta.x 2069 2070 2076 1660 1668 1769 448 1655-57-72 1662-65 2076-85-71 1666 1685 3516-17 3508^010 2067 Total illegal a.x 449 u 408-451 u 451 u 451 Official vote— Curtin 154; Y Corrected vote— Curtin 140 ; ocum 86. Printed testimony 629. Yocum 82. *Admitted by contestant. UNION TOWNSHIP. Not. JElias Doney. Non-payment of ta.x.. 2091-96 I 1690-91 Total ..I Official vote— Curtin 25 ; Yocum 51. Printed testimony 629. Corrected vote— Curtin 24; Yocum 51. 14! CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 43 WOnOWAKD TnWNSniP, CLKARKIKT.D COUNTY. ft; =^ Name of Illegal Voter. GrounI of Illejaliti/. age. Illegal VoU. FOU WHOM CAST ijC^rtm I Yocum Not. *Geo. F. Walter... Richard Bowen Millard A. Schoir. 'Pcrraiice Bigley..., G. W.Smith E. M, Naah Reuben Mahew.... Stacy T. Bowman., Not. Not. Not. Josiah W.Gill..., Jona Carson John Sandrock..., Joseph Reese R. 0. McDonald.. Edwin W. Beeby. Aaron Westover.. B. Swoope J. R. Durkey Wm. Earle Wm. Smith Tiios. Paisley Thos. Mathers.... Reuben Mahew Non payment of tax.. Non-residence Non-payment of tax. Non-payment of tax. Non-payment of tax. Non- payment of tax. Non-residence Milton II. Hampton Non-residence Non-payment of tax. Non-residence Non-payment of tax.. K (( a K (1 U Not naturalized Non-asecssment and payment of tax Total 2200 1820 1820-1834 3407-2254 3483 354'.) 3437 1773-2198 2214 1937-1940 3493 489-94 489-500 489-504 489-511 489-521 489-524 489-525 489-534 558 440-5G3 564 3450 3442 3437 12 11 Official vote— Curtin 110; Yocum 201. Corrected vote — Curtin 98 ; Yocum 190. Printed testimony, 629. ^Admitted bv Contestant. Summary of Results in Disputed Districts in Clearfield County. Illegal Yocum votes as .shown by correction of Contestant's summary 18 Illegal Curtin votes as shown by this summary 97 44 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. CORRECTED RESULT IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY. ELECTION DISTRICTS. Burnside borough official Clearfield borough Curwensville borough official Houtzdale borough Lumber City borough official Newburgh borough do New Washington borough Osceola borough official Wallaceton borough Beccaria township Bell township Bloom township Boggs township Bradford township official Brady township Burnside township Chest township _• • Covington township official Decatur township Ferguson township Girard township official Goshen township do Graham township Greenwood township Gulich township Huston township official Jordon township do Karthaus township do Knox township Lawrence township Morris township • ■ Fenn township official Pike township Union township Woodward township Total Majority Cur tin. 12 197 53 87 30 26 28 86 27 103 99 32 75 118 339 59 98 59 99 62 34 29 47 48 50 79 71 48 100 244 162 74 140 24 98 2936 40 Yociim. 34 140 106 111 30 10 21 84 3 109 42 22 56 146 217 204 80 68 127 43 66 47 80 39 127 99 58 51 29 136 123 57 • 82 51 190 2896 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 45 CLINTON COUNTY ALLISON TOWNSIITP. Ground of lUecjalily. Page. Illegal Vole. Name of Illegal Voter. FOItWHOMCAST Curtin \ Yocum William Cole Non-pavnient of tax 2358-59-60 1 Total Illegal 1 Official vote — Curtin G6; Yocum 110. Sec page 008 printed testimony. Corrected vote — Curtin 65; Yocum 110. 13ALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP. Jacob Smith Non-payment of tax 2356-57 1 Total Ille •^l^ >.H o c ^ CI o c oj OS ^ a> 0/ si 00 C8 Q£ « « j rsrs ; K^a: O r- CO I o CI CO CO CO c is -J Q. ^ .s 5 t, o c a» c i^ "S 33 o o 3 " CS . ..- 61) Q.4;, O OD c E s ai ' a, g ^-1 ° — - c -r g ; Phi T3 -3 a m d >> C C o o 1 ^ ^ i 1 c ^ >" r ^ : Of !^ 1 3; .lames 4' .loaeph 1 o 1 OS 2i ^ .- C>1 APPENDIX "a." — CONTINUED. s 1 rinted JI tiviony. Page. O o -* ^ 1 ^ "« P5 ^ K| 1 •2 -? ►-^ 'O »-5; ■" « •:g : i^ i ►^ 1^ 0) £i « S •1 _o. C-! ■D ^ o O -*- «0 _c s n-* Vi. 'ii 'S p; gj •^^ • ^ s b « CO a e3 ^ '^ ^ ^ ^.# a3 o ^"tt c ^M" r? 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M Orren John Levi '-'3 »♦ Sr r-1 00 C 3 o ! != fe! •< c 00 S ^:2 HK 00 & fcC * 5 t U 3 ^ 3 ^ O t> -^ o O " o ^-^ i: u e: a* a< X bi APPENDIX "a.** — CONTINUED. =9 ! E^ • 5 2 1^ o •S-S^i CO »*- "~ ft- " _^ ; -s i "S '- 75. =2 ^ to S 03 s ■73 - 1 -! CO •2 c3 >-> O) t- -Q Jo 5 > ►i' ^ %, id 3 ^-. ^ 0) CC' _Q OJ « -g it! -^ -g M "5; ^ O ^^ S -.^ ^ tE -S c n: « "S "^ ^"^^ 2 *J O >■ o^-PnlZiT "*^ CD OQ . •- ^i 03 ,,-:..-A--i.'0 1— 1 r^ tJD C^ '-' . 1 ^"= <, j >0 'C ift ■^ -^ o S-o o o 2-~ o j3 cr oo Q 1^ u ^ S Ol rt O H > C) -c P c rt O c3, iz; o ^ oP-i 03 75 Ci o «D m CO o i^r- Tjl O -^Tji e 0) o 00 » OS ^^^ a '-' -r (££ c8 00 _* c3 •^ ■as (U '5 p. <5 >, P C 0) .S a tr o O) ^ 3 tl 'E (^ & o t- O) xO 15 '^ -o OJ X o: 5-0 c 03 .." oi or; 1— a. 0/ O o »-^ JE "5 harge ry, as in fori £. ^ — o C O the c regist was 5 c« .2 '"' E £ ~ "^ °~ ;-- "t-. » 5 — >- ia._C « £ ^ t- ct ? -* ■* o CO 5 — ^"i OJ -1) aj 0) S. 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IT ^^ s p „ o o CD p ;.> O -M t5 13 St- to i 2 &^ •73 O rt o o 5.S g <1<1 :zi Al^X^KlNDIX "».'» LI9T OF n.NRRGISTERED VOTERS, CLAIMED HY CONTESTANT IN HIS lUMEK, AS CORRECTED BY CONTESTEE. BELLEFONTE BOROUGU (wiiST W2Rd) CENTRE COUNTY. s-2 ok; ^'1 Alleged Name of Voter. Proof of Registration and Qual'f cation. Printed Tes- timony. Page. 5 i^- .IS 87 Roland Craif' Registered K. L, Craig: iiualified. Qualified 1.080 1.584 7r> Daniel Hoover . C. Culihison 274 James Drceso Registered Jas. l)ru.«e 3.58 |Tliomas True 145|r?. C. Graham iRegietered Robert Graham 326iM. Garver jVotcd on a<:e 413 E. F. Grose iRegislered Edmund Gros? 19.3|john Hall ! 375jM. C. RaPENDIX "B. CORRECTED LIST— CONTINUEl). COLEBUOOK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. Alleged Name of Votrr. Proof of Registration and Qualification. Printed Tes- "1 •-• timony. ^ -s> Page. ^^ 50 Patrick Donahay Voted for contestant 17 M. L, Eaton 45 54 John Murphy C. F. Earon Wni. Grugan 2443 3S Registered Thomas Ryan 15 Thomas Ryan ! "4 LEIDY TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. ''l James Couch Voted on age 2326 2325 2326 2325 ■ •T. Daniel Glosner Voted on age .S3 Samuel Nelson 43 Baxter Roberts ()0 Milton Sumnierson Davies Walters Voted on age 4 Voted for contestant 86 Scott Dickinson Qualified 57 Charles Dodcre Voted for contestant 13 M. K. Nelson 1 Nicholas Watt Qualified 85 John Wilson Voted on age 3 BENEZETT TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 38 George Daugherty. 84 Robert Jones 55 T. J. Lewis 13 John Maheu 126 John Miller 107 Abner Ober 114 John Ober 129 David Schwertd 104 R. J. Winslow 112|John Tuttle 03 TJiomas Boyle 90 124 131 14 07|Samuel Rath burn [Registered Sam Rathburn James Biglan Hugh Brennen. William Englisl John H. Fink... L. D. Ilawley... Qualified : affidavit. Qualified Registered J. T. Mahen Voted on age ; affidavit Qualified and registered Qualified; affidavit Registered David Startz Voted on age ; affidavit Qiialifieil Registered Thomas Boytl Registered John Biglan Registered Ilew Brenner Registered William English Appendix "u. COKkl-XlEI) List— CONTINUEIi. FOX TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 71 14S 233 4.0 23'.) 250 156 23 212 IGl 261 35 253 220 70 157 269 141 Alleycd Name of VoU'r. Charles Erand miller. Jo.sepli I'ralini John Iipowii Anthony O'Chase Lsaac Brown .lolin Coppelli Thomas Craig Frank W. Chiflerty.. Wellington Emmitt.. Samuel Kelly Cornelius [McCusker Peter Ponser Eugene Thompson.... Ephraim Denton Pvdward Goodman James IT. Keeley Andrew Lintner Thomas Thomas John Wonderly Thoma.s Moriarty Proof of Jip(/islralcon and Clualijication (^ualided : adidavit Regi.stored Anthony O'Chase. Qualilied ; ailiilavit (iualified ; aflidavit (Qualified Printed Tes- \% thnoni/. Paye. Qualified ; affidavit. (iualiiied (Qualified ; affidavit. (Qualified ; affidavit (^ual i iied (Qualified ; affidavit Registered Andrew Lintner. (Qualified ; aflidavit Registered John Wonderly. Qualified ; affidavit '.I'.iS 9'J7- 994 2710 !)99 2733 999 993 995 996 996- 992 HORTON TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 128 66 46 103 79 92 116 7 E.G. Bennett Lewis Franta Isaac Graham George W. Gardner. Richard Ilimes , John Hyatt JQualified Henry Halst C^ual ified Henry Yale | Qualified Voted on age Registered Isaac Graham. (Qualilied 280S 1097 2649 2691 JAY TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 87 Wm. J. Ereig iVotedon age. 74 Patrick ]\[. Pike I 88 T. F. Furley i 29iCharle3 J. West Voted on age. 55'James A. liurke Qualified 93IEdwin W.Gray Votedon age.. Id Appendix "h. CORRliCTED LUST — CONTINUEU. KIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 350 13 206 307 71 178 347 211 216 John Anderson.... Joseph Black Charles Brack Fred Baretzsky.... Pat'k. Collins Thomas Conlin.... Henry Ilotf. Henry Dahlor John Dolan 262 John Dallenback. 12 Michael Egler 129 Dennis Flynn 262 Swen Froberg 230 D. Farrell. 64 256 46 179 93 313 224 254 83 254 118 329 138 280 35 339 240 107 231 J. M. Gillette Christian Lindgren.... Peter Mann William McChesney. Frank Paullman A. J. Parker Charles Quinn C. P. Guinn James Harm Fred'k. Hemke Jacob Steis Jerry Sheean Henry Warner, Jr... John Boyle Dennis Healy Henry IlofF. Taylor Rhine Joseph D. Stone John Schilk Kegistered Henry liulorff; qualified Registered Andrew Frober?. 101" Qualified ; affidavit. Qualified Qualified ; affidavit. Qualified : affidavit. Qualified ; affidavit... Registered John Ball. Qualified 1029 2831 1028 1033 1031-2 2848 24 JONES TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. 167 125 156 151 180 181 60 80 13 47 Victor Abot Daniel Crankin.. Louis Van Flick John Henderson John Hausman.. Lome Hertzman I Edward Johnson Qualified ; Martin Lowe Qualified ; Marshe Myers Michael Myers Qualified Qualified; affidavit Registered Louis Van Vleit. Qualified; affidavit affidavit., affidavit. 1014 1009 1009 1010 2801 91iTim. Moser 'Registered Tom Moehier 90 147 165 30 Peter Myers Fen OGarry George Powers. Frank Wauk.... Registered George Powel. APPENDIX " B." CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. II SPUINO CREEK TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. c-5 49 35 4f. 24 14 38 18 41 40 Alleged Name of Voter. Proof of Registration and Qualijication. I r^^^^' \ Printed Tes-ll-^ timony. j y 5^ 6 Mathew Chandley. J. II. Carbon Qualified ; affidavit. Qualified ; affidavit. (Qualified ; affidavit.. Qualified ; affidavit. iSam'l. Ilildebrant .Tames Q. Sweeny .John Kelso Levi L. Miller Lester Schools Wake Brock way .John Lahive (reorge I). Messenger. 29 Jacob Windgard. Qualified ; affidavit. Qualified Qualified. Qualified. Qualifieil affidavit. affidavit. 1041 lo.rj 103K 10:57 1041-2 1042 28.10 1040 2847 1037-8 1030 WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. 69 78 142 164 372 400 371 293 373 Martin Broward JRegistered Martin Bronand. Richard Bennage I Voted on age 110 215 228 34 73 135 360 104 214 292 317 317 15 265 407 24 92 136 183 221 75 79 George Batin. .John Bitting John L. Bitting Sim Biddle E. Cramer Alfred Dennis John Erb Wra. R. Tollman R. M. Grifty J.N. Guye. Geo. W. Hertr Wm.T. Huffi H. R. Hutchison Daniel Kolp David Kawk Phaus Koscr .lacob F. Erdley John S. Miller James W. Noll J. !M. Rawling .James Bre.^sler Sam'l. J. Ranck W. r. Ritter John Stadden Jacob .1. Kather.ran. J. A. Sanders John J. Smith Geo. W.'Schenery Sam'l. P. Smith .Tohn Trait II. A. Welcss James Zeigler Qualified. Registered Lewis Bitting. Registered W. S. Biddle.. Registered Cram Cramer.. Registered John Herb Registered William Tallman. Registered J. AV. Guyer Registered Geo. W. Wertz.. Registered Wm. Ilufl'. Qualified Registered David Kolp Registered David Ilawh Voted on age Voted on tax; see poll list. 403 J. R. Runk. 2999 2999 2999 Registered .Tames Noll Voted on age Registered Albert Bressler Registered Sam'l. G. Rank Registered W. B. Ritter Registered John Stadden Registered .Tacob L. Katherman. Registered Alfred Sandere Registered Geo. W. Chenery. Voted on tax Registered John Trate Misprint Qualified ; affidavit Registered Reuben Ranck — 1245 APPENDIX '"P. CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. esq \ Printed Tes-\^-;i Alleged Name of Voter 'Proof of lley'istrution and Qualification} timony. Page. 30 85 188 238 245 96 254 262 J. F. Brown Registered Jack Bottinger 1 Geo. W. Bigler J. K. lierkamer David Beaver Jack Benjamin J. AV. Croiise Isaac V. Brown. Registered W, W. Bigler... Registered Registered Isaac Binganian. Jacob Grouse Solomon Clase 'Registered Solomon Klose..., ()1 Lewis Dauberman. 339 Reuben Feaster 91 W. R. Gerhard 316 W.F. Glover 13 14 63 150 169 194 244 251 280 281 284 297 353 405 228 31 83 190 325 184 225 141 271 311 Saml. II. Ilimmelreick.. Wilson Herman Flert Hauck .Toll n IlatTer Joseph Harraan Ellis Ileimbach Israel Helrig Clarence Hauck Samuel Hackenberg James A. Hackenberg... John Hoy Calvin Homel Geo. A. Turner Jacob Helvick Wm. L. Irwin Daniel Joels Joseph Lebard J. P. Miller G. F, Miller H. B. Rilly Isaac Ruhl Wm A. Walter Solomon Renner James Rigel 219, Henry Reimert 70 J. AV. Spangler 77 87 163 Registered. Resristered Reuben Keaster. Registered Wm. Glover Registered Ilert Hauck Refristercd Jesse Harman. Wilson Smith. Lew's Shaller iSimon Snyder 246 W'illiam Stoot 263 Jacob E. Shrader 302 Ulrich Strickler 31 5 1 Johnson Shell , 360, Charles Steniger 158jJacob Weinghard 278|William Wolfe 285lWm. C. Wixongaren. Registered Yost Hoy, Registered Lot W. Irwin. Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered Jonathan Miller. George Miller — H. B: Kelley Israel Ruhl W. H. Reimert... -Joseph Spangler. William Smith... Wm. Stootsman. Jacob Stroder..., Registered .John Shaale. 27 APPENDIX " B. CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. »3 EAST BUFPAr.0 TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. ?^ Alleged Name of Voter} Proof of Registration and Qualification, \ Printed Tes-\:ii^ timony. ^ ^p Page. |^ 22 I HI 107 147 i;]8 117 7 a LMl 172 187 235! 50 71 120 143 36 40 33 28 29' 1071 () '.12 30 James Beachman. Milton Brouse Allien Dewire W. ]5..I':rvin Frcilerick Micelv.. [John G. Smith.... John (K Smith.... Charles Schruclc... Isaac, Young David Young Francis E. Brown. Registered^ Joh n Beach man Voted on age Voted on ase Registered Wm. B. Irvin Registered Frederick Kneisley ; poll list, I*>e(f k Nicely Registered Registered Wm. (J. Smith Voted on a'le Voted on age. LEWISIiURG llOROUGH, (WEST WARD), UNION COUNTY. Geo. M. I'ennett John ir. Betjcer Samuel Brocius Frederick Davis W. T. Grier John 11. Gray Leopold Koch William Lloyd Noah Llovd William Lloyd Wm. W. Musser Thomas F. Stannard. John Lloyd (Qualified Voted for Contestant. Voted on aire 10 LEWISBUIJG BOIiOt'GII, (SOUTII WARU), UNION COUNTY. 91 S. C. Carroll Registered Calvin Carroll 233|J. C. CatlHiman IRegistered I. C. Catherman ISOjC. L. Frv 187 Wilfred (i.c, ,,d | 70lJohn Hnu.'k I 77 [.James K nii;le 12()|Josh Nevhart | 227lr. B. Stahl 198 1 Brady Thompson | 147 H. C. Wolfe ] 175 A. (C.) Waldron Registered Lance Waldron 14o!J. T. Gallagher iQualified |U81 1: 148111. C. Hall IQualificd | 1177 M APPENDIX "B. CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. I.EWISBURG BOROUGH, (nORTH WARD), UNION COUNTY. timony. Page. Alleged Name of Voter. rn 303 190 104 113 117 11 192 3 114iH. N. AVendel. Proof of Itegistratlon and Qualification, L. R. Asten Registered Lemuel Askin. Joseplx Burris Jacob Defrain 'Registered Jacob Frain Samuel Toruni , Registered Miles Irwin Greenwalt..|Voted on age W. B. Hefelfinger i W. S. Lineback iRegistered Wm. M. Leimbach. Wm. Thomas [Registered "\Vm. Thompson J. F. Walker Registered John H. Walker.... BURNSIDE TOWNSHIP, CLKAEFIELD COUNTY. 92 Jacob Bee 192 F. C. Bates 209 Charles Brother., 94 Jerry Brickley. 79 95 179 188 251 205 4 32 223 190 48 77 159 283 83 23 Registered Jacob Bell.. Voted on age Voted on age Registered J. Brickley. Registered Alex Fulton. Voted on age Peter Dumier. Albert Fulton Daniel Fulton Amos B. Fry Amos Good Edward Ilulton... Daniel Iveim Joseph Kneedler. Harry Kane David Langdon {Registered W. D. Langdon. Registered Samuel Milliron. Registered Edward Ilutton. Registered G. D. Neff., Voted on age. Samuel Millison Henry Nichtly Gideon Neft". John Nichtly Jacob Penticoff. Charmsbus Rummell. 175IJ. C. Riley 27|Peter J. Stiffler 30 Henry Smead 46 1 Harrison Souman lOOlAbner B. Selring 101 Wm. C. Selring ISljJackson Smead [Registered J. 240|Aaron Thompson I 158!william Westover Registered W. A. Westover. 191 Johnson Walls |Voted on age 260|John E. Westover [Registered J. E. Westover.... Registered as John Riley, Registered John Stiffler... Registered H. A. Smead., Registered F. H. Sonen.... B. Smead. 12 GULICH TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 19 24 118 175 154 30 46 1 Aaron Ausborn. John Bowers Philip Croyle Wm. Croyle E. Elliott S. O. Fulkerson. Fred Fox Joseph Foster Illegal vote for Contestant. Registered John Byers Registered Philip Croyle.. Registered C. Elliott Registered Samuel Fulkerson. Qualified for Contestee Registered Jas. Fister 2232 1883 APPENDIX fORRECTEI) LIST — CONTINUKH. 15 GULICH TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY — CONTINUED. «-2 iPrinte.l Tcs-ln- 112 95 150 12 99 7G 138 124 33 I55I 132 170 Alleged Name of Voter.. Proof of Regisirat'mi and Qualijication. I Daniel Flynn [Registered T>. C. Flynn Benjamin Gibncy 1 James Ginter .John Hunter | Registered J. L. Hunter Saul Knotis | Robt. McFarling [Registered Robert McFarland. Hugh Osborn | Win. Rebmes, Sr jRegistered Wm. Reames Edward Stiles Registered Edward Stiles J. M. B. Sedswick , Mathew Tipton | William Tipton IRegistered W. G. Tipton timony. Page. a WOODWARD TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. Qualified ; voted for Contestee. Registered David Boyer Illegal ; voted for Contestant.... (iualitied ; voted for Contestant. Hfi Jackson Albot 7 Id. H. Brewer lolA. D. Boyer 243 Richard Bowen 75 P. M. Canty lG4|jeff Croyle 190|Michael Casey 218 William Carl j I 303|T. p. (T.) Davis [Registered D. D. Davis | 41IJoseph Denny IQualified ; voted for Contestant I 124 John Delander Qualified; voted for Contestee 134lDaniel Donovan | | 193IW. Edy IQualified: voted for Contestee 227 Burton Elridge ', 39!John Freeman JReg. Jno. Truman; voted forCon'ted Con'ant] itestee ^y jonn Jfreeman liieg. .Jno. Iruman; voted ic 187|Peter Fanney |Qual. as Peter Tanney; do 43 A. J. Goss (Qualified; voted for Contest Registered Evan Gyles. Qualified ; voted for Contestee.. Qualified ; voted for Contestant. Illegal ; voted for Contestee 58 Edward Gyles 79|Cartwright Greaves 173 1 John (iould 209 Joseph Garrity 200lj. W. Gill 230|Jo6eph Garrett 28| James Hamil j 34 Joseph Higgins Registered Jas. Higgine 253 Joseph Harrison [Registered Jas. Harrison 264 Edward Haines [Qualified ; voted for Contestee.. 267 S. G. Higgins Qualified as J. (i. Higgins 293 John Hofiman | 119 Anthony Hull Qualified; voted for Contestee. 217 Levi C. Hill k>ualificd ; voteil for Contestant 172 William Hill '.Registered William Hill 162 William John [Registered John Williams 201 William T. John iRcg. Jno.Williame; qual. for Con'tee 220 (leorge Jenkins I 154 Joseph Jandary | 225IThomas James IQualified; voted for Contestee 2l[0scar Kline Qualified; voted for Contestee ISOiJoseph Kephart ("Voted for Contestant 213lAllen Kline IQualified: voted for Contestee. 1820 3427 3494 2234 1785 1813 3555 1787 1842 3489 489 494 2239 3420 2231 3006 1876 1867 1799 3463 1833 1 6 APPENDIX CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. WOODWARD TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY — CONTINUED. Ssq 203 18 26 24 ]20 160 2S2 284 9 16 109 125 142 179 183 186 197 202 232 258, 261 277 1 279 2801 281 1 298 1 311 312 141 169 1 180 1 229 i 275 143 31 88| 150 290 301 1 295 1 55 1 56 1 59 1 831 153 1881 274; 107! 2111 255 j 226 94 196| 2781 297' 307 AlLyed Name of Voter. Proof of Registration and (Qualification. ID. J. Kelley IHiram Ivneppeiiburger j.Iolin S. Kanleii iJames Lacey I Abraham Luzier |Tliomas Larrigan I Edward Lloyd, Jr Joseph Loffard |d. M. McHenrv S. W. Miles A. P. Maxton I.Tohn McGuire, Sr IJeremiah Miller Thomas Mullaney [David McMonigal jHugh Morris Ijohn Mobart A. J. McHugh |E. M. McHugh John Magee Edward Maher Joshph Martin Richard Morgan Edward McFilony Frank McGowan Daniel McArchy James E. McGrath Joseph ]). Maher A. G. Netr. C. L. Norton John Nollern John O'Connell Roger Owens John Palmer J. M. Rowles P'erm Ross Joseph Reese William Rosevere H. C. Rowley John D. Reese G. W. Smith BiglerShoff. M. W. (II.) Stone Walter Stabband James Sullivan Thomas Steele Joseph St rout John Tate Richard Tobin William Vlance Joseph Waterson I A'aron Westover F. C. Weeble | James Watkins j Robert Whitehead ! T. S. Williams | Qualified ; voted for Cotitestee. Qualified ; voted for Contestee. Qualified Qualified (Qualified voted for Contestant, voted for Contestee... voted Cor Contestee... Qualified ; voted for Contestee. Voted on age Qual.jJohn Hobart; voted for Con'tnt Voted for Contestant ; on age Qualified ; voted for Contestee.. Qualified ; voted for Contestee.. Qualified : voted for Contestee. Voted for Contestant. Qualified; voted for Contestee.... Qualified : voted for Contestant. Voted on age Illegal ; voted for Contestee Qual.,H.C. Powley; voted forCon'tce Illegal ; voted for Contestant (Qualified ; voted for Contestant. Registered : M. A. Stone Qualified ; voted for Contesice. Qualified ; voted for Contestee. Illegal ; voted for Contestee. Printed Tes timony. Page. 2279 2273 3541 2286 2236 2219 3456 3450 18.57 2224 1801 3474 1804 .3419 511 1800 3483 3592 2271 2204 Qualified ; voted for Contestant. Qualified ; voted for Contestee.... 489 525 3542 I 1851 I 42 Al'PKNiJiX "1!. CORRIXTKI) LIST-- CONTINl'Kn. »7 <;ii;.\i;i) township, ci,kai;kiki,I) coi.ntv \PrivtetlTes- f»^ Alh'aed Kame iif Voter. \ Proof' ") •latnes II. MiuDel 30 W. M. Shemel Registered W. R. Sliimel r.o Ilenrv Iluniel Registered H. P. Iluinniel Jolin iMiriglit Registered David Collar 1 *> Daniel Collar 74 John Deanlv Registered M. B. Smeal M4 M. B. Smeal lOf) L. H. Pace Registered Levi Pase 113 It'iah Sineal Registered Peter N. Launsbery 122 Peter A. Lamisbery 5 LOCK HAVEN, (fIRST WARD), CLINTON COUNTV. ]f)4 ;50y 251 271 203 201 207 A. J. Brown... Perry Bird G. H. Caldwell .Ino. M. Fry... Frank Herd... P. Keller John Ordner... Registered II. A. Brown... Registered Frank Bird Registered B. C. CaMwell. Registered John G. Frev.. Registered Frank Keller. Registered John Ardner.. 2'.llH L. Packer Registered C. L. Packer and qual. Registered John Probst. Voted on a'je Registered Jacob Roetig. 'JOjJohn Probst, Sr 107iWinslow Poornian. 385 J. II. Rodig 271 Sigsmnnd Sinionda 21 5j Albert Sheid 252' Richard Sliradt 250lGotlieb Smith 332|llenrv Smith 134!C. A.'Wise Qualiticd ; aflidavit 211 Henry Yearick Iliegistered H. Y. Yearick Registered Jacob II. Sheid. Registered Cieorge Shroat... 800 898 i_.4 i8 APPENDIX "B. CORRECTED LIST — CONTINUED. LOCK HAVEN, (tIIIUD WARD), CLINTON COUNTY. ^^ Alleged Name of ^^oter Proof of Registration and Qualijica'.ion. Printed Tes- timony, Page. 113 224 242 230 Thomas Crowly Martin Carey.... Adolph Gan.« Peter Jacoby.... George McDermott. Registered Thomas Crowley. 'Registered Tiiomas McDermott. 77'W. A. Simpson, "Jr."... [Registered W. A. Sitnpson. LOCK HAVEN, (fOURTH AVARd), CLINTON COUNTY. 285|Samuel Snyder. BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 50 B. F. Bottorff.. 124|H. C. Niles Registered Frank Bottorf., Registered H. C. Knights , BEECH CREEK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 73iW. L. Miller 'Registered William Miller CHAPMAN TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 146 28 3G 144 14 99 103 90 37 26 105 120 121 140 Henry Donly Isaac Kurd V. J. Howard Durell Johnson Jacob E. Kline William Keller Fremont Kinley Charles R. Miller.. Wm. Percing Samuel Sliampane. Rudolph Slifer George Snyder Edward Smith James Wendall Voted on age Registered Time Johnson. Voted on age., Voted on age. Voted on age. Voted on age. This district gave Contestant a majority. PINE CREEK TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 152 M. F. Cryder Charles A. Frj*... 193 Albert Furgueon. 153 Charles Henry... 63 Robert Kissel 1.... 172 95 39 Wm. A. Kissell Nelson Rouck Samuel M. Simmons. Voted on age. Voted on age. This registry was offered in evidence in rebnttal, and we submit ia »ot prope* evidence. APPENDIX " n. CORRF.CTED LIST — CONTINUED. 19 The follo7ving districts are erroneously claimed by Contestant LEWISTOWN UOROL'UH (eAST WARD), MIFFLIN COUNTY. Alleged Name of Voter. Proof of Ilcjislralion and Qualification. p {Printed Tcs-ll-^ la limony. ]59.Tohn C. Clark lOOlDavid Yearick 133|. Fames W. Smith j Registered. Ti)i8 registry was ort'ered in evidence by Contester. LEWISTOW'N BOROUGH (wEST WARD), MIFFLIN COUNTY. 83!Geor"?e Corbett. 248 30 322 170 Samuel J)unkinson Wm. H. Glazier Scott Miller George McCook This registry waa offered by Contcstee, and this district gave Contestant 20 of a majorit}/. BRATTON TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 1.50 J. A. Kauffman 130 B. J. Miller This registry was offered by Contestee, and this district gave Contestant a ma- jority of 26. GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 252 186 246 96 107 J. C. Barclay Simpson A. Crmii Thomas Crieswell S. A. Penny packer John A. Shoemaker nSJ-Tacob S. Steely This registry offered in evidence by Contestee, and this district gave Contestant a majority of 43. OLIVER TOWNSHIP, MIEKLIN COUNTY. 169 158 J. H. Allen.... J. K. Rhodes. Contestant had a majorlti/ in this district. WAYNE TOWNSHIP, MIFFLIN COUNTY. 173 24 George Clemens Joseph Harshbarger. 86iSamuel T. Rhodes. This registry was offered in evidence by ContcHec, and this district gave Contestant a majority c,t :<.'. Ari'KMDlJC 'Ml." CO -IKEJl'ED LIST — CONTINUKD. BENZINOEIi TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY. Alleged Name of Voter,'. Proof of Iltyislraiion ami Qualijicalion. Printed 7t t'naony. Page. Frank Buckhite Stephen Busk Joseph Ilahn Martin Johnson Michael Neubert... Valentine Neubert. Rev. Sigfiried Herman Stockman. 114 323 33 155 36 128 54 242^ This registry was offered in evidence by Contestee, and the district gave Contesi ant a viajority of 261. Gross total in districts giving Conteslee a majority 313 Gross total in districts giving Contestant a majority 42 Ar»PE]NI>lX "C." LIST OF UNREGISTERED VOTERS IN DISTRICTS GIVING CONTESTANT A MAJO»»ITV. BEM,EFONTE IIOUOUGII, (NORTH WARD), CENTRE COUNTY. 1 1 1 =^ Is; s Name of Voter. Name of Voter. S Name of Voter. ^' 1 i i 1 1 Cheesman, R. C. G3 Wolf, W. W. 170 Yocum, Rev. A. D. 4 Single, Howard 67 Blair, F. P. 172 Hoy, Adam 13 Williams, J. 11. 71 Rankin, Jos. A. 175 Van Tries, Sani'l 14 Lase, Calvin 72 Barrettage, Chas. T. 185 Keenan, Stephen 15 Delige, Samuel 73 Derstine, John 186 Hibler, Dr. A. no Blair, Joseph 83 Cruse, A. J. 187 Greist, Frank 24 Lase, Isaac "Sr." 85 Daniels, Q. A. 191 Stephens, Ed. 28 Hoover, 0. L. 88 Downing, Thos. 196 Hayes, Dr. T. R. 34 Hillibish, Jas. C. 96 Boal, Geo. 0. 205 Cleindeist, John 37 Derr, Daniel 110 P>lair, John R. 208 Tate, Milton 3G Williams, Jas. C. | 117 Pendelton, Levi 214 Fo.x, Joseph 39 Straub, Levi 125 Mallory, John 217 Harman, S. B. 41 Furst, A. 0. 135 Curtin, W. L 220 Philipi, S. J. R. 42 Tate, I). R. 136 Baney, Henry 228 Hagerman, Jno. I. 44 Rankin, Jno. S. 138 Ward, Geo. 236 Heisler, Charles 45 Baney, David 146 Gordon, Jas. D. 238 Schrom, Jacob 4G Ratlcer, Jas. II. 147 Miller, Jno. C. 254 Stitzer, H. Y. 49 Snook, R. W. 150 Reynolds, Oscar 264 McClellan. Wm. Jr. 51 Burneide, Thomas 151 Roan, J. W. 266 Hilibish, W. T. 54 Lane, John N. 153 Crider, P'onte 278 Crosthwaite, R. 0. 55 liailey, W. D. 160 Malin, W. L. 282 Biggart, Rev. W. A. Total. 63 See registry list printed testimony, page 201. — Poll list printed testimony, page 157. CUUTIN TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 17 Watkins, lies 24 Watkins 31 Yarnell, Isaac 32 Ewinghozer, George 34lErninghesser, Abrani Total 38 Watkins, Harvey 39 Entzel, W. II. 51 Print/., Harman Delong, Hugh S. Prince, W. E. McCloskey, Mich'l Lucas, Wm. II, Leathers, J. L. 13 See registry list printed testimony, page 1437. — Poll list printed testimony, page 13S5 GREQO TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 11 HoBtcrman, W. P. 13 Woods, S. A. 19 Baney, Wm. F. 79 Jamison, Jack J. 86 Rishel, M. L. 90 Uouseman, Jno. U. Ill 121 122 125 135 146 Jamison, I. B. Lingle, Wm. Weaver, Sam'l Bitner, Wm. B. Auman, Philip Coole, Emannel M, 174 178 185 190 191 198 Gunsallis, Clarance Auman, Jno. Vanvalzah. F. P. Ranchavv, Jno. Keen, Jno. Sr. Rishel, Cha's APPKNDIX -CONTINUED. GUEGG TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. — CONTINUED. <^ Name of Voter. Name of Voter. 199 Hoy, Jno. S. 200| Brian, Jno. 205lSniith, Eobert 212 Shook, Jno. 213lWagner, Jno. 228 1 Long, Jacob 229|Lingle, Jno. C. Total Si'C registry list printed testimony, page 1430. 232 1 233 1 245 !246 1248 1 255 262 Glass, Jno. Lingle, Jonas Ilagen, Jacob W. Vonada, Pierce Miller, Win. S. H. Weaver, Jared Krumrine, John W. 1269 1283 306 312 1321 Cool, Jacob M. Runkle, Lot Mitch el, Joshua Dunkle, John A. Grenoble, Benjamin Extcl, Samuel 38 -Poll list printed testimony, page 1386. HAINES TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. Grouse, H. J. Phillips, C. A. Vance, Hugh Sanders, Henry K. Musser, C. S. Guisewite, Ewd. Stuer, W. K. 60!Krape, J. W. 59iEiseuhuth, J. W. 62 63 70 73 77 80 82 83 84 85 86 Bower, Jacob Jr. Stover, John C. Hinkmen, H. K. Musser, E. H. Henkman, Henry Yarger, Charles Eisenhuth, Barthut Wise, William Motz, Thomas H. Kosier, William H. Jones, J. E. Total 87 93 102 103 104 105 113 126 136 140 141 151 154 155 158 165 167 174 175 180 Albright, Alexander Vonada, George Jr. Diehl, A. J. Vonada, J. A, Rote, E. T. Rote, John Nolter, Eobert Cronmiller, N. W. Edwards, T. G. Musser, Luther E. Hull, Thomas Cronmiller Eml. Barnet, William Miller, George R. Rote, Simon Orndorf, Serai Snyder, Samuel Fees, David Earhart, T. G. Behra. Isaac 182 Corman, Adam 186 Kremer, John S, 187 Boyer, Samuel A. 200 Boyer, H. J. 210 Boob, Isaah 214 Warutz, Wm. C. 220 Vonadu, A. A. 233 Rote, D. H. 238 Hosterman, H. C. 246 Roop, Samuel 251 Musser, Ales. 255 Corman, William 257 Beauer, Henry 269;Stover, II. H. 276 'Motz, T. B. 278 Beaver, Howard 302 1 Weaver, Frank D. 303 Vance, David 308jLenger, Johncs 315|Stcver, Luther M. 60 See registry list printed testimony, page 1434. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1394 HARRIS TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 2 Stover, Samuel H. 7lStuart, David A. lOl Jacobs, G. A. 21 Swineheart, Joseph 27 1 Moore, Samuel B. 32 Mayes, Samuel 33 Muthersbaugh,Owen 42 Weber, John H. 47 Condo, Israel J. 59 Ishler, Samuel F. 61 Kreamer, Andrew H. 66 Sweeny, E. W. 68 i Riley, Thomas F. Total 82- 28 116 122 128 131 134 137 141 14^1 145 151 Markle, Jacob B. Moyer, Philip H. Stam, Charles Jr. Henderson, George Hasson, Patterson Musser, John Garbrick, James A. Wiland, Daniel T. Ganer, Jacob Way, Joseph Rupp, Wm. H. Stuart, Harry S. Ross, James L. 157 168 169 171 176 191 192 194 ■196 1202 ;203 II Jacobs, John Ross, James M. Long, Andrew Cormany, Frank Duly, Thomas Ferrar, Jacob H. Jr. Campbell, I. E. Crater, Daniel Hosterman, A. H. Shafier, Charles B. Glenn, D. M. 37 See registry list printed testimony, page 1440. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1389 APPENDIX -CONTINUED. MARION T0WN8HIP, CENTRE COUNTY. --: 1 1 1 ■^" ■^ f^ (i: (^ o Name of V'utcr. o Na^nc of V^otcr. o Name of Vo'.er. ^' N 1.^' -^ 1 Tibbins, Henry 31 Fretcrs, D. 09 Yearick, C. F. 6 Loder, Wm. 50 Miller, W. H. 108 Keen, ])an'l 7 Glopsncr, Kheiibcn 55 Lee, George L. 112 Miller, 0. K. 14 Buck, .lolin 63 Artie, Jacob 118 Rliuse, Daniel 15 Wilson, li. K. 72 Seitz, Fred 122 Holmes, J no. W. 17 Loder, G. R. 74 Gross, Henry L]l Spayde, John 22 Reeeer, Jae. C. 77 Williams, Ira C. 137 Wilson, I. W. 28 Getti;;, L. H. ! 97 Romack, M. S. 30 Harper, W. S. 98 Beck, I. W. Total. See registry list printed testimony, page 144G. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1407 MILES TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 1 |Stover, W. S. 3 Gramley, Cephas 4 Winters, Perrie lOlHaeel, G. W. 13|Condo, Samuel 15 Gramley, T. W. C. Kern, J, F. Bartges, David Earhart, C. B. ShultT;, John Feidler, James A. Hofer, Aron W. Wate, Wm. Condo, James Winth, Gilbert Kahl, John M. Aurandt, Rev. F. Wolf, J. R. Total 24 25 29 31 36 37 38 59 68 85 98 105 106 122 128 130 140 145 150 174 175 186 188 203 1 207 220 227 '230 1234 236 Haeel, Jared S. Condo, Cook Swarm, Alfred Stennor, H. M. Ilubler, George M. Miller, Jacob Bicrly, James C. Houtz, Jno. S. Brumgard, Thos. Sheats, Jona Miller, B. F. Goodman, Geo. W. Condo, Joseph Kreider, Philip Baney, Daniel Culov, Dan'l Fehr, Wm. C. Long, Jesse 239 Weber, James K. 2421 Kern, William 24S|Hasel, William 255iShultz, John 257lSholl, Henry 260|Hasel, Jacob Jr. 275!Shull, Jacob R. 281 Shultz, Jacob 28 7 1 Walker, Thomas 296 Condo. Sam'l 299 Hostcrman, G. W. 303 1 Miller, W. L. 305|Greninger, Jacob 30!)>Crouse, John 318 Gramley, Aaron 320 Gephart, Jacob Sec registry list printed testimony, page 1438. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1410 PENN TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 9 Brown, D. I. 156 Fausler, Adam 243 Rote, B. F. 45 Snow, J. W. 1166 Hartman, J. H. B. 1 245 Harter, Jacob M. 46 Decker, Tho's Y. Il67 Luckenbach, A. A. 272 Leitzell, Willis 62 Tilton, David 172 Rider, George i 273 Lewis, Kisele 77 Keen, Thomas (J. 176 Swanger, JefFcrson 274 Wolf, Wreitzle 89 Fiedlar, l)aviil 180 Immcl, Conrad i 275 Mowrv, Rops 102 Keen, Jacob B. 1182 Zerbv. Henrv T. 1 278 Luse, H. K. 105 Ertle, David 189 Lingle, Solomon 288 Mover, Samuel 106 Ertle. W. H. |l90 Kennev, Wm. K. | 289 Knaar, Frank 112 Aundre, Dan'l S. 1196 Rider, Samuel 1 297 Van Valin, 0. W. 124 Faust, Jacob 206 Auman, Jacob 303 Gray, Daniel . 140 Auman, David 1209 Tomlineon, H. H. 1 306 Culoy Amos 142 Mnsser, Willis |213 Storer, Noah F. 310 Fausler, Lewis 146 Musser, James B. 230 Ungard, B. F. Dutwiler, James C. j 311 Long, John H. 147 Mauck, William |239 APPENDIX "C. -CONTINUED. PKNN TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY — CONTINUED, Name of Voter. Name of Voter. Name of Voter. Total.... 44 See registry list printed testimony, page 1447. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1413 POTTER TOWNSHIP, (NORTHERN PRECINCt), CENTRE COUNTY. 4 Peterson, Clias. Iss Tobias, Willi;im 178 Eungard, James 6 Con fare, Wm. 98 Faber, Dan'l 185 Keen, Dan'l 9 Con fare, I. C. 99 Harnish, Wm. 187 Emerick, J. G. 12 Kreamer, Wm. 108 From, Wilson 188 Lucas, William 19 Mullen, John 109 Figee, Chas. 201 Conser. C. F. 23 Boll, I. C. 110 Migle, W. B. 203 Garrett, Harvey 25 Dresher, I. 114 Grove, Jacob 205 From, Jonathan 26 Shirk, Wm. 117 Forman, D. R. 214 Dubbs, Reed 33 Shutt, Samuel 120 Hosterman, Ellis 217 Stover, Geo. E. 36 Royer, J. E. 123 Whitmer, Henry 218 Gross, Wm. E. 41 Rhinesmith, Daniel 126 Keller, J. Henry 219 Slabig, Howard 45 Koch. Geo. 133 Keller, W. J. 225 Shilling, Theodore 46 Spiker, Lucien 135 Snyder, John 230 Condo, M. M. 49 Rishel, J no. 140 Stover, Oscar W. 234 Boozer, J. T. 53 Rishel, Ward 143 Caldren, Jas. 235 Kenndy J. Q. 54 Lee, Jno. 146 Klinefelter, Wm. 236 Hokerman, J. 59 Geistwite, Henry 147 Dale, A. J. 238 Meyer, Lovvel 6U Meyers, Wm. 149 Goodhart, Geo. 239 Bland, Corny 61 Shoop, Wm. P. 159 Frazier, J. 243 McCormick, James II. 62 Curry, W. A. 160 Weaver, A. W, 244 Strohn, J. B. 71 Crape, R. P. 167 Miller, Jno. H. 245 Conley, Jno. W. 78 Zerby, Horace 170 Dale, J. G. 247 Swab, Wm. M. 79 McClenahfin, Jno. 173 Horv, Geo. 249 Spyker, John 85 Wagner, John 175 Fleming, Julian ] 86 Bumgardner, Wm. 176 Odenkirk, Jno. | Total. 73 See registry list printed testimony, page 1442. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1421. POTTER TOWNSHIP, (SOUTHERN PRECINCT), CENTRE COUNTY. 4 Wright, Franklin 79 Young, David 137 Carson, Jas. S. 12 GiUiland, J. M. 82 Bitner, William 139 Daub, Joseph 14 Stiver, W. H. 90 Moore, J. D. 142 Armstrong, James L, 16 Cooney, John F. 91 Jones, John 146 Gotsholl, David 17 Sohn, Sweenev 96 Shirk, H. C. 147 Bible, John Sr. 18 Ripka, Peter 99 Lee, William H. 153 Rochan, Joseph 20 McCormick, John J. 102 Rudder, J. D. 154 Welty, Philip J. 22 Allison, W. M. 114 Stiffler, J. M. 162 Ruble, William H. 25 Overluiltzer, Daniel 116 Dauberraan, J. S. 166 Deshem, John 26 Bush, Jackson 117 Durst, Peter 167 Jordan, Peter B. 43 McCaskey, Henry 118 Shires, John E. 175 Glasgow, John 44 Snyder, William 119 Bair, B. F. 192 Friester, Jacob 54 Friester, W. J. 120 Lytle, Samuel T. 197 Rote, John 55 Sweetwood, James A. 123 Lingler, Henry 198 Botorf, Calvin S. 63 Cettleson, Amos 125 Wion, Henry 199 Stoner, David 67 Friester, David 128 Mersinger, John 205 Rearick, George 70 Sunday, George 129 Beiber, George | McLintock, D. R. | 207 Bettner, Benjamin 71 Palmer, Joseph 1135 222 Friester, Samuel APPENDIX "C."— CONTINUED. POTTER TOWNSHIP (SOUTHBUN PUECINCT), CBSTRK COUNTY. — CONTINUED. c o 5| Name of Voter. 1 S Name of Voter. 1 Name of Voter. 227 22S 235 235 237 Stack, Uriah Faust, George W. Royer, J. B. Emerick Wm. Sr. Allison, Edward J. 240 244 250 251 253 Stoncbrake, J. Strong, John R. Myers, W. U. Wingart, Samuel Burkholder, T. M. 250 263 2t)4 2(35 267 Royer, F. F. Love, lludeon Krise, Z. P. Decker, Daniel J. Carson, John M. Total. 09 See registry list printed testimony, page 144^. — Poll list printed testimony, page 1416 AVALKER TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY. 6 7 9 \i 13 15 18 22 24 28 33 36 39 44 45 59 61 62 78 Aston, Robert Shaffer Joseph Kreps, Calvin Krepa, Francis Kreps, Henry Thompson, S. C. Snider, William Tolbert, Geo. W. Snaveley, II. C. Iloman, Sael Bickle, Isaac Reigel, John A. Tolbert, Joseph Goodhart, S. 11. Mowrcy, George Zimmerman, Sliuman Wliite, John Hines, Albert Vonada, P. J. Shaffer, M. Killey, David Total 88 90 105 120 132 137 145 140 148 155 150 102 165 172 173 'l84 187 191 194 200 207 Peck, Solomon Laird, Andrew Walter, D. C. . Garner, A. S. Zimmerman, David Michtley, Dan. •lackson, B. F. Sprowl, Hezekiah McKean, Wm. F. Swartz, F. S. Kauffman, Daniel JBeck, W. H. [Beck, M. L. Sproul, John Emrick, R. F. Sproul, Samuel Bnimgard, II. A. Shall'er, John S. Strohm, John Royers, John L. Crawford, J. D. 218 Showers, F. W. 227|Gobble, S. C. 229jCurvine, John 238 Lee, J. W. 242 Krepo, David 243 Whippo, Levi 252 Emrick, Joseph 250 Clevenstinc, Jackson 259 Dusenbery, Wm. 205 White, David 271 Theips, John 270 Whippo, O. 278|Mitchell, Frank 279iVonada, .John 292 Twitmyrc, J. V. 294 1 Rogers, C. C. 297iSwartz, Adam 299' Brown, David 304|Twiimyre, II. B. 300iTvvilmyre, II. N. 3l5|Hockman, S. F. 62 For poll and registry lisi .sco printed testimony, pages 1423 and 1449. APPENDIX "C. CONTINUED. CLEARFIELD COUNTY. Cr-EARFIELD BOROUGH, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. -^* 1 1 ~' 1 --o- f? f^ o Name of Voter. o Name of Voter. 1 o Name of Voter. i ^" ^ 40 1 , 1 Ed. KaitH'inan,; 262 G. C, Myers, 92 .las. Yothers, 145 Hugh BraLley, 274 J. I. Adams, 33.S R. G. Leary, 153 David Heilbnin, 297 rienrv Wining, 342 Jos. B. Laouner, 230 A. Jackson Laincli, 50 M. D. McDuown, 353iJohn Suniiioiis. 255 Ilonry Cryder, 91 A. (riinisbnrg, Total. For poll and registry lists, see pages 2060 and 1957. OSCEOLA BOROUGH, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 14 7 Charles Metzgar, 14lBenj. Swagert, 18| William Sanford, 19|Winfield Gardner, 22'james Cameron, 44|Jolin F. Bener, 451 E. J.Duffey, 53!Luiher Krause, Total 92 94 117 119 128 129 131 133 M. B. Myers, Harry Goes, Alton E. Kephart, J. R. Simpson, John McKinley, James Chestnut, Jack Whelan, J. P. Katherman, 137 146 147 149 John Syplier, Robert Taylor, Harry Mays, M. B, Yanks. 20 For poll and registry lists, see pages 700 and 648. WALLACETON BOROUGH, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. SiMartin Hegal, 11 22 IJ. F. Brown, Total For poll and registry lists, see pages 2054 and 1959. 20lJerome Dixon. BELL TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. G. F. Weaber, J. J. Davis, Joseph Young, I Daniel Rouch, Total 62 14 83 108 Daniel Tryer, G. W. Lurdley, Theodore Shafi'er, W. E. Wetzel, 146 70 David Tiscus, E. R. Baird, Solomon Reas. 11 For poll and registry lists, see pages 2043 and 1961. BOGGS TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 86 Frank Hall, 29 1 Anthony Bean, 43 Miles Hennery, 104 Charles Waple, 67 George Aughenbaugh, 63 Amos Souder, 132 George Louder, 118 Wm. Haines, 64 David W. Hess, 76 Robert Soop, 93 John Gofl'ey, 65 Reynold Everts. 25 John L. Hill, 1 92 Thos. Pickels, Total For poll and registry lists, see pages 2038 and 1975. 14 APPKxnix "c. -coNrrN'urn. CHEST TOWXSniP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 1 Name of Voter. 1 Name of Voter. \ ^1 c Name of Voter. i 1 1 i 1 1 .-1 3 S. L. Soiiierville, ics Charlefl Moore, 92 A. B. Barrett, 4 J. AV. Gallajrher, 131 Ira TiUe, 108 Leonard Niles, G J. P. Frv, 150 Cliarles Rogers, 12'.) Peter Bishop, LS Jo8epli Micliaels, 153 K. A, Dew i It, 174 Robt. McMaKterH, 21 Elexaiuier McCarl, ' 177 Davit! Woods, :i77 David Wood, G5 G. AV. Lose, 04 Edward "W. Parker, 70 AVm. Lingv, 72 Jas. W. Montgomery, 81 Edward Westover, 120 Algiers Ary, 150 Charles Rogers, 82 W. A. Barnet, 121 Odis Gown, 165 Alex Dunbar, | 84 J no. S. McGarvey, | 175 Jacob Schrall. For Total poll and registry lists see pages 2007 and 1963. 27 FERGUSON TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. AV. T. Wilev, W. W. Bell', 0. B. Strunlc, E. E. Owens, M. AV. AViiherito, Total 61 02 70 74 80 B. G. McMasters, Joseph Straw, J. S. McCreery, F. C. Bell, L. B. Ilile, L. T. Beers, Geo. Michaels, J. J. Dillen, A. J. Smith, C. T. Shaper. 15 For poll and registry lists see pages 2005 and 2064. GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, CLEAREIELD COUNTY. 36 33 39 Daniel Snyder, AA''m. B. Thompson, D. AV. McCracken, Total 69 David Johnson, 87 Mathew Johnson, 90 !J. R. Derick, 48|Jos. Neweimer, 88 II. D. Kestcr. For poll and registry lists see pages 2000 and 2065. JORDON TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 3 Robt. Biddle, 34 James P. Curry, 87 Ilarvev Swan, 4 A. E. Creswell, 107 Miles S. Bloom, 95 Samuel E. Mays, 10 J. AV. Straw, 111 James (}. AVilliams, 103 Wm. Cr. Williams, 12 Ilarvev A. Swan, 45 John T. Wiley, 106 Newil Davis, 15 J. AV. Leonard, 49 David Z. Curry, 114 Taylor Mc.Veal, 20 (ieorge Straw, 08 Robert .Tohnson, 122 Daniel Bailor. 23 J. C. Thurston, 69 Reuben Straw, 32 Philip McNulty, 84 Wm. Straw, Total. For poll and registry lists see pages 1995 and 1965. NEWDURO BOROUGH, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 25 26 B. F. Markle, R. P. McFadden, 4 G. AV. Verne, 15 Samuel Miller, Total For poll and registry lists see pages 2057 and 1960, Wm. Lingafelter, E. B. Miller. APPENDIX " C. •CONTINUF.D. KNOX TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 1 Name of Voter. 1 1 Name of Voter, 1 o 1 <^ Name of Voia: 33 35 60 Johu W .Mellinger, Henry Hickok, John Merriman, 82 88 97 Monroe Barton, W. L. Wise, James Lewis, ' 101 120 132 Hoi ton Clark, Daniel Bloom, Abel Hickok. Total For poll and registry lists, see pages 1991 and 19G6. LAWRENCE TOW'NSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 3 E. J. Reed, 100 John B. Hersey, 263 W. T. Fenton, 53 Cyrus Fauzey, 18 A. L. Robin, 271 Burt Gearhart, 33 C. C. Eodgers, 388 Hiram Shafer, 183 Ed. Fulkerson, 145 Jacob F. Kline, 364 John Randecker, 129 John Bowman, 140 Warren Mullen, 1317 Wm. Brosius, Total 14 For poll and registry lists, see pages 1985 and 1968. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 25 I 8 1143 Abraham Stenebrurlee J. E, Hughenberger, Sebastian Snyder, 163 iH. A. Jones, 164 iB. F. Wilhelm, 207 1263 1 250 il73 J. A. Raymond, John Clouse, David Richards, .Joseph Klinger, 105 1 George Rader, Total For poll and registry lists, see pages 687 and 689. PENN TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. W. T. Irvin, Richard Humpter, 1. Lenhart, C. A. Bramer. 14 41 1 W. K. Danver, | 83 Michael Dixon, 57 1 John Hess, 85 John Conrad, 59|Daniel Korb, 86 Milton Wall, 61 |D. C. Sharp, | 87 Wm. P. Daley, Total For poll and registry lists, see pages 1979 and 1971. 118 S. L. Kesler, 121 1 William Spencer, 123 If. H. McNeal, 45 1 Peter Pifter. 12 PIKE TOWNSHIP, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 194 James Kaden, 24 R. A. Holden, 102 Wilson McNaul, 199 A. J. Thompson, 32 S. W. Carr, 111 Henry Broom, 215 Robert R. Keeper, 159 E. G. Carr. 138 Joseph Spencer, 218 Moses Norris, 38 Benj. TenEyck, 154 John B. Garrison, 223 J. F. Metsler, 45 Patrick Currens, 156 Jordon Bloom, 20 Isaiah William, 56 I. D. llitter, 172 George Fe, Total For poll and registry lists see pages 691 and 662. 18 APf'ENDL'i^ «' C in ". -CONTINlJEti, CLLWrOX COUNTV LOCK IIAVKX (SICC'OND WAUU), Cr.lNTOX COl'XTY. •^ I =: I Name, of \vter. ;]s 42 58 f.O 03 09 72 7S 80 81 87 90 Jlann, C. F. Sloan, Robert F. Keller, V. W. Merrel, A. L. Sloan, n. C. P.arrett, E. L. Harvey, Isaac A. SniiUi, K. \). Lent, (leorge Sloan, .]. N. Batch el or, G. W. Buro;c, Wm. McCiinnis, Jno. S. Rittman, P. P. I Fletcher, R. 11. Bovle, Dewit C. Keller, P. J. Ross, F. M. |Roiiell, Joseph iMulqueen, Jno. Davis, "Win. II, lllulintr, Wm. Total registry list see pri 97 98 99 107 108 115 118 122 123 128 129 135 145 152 153 1()0 174 180 187 188 189 194 Name of Voter. Sloan, A. R. Roc key, Thos. Stire.«, Henry McCorniick, S. M. Abranis, S. S. Tliiele, J. L. Seltzer, J. F. Ilarlni'in, II. C. llerr, Wm. Molson, F. B. Winner, G. W. Pretet, Joseph Jr. Deiffenbach, II. L Farnsworth, J. N. .•\brams, L. M. Hawkins, W. L. Bantleon, Henry Kiltner, A. S. Beck, W. II. Lander, Wm. A. Wiedhahn, C. G. Clawaier, W. S. 1 Name of Voter. ii; I 200 IkMilly, J. II. 202 Howell, II. C. 205 Weaver, J. H. 213 Mason, George 214 Yocum, George 221 Hiller, J. II. 232 Croak, John 230 Soler, Robert 237 Bantleon, Reuben 238 McGill, Fleming 243 Hackley, H. I). 249 Kintzing, Barnes 255 Weil, Moses 258 Smith, Sam"l. II. 200lMan, Julius 272!Remick, (risper 203 Shaflner, IkMulelin 270 Swavely, IC. .1. 281 Monogan, VAss. 282 Hoover, Wm. 289 Cummings, .John 05 nted testimony, pages 2594 — 95. — For poll list see printed tes- timony, pages 2509-70-71-72. LOCK HAVBN (fourth WARd), CLINTOX COUNTY. 9 11 13 10 • )•) 29 35 38 42 50 51 57 78 84 87 88 90 92 112 117 For Mingle, S. T. Ilarvev, John Roland, W. II. ('arpenter, L. T. Welsh, .lohn Smith, R. K. Shell, R. W. Bogcnrief, David Crowley, B. J. Saltsman, Robt. Kean, John Luddon, Patrick Baylor, David Cuihy, Robt. Furst, John E. Tiford, ,Iohn Askey, S. W, Jobson, M. C. Harnish, A. B. Curns, Owen Total registry list see pri 122 123 127 1 128 il30 1142 1 145 151 101 1 103 108 1 lli-i 11-2 181 187 188 192 1197 1207 i210 Baird, E. J. Johnson, Jacob Burliew, C. II. Staub, Frank Smith, F. K. Kane, Morris Kiesler, S. I). Kinley, J. 0. Montgomery, A. M. lleltman. j". II. Lindig, Jiihn F. (luilford, Wm. Shaller, J. A. Harnish, II. M. McClintic, J. 1). Vanatta, Lot Bittner, Robt. Parsons, Samuel Swerze, John Whiteman, II. S. 2191 220f 22 1 220 228 242 24;'. 1245 1 240 250 254 1257 i259 !203 :200 Armstrong, R. J. Ilane, Franklin Emery, Harry Siniilev, J. R. Porter, W. B. Geiger, Adam Iloutz, Eiias Snyder, San.uel Carey, Michael Stevenson, S. T. Blake, Michael Clapp, Jared Bower, Charles Davis, Thomas Sheid, J. M.^ Kakens, J K. Roachabrode. J. D. Miller. John F. H. 58 nted testimony, page 2597. — For poll list see printed testimo- ny, page 2537. AHI'E.VDIX "C. CJON'TINTUED. I-OGAXSVILLK BOROUGH, CLINTON COUNTY. S I N'ame of Voter. Stem, Henry 7iEnc;le, Joliii Jr. SJGrainley, Jno. 9 Kister, Jacob ;>o 'Snook, L. W. 43 57 58 65 09 Name of Voter. Dow, E. W. Kleckner, 0. W. Weaber, VVm. 11. Bovversox, Jos. Kleckner, Samuel Name, of Voter. Total. Kamerrer, Jos. I?artges, Aaron Confer, F. W. Tri;mp, L. F. Mayes, John 15 For poll and registry lists, see pages 2574 and 2582. KENOVO BOROUGH, CLINTON COUNTY. 7 Elliott, F. M. 9 Corrinth, A. H. 10 McCormac, Peter 12 Coonrod, William 10 McMahon, John IS Ildollus, Edward 19 Quinn, Lemuel 22 Pfiffer, Anthony 25 Young, Thomas 34 Pretrney, Thomas 35 Brinnon, Michael 37 Biernbiller, Godfrey 39 Hartranft, Seymour B 44 GatF, H. A. 40 McCoy, Robert L. 47 Fox, John Sr. 55 Guther, William 50 Nixon, Wm. 57 Gist, M. B. 01 Malloney, Mauraco F 70 Matimore, Michael 70 Hogland, John 84 O'Bryan, Timothy 87 Elliott, G. M. 92 Markes, Jacob 93 Baird, Jas. II. 95 Sinmers, S. D. 98 Patton, Thos. l]4|Svverley, George P. 1 17 Potter, Geo. L. 1 l8|Schmidt, Nichademus 13SjMyers, Emanuel 142|Sidel, Luther 148 Bowen, G. M. 154| Johnson, Chas. C. 150| Forester, Ilenary 158|Nester, Wm. lOO'Steadman, S. E. 100 Geary, John W. 179k;orteb:ne, G. W. Total 186 191 192 222 223 234 230 239 242 244 240 249 251 252 253 259 203 270 272 270 278 279 280 280 293 290 299 301 302 305 308 312 313 321 322 328 338 339 348 355 W. Costello, Frank Moore, C. P. Crites, Charles Paine, George Cheeseman, A. Bazzill, Geo. Kline, Llarey O'l-Ieley, Michel Seibert, Geo. Weaver, John Bennett, Samuel J. Stout, H. K. Elliott, James Billon, Jerrey McGill, W. B. Hall Joseph Wirts, S. M. Koch, Jacob Koller, Peter Saxton, Millard F. Duider, Samuel Iloinen, Samuel McConnell, IT. T. Glenn, Edward Woddey, Michal Edmondson, E. AV. Donaldson, F. II. Walker, A. J. Bailley John Donaldson R. B. Mack, Wm. P. Weidler, Wash. Givin, Frank Whitbev, Joseph "Jr. Ward, Wm. Steel,_J. W. Burkie, Anthony Simpson. R. D. Allen, Eli Jas. McCrann, Thos. H. 301 1 Taylor, Richard 371 Kepperley, John 378 McCaigue, Philip 379 Gorwin, Tlios. 394 Mitchell, A. R. 399 Ilaggan. Charles 412 Hain, S. L. 428 Uhl, Earnesi 431 Dellaer, Patrick, 433 Paul, George 435 Bell, J. II. 437 Gardner, Edward 445 Brinnan, Patric 448 Wells, Milton J. 452 Hahn, Geo J. 454 Koskey, Augustus 401 i Nicholas, T. W. 472 Green, Jos. 478 Schultz, Ferdinand 481 Simpson, .lohn T. 484|Dewire, Michael 495|Wickert, Albert 499 Nixon, Edward 500 Smolley, John 502 Seiner, John 508 Wickerman, W. H. 510 Hickey, Stephen 513 Merry, Jas. F. 522 Snyder, Oliver 524 Emery, J. F. |525 Haflt'ley, Albert 1528 Hartley, John 529 Gorman, John 535!Kortebine, Geo. M. 540 544 550 553 Farley, Francis Nicholas, Benjamin Shank, Chas. Burackrie, John For registry and poll lists, see pages 2601 and 2490. Printed testimony, lis APPKNDIX "C." — CONTINUED. hEKCU ("r.KICK TOWNSHIP, {•[.INTON COLNTY. Xar^tc of Votrr. 1 £^' Name of Voter. 1 ^ Numc of Vo'er. <; 1 < 05 i () Wftlz, Warren 55 Wensel, Geo. Packer, Geo. J2|BierIv, B. M. fiC^ Dimkle, Fremont 57 Liiij^Ie (ieo. ]5 Kiipert, Wm. 57 McKean, C. B. 1 84 KeveH, Chark'H -1 Moblv, S. 5S Gardner, J. I. 1 SS Hamlin, T. J. 30 Searls, E. G. 1 GO Bunztine, H. L. 89 Wensel, .James 44 Kevep, Wm. 63 Metziker, Geo. Schrack, John 1 100 Bixler H. H. 180 Sheetz, Jacob 13 Detwiler, Henry 107 Fetlcr, John 181,'Snook, Joseph IT) Tyson, Jacob 8. 109 Reuther, Ilernian 182 Nearhood, Benj. 20 Karclier, Diilip no Weaver, Wm. W. 190 Schroeder, A. F. 23 Elite, Andrew Hi Karoher, Christopher 192 Strohecker, John 34 Weaver, S. T. 115 Fidier, John 196 Rowe, .John 46 Schurnk, 8. 8. 116 Buck, Franklin 197 Hoover, Henry ,52 Milner, C. W. 117 Zellers, Pierce 201 Stork, Charles 57 Holtman, Frederick 126 Frank, William F. 203 Smith, John H. 59 Righter, G. C. 133 Geistwite, -Jonth. 8. 205 Gettig, Aaron 63 Earner, J. J. 134 Womeldorf, John 211 Lytle, Charles 68 Earner, Israel 1). 138 Wise, Henry 214 Poorman, John K. 70 Keister, Daniel 140 Rine, Lewis B. 215 Bierly, Isaih 73 Stanirn, David 8. 141 Meisner, John W. 216 Rockey, John F. 75 Graniby, Daniel 142 Price, John F. 219 Walker, Jeremiah 76 Knauli; Wm. W. | 145 Matter, Josiah 220 LockhooC, George 79 Critz, John i 147 Eckel, A. I. 1 221 Eugel, Daniel SO.Grambv, Williatn | 149 Herman, John K. 225 Kreamcr, II. N. 83 Mertz, Henry 150 Prise, Samuel W. 227 Kashner, William 85 Saver, John 157 Traite, Henry 230 Kashner, Michael 87 Reningar, Jacol) 163 Lehman Samuel I 234 Kreninger, William 88 Earner, John IT. j 164 Lamey, A. N. 236|Zeller, John 89 Herman, Jacob 1 168 Schrack, William 240 Gerrety, Thomas 9J Critz, J. A. i 173 Herman, Willam 244|Earon, Cliristian Jr. 92 Frank, J. L. i 178 Kinley, A. A. 1 Total. For poll and registry lists, see pages 2562-63-64 and 2586-87 GRUGAN TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. Total . 2 Farwell, Robert E. 19 Riggles, John 34 Wadsworth, Alex. 4 Grugan, Jacob 23 Farwell, L. M. 44 Johnson, J. W. 5 Grugan, Thew. 24 Eilert, George 55 Launer, Patrick 6 Kellcy, James 26 Edwins, George | 57 Grugan, Edwin 7 Shadv, E. P. 31 Heoner, W. C. b'6 Ritchie, Lawrence 11 Johnson, Wm. 32 Caton, Jerry 17 McGliee, S. H. 33 Gougan, Jno. 19 For poll and registry lists, see pages 2550 and 2593-94. LOGAN TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY. 11 Mechtly, A. J. 73 McClain, Ames 133 Emig, Peter 18 Aaoman, William 76 Mover, William A. 136 Gift, John 19 Khyne, Daniel 80 Howe, J. B. 154 Kahl, Adam 32 Cavis, Wm. 87 Greninger, John -Jr. 155 Curin, Emanuel 34 Boone, John II. 89 Jones. John 8. S. 158 Wolf, William E. 38 Boone, Eenewill 107 Glantz, John 159 Will, Ilersh 46 Duck, Isaac 110 Kleckner, II. B. 160 Swanger, Phillip 47 Bierly, Emanuel 114 Miller, Jacob 171 Cavis, Samuel 5i Klepper, Benj. F. 119 Miller, .leeeo G. | !77 SGlucckengost, P. T. AlM'ENDiX -CONTINLT.D. »3 LOOAN TOWNSUIP, CLINION COUNTY — CONTINUED. f^ 1 Name of Voter. 54|Wieber, Benj. r)7|Cavis, Jolin 5X|Kaust, ISIicliat'l I, :5:" \<> I II I 120 121 127 12S 12'J Name of Voter. II . Cable, Samuel Lucas, William Quiggle, R. N. Sr. Johnson, J. AV. Quiggle, C. J, Total Sr. 39 40 54 f)l 68 73 74 78 80 85 ss S9 91 95 100 107 McClure, W. S. Cable, Jno. Snyder, Joins .). Anner, (Jeorge Smith, Wm. W. Asking, Aaron Montgomery, A. K. Sour, G. W. Snyder, Ellis Throp, Geo, W. Toner, T. J. Farlinger, V. D. Quiggle, R. T. Throp, S. H. Kessler, H. .J. Chatham, John II. 108 114 115 118 121 123 126 127 133 137 138 139 149 156 157 163 Mitcheltree, Ci. W. Curn, S. M. G'Connell, W'n>. P)mert, James .Snyder, H. rinteosed of the north ward of the borough of Jiellefonte there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as lear- tizaus and snpiKaters of yonrs in considcratiiMi ol" votin;^ lor yon; or tlicy vot«'d lor yon in consideration and ni»on tlic j»roniisc that tliey sliould rec<'iv(' money and oilier valnalde Illinois tliereal'ter; in eonse- quenee ol" wliicli several ille^iid and eorrnpt Icirjiains, negotiations, and transactions tliey roil'eiteil their ri^ht to \ote at said eh'ction. «!. Tiiat in the eh'ction district consisting- ol" t lie hoi-oiiuh of Howard, in said connty of Centre, there were ]>olh'd, c((nnted, and retnrned \\)V you, as le^al votes, ten and more votes, wliicli votes were polleaid either a State or county tax wliich liad be<'n assessed two months before said day of election. That ten other votes were ]>olled, counted, and returned for you in said borough as le/^ial votes, which said votes wer(^ illegal, fraudiUent, and void, because they wvw i)olled by jiersons •who were not legally qualified voteis of said boiou^h, inasmuch as they had illegally and corru])tly received money and other valuable things fr()m jiartisans and sujjporters of yours in consid<'ration of votin;; for you; or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should recei\e money and other valuable thin^is thereafter; in (ron- sequeuce of which several illegal and corru])t ne^otiatiims, l)argains, and transactions they forf«Mted tlieir ri^ht to vote at said election. 7. That in the election district (.'onsisting of the l)oroush of Milesbur^-, in said county of Centre, there Avere polled, counted, and returned for you, as leg:al votes, twenty and moie votes, which votes were polleaid either a State or c(»unty tax which Inul been assessed two months before said day of election. That twenty other votes were ])o]led, counted, and re- turned for you in saiaid either a State or county tax which liad been assessed two months before said day of election. That lifty other votes were ])olled, counted, and returned for yon in said borough as legal v«»t«'s, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the jxasons who severally 4 CUKTIX VS. YOCUM. ]»(>llc(l the siimo were not lejially qnalifled voters of said horon^li, iiias- juiicli as they had i]le<;ally and corrnptly received money and otlier vahiable thin,us from partisans and sn])i)orters of yours in consideration of ^()till.^ for you; or they voted for you iu consideration and ui)()n the promise that they shouhl receive money and otlier valuable tliin<;s there- after; in consecpience of which several illeei'sons were i»ermitted, anil did illegally, framlulently, and corruptly jtut into said ballot box a large number of illegal votes or ballots alter the closing of the ])olIs and lu'fore the. votes weic all counted from said box. That said uuauthori/.ed ])ersons thus illegally jx'rmitted to have access to said ballot-box did ilh'gallv, fraudulently, antly al>stract and take from said box a large numlier of legal votes which had been ])oll«'d and deposited therein; in cousiMpu'iice of all which illegal and conupt acts and doings it was inipossilde lor the said ollicers of election to ascertain and deteiinine how many legal votes had been jxdled for any candidate ibr the ollice of Kejn'esentative in Congress, and in conseou ; or they voted tor you in (;onsiderarion anfii"tisans and su])i)orters of yours in consideration of votin«x for you; or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valua- ble thin.ii's thereafter; in conseiiuence of ^vhich several illegal and cor- rupt negotiations, bai-gains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. V2. That*ln the election district consisting of the township of College, in said county of Centre, there were polled, returned, and counted, for you, as legal votes, thirty and more votes, wliich votes were polled by l^ersons who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not, within two years, and more than one month before said fifth day of November last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed tAvo months before said day of election. That thirty other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you in said township as legal votes, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said township, inas- much as they had illegallj^ and corruptly received money and other valuable things from partisans and supporters of yours in consideration, of voting for you; or they voted for you in consideration and upon the j)romise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter; in consequence of which several illegal and corrupt negotia- tions, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That the officers who held and conducted the election in said township of College, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks, were not legally and properly qualified to act as such officers, and were not duly and legally sworn before entering upon the duties of their. respect- ive offices, as required by the constitution and laws of this common- wealth. That the said election officers did not conduct said election according to law, in this: that they did not keep the registry list of voters in the room and check therefrom the names of the persons voting, as required by law, and did not keep and return a list of the names of the persons who voted at said election, as required by law. That the said election officers did not designate upon their return for what offices the votes were polled for any candidate. That said election officers returned that one hundred and eighty-fi\'e A'otes were polled for S. H. Yocum, without designating for what office the said votes were cast for the said S. H. Yocum, and yet the said one hundred and eighty-five votes were improperly and illegally counted in the general return of the said county of Centre as so many legally cast votes for you for the office of Eepresentative in Congress. In consequence of all which irregular, improper, and illegal acts it is impossible now to ascertain and deter- mine how many, if any, legal votes were polled for you for the office of Eep- resentative in Congress, in the said township of College; and therefore the return of one hundred and eighty-five Aotes in the township of Col- lege for you for the office of Representative in Congress was illegal, and the said number of votes should be deducted and excluded from the number of votes credited to you in the general count and return of votes for the county of Centre. 13. That in the election district consisting of the eastern or old pre- cinct of the township of Furguson, in the said county of Centre, there CIKTIN VS. YOCTM. 7 "wci'c jiollcd, <'(»uiit«'id, be- cause tlu^ jiersons who severally ]>olled the same were not le^ially (piali- lied v«)ters of said ])reciiict, inasmuch as they had illcfially and corruptly recei\'ed moiu'y and otlu'r valuable thin.us j'rom partisans and support- ers of yours in consi«leration of \otin<;' for you; or they voted for you in consideiation and u]»on the promise that they should receive money and other valuable thin<;s thereafter; in conse(|uence of wliieli several ille<;al and corrujtt nep)tiations, bargains, and transactions they for- feited their riiiht to vote at said election. That twenty and more legal votes polled for me by legally-tiualitied voters of the said precinct were counted and returned as so many legal votes polled for yon. That twent>' and more legal votes polled for me in said precinct for the oflice of ]Jepresentative in Congress were not counted or returned at all. That the ofht'crs who held aiul conducted the election in the said ]»recinct, to wit, the judge, ins}>ectors, and clerks, were none of them legally and pro])erly (lualilied, nor duly and legally sworn or atlirmeil before enter- ing ui)on the duties of their respective oflices, as re(|uired l)y the con- stitution and laws of this commonwealth. That the said ollicers did not severally take, subscribe, and return tlu; oaths or allirmations required by law. ])y reason of all which the said election was illegal, null, and void, and the return thereof undue, unlawful, and false, and sl^ould be excluded from the general return of the said county of Centre. 14. That in the election district consisting of the western or new precinct of the township of Fergnson, in the said eonnty of Centre, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, thirty and more votes, which said vcttes were polled by persons who were not legally-fpialitied voters of said precinct, because they AV.-re not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been resi- dents of said ])recinct for two months immediately ])rece(ling the ."ith day of November last, and who had not within two years, and nu)re than one month before said ."itii day of November last, paid either a Stat« or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election. That thirty other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you in said precinct as legal Aotes, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, anrecinct, to wit, the Judgq^ ins]>ectors, and cleiks, were not duly and legally (pialilied, sworn or aftirmed as re(|uired by law. That said election ollicers during the xes, nor subsequently counted by said olidcers. That said election olliccrs improperly, illegally, and fiaudulently ix'rniitted the same persons to vote more tlian once at the said election. That the said election otlicers neglected and refused to return the list of voters for said precinct as required by law, and in other respects act(Ml irregularly, imi>ropcrly, illegally, and corruptly. By reason of all which it is now impossible to ascertain and determine how many legal votes were polled for any one in said precinct for the ofitice of Eepresentative in Congress, and therefore the entire return fi'om said precinct is undue, illegal, and false, and shonld be excluded from the general count of votes polled for the office of Ee]>resentative in Congress in said county of Centre, and from the general return of votes polled for said office in the said twen- tieth CongTessional district of Pennsylvania. 15. That in the election district consisting of the township of Half Moon, in said county of Centre, there were polled, counted and returned for you, as legal votes, twenty and more votes, which votes were polled hj persons who were not legally-qualitied voters of said township, be- cause they were not citizens of the United States and of this common- wealth, and had not been residents of said township two months imme- diately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before said 5th day of November last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election. That twenty other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you in said township as legal votes, which votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who sever- ally polled the same were not legally-qualitied voters, inasmuch as they had illegally and corrui)tly received money and other valuable things from partisans and supporters of yours in consideration of voting for you ; or they voted for you in consideration, and upon the promise, that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter; in con- sequence of which several illeg'al and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions tliey forfeited their right to vote at said election. That the officers of the election of said township of Half Moon, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks, held and conducted said election improp- erly, iiTegularly, and illegally ; in consequence of which the returns of votes polled at said election should not be counted in the general re- turns. 16. That in the election district consisting of the township of How- ard^ in said county of Centre, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were polled by- persons who were not legally-qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said township two months immediately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the said 5th day of Xov^ml)er last, i)ai(l either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election. | 17. That in the election district consisting of the toAvnship of Huston, in said (bounty of Centre, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, thirty and more votes, which votes were polled by persons T|:ho were not legally-qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said township two months imine«liately preceding the 5th da>- of November last, and wh( > had not within two years, and more than one month before the said 5th day of November last", paid either a State cruTiN vs. YocrM. y or county tax wliicli had Itcni assessed l\\<» inmitlis l)ofore sai of Liberty, in said county of Centre, there were jiollcd, counted, anil returned for you, as lejiid votes, thirty and nuu-e votes, which votes uere ])olled by l)ersons who were not le;;ally (puditied voters of said townshi]*, because they had not been residents of said township two months immediately precedin;.i- the oth day of November last, aiul who had not within two years, and more than one mouth before the 5th day of Xpvend)er last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months l)efore said day of election. That thiity other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you in said townshii> as legal votes, which said votes were iUegal, fraudulent, and V(»id, because the persons who severally ])olled the same w<'re not le,u'ally-u the registry- list of said township, without requiring the proof of the rigid of such ])ersons to vote whiiMi the law [)rescribes. By reason of all which it is now impossible to as(;ertain ami er- sons who were not legally-(pialitied vot«'rs of said township. b«'cause they w<'re not citizens of the Cnited States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said townshi]) for two moni lis immediately 10 CrUTIX vs. YOCTM. procodiii;^' the lit'tli day of Xoveiiiltcr last, and who liad not, witliiii two years and more tlian one month before said liftli day of Xovember last, paid eitlier a State or county tax Avliich liad been assessed two months before said day of election. That twenty otlier votes were polled, connted, and returned for you in said townslii]) as leolled the same were not legally ((iialified voters of saitly and illegally received money and other valuable things from partisans and supjxirters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consit negotiations, l)argains, and transactions they forfeited tlieir right to vote at said election. That the oHicers of the election, to Avit, the judge, in- spectors, and clerhs,Avho held and con(bicted the election in saidtownshi}), acted impro])erly, irregularly, and illegally in receiving votes and deposit- ing the same in the box from a large nundjcr of persons whose names Avero not found ni)on the registry list of said toAvushij), Avitliout demanding- and reipiiring the i)i(>of of the right of such persinis to Aote i)rescribe(l by law. Such election officers further acted im]>roi»erly, irregularly, illegally, and corruptly in permitting unauthorized persons Avho Avere not election ollicers to have access to the room where such electiy reason of all Avhich it is noAV imi)ossible to ascertain and determine how many legal A'otes Avere polled in said townshi]> for any candidate for theofiiceof l\e]>resentatiA'e in Congress, and theicfore the return of two hundred and forty votes as haA'ing been ]»olled by you for said ollice in said townshi]) is undue, false, and illegal and should not be included in but should lie excluded from the geiu'ral count of said A'ot<'s cast in Centre County, and from the general count of votes cast for said ollice in the twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania. L'3. That in the election district consist ini: of the townshijiof Ta.vlor, in said county of Centre, there Avei'e i»(»lle(l. countetl, and returneil for you, as legal votes, twenty and mon' votes, Avhich v()tes wcic ]>olled by persons Avho were not legally-re- cedinunted for you, the persons voting the same not beinfj legally qualitied voters of their respective districts, but bein<^ minors under the age of twenty-one years. 27. That, in the said county of Centre larjic snms of money were ille- gally and corruptly used and expended by your friends, supjtorters, and l>artisans to induce persons who were inclined to vote for me for IJeju'e- sentative in Congress not to so vote, but to cast their votes for yon for said otlice. 2S. That a large number of legally ([ualified voters in the several districts in the t'ounty of Centre who were disposed and inclined to vote tor mo were i)revente. That a large nund)er, to wit, three hundred and more legally quali- fied voters of the said county of Centre, who desired, designed, and in- tended to vote for me for the oflice of liepresentative in Congress were ]»revented from so doing by nu'ans of a false and deceitful ticket, fraudu- lently and y means of which fraudulent and deceitful device, contrivance, and conduct 1 was de]>rived of three hundred and more legal vot(*s in said <'ounty of Centre, which 1 would otheiwise have received ; ami three lunidred aner tin' ballots as tliey were \-ote«l, as le- (jniied by tlie constitution and laws of this <-ommonwea]th. That said eleftion ollieers illegally and eonn])tly i-eeeived from the same indi\id- uals more than one hallot Ibr the same ol1ie«' and er of votes than the number of persons who vote(l at said election, 'i'liat two and more tickets wero found in tlie boxes folded to^^cther, and were not thrown out as re(piireersons, wliose names to me are as yet nnknown, who were not (jualified voters of said townshi]), because they were not citizens of the rnitetly voted i'ov you for the office of ltei)resentativG in Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counte were not h'gally (pialilied voters of said township, inasmuch as they had illegally and (Muruptly received money and other valuable, things, from partisans and sui>i)orters of yours, in consideration of vot- ing for you, or they voted for you in consideration and ui»on the promise that they sliould receive money and other valuable things thereafter; in consequence of which several illegal and corrui)t negotiations, bar- gains, and transactions, they forfeited their right to vote at said elec- tion. 35. That in the election district consisting of the the township of Burnside, in said count\ of Cleartield. John Sylvis and fifty other per- IG CURTIN' VS. YOCrM. sons, Avliose iiaiiios to iiie are as yet uuknowii, ■who were not legally ([ualified voters of said townslii]), because tliey were not citizens of tlie United States and of this coniinouwealth, and who had not been resi- dents of said township for two months innnediately jn-eceding the oth day of Xovember last, and Avho had not within two years, and more than one month before the .jth day of Xovember last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, frau(bilently, and corrai)tly voted for you for the office of Kepresentative in Congress, which votes, so illegally, corruptly, and fraudulentlj" polled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That fifty other ^otes were polled, counted, and returned for you as legal votes in said township, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said township, inasnuich as they had illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly received money and other valuable things from partisans and supporters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which several illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That at said election fifty other persons, who were not legal voters of said township, because they were aliens and unnaturalized, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That at said election ten other persons who were not legal voters of said township, because they were minors, under the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes so illegally, fraiululentlj^ and corruptly polled were received aiid counted and returned for you as so many legal votes. That fifty other persons whose names were not upon the registry list of said town- ship were permitted to vote at said election without making any proof or offering any evidence of their right to vote as required by law, in con- sequence of all which it is now impossible to ascertain and determine how many legal votes were polled in said township for the office of Eep- resentative in Congress, and therefore the entire return from said town- shij) should be rejected, and not included in the general return of votes cast for said office. 36. That in the election district consisting of the township of Decatur,, in said county of Clearfield, John Jones and twenty other persons, whose names aie to me as yet unknown, who were not legally-qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been i-esidents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of Xovem- ber last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the fifth day of Xovember last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two mouths before the said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Eep- resentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly polled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes for you for said office. That at said election twenty and more votes were polled, counted, and returned for you in said townshi}) as legal votes, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said township, inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly received money and other valuable things from partizans CUKTIX VS. YOCIM. 1 7 and su])i)oitevs of yours in consiilriiitioii of volinji- for you, or tlicy voted for you in considcratiuu aud upon tlic i»roiiiise tlial tlu'y slioidd icccivc luont'y aud other \alual)le tliiuys lliereafter, iu coiiseciueuee (»f wliieli several ille^^al aud eorru]>t ue<;(>tiatioMs, har;;aius, aud traiisaeti<»us tlii-y forfeited tlieir ii<^lit to vote at said election. That at said electiou t\\('Uty other jiersous who were uot lej^al xoters of said t<»\vushi]), Itccause they were aliens aud uuuaturali/elled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes for you for said office. That at said ehiction -John 3Ic- Laiighlin aud twenty other persons, who were not legal voters of said towushii* because they were minors under the age of twenty-oiu' years, illegally, fraudulently, and coirui)tly voted, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrui>tly polled, were received, counteolled, were received, countei»oiuted, or chosen to their respective i)ositious, and Avere not didy and legally (pialilied to serve as such officers, aud did not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or athrnuitions re(pured by law. That said election ofUcers received aud counted votes Irom jx-r sons whose names were notu])on the registry list of said township with ally, frandnlently, and corruptly voted for you, and which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That at said ^election John Jones and tcJi other persons, who were not legal voters of said townshi]), because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraudulently, nnd corrui)tly ^^oted for yon, and which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That the officers who held and conducted the election of said township, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks Avere not duly elected, appointed, or chosen to their respective positions, and were not duly and legally ersons whose names were not ui)on the registry list of said township without requiring proof of the right of said persons to vote as required by law. 39. That in the election district consisting of the township of Gulich, in said county of Clearfield, John Jones and fifty other persons, whose names are to me as yet unknown, who Avere not legally qualified voters 'of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this coinmonwealth, and who had not been residents of the said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of Novem- ber last, and who had not, within two years and more than one mouth before the fifth da yof November last, paid either a Stat«^ or county tax which had been assessed two months before the said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Rep- resentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly polled Avere recei\^ed, counted, and returned as so many legal A'otes cast for you for said ofidce. That at said election John Jones and tAventy other persons, Avho were not legal voters of said township, because they Avere aliens and unnaturalized, illegally, fraudulently, ami corruptly voted for you, w^hich votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, Avere received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That at said election John Jones and ten other persons, AA'ho Avere not legal A^oters of said township, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraudulently, and corru])tly A^oted for you, Avhicli a otes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly polled, Avere rt^ceiA^ed, counted, and retnrned for you as so many legal Azotes. That the officers Avho held and conducted the election of said township, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks, Averenot duly and legally elected, appointed, or chosen to their respective positions, and Avere not duly and legally (]ualified to serA^e as such officers, and did not take, subscribe, ami return the oaths or affirmations required by law. That said election officers illegally and corruptly receiA^ed ami counted Azotes from persons whose names were not upon the registry-list of said toAvnship, Avithoat requiring proof of the right of said persons to A'ote as required by kiAV. CUKTIN Vi=!. YOCTM. l!t 40. Tliiit ill the ('lection district coiisistiiijj; (•i'tlic townslii]) of ITiiston, ill said coniity ol'CIearlicld, .lolm licar and tMcnty other persons, whose Tiairies are to me as yet nnkiKtwn, avIio were not lejially ([ualilied voters of said townsliip, becans(> tliey were not citizens of the Knited States and of this coimnonwealth, and wlio liad not been residents of said townsliip for two months immediately precedinj:: the tiftli dayof Xovein- ber last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before the fifth day of November last jiaid either a State or county tax whicli had l)een assessed two months before said day (»f election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the otiice of I'epresfutative ill Conjiress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly jtolled, were received, counted, and rc^turned as so many le.i,^al votes cast for you for said olli(H'. That on said day of election Jolin r>ear and twenty other i)ersons, M'ho were not le,u"al voton the registry-list of said townshi)), Avithout requiring proof of the right of said persons to vote as recjiiired by law. 41. That in the election district consisting of the township of Xorris, in said county of (Mearheld, F. U. Simmons and twenty other jK'rsons, Avhose names are to me as yet nnknown, who were not legally (lualitied A'oters of said township, becanse they were not citizens of the llnitiMl States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two numths immediately preceding the tiftli day of November last, and wjio had not within two years and more than one month before the fifth day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of elec- tion, ille.gally, frauduh'ntly, and corruptly A'oted for you for the oflice of l^epresentative in Congress, Avhich votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly polled, Avere received, c(mnted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said ofhce. That at said election, ( leorge Trimlde, sen., and twenty other ix'rsons Avho wcmv not legally (lualitied voters of said townshi]), because they were not citizens of the I'liited Stat(^s and ()f this commonwealth, but Avere aliens, nnnatnralized, illegally, fraudu- lently, and coiTU])tly Aoti'd for yon, which A'otes so illegally, fraudii- Iviitly, and ccnTUjitly polled Avere receiA'cd, counted, and returned for you as so many legal A'otes. That at said election, AVm. Sannders and ten other persons Avho AA'ere not legal A-oters of said townshij), because they Avere minors niider the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraiidii- leiitly, and corruptly voted for you, Avliich vt)tes, so illegally, fraudu- lently, anor Inst, and who had not witliiii two years and more than one month hclore the .>th day of November hist ])ai(l eitlier a State or eonnty tax whicli had been assessed two months before said day of election, ilh\nally, fian(hilently, and e()rru])tly voted for yon for tlie othce of ]{ep- resentative in Congress, which votes, so iHegally, frauduh'iitly, and cor- rnptly i)o]led, were received, counteo]led, counted, and returned for you in said township as h^gal votes which votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who sever- ally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said townshiji, inasmuch as they had illegally and corruptly received money and other valuable things from partisans and supporter of yours in consideration of voting for you ; or they voted for you in consideration and ui>on the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things there- after, in consequence of which several illegal and corrui)t negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That at said election John Jones and ten other persons who were not legal ^'oters of said township, because they were aliens and unnaturalized, illegally, frandulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes so illegally fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That at said election ten and more other persons who were not legal voters of said township, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes, so ille- gally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. 43. That in the election district consisting of the township of Union, in said count}^ of Clearfield, George Fitzgerald, and ten other persons whose names are to me as yet unknown, who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of* Novem- ber last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before the fifth da^of November last paid either a State or county tax which had l)een assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently^, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Eepresentative in Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That at said election George Fitzgerald and ten other persons who were not legal voters of said township, because they were aliens, unnaturalized, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That at vsaid election S. W. Hallowpeter and ten other persons who were not legal voters of said township, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were re- ceived, counted, and returned for you as so many legal votes. That the officers who held and conducted said elections of said township, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks, were not duly and legally elected, ap- pointed, or chosen to their respective positions, and were not duly and legally qualified to serve as such officers, and did not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or affirmations required by law. That said election officers illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly received and counted votes from persons whose names were not upon the registry list of said town- CURTIN VS. YOCTM. 21 ship witliout ro<|niring tlio, proof of the right of sucli persons to vote as prescribed by law. 44. That ill tlic ch'ctioM district coiisistiii.u' "»f tlic towiisliip of ^Vood- ^vard, ill said (Mniiity of CMearlichl, A. \\'esto\er and one hundred others, wliose names are to nie as yet unknown, who were not ]e«ially <|uali(icd voters of said townsliip, because tliey Avere not eiti/ens of the United States and of this eoiinnonwealtli, and wlio liad not been residents «)f .said townsiii}) for two inontlis inuncdiately pre<;edino- tin^. fittli ally, fraudulently, and c(niu]»tly ^■oted lor you for the oflice of IJe])- resentative in ('on<;ress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and eiu'- rnptly i)olled, \\\nv, received, counted, and returned as so many le, inasmuch as they had ille;;;ally and corruptly reeeived money and other valtnible things from iiartisans and supi)orters of yours in consideration of voting" tor you ; ov they vote, nor of this commonwealth, he having paid no State or county tax within two years, yet he illegally, fraudulently, and c«u'ruptly voted for you at said election upon a false, fraudulent, and forged tax-receii>t. That said election otiicers illegally and fraudidently received and ])ut into the boxes more ballots than there wen? names upon the list of voters; that theyjtermitted persons to vote double tickets, and afterwards illegally, fraudulently, and corruiitly counted the same. Tliat said election oflicers, during the hours which by law the j)olls should be ke[)t ojteu, impro[)t'rly and illegally left the house where the election was being held, and left the ballot-boxes un- guarded and in the care of no one for the space of half an hour or more, although a large number of men — the number of one hundred and more — 22 CUETIN VS. YOCUM. wore ill and around the, house where the said l)alh)t-l)oxes were so left un^iiuarded. That tlie said election oHicers illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly reeeived the votes of a large number of persons, to wit, the number of seveuty-live and u])wards, whose luimes were not upon the registry list of voters of said townshii), without demanding and re- quiring any i^roof of the right of such persons to vote, as riMiuired by law. Thfit said election ofticers illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly received the Aotes of a large number of persons, to wit, the inunber of lift}' and more, Avhom the said election ofticers knew to be foreigners and aliens, without demamling, requiring, or receiving any legal evidence that such i)ersons had been naturalized and made citizens of the ITnited States. That said election ofticers, after the votes in the ballot-boxes had been counted, did not seal up said ballot-boxes and deliver them into the custody of a magistrate, as required by law, but left them un- sealed in the room where the election had been held for a long period, to \\ it, lor a period of ten days after said election. By reason of all which said several irregular, illegal, fraudulent, and coiTupt acts, prac- tices, ami omissions, it is now imi)ossible to ascertain and determine how many legal votes were i)olled at said election in said township of Woodward for any candidate for the office of lleijresentative in Congress, in conseciuence of which the entire return from the said township of Woodward should be rejected and excluded from the general count of votes polled for the office of Eepresentative in Congress in the said county of Clearfield, and should be deducted from the general return of votes cast for said office in the said twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania. 45. That in the said county of Clearfield large sums of money were illegally and corruptly used by your friends, supporters, and partisans to induce persons who were inclined to vote for me for Congress not so to vote, but to cast their votes for said office for you. 4G. That a large numl)er of legally qualified voters in the several dis- tricts in the county of Clearfield, who Avere disposed and inclined to vote for me, weie i)re\'ented from so voting by means of threats and intimida- tion made and used by your friends, supporters, and partisans t«) turn them out of employment, out of their houses, and off from their farms in case they voted for me, whereby a large number of persons weie ille- gally and unjustly compelled to vote for you against their will, in order to prevent losing their employment, situations, and tenements. 47. That a large number, to wit, three hundred and more, of legally quali- fied voters of the said county of Clearfield who desired, designed, and intended to vote for me for the office of Eepresentative in Congress were pre- vented from so voting by means of a false and deceitful ticket, fraudulently and deceitfully printed and circulated by your friends, supporters, and partisans for the purpose of deceiving said voters. That while said ticket l»uri)orted to be a full Democratic ticket, yet there was fraudulently and deceitfully i)rinted ui)on it, for the office of Eepresentative in Congress, yoiu' name as a candidate for said office. That said deceitful tickets were fraudulently and deceitfully circulated by your friends, supporters, 2)artisans, ami by them given to illiterate and unsuspicious voters Avho desiiedand asked for a full Democratic ticket, and who, when they voted this deceitful ticket, sujq^osed and believed they were voting for me for the office of Eepresentative in Congress. By means of whi(;h fraudu- lent and deceitful device, contrivance, and conduct I was depri\ed of three hundred and more legal votes in said county of Clearfield, which I would otherwise have received, and three hundred and more legal voters of CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 23 said coMiity wvrv deccivod, cliciitcd, and defrancU'd IVom voting (or tlu-ir choice of Itci)r('scntativc in (Joii^rcss. 4S. That in the, county of Clinton There were retnrnetl and counted for you li,2(!4 votes; yet, I aver tluit tlu're were hut L'Jllh'jual votes l)olle'ovenil)er, A. D. LSTS, and tluit all votes re- ceived, counted, and returned for you, in said county, in excess of 2,114, are illejial, fiau. That in the election district consisting of the lirst ward of the city of Lock Haven, in said county of Clinton, there were itolled, counted, and retiuiu'd for you, as legal votes, ten and nu)re votes, which votes were ]»olled hy ])ersons who were not l(\iially qualilicd voters of said ward, because, they were not citizens of the United States and of this common wealth, and who had not been residents of said ward for two months imnu'diately preceding the 5th day of Xovend)er last, and who had not within two years, and more than er last, i»aid either a State or ccmnty tax, which had been assessiMl two months before said day of election. .~)(). That in the election district consisting of the third ward of said city of Lock JIaven there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were jtolled by jx-rsons who were not legally (lualitied voters of said ward, because they were not citizens of tiie l-nited States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said ward two months immediately preceding the 5th day of Xoxcmber last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of jS'oveml»er last, paid either a State^ or county tax, which had beeu assessed two months before said day of election. 51. That in the election district consisting of the borough of Beech Creek, in said county of Clinton, there were polled, counted, and re- turiu'd for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were polled by ])ersons who were not legally quali tied voters of said borough, because they were not citizens of the Tnited States and of this com- monwealth, and who had not been residents of said borough Ibr two months imnu'diately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, an<, twenty and more votes, wliicli votes were jxtUed l»y l)ersons who were not legally ([nalilied voters of said townsjii]), becanse they were not citizens of tlie United States and of this coininonwealth, and who ha. 'fliat in tlie <'lection district consistinji' of the townshi]* of liCidy, in said county of (Minton, there were polled, counted, and icturued for you, as h'iiid votes, ten and more votes, wliich votes were [tolh'd by ])cr- sons who were not lej^ally qualified voters of said townshij). because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of saial votes, live and more votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not legally (lualified A'oters of said township, because tliey were not citizens of the United States an' the fifth day of N()vend)er last, aiiolled by l»ersons who were not legally qualified voters of said townslii]t, because they were not citizens of the United States an for two months immediately preceding the 5th day of November last, aud who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of November last, paid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. (ifj. That in the election district consisting of the township of Horton, in the said <'ounty of Elk, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, twenty-five and more votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not legally qualified voters of said township, be- cause they were not citizens of the United States and of this common- wealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months inunediately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of No- vember last, i)aid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. 07. That in the election district consisting of the township, of Jones, in said county of Elk, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not leg.ally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not l)een residents of said township for two months immedi- ately i)receding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of November last, paid either a State or co^^nty tax, which had been assessed two months befiu-e said day of election. 08. That in the election district consisting of the township of Eidge- way, in said county of Elk, there Avere polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, thirty-four and inore Azotes, which votes were i>olled by persons who were not legally qualified voters of said township, be- cause they were not citizens of the United States and of this common- wealth, and who had not been residents of said townshi]) for two months immediately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of No- vend^er last, paid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. 09. That in the election district consisting of the township of Spring Creek, in said county of Elk, there were polled, counted, and returned ten and more votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not legally qualified voters of said townshi}), because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two mouths immediately i>receding the fifth day of November last, and who had not, within two years, and more than one month before the fifth day ot November last, paid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. 70. That in the county of Mifflin there were counted aud returned for you one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven votes, yet I aver there were but one thousand six hundred and ufty six legal votes })olle(l for you in the said county of Milfiiu at the said general election holden on CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 27 tbe fiftli (lay of Xovi'i!il>er. A. 1). ISTS, and that all votes roceived, counted, and rctuiiu'd for you in said (;ounty in cxccs.s of one tliousand six liundicd and ilfty-six were illcjial, fraudulent, and void, and sliduld wot have been e()unted an«l retuined, and sliould now be excbided fiuni the return of votes cast for you in said county of Mifllin, 71. That in the election district consistin;^ of the Ohl ])i('(iiict of the townslii|>of Ariiiaj;h, in saiil county of .Mifliin, there weic ]M»lN'(i,r()niit<'d, and return('er- sons Avho were not legally (pialitied voters of said precinct, because they were not citizens of the United vStates ami of this commonwealth, and Avho had not been residents of saially (lualifted voters of said townshi]), because they were not citizens of the United States and of thi>s commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immedi itely ])receding tlie 5th day of Novendjer last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the otli day of November last, l)aid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. 77. That in the election district consisting of the township of Newton Ilainilton, in said county of ]\[ifHin, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, wliich votes wire jjolled by i)ersons who were not legally (pialified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of tliis common- wealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of Xovend)er last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the fifth day of Xo- vendier last, jiaid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before the said day of election. 78. That in the election district consisting of the township of Union, in said county of Mifflin, there were polled, counted, and returned for yon, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were polled by persons Avho were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately pre- preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the fifth day of November last, paid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two mouths before said day ot election. 79. That in the county of Union tliere were retiu-ned and counted for yon two thousand two hundred and twenty votes, yet I aver that there were but two thousand and seventy legal votes polled for you in the said county of Union, at the said general election holden on the fifth day of November, A. D, 1878, and that all votes received, counted, and returned for you, in said county, in excess of two thousand and seventy, were illegal, fraudulent, and void, and should not have been counted and re- turned, and should now be excluded from the return of votes cast for you in said county of Union. 80. That in the election district composed of the north ward of the borough of Lewisbnrg, in said county of Union, there were polled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, ten and more votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not legally qualified voters of said ward, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said ward for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not for two years, and more than one month before the fifth day of November last, paid either a State or county tax, which had been assessed two months before said day of election. 81. That in the election precinct composed of the south ward of said borough of Lewisbnrg there were i)olled, counted, and returned for you, as legal votes, seventy and more votes, which votes were polled by per- sons who were not legally qualified voters of said ward, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said ward for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 29 years, and moro than one month bcloro the liltli (hiy of Xovciiihcr last, ]>aicl either a State or county tax, whieli had heeii assessed two months before said (hiy of eh'etion. 82. That in the election district consist inj;- of the west ward ni said borounh of Lewisbnrj;' there were ])olled, counted, and returned for you, as lejiul votes, t<'n aiul n)ore votes, which votes were polled by persons who were not le;;ally (lualified voters of said ward, l)e(;ause they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who- had not been resi(h'nts of said ward for two mcfnths immediately j>re- cedin^' the tilth day of Xovember last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before said titth day of Novemltei' last, ]iaid either a State or county tax, which had been asses.sed two mouths before said day of election. 8.'}. That in the election district coiu])osed of the east waid of the bor- ouji'h of Mitiiinbur;^', in said county of Union, there were ])olled, counted, and returned for yon, as lejj;al votes, ten and more votes, which votes were jxtlled by persons who were not lejially qualified voters of said ward, because they were not citi/.ens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who liad not been residents of said ward for two months imnu'diately precedinaid either a State or county tax, whieli had been assessed two months before said day of election. So. That in the election district consisting' of the township of lUiffalo Kan, in said connty of irnion, there were polled, counted, and retunu-d for you, as lej;al votes, ten and njore votes, which votes were i)olled by l>ersons who were not legally (jualitied voters of said township, because they were m»t citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months imme- ;ress. I aHeue that yonr said notice of contest was not duly and legally served, not ha\ iiiji- been served witliin thirty ('30) days alter the residt of tlie said ele(ti(»n in the said twentietli Con;:;ressional district, was declared by the various courts aiii)()iiited by law to canvass the vote therein, the time ])rescribed by tlie a(;t of ('on«iress in such cases made antly in not lia\in;i the rej;istr\ -list of voters foi- said lioron^h at said election, and checking therefriun the names ol" jn-rsons who had voteared there and olf»'red to \()te, and receivinle to ascertain iKJwniany lejjal votes were iH>lled in the said borough of riiilipsbur^", on the otli day of Xov(Mnber last, for the otiice of Itepresentative in Congress, in conse(pience of which the whole return of votes from the said borough should W. excluded, and noteounted tor anyone, are untrue in fact ; are indefinite, uncertain, and \'aur ninth si)ecificatioii. wlu'reiu ycMi allege that in the election district consistinjL^- of the township of IJeinier, ( "entre ( 'ounty. there were twenty and jnore illegal votes i»olled, counted, and returne«l for me, whi(;h votes were polled by ])ersons un- «|ualitied to vote in said township, because they wa-re not citizens of the United States smd of this t'ommonwealth and residents of sairecedin^ the 5th day of Xt»vember last, and who had not paid within two years and more tlian oim^ month juior to the oth day of Novend>er last a State or county tax which had been assessed twt) months before said (hiy of election; fhat twenty other votes wer«' jtoUed, counted, and returned for me in said townshij» that were ille-ial and \(»id, because the ]>ersons who severally polled said Notes were not legally (pialilied voters of sai' to law, anollsand Ix'fore the \<>tes were all counted Irom said box ; thatsaid unauthorized i»eisons, thus illegally i»ermitted to hav«' access to said ballot-bi>x, did. ille.ually, frau(hUentIy,and corrui>tly, abstract and H. Mis. 14 .; 34 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. talvO from said box a laryv imnilx'r of lega] votes wlii<'li had been polled and deposited therein, in eonse(|uen(;e of all Avhicli it was iini)<)ssible for isaienner should be excluded from the total (H:»unt of the votes jxdled for the said oftice of JiejuescMitative in (^ongress from tlie twentieth Con- gressional port<'rs of mine in consiiU-ration of voting lor me, or vot«'d for u\v in considera- tion and npon the ])i-omise that they shouhl receiv«' money and other vahiahlc thiniis thereafter, in eonsiMpienee of which iUej^al and <'orriipt har.nains and transactions they foifcite(l tln'ir ri.yht to \ote at said elec- tion ; that the ch'ction otiicers of tiic said township of ("(►Mc^c, to wit, jr.djic, inspci'tors, and ch-rks, were not le.uall_\ and pi'operly (pialitic(l to act as snch otliccis; wer<' not didy and h'.^ally sworn before entering; ujton their respect i\e dnties as sucii ollicers ; that said election onici'rs «lid not f'ondiict said eh'ctioii accordinj^ to law : m tliis, that they did not keep a registry-list of voters in tin* room and che<-k tlierefittm the names of jiersons who v<»ted at said election as retpiired l>y law; that they did not desiyiiate ujtoii their return for what otli<-es the votes w«'re polled for any candidate; that said election oiticers returned that one hundred and eijihtytive votes were i)olled for S. A. Yo«Mim, without desijiuatinj;' for what ofHee the said votes were cast for the said S. A. Yocum, and that said one hundred and eii>hty-five votes were illejially counted in the «i-eneral return of said county of Centre as so many legally cast votes foi- me for the otiice of I\epresentativ»' in Conuiess in the said township of ( 'ollejic ; in conse(|U<'nce of all which irre.unlai', im]»roi)er, and ilh'iial acts it is im]>ossil»le now to ascertain an'ations contained in said spe(!iH(;ations, and also aver that the olled and orters of mine in consideration of votinji; for me, or voted for me in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable thinjis thereafter, in conserecinct for the office of Eepreseutativein Congress were not counted or returned at all; that the election officers, to wit, judge, insi)ectors, and clerks who held and conducted the election in said precinct, were none of them legally and properly sworn or affirmed before entering upon the du- ties of their respective offices ; that the said officers did not severally take, subscribe, and return the oaths or affirmations required by law ; by reason of all which the said election was illegal, null, and void, and the return thereof nndne, nnlawful, and fiilse, and should be excluded from the general returns of the said county of Centre, are untrue in fact, are indefinite, uncertain, and vague and not specific, and therefore contrary to the act of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of con- test, and all testimony adduced in support of said specification should be disregarded ; and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said specification. a. That the allegations contained in your fourteenth specification, wherein you allege that in the election district composed of the west- ern or new precinct of the township of Ferguson, in said county of Cen- tre, there were thirty and more Aotes polled, counted, and returned forme as legal votes, that were polled by persons not legally qualified voters of said election district, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said ])recinct for two months immediately preceding the oth day of No- vember hist, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before said 5th day of November last, paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election ; that thirty other votes were ]>olled, counted, and returned for me in said precinct as legal votes, which said votes were illegal and void, because the per- sons wdio severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said precinct, inasnuich as they, illegally and corruptly, received money and other valuable things from partisans and sn])porters of nnne in con- sideration of voting for me, or voted for me in consideration ami upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, in consei)('rl\, and illcjially, and fijnuhihMitly pci initt«'d th(» sanio j>er- soiis to V(>t<' more tlian once at said el('«rtioii; tliat said election otlicers neglected and refused to return th«^ list of voters for said precint't as re^iuired by law, and in other resi)ects acted iri«'^ularly, iini»roi«'rly, illefiidly. and corruptly, by reas(»n of which it is now iini»ossii>h' to ascer- tain and determine how many h'ual V(»tes were ])olled lor any one in said precinct Ibi' the ollice of Kejiresentative in < 'oii;^ less, and theretbre th« entire return from said i>r<'cinct is undue, ille^ial, and false, and should bo excluded from the u'eneral count of votes jtolled tbithe ollice of Kej)- resentative in ('on.iir<'ss in said county of Centr*', and tor the said twen- tieth Confiressional district, are untrue in fact, are va;4'ue and nnc<'rtain and not specilic, and therefore contrary to the act of Con;;r«'ss, and should be strick«Mi from your notice of contest ; and 1 furthermore deny the truth of the alle.uations contained in said specitication. 10. That the alle^ationscontained in your lifteenths]iecilication,wiiereiii you alle.iic that in tlie election district ciunposed of Ilalf-Moon Township, in said county of Centre, there wen* polled, counted, and retuined ior me, as le^^al V()tes, twenty and moi'e votes, which votes weic ])olled by l)ersons who were not le.uall.N ([ualitied voters of said townshij*, because they were not citizens of the Tnited States and of this commonwealth, ami had not been residents of said township tor two months immediately ]>recedin.i;' the tilth day of No\'ember last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month Itetbre said tilth day of November last, l)aid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months betbre said day of election; that twenty other votes Aveie polled, counted, and i'eturneorters (►f mine in consideiation of votin.u for me, or vob'il for nu' in consideration and uixm the ]>romise that they should receive money and otlu'r valual)le thinjis thereafter, in consecpience of which they forfeited their ri.uht to x'ote at sad ele<'tion ; that the electi<»n ollicers of said township, to wit, juduc inspectors, and clerks. held ami c(»ndn<'te(l said election inqiroperly, irregularly, and illeiially. and that the returns of votes ]»olled at said ele(;tion should not be counted in the jicneial re- turn, are untrue in faet. aic uncertain, genei'al and va.uue and not s]»e- eitic, and, theiefore, ct)ntrary to the act of Con.uress. and should he stricken from your notice of contest, and all testimony adduced in sup- port <)f said si)ecifications should be disre;;arded : and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said s])eciMcation. 11. That the allegaticms contained in your sixt«'enth and seventeenth s])eciHcations, wherein you allege that in the election distiict of Ilowaid Townshi]) there were ten and more votes, and in the election district of Hust(»n Townshi]). in said county of Centr*'. there were thirty and more votes j)olled, counteil. and returned for me in said townshii>s of Howard and Huston as legal votes, which were ]»olled by persons not legall>' qualitied voters of said townshii)s. because they were not citizens «)f the United States and of this c()mmonw«>alth. and had not been resiilentsof said res])ecti\'e townslii])s for two months immediately ]treceding the ."ith day of No\'ember last, and had not within two years, and more than one month before said oth day of November last, paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election; that thirty other votes were i»olled, counted, and returnerters of mine in eoiisideration of votin<>' for me, or voted for me in consideration and upon the ]nomise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which they for- feited their right to vote at said ele<'tion ; that the officers of said elec- tiou in said towniship of Hust<)u, to wit, the judge, insjK'ctors, and clerks, held and conducted said election improperly, irregularly, aiul illegally, in conse<[uence of which the returns of AOtes polled at said elertion in said townshij) of iluston should be excluded from the count in the general returns, are untrue in fact, are general, uncertain, and A'ague, are not sju'citic, and therefore contrarj' to the act of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest, and I furthermore deny the truth (►fall and singular the allegations contained in said six- teenth and seventeenth siiecitications inclusive. 11'. That the allegations contained in your eighteenth specitication, in which you allege that in the election district of Liberty Township, in said county of Centre, thirty and more votes were i)olled, counted, and returned for me, which votes were polled by persons who wer«^ not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the r)th day of No- vember last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the said oth day of November last, ])aid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election ; that thirty other votes were polled, counted, and returned for me in said township as legal v6tes, that were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the per- sons who severally polled the same, illegally and corru])tly received money and other valuable things from partisans and su])porters of n\ine in consideration of voting for me, or voted for me in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which they forfeited their right to vote at said election ; that the election officers, to wit, judge, inspectors, and clerks who held and conducted the election in said township of Liberty, on the oth day of November last, did not severally take, sub- scribe, and leturn the oaths or affirmations i)rescribed bylaw; that they did not make a leturn of the list of voters who voted or pretended to vote at said election as required bylaw; that they did not designate what office any i)erson or candidate was voted for ; that they acted im- pro]»erly, irre-gularly, illegally, and corrui)tly in receiving votes from persons whose names were not upon the registry-list of said townshij), without rcfpiiring the proof of the right of such persons to vote which the law prescribes, by reason of all which it is now impossible to ascer- tain and determine how many, if any, legal votes were polled forme for said office of liejjresentative to Congress in said township of Liberty, wherefore the return of one hundred and thirty votes for me for said office is undue, false, and illegal, and should be excluded and not counted in the general leturu of votes cast for the office of Kepresentative in Congress in the twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania, are untrue in fact, are vague and uncertain and not s])ecilic, and therefore contrary to the actof Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest, and all testimony adduced in support of said specification should be disregarded, and I furthermore deny the truth of the allega- tions contained in said specifications. 13. That the allegations contained in your nineteenth specification, wherein you allege that in the election district of Patton Township, in said CURTIN VS. YOCUM, 30 county of Centre, tliere were twenty and more votes jjolled, counted, and returned for nie as le^al votes, which were ]»olled by persons wlio were not h';:allv <[iiali(ied voters of saite at said elec- tion: that the election otticers of I'atton Township, to wit, .judj;e, inspect- ors, and clciks held and conducted said election imi)ro])er]y, irregularly, and ilie.ually. in c()nse(pu'nce of whi«-h the returns of votes ])olled at said election should n(»t b<' counted in said ^icneral return, are untrue in fact, are u'cneral and uncertain and not specitic, and therefore contrary to the act of ("onuress. and should be strick<'n from your notice of con- test, an«l I furthermore deny the truth of the alleviations contained in said s]>ecilication. It, That the alle.uati<»ns contaiiu'd in your twentieth and twenty-first specitications, inclusive, wherein you allege that in the election district of Hush Township, county of Centre, there were twenty-five and more votes, in the election district of Snow Shoe Township, county of Centre, there were twenty a?»d nu>re votes polled, counted, and returned for me in said townshijts of IJusli and Snow Shoe wliich were i»olled by ])ersons who were not legally ((ualitied voters of said respective townships, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said resju'ctive townships for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of NovenU»er last, and who had not within two years and more than one moidh before said fifth ersons who severally ])olled the same had illegally and corruptly received money and other valuable things fr<)m partisans and su])porters of n,iine in consideration of voting for me, or voted tVu' me in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money aiul other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which illegal and corrupt negotiati<»ns, bargains, and transactions they forf«'ited their right to vote at said election; that twenty-tive and more other persons who were not legally (pialitied x'oters of said t()wnship of Iiusli ilh'gall.\' voted for me up(»u false, fraudulent, and foiged tax I'cceipts, which votes were impr(»perly and illegall\' counte«l and rcturnctl as so many legal votes for me, are untrue in fact, are general, vague, ami not specilic, and therefore contrary to the act of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest; and 1 furtluMinore deny all and singular the truth of tiu' allegations contained in said twentieth and twenty-first specitications, inclusive. 15. That the allegations c«»ntained in your twenty-second specification, wherein you allege that in the electiiui district in Spring Township, in said county of Centre, there w<'re polled, counted, and returned for me 40 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. as loji'ii-l votes thirty and more votes wliich were i)olle(l by ])ersous who were not lejiiilly - received money and other valual)le things in consideration of voting for lue, or voted for lue in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, crKTiN vs. VOCl'M. 41 in coiisiMincnce ofwliicli illc^iil roi>erly and ilU'ually received tlie votes ot twenty and more ])ersons whose names were not u])on tlie rciiistiy-list of said town- sliij) without deinandin.u auroof of the ri^ht of said persons to vote prescribed I>y hiw. by reason of wliich it is now inijios- sibU' to ascertain' and (h'terniine how many k\>ial votes were ]ioHed for tlie otiice of lve|ires«'ntative in Con.uress, and tlie said retuin froiu the townsliij) of Taylor of sixty-tive votes for me for said ollice should 1)0 excluded from the pMieial return of votes polled for said ollice in the county of Centre, and in said twentieth ("on<,a'essional district, are untrue in fact, are general, indefinite, and vajiue, ami not s]»ecitic, and therefoie contrary to the act of Con«iTess. and should be stiicken from your notice of <-ontest: and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said sj)ecitication. 17. That the alleuations contained in your twenty-fourth s]>ecitication, wherein you alleuc that in the election district of I'nion Township, in said county of Centic, there were ]>olled, counted, and retuined for me. as legal votes twenty and more x'otes whit-h weie ]H)lle -list of said townshi]*. without demanding and recpiiring the ]>roof of their right to vot«' ]>rescribed bylaw: that they acted irregularly and illegally in failing to make and return a list of names of i)ersons who voted at said election in said township as recpiircd by law, and in failing and neglecting to com])ly with the various other l)rovisions of the law for regulating the conduct of <'lection otticers; that it is imjxtssible now to ascertain and determine how many h'gal vot^js were cast in sai('cincation, wherein you allege that in the election district of Worth Township, in 42 CURTIX vs. YOCIM. saiecifications should be utterly disregarged : and I further- more deny the truth of the allegations contained iu said specification. 20. That the allegations contained in your twenty-seventh specifica- tion, wherein you allege that in the said county of Centre large sums of money were illegally and corruiitly used ami expended by my friends, supi)ortei'S. and partisans to induce yjersons who were inclined to vote for you for IJepresentative in Congress not to so vote. Imt to cast their votes for me for said otfice, are untrue in fact, are vague, indefinite, and uncertain, and not specific, and. therefore, contrary to the act of Con- gress, and should be stricken fi'om your notice of contest, and all testi- mony adduced iu su])port of said specification should be wholly disre- garded: and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said sitecirication. 21. That the allegations contained in your twenty-eighth specification, wherein you allege that a large number of legally qualified voters in the several districts in the county of Centre, who were disposed and inclined to vote for you were prevented from so voting by means of threats and intimidations made and used by my friends, supporters, and i^artisans to turn them out of employment, out of their houses, and otf from their farms in case they voted tor you. whereV)y a large number of persons were illegally compelled to vote for me against their will, in order to prevent losing theii' situations, employments, and tenements, are untrue in fact, are general, vague, and indefinite, and not specific, and should be stricken from your notice of contest, and all testimony adduced in support of said specification should be disregarded: and I furthemore deny the truth of the allegations containetl in said twenty-eighth speci- fication. 22. That the allegations contained in your twenty-ninth specification, "wherein you allege that three hundred and more legally (pialified voters of the said county of Centre, who desired, designed, and intended to vote for you for the olfice of Representative in (Atngress. were prevented from so doing by means of false and deceitful tickets, fraudulently and deceitfully jirinted and circulated by my friends, supporters, and parti- vSans, for the purpose of deceiving said voters; that while saie a full Democratic ticket, yet there was not ui>on it the olfice of the Representative in Congress, nor your name as a candidate CURTIN VS. YOCUM. 43 for said office ; that said tickets were deceitfully and fraudulently circu- lat(;d by my frieiuls, supporters, anartisans, and by them ^nven to illiterate and unsuspicious voters, who asked for a full Democratic ticket, and who, when they voted this ticket, sujtposcd and believed they were voting' tor you for the otlice of Iieprcscntiitivc in ('onjjfress; by nu'ans of wliich tVaudulcnt and drceitful devic**, (•(»ntriv;inc<', antes in the siiid (-(Minty (»f ( "entre. which you would otherwisi? haxc received, and tiiree iiundiedand more leuidly ersons, to you unknown ; that in the election district of the tt>wnship of Urady, in said county, (Jeorge Moore and sixty other i>ersons, to you unknown, illegally and fraudulently voted for me f(U- said offi<'e of l{ei>resentative in ('(mgress in said resiH'ctive, election distri(;ts, and that said i)ersons were not legally qualified voters of said resju'ctive election districts because they Avere not citizens of the United States and of this comnMUiwealfh, and had not been residents of .said respective electiim districts for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of Xov(Muber last, and who had not within tw«) years and more than one month before said fifth day of November last ]>aid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months Itefore saiorters of luine in consideration of voting for me, or voted for me in consideraticm and ui>on the ])romis«' that they shouhl receive mom'y and other valuable things thereatter; in conse- quence of which illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and trans- actions they forfeited their right to vote at said election, are untrue in fact, and being g'eneral and not specific, are therefore contrary to the act of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest ; ami 44 ClIRTIN VS. YOCUM. I fui'tlicnnorc deny the truth of iill iiiid siiifiubii" tlie alle^iiJitioii.s con- tained m said tliirty-tirst, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth speciticatious. 25. That the allegations contained in your thirty-second specification, "Nvherein you alle.ye that in the election district of the borouji,h of Jlouts- dale, in said county of Clearfield, there were polled, counted, and re- turned for me in said election district fifty-one illegal and fraudulent votes, which votes were polled by John Jones and fifty other i)ersoiis to you unknown, who were not citizens of the United States and of this <'oniuu)nwealth, and M'ho had not l)een residents of said election district for two months immediately i)recedin<2,' the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before said fifth day of Xovember last paid a State or county tax which had been assesseecification. 20. That the allegations contained in your thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth specifications, inclusive, wherein you allege that in the election district of the township of Burnside, in said county, John Silvis and fifty other per- ciiMiN ^■s. VOCIM. 45 sons to Vfm unknown ; that in tlif election district of tin* townsliij) of J)«'CJitnr, in said county, .lolin .loiics and twenty <»tlici- persons to ytui unknown, illcj;ally ami t'laudnlcntl.N \ otcd lui iiic in said rcspcctixc town- ships, which Notes were counted and retuined lor lue lor said ollice of IN'p- res('ntativein('on<;iess, andthat said \dtes were ille;;al and \oid, because, the persons who severally jtolled the same wen* not citizensof the I'nited States ami of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said respective townships for two months innnediately ]»recedin of llurnside; that twenty and more votes were polled, countcil, and returned lor me at sais, inasnnn-h as tlu'y had illegally and corruptly received from |)artisans and support- ers of mine money and other \aluable thint bargains anurnside there were fifty other vt>tes, an«l at said eleetion in said townshij) of Deeatur there were twenty other votes, ]»olled, counted, and returned for nu' in said respective townshijis. which said votes were ille;;al, fraudulent, and voion the rej^istry-list of votei's for said res]>ectiA'e townships, and that the said jiersons \(>tin<;' the same were permitted to votewitliont making' any lu%>of or offerinji' any evidence of their ri^ht to vote, as re(piired by law, in eonse(pn'nce of all which if is now impossible to ascertain and deter- mine how many leual votes were jtolled in said respective towushii»s Ibi- the ollice of Kepresentative in ( "on,i;ress, and that the entire returns from said resi>c:cti\e townships should be rejected from the geneial re- turn of votes cast for said ofiiee, are untrue in fact, and,bein.u- ^cneial ami not sj)eei tie, are, therefore, <'ontrary to the act of Con^^icss. and sintuld be stricken from your notice of contest; and 1 fuithermoie deny the truth of all ami singular theallegatiims e. ydlum. in the »'l«M'tion district of the townsliip of ITuston, in said county, twenty- one votes; in the election district of tlie townsliij» of 31oiiis, in said county, twenty-one votes, were poUed, counted, and returned for nie for said oflice. in said town.shii»s respectively, as lejial votes: that said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the i)ersons who severally ])olled the same were not legally qualitied voters of said respective townships, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this coininonwealth. and had not been residents of said respective town- shii)s for two nioiiths iiuinediately i»recedin,ii the tifth day of X(>veni>)er last, and who had not within two years and more thaii one month before said tifth day of November last paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election : that in said town- ship of Girard there were .six other votes, in said township of Graham eleven other votes, in said township of Galich twenty other votes, in said township of Huston twenty-one other votes, and in said township of Morris twenty-one other votes polled, counted, and returned for me at said election for said office in said townshijjs respc^ctively, as legal votes: that said votes were illegal and void. Vjt-cause the persons who sev- erally i)olled the same were not legally qualitied voters of said respective townships, because they were aliens and unnaturalized; that in said to\\niship of Girard there were twenty-one other votes, in said township of Graham eleven other votes, in said township of Galich eleven other votes, and in said township of Morris eleven other votes polled, counted, and returned for me at said election for said office in said lespective townships as legal votes ; that said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legallj' qualitied voters, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years ; that the election officers who held and conducted the elections in said several townships of Gii'ard, Graham. Galich, and Huston, to wit, the judges, inspectors, and clerks, were not in said townships, respect- ively, duly and legally elected, appointed, or chosen to theii' respective positions, and were not duly and legally qualified to serve as such officers, and did not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or affirmations required by law : that said election officers in said several townships, respectively, received and counted votes from persons whose names were not upon the registry lists of said townships, respectively, without requiring proof of the right of said persons to vote as required by law. are untrue in fact, and, being general and not specific, are therefore contrary to the act of CongTess, and all testimony adduced in support of said thirty- seventh, thiity-eighth, thirty -ninth, fortieth, and forty-first specifications should be disregarded; and I furthermore deny the truth of all and sin- gular the allegations contained in said thirty- seventh, thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, and forty-first specifications inclusive. 28. That the allegations contained in your forty-second specification, wherein you allege that in the election district of Pike Township, in said county of Clearfield, there were eleven votes polled, counted, and returned for me in said township, at said election, for said office, as legal votes, that said votes were illegal, fi'audulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally (jualified voters in said township, because they were not citizens of the Tnited States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of Xovember last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before said fifth day of yovember last paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two mouths before said day of election ; that ten and more other votes were polled, counted, and returned for me at said election, in said (TKTIN \ >. V()( I M. 47 township, tlijit were ill<'<;;»l. lV;uitliilt'iit, and \i»iromise that th«'y shonhl iceeixe money and otiier \alnahh' tliiiiiis thereafter, in eonse<|uen<"e of which ilh'j^al and eorrnpt l»ai';iains and transactions they forfeited tlieir rijiht to \ote at said eU-ction; that eleven otlier votes were ]>olle«l, connted, and returnetl for uw in said townshii) wliich were iUeual and void, l>e<'anse the persons wlio severally l)oiled the same wi're aliens and nnnatnrali/,eolled the same were minors under the auc of twenty-one \eais. are un- true in fa('t : and furtlieiinore I deny the truth of the alleji;ations con- taine. Tiiat the allegations c<»ntained in your forty-tliird siieeificatioii, wherein you allelic tliat in the election district of I'nictn Townshiji. in said county of Cleartield. there w«*reelev«'n votes ]»olled. counted. ami returned for me at saiersons who s<'verally ])olled the same were not lej^ally (jualiti«*d voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the I'nited States ami of this comm(»n- wealth, and had not been residents of said township for two months immediately i)recedin.u the oth day of November last, and who had not jtaid a State or county tax within two years and more than one month before; said .')th day i>f >.'o\end>er last which had been assessed two months before said day of election ; that eleven other votes wei-e ])olled and counted for me in said townshij). which said votes were illcii^al and void, because the ))ersons who severally jtolled the same were aliens and unnaturalized; that ele\en other votes were i»olled, counted, and retuined for me in said township, which votes were illeual and A'oid, because the jn'rsons wIjo severall.N ]>olled the same wer<' minors under the a^e of twenty-(jne y»'ars, and were not lej:ally (pialitied \-oters of said townsiiijt; that the officers who held an«l conducted said election in said township, to wit, the Judjie, insj>ectors, and clerks, were not duly and lejially elected, a]ii»ointed. or chosen to their r«'spective]>()sitions, and were not duly ami lejially «pialitietly re<'eive(l and counted voti's from persons whose names were not ui)on the registry list of said townsliip. without reipiirin;;' tlu' pr(M>fof the ri;:ht of such IKTsons to vote, as juescribed by law, are untrue m fact, and beinj: ;;en- eral, va ille<;ally, corruittly, and fraudulently polled were re- ceived, counted, and returned for uie as so many le.i>al votes for said office; that one hundred and more votes were polled, counted, and re- turned for me for said office, in said township, whicli said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void because the ])ersons who severally polled the same weie not le.ually (iualitiere persons voted for me in said townshij) upon false, fraudulent, and forgecl tax receipts, which said last fifty and more votes were counted and returned for me as legal votes ; that tiie officers who held and conducted said election in said townshij*, to wit, judge, inspectors, and clerks, were not legally elected, appointed, or chosen to their respective positions, and w^ere not legally qnalitied to serve as such officers ; that sai, w^as not a legally (piahfied voter of said townshii>, nor of this commonwealth, he having paid no State or county tax within two years, yet he illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for me at said^ election upon a false, fraudulent, and forged tax receipt; that said election officers illegally and fraudulently received and put into the boxes more ballots than there were names upon the list of voters ; that they permitted persons to vote double tickets, and afterwards illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly counted the same ; that said elec- tion offiersons had been naturalized and made citizens of the United States ; that said election officers, after the votes in the l>allot-boxes had beea coiuited, did not seal up said ballot-boxes and deliver them into custody of a magistrate, as required by law, but left them unsealed in the room where the election had been CIJRTIN VS. VM( 1 M. 49 hcltl of ten (1;>\'S or iiioie niter siiiossil»le to asccitain and dctfiininc how many Icj^al \(»t»'s were polled at said ch-ction in said Tow nsliip of AVoodward t'orany candidate lor the ollicc of lleitrrsciitatiNC in ( 'on^rcss, in conse<|nen('e of which the entire retnrn from said t<»wnship shonld c exelnded from the jieneral eonnt of votes polh'e stricken from yinir notice of contest, and all testimony adduced in support of said spcciticatiou shonld he disi-eiiarth-d : and I furtln-rmore den\' the truth of all and singular the allegations contained iu said s)»ecilication. .■>1. That the allegations contained iii your forty-lifth s]»ecilication, wherein you allege that in said county of Clearlield large sums of money Avere illegally and corruptly vised hy my friends, sujtporters, and parti- sans to induce jtersons who were inclin<'d to vote for you for ('ongr«;ss not to so vote, but to east their votes for me for said oltiee of Kejucsent- ative, are untrue in fact, aneciticatili. That the allegations contained in your forty-sixth specitication, wherein you allege.that a large nund)er of legally <'r- sons were illegally ami unjustly compelled to vote for nn* against their will in order to [»i'event losing their emi»loyment, situations, and tene- ments, are untrue in faet, and being general and not si»eeitic are eon- trar^^ to the aet of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest ; and J furthermore deny the truth of the allegations eontained in said spei'ilication. M. That the allegations contained in your f«)rty-seventh s]>ecitication, wherein you allege that there were three hundred and moic legally (pndilied votes of said county of Cleartiehl, who desired, designed, and intended t(> vote for you for the oflice of l{e]uesentative in Congress, were prevented from so doing by means of a false and deceitful ticket, fraudulentl\' and tleccitfully printed and circulated by my friemls, suj)- ]«nters, and ]»artisans for the i)urpngress, are imtrue in fact, ;iiit Elk there were counted and returned for nu' ei^lit liundred and thr<>e votes, but tliat there were but seven hun(h-ed and foui' h'^al votes )K)lhMl Ibi- nu' in said county at the jjeu- eral election liohhMi on the littli day of Noveinbei- hist, A. I). 1878, and tliat all votes received, counted, and returned for me in said <'ounty in excess of said se\en hundred and lour votes weie illegal, fraiululent, and voie, respectively, that in the election distri<'t of the town- shi]) of jicnezette, in said county of Elk, there were ten ami more votes; that in the ele<'tion district of the townsfiii) of Fox, in said county, there were ten and more votes; that in theeh'ction district of Hoiton, in said county, there were twenty-tive ami nuu*' votes; that in the electites; ami in the election district of the town- shii> of Spriu-i' Creek, in said c(Miuty, there were ten and more votes jmlled, counted, and returned forme at said election, which said votes were]>r)lled by ]»ersons who were not citizens of the United States ami of this com- monwealth, anusaud six hundred and lilty- six less thereof at said electicm w. That the alleiiations (-ontained in your seventy-first, seventy-sec- ond, seventy-third, seventy-fourth, seventy-fifth, seventy-sixth, seventy- seventh, and seventy-ciiihth specitications, wherein you alh'iiC respect- ively, that in the eh'ction distiict of the old lueciuct of the townshi]( of Arma.u'h, in said county of MilHiu, thei'e were twenty and more votes; that in the election district of the new precinct of said townshi]> of Ar- maii'h, in said county, tlier<' were ten and umr(> votes; that in the elec- tion district of the townshi[) of Ibown, in sai«l County, there were ten. and mcn-e votes; that in the election district of the township of I)ci-ry, in said county, there were ten ami more votes; tliat in the election dis- 52 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. trict of the towiisliii) of Decatur, in said coiiMty, there were ten and more votes; that in the election district of the township of iMenno, ,in said county, tlK're were ten and niorc^ votes ; that in the eh'ction district of the townslii}) of Xewton-Jlaniilton, in said county, there were ten and more Notes; and that in tlie election district of tlie township of Union, in said county, there were ten and more votes ])olled, counted, and re- turned for me in said respective election districts, whicli said \otes were l)olled by i)ersons who were not legally cpudilied voters of said respect- ive election districts because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and had not been residents of said respective election districts for two months immediately ]»recedin<>- the tifth day of Novend)er last, and who had not, within tAvo years and more than one month before said tifth day of ]S'ovember last, paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, are untrue in fact, and being general and not specific, are therefoi'e con- trary to the act of Congress, and should be stricken from your notice of contest ; and I furthermore deny the truth of all and singular the alle- ■ gations contained in said seventy-hrst, seventy-second, seventy-third, seventy-fourth, seventy-fifth, seventy-sixth, seventy-seventh, and sev- enty-eighth specifications, inclusive. ■40. That the allegations contained in your seventy-ninth si)ecification, wherein you allege that in the county of Union there were counted and returned for me two thousand two hundred and twenty votes, yet that there were but two thousand and seventy legal votes polled for me in said county at the general election holden on the fifth day of November, A. D. 1878, and that all votes received, counted, and returned for me in said county in excess thereof were illegal and void, and should be ex- cluded from the return of ^otes cast for me in said county, aie untrue in fact, and being general and not specific, are therefore contrary to the act of Congress, should be stricken from your notice of contest, and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said speci- fication. 41. That the allegations contained in your eightieth, eighty-first, eighty-second, eighty-third, eighty -fourth, eighty-fifth, eighty-sixth, eighty-seventh, eighty-eighth, eighty-ninth, and ninetieth specifications, respectively, w herein you allege that in the election district of the north ward of the borough of Lewisburg, in said county of Union, there were ten and more votes ; that in the election district of the south ward, in said borough aiul county, there were twenty and more votes ; that in the elec- tion district of the west ward, in said borough and county, there were ten and more votes ; that in the election district of the east ward of said borough and county there were ten and more votes; that in the election district of the borough of New Berlin, in said county, there were ten and more votes; that in the election district of the township of Uutialo Ivun, in said county, there were ten and more votes; that in the election district of East Buffalo, in said county, there were twenty and more votes; that in the election district of the township of KeUey, in said county, there were twenty and more votes; that in the election district of the township of Lewis, in said county, there were ten and more votes; that in the election district of the township of Union, in said county, there were ten and more votes ; that in the election dis- trict of the township of White Deer, in said county, there were twenty- five and more votes polled, counted, and returned for me in said respect- ive election districts, which said votes were polled by persons who were not legally qualified voters of said respective election districts, because the persons who severally polled the same were not citizens of the United CTRTIN VS. VOCIM. 53 States and of this (•(miinoinvcalfli, aiier last, and who had not within twoyeais, and more than one month befoie said fifth day of November last, i)aid a State or county tax which had been assesse in fact, and l»eineneral anresentative in the Forty- sixth Congress <)f the Cnited States for the said twentieth Congres- sional district of Pennsylvania, are untrue in fact, and I furthermore deny the truth of the allegations contained in said niiu'ty- first specifi- cation. 43. And for further answer to yonr said alleged notice of <'ontest, I deny and traveise each and every allegation made l)y you contained in each and every specification as not«Ml by you, in said alleged notice of contest, from numbers one to ninety-one, inclusive ; and I further answer your alleged notice, that I do not kuow^ or believe, aiul thereftion of illegal and fraudulent votes for you at said hist election for said office, as hereinaltei- specilied, my majority for said office was in truth and in fact greater than the majority for me appear- ing on the sai ti\e xotes, yet 1 aver there were but two thousand live hundred and thirty-fivt' votes ])olled for you in the said county «»f Centi'c at the saitl geneial election h(»ldcn on the ,5th day of Novemlx'i', A. I). 1878, and that all votes received, counted, and returned for you in excess thereof were illegal, fraudulent, and voif Centre, there were ten and more persons who were not legally qualified voters of said ward, because they were not citizens of the United States and (►f this commonwealth, and who Imd not been residents of said ward for two months immediately preceding- the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years and more than one nuuith l»efore said ."ith day November last ])aid either a State or county tax which had V)een assessed two months before said day of election, illejially, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the said office of Ifepresentative in ( "on^ress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled were receixed, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That ten and more other votes were i>olled, counted, and returned for you as legal votes in said ward, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally (]ualitied voters of said ward, inasinuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly received nu)ney or other valuable things, from partisans and sui»i)orters of yours, in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive nioiiey oi* other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which sev- eral illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That the election officeis, to wit, judge, inspectors, and clerks, who held and conducted said elec- tion in said north ward, acted improi>erly, illegally, and fraudulently, inasmuch as W. F. Eeber, one of the clerks who served upon said elec- tion board in the conduct of said election, after the ]K)11s were closed and before the votes were counted, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly took sundry ballots out of said ballot-box, among' which was the ballot he had deposited therein at said election, and altered and changed his said ballot, and again deposited his said ballot in the said box ; that his vote was counted and returned for you for said office of- Representative as a legal vote, whereas by his illegal, fraudulent, and corrui)t action his said vote should have been rejectecl from the number of votes polled for you for said office at said election in said ward, and should now be ex- cluded from the general return of votes cast lor you for said office in said twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania. od. That in the election district coini)osed of the south ward of Belle- foute, in said county of Centre, there were ten and more persons who Avere not legally qualified voters of said ward, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said ward for two months immediately preceding the 5th day of November last, and who had not within two years, and more than one month before the 5th day of Xovember last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Itepresentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraud- ulently, and corruptly polled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That ten and more other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you as legal votes in said ward, which said votes ^veve illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said ward, inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly received money or other valuable things from partisans and supyjortcirs of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and ui)on the promise that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which CURTIX VS. VUCL'.M. 55 Revcral illegal and ('(»rrni»t negotiations, barjiains, and transactions, they fort«'it<'(l tlu'ir ii;ilit to vote at saitlck'ction. 4tli. Tliat in tin- election distriet composed of tlie west ward of the Itorou^h i>\' l!elletonte, in said connty of Centre, therc^ were ten and more piMsons who were n()t h'j:ally (|nalilied ^dters of said ward, because they were not citizens of the L'niteil States and of this common w(;alth, ami who liad n<»t been residents of said ward for two numtlis immedi- ately i)recedin;i- the r>xh day of November hist, anaid either a State or county tax which had been assessed twomontlis Ix'forcsaid day of eh'ction, illcjially, fraudulently, and corrn]itly voted for you for tin- oMIce of IvepresentatiN'e in ("onuress, which votes so ille- fially, fraudulently, and corrujttly jxtlled weic re<-eived, counted, and retuiiicd as so many h'jial votes cast for you lor said oftice. That ten and more votes weie polled, counteartisans and sui)porters of yours, in consideration (»f vot in j; for you, or they voted for y(ni in consideration and ni)on the i)romise that they should receive money or otlu'r valuable thinj;s thereafter, in consequence of which sev- eral ilh'ual ant citi- zens of the I'uited States and of this commonwealth and who had not been residents of said borough for two months inunediately precedintes so illegally, fraud- ulently, and corruptly i)olled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal vott'S cast for yon for said otfice. That ten and m()re votes were polled, counted, and returned tor you as legal votes in said borough, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the i>ersons who severally ]»olled the same were not legally (|ualilied voters of said borough, inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly recciAcd m(»uey or other valuable things from partisans and suit]»orters ()f yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for yon in con- sideration and upon the i>romise that they should receive money or t>ther valuable things thereafter, in conset|ueiU'e of whicii several illegal and coirupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they torfcited their right to vote at said election. That t<'n and more other persons whose names were not ujion the registry list of said election district voted for yon at said election for said othce without making any i>roof (tr ollering any h'gal evidence of their right to vote in said election district as re(|nired by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returnet ln-en residents of said borough for two months inunediately preceding the 56 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. tiftli tly voted I'oi' you for the office of Kep- resentative in Congress, which votes so illejially, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly polled were received, counteosed of the borough of Philips- burg, in said county of Centre, there Avere ten and inoie persons who were not legally qualified voters of said l)orough. because they were not citizens of the United States and of this conimonwcalth, and who had not been residents of said borough for two months immediately pre- ceding the .">t]i day of Xovenil»er last, and who had not within two years and more than one mouth before the 5th day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two mouths before the said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptlj^ voted for you for the office of Eepresentative in Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were re<*eived, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office; that ten and more other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you as legal votes in said borough which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, CUKTIN V.S. VMCIM. 57 and void, Ix'ciiiisr the porsoiis wlio scNcrallv |M»ll<'d tlic siimc were not le^iiilly <|iiiilllM'd \otoroii.i:li, inasiniirii as tln-v liasl)ur.u' ti\'e and inor<' ]>ersons voted for aou, and their votes were received, counted, and returned ioi- you, at said election, who were n()t (pialifu'-d electors, because they were minois. umler the aji:e of twenty-one years. !>th. That in the ele<-tion district com]iose«l of the township of Uenner, in said county ol' Centre, there weie live and more i»ersons who were, not legally (pnilitied voters of said townshi}), because they Avere not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said townshi]) for two months immediately i)i'e- cedino;- the oth tli day of Novend)er last paid either a State or county tax which had Ikmmi assessed two months befor*' said day of election, illepdly, fraudulently, and corrujttly voted for you for the oHice of lvei>reseutati\'e in Congress, which votes, so ilh'gally, fiauduleiitly. and corru])tly ])olled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said oHice; that live and more other votes were ]>olled, <'ounted, and i<'turned for you as legal votes in said townshi]). wliich said votes were illegal, fraudulent, find voiromise that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter, in conse- quence of which several illegal and corru]»t negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That liv<' and more other ])ersons, whose names were not u]»on the registry-list of said election district, voted Ibi- you at said election for said ollice with- out making any ]>roof or offering auN' legal evidence of tlu'ir light, to vot«' in saiosed of the townshij) of Boggs, in said county of Centre, there were ten and more ])ersons who were not leg'ally-olled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast lV)r you for said office; that ten and more other votes were received, counted, and retuined for you as legal votes in sai, inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corrui>tly received money or other valuable things from i)artisans and supporters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they shouhl receive money or other valuable thing thereafter in consequence of which sev- eral illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election ; that ten and more other persons whose names were iu)t njton the registry-list of said election district voted for you at said election for said office without making any proof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district as required by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office ; that in the said township of Boggs live and more i)ersons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualiiied electors, because they were miiuns under the age of twenty one years ; that in said election district, consisting of the township of Boggs, in said county of Centre, twenty and more legally-qualified voters of said election district who were disposed, inclined, and intended to vote for me for said office at said election were prevented from so voting by means of threats and intimidations made aiul used by your friends, sup- porters, and i)artisans to turn them out of employment, out of their houses, and off* from their farms, in case they voted for me, said twenty and more voters being at the time in the employ and subject to the power and control of your said friends, su]^i>orters, and partisans, and which said legally-qualified voters of said district were illegally compelled to vote for you for said office at said election against their will, in order to prevent losing their employment, situations, and tenements, which said votes were counted and returned for you for said office contrary to law. 11th. That in the election district composed of the township of Burnside, in said county of Centre, there were ten and more persons who had not within two years and more than one month before the otli day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly voted for you for the office of Eepresentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office; that ten and more other persons, whose names were not upon the registry- list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said office without making any proof or offering any legal e^^deuce of their right to vote in said election district as recpiired by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office ; that in said election district five and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because the}' were minors under the age of twenty- one years. 12th. That in the election district comjiosed of the township of Curtin, in said county of Centre, there were five and more jiersons who were not legally (pialified voters of said township because they were not citizens CURTIX VS. YOCUM. 59 of the United St;it<'s and of tliis coninMniwcaltli. and \\li<» had not been residents of said township tor two nntnths inniKMliatciy preceding; the tifth elled to vote for you for said otiice at said election against their will, in order to prevent losing their employment, situations, and tenements, which said votes were counted and returned for you for said otiice con- trary to law; that ten and more other ]>ersons whose names were not upon the registry list of said election district voteolled the same wen* not legally (|ualitied voters of said townshii* inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudulently, 60 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. anil al and corrupt negotiations, ])argains, and tiansactions they for- feited tlieir right to vote at saier hist, ]»aid eitin-r a State or eonnl\ tax which liat within two years and ]uc)re than one month before the ."»th day of Novem- ber hist i»aid either a State or county tax w hich had been assessed two moJiths before said day of election, illeuidly, fraudulently, and corru])tly voted for you for the oflice of l\epresentati\ e in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly i»olled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said otlice. That five and more other ]>ersons, whose names were not u])on the registry list of said eh'ction district, voted for you at said election for said ollice without making any proof or otVering any legal evidence of their right to vote HI said election district, as re<|uired by law, which said iUegal voti's were received, counted, and returned for you for said -ollice. ISth. That in the election district comjiosedof the t(>wnshi[M>f IFaines, in said county of Centre, there were live and more persons who were not legally (pialilied voters of said township, because they were not (-itizens of the I'nited States and of this commonwt'alth, and who had not been residents of sai«l townshi}) for two months immediati'ly i)rece of Harris, in said count}' of Centre, there were li\e and more jtersons, who were 62 CURTIN VS. YOCLJM. not Icfiiilly (pialilled voters of said towDslii]), l)oojiiise tliey wore not citi- zens ol'tlie Fuited States and of tliis (•oiniiionwealth, and wlio liad not l»een icsidents of said township for two niontlis imniediately preceding the lifth e of twenty-one years. That the election ollicers of said townshi]*, to wit,.iud^'e, inspectors, and clerks, who held and conducted sai. illegally, fraudu- lently, and corru]»tly closed the ))olls on said day of election at two ditfereiit times, between the hours of 7 o'clock a. m. and 7 o'clock ]i. m. of said day, the hours fixed by law between which said ])olls should be kept continuously open, closiiii;' said ])olls each time for the space of a half hour or more, contrary to law ; that about noon of saiace of a half hour or more about noon of said da>, and took with him the ballot-box or boxes and kei»t them absent a half mile or more distant from the said place of lioldiiiii' said election with liim duriii.u' said time, contrary to law. That diirinu the time that said ])olls were so illegally closed on said day of election ten or more ])ersons who were legally (pialitied voters of said township, and who desired and intended to vote for me for said otlice, and who came there for tliat pur[)ose, were illeually de])rived from so voting', becaus<' of said ])olls l)einj;' so illejially cl«»sed. That saiht to vote at said election, as re«piir<'d by law, which votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said otlice by said election oflicers, knowiui;- them to be illeual, fraudulent, and voif or evidence of tlieirliaviu^' been made citizens of the Uniteosed of the township of Miles, in said county of Centre, there were ten and more persons who were not legally qnalihed voters of said township, because they had not within two years and more than one month befoie the tilth day of Xoveniber last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegall>', fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for said office of lieiiresentative in Congress, which votes so ille- gally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly j^olled were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That in said election district ten and more other i)ersons, whose names were not npon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said office, without maliing any prot)f or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, wlfich said illegal votes were received, counted, and retnrned for you for said office. That in said election district there were live and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for yon at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years. 24th. That in the election district comx)Osed of the township of Penn, in said county of Centre, ten and more i)ersons, Avho were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they had not within two years, and more than one month before the r)th day of November last, paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fiaudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Eepresentative in Congress, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office ; that in said election district ten and more other i>er- sons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election dis- trict, voted for you at said electipn for said office, without making any proof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office ; that in said election dis- trict ten and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years. 25th. That in the election district composed of the north precinct of the townshij) of Potter, in said county of C'entre^ there were ten and more persons who were not legally qualified voters of said north precinct, because they were not citizens of the United and of this commonwealth, and who had not l)een residents of said township for two months imme- diately preceding the 5th day of Xovember last, anrecinct of the township of Potter, in said (bounty of Centre, there were ten and more pei'soiis who were not h'^^ally (jualifu'd voters of said township, because th<'y were not citi/ens of tlie United States and of this com- nionweallii, and wiio had not been resident:, of said township for two months immediately itrecedin^' the hfth (hiy of >.'ovend»er hist, and who hatl not witiiin two years and more than one month before the fiftli tly voted for you for the oftice of IJepresentative in Conistry-list of said election distri(;t, voted for you at said election for said ollice, without makinj;" any juoof or olferin^- any lej::al evidence of their rijiht to vote in said election district, as recpiired l)y law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returiu'd for you for said ollice. That in the said ele<;tion district ten and more ])ersons voted for you, and their votes were received, countere not (lualilied electors, because tliey were minors und<'r the a,orters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and ui)on the promise that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which several illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election ; that CURTIN VS. YOCl'M. 07 in the oloction distiict ('(Mnposod of tho said towiislii]) of Si)rinji- five iiiul more pcisoiis voted for yon, and their votes were recciNcd, connted, and rctnnied for you at said eleetion, wlio wore not l<';;ally <|nalili('d electors, Ix'canse they were iiduors innh-r the aji'e of twenty-one years, .')(Hh. That in the election district eoni|>osed of the township of Taylor, in said comity of Centre, there were ten and more peisons who wei"e not <'itizens of tlie (Tinted States and of this commonwealth, and who liad not been residents of sailst. That in the election district composed of the township of Union, in said county of Centre, there were tive and more persons, whose names were not upresentalive in Conjiress, which xotoH, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly i)olled, were recei\<'(l, couided, and returned as s() many h'^al votes cast for yoU for said otlice. .')7fh. 1'hat in the election district ('omposcd of the boroujih of Iloutz- dale, in said county of Clcarliehl, there were tifty and more i»ersons, who were- not lerrui>tly polled, were received, (tounted, and returned as so many le- ii'al \()tes cast for you for said ollice. That forty ami more other votes were jjolled, counted, and retui-ned for you as lenal votes in said borough, which said votes wei-e ille;j^al, fraudulent, and void, because thej)ersoiis who severally jiolled the same, were not legally qualilied voters of said l)orou;;;h, inasnuich as they had ille;ially, fraudulently, aiul corruptly recx'ived money or other valuable things irom ])artisans and su]»porters of yours in consideration of votings for you, or they voted for you in consideration and u\h)U the jtroniiso that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter, in <'onse(pu'nce of which several illeual and coj-rupt nei^otiations, barj^ains, and transactions they forleited their ri.uht to xotv at saiorouj»li, in said county of Clearfield, Job Curry and ten and more other jx-rsons who were not legally (pialified Aoters of said borou;^h, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this (-onunonwealth, and who had not been residents of said borou,i;h two months immediat(-l\ ]»r«-c(-dinjj the fifth day of Noveiidicr last, and who had not within two u-ars and more than one month before the tilth day of Novemlx-r last paid either a State or county tax which had Ix-eii assessed two iiioiiths before said day of ele(-tiou, illegally, frauduh-nt ly, and (-orruptly \()teersons who were not legally (puililied voters of said iKuouiih, because tliey were not citi- zens of the United States and of this conuuonwealth, and who had not been residents of said borough for two uu)nths imnu'diatel\ luccedin^' the tilth day of November last, and who had not within two years and uunv than oiu* month before the tilth day of Xovendjer last paid either a State or county tax wiii<-h had 1>ecn assessed two mouths before said day of election, illeii,ally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you IVu- the oflice of Itcpieseutative in Congress, whicli votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corru[)tly polled were received, counted, and returned as so nnuiy lepd votes cast for you for said otiice. That lifteen and more other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you as lejial votes in said borough, Avhich said votes were illei;al, fraudulent, and void, because the i)ersons who severally jxdled the same were not le<;ally cpialilied voters of said borough, inasuuu'li as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly received money and other things from ])artisaus and sui)i)orters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or tlu'y voted for you in consideration and u[)on the ])romise that they shouhl receive money and other valuabhr things therc- aft<'r, in conscMpu'Uce of which several ilh'gal and corrupt negotiati(Uis, bargains, and transai'tions they forfeited their right to \ote at said elec- tion. That ten and more other ])ersons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said otiice without making any ])roof or olfering auv legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as reipiired by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, ami returiu'd for you for said ollice. That in said election district of Osceola IJorough live and more ])ersons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not (pialilied electors, l)ecause they were minors under the age of twenty-one years. 4Ud. That in the election district com|>osed of the borough of Wallacc- von, in said county of ( "learli«'ld, .1. N\'. K'oss and twenty and more other l)erson<, who were not legally qiialilied votei's of said lior(»Mgh, because they Were not citizens of the Tnited States and of this commonwealth, nn(l who had not been residents of saiai(l eitlier ai State or county tax which liad been assessed two uiontlis before said tly voted for you for the oOice ol' Jlepreseutative in Couti'ress, which votes, so iik'ji'aily and corruptly ]>olU'(l, were received, counteal votes were received, counteo\\, in siiid (MMUitv of ClcarlicM, -loliii Jones ;inil ten unci more jxtsoiis who Avcn* not legally (inalificd voters of said township, hecanse they were not citizens of the U^nited States and>)f this eoniinonwealth, and wlio liad not Iteen residents of said townshij* for two nioiiths immediately jireeed- inji' thi' tilth day of Novrve as such ollictfis, and, therefore, they a<'te' the ])roof of the rijiht of said i)ersons to vote at said election; in conse(puMic<' of all Avhich the said election held and condiu;te(l by said eh'ction officers in saith. That in the election district coni])osed of the townshi]> of IJloom, in said county of Clearfield, theri^ were ten and more jx'isons avIio were not h'lzally (pialilied \()ters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not l)een i-esich-nts of said townshij* for two nn)ntlis immediately ])recedin;;" the tilth day of >.'oveml)er last, and who had not within two years and more than one month befoic the tilth day of Novend>er last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months belore. said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Hei)resentative in Conjiress, which votes, so illeually, fraudulently, and corruptly i)olled, were received, counted, and returned as so many leiial vot<'s cast for you for said otlice. That ten and moie ])ersons. whose names were not ui)on the re,u,istry-list <»f said election district, voted for yon at said «'lection for said offi(;e without makinu- any jmiof or otlerinii' any le^al evidem-e »tf th"ir rin, who were not (|nalilied e]e(;t(ms, ■beini;- minors under the age of twenty-oue years. That the ele(;tion ottieers, to wit, the judge, inspcct(n\s, ;fiul clerks, who hehl and conducted said election in said township, were not duly and legally elected, chosen, or ai)i)ointed to serve as such; that said election otiicers were not duly and legally sworn and did not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or attirniations of office required by law, and, therefore, served as such, election oltic(^rs and held said election (contrary to la'v; that said elec- tiini oflicers acted improperly, fraudulently, and corruptly in this, that after the polls were closed on said day of election, and before the votes w^ere counted, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly took said ballot boxes from the r()(»m and place where said election Avas held to another and different place, to wit, to a room (juitc a distance from where the said election was held, and in said room, which at the time was tilled with xin- authorized persons, counted the votes that were i^oUed at said election ; and said election ofticers illegally, and corruptly permitted said unau- thorized ])ersons, illegally and frainlulently, to assist in counting' and liandling- the said votes polled at said election, by means whereof other ballots that were not cast for you were put into the ballot-box and re- turned as legal votes for you. In consequence of all wliich illegal, fraud- ulent, iftid corrupt action of said election officers, the election held and conducted by said election ofticers was illegal, fraudulent, and void, and the entire return of votes polled at said election for said oflice of Ecpre- sentative should be set aside, and should now be excluded from the general return of votes cast for said office in said twentieth Congres- sional district of rennsylvania. 40th. That in the election district composed of the townshiii of Boggs, in said county of Cleartield, there were twelve aiul nnn-e ])ersons, who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citi- zens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding- the llfth day of jSTovember last, who had not within two years and more than one month before the tilth day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly voted for you for the office of Ivepresentative in Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office. That ten and more other persons, Avhose names were not upon the registry-list of said election disti ict, voted for you at said election for said office without making any proof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election disti'ict, as re- quired by law, which said votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That the election officers, to Avit, the judge, in- spectors, and clerks, who held and conducted said election, were not duly and legally elected, chosen, or appointed to serve as suc^h, and were not duly and legally sworn as such officers to hold said election, and said election officers (lid not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or affirnmtions of oflice required by law, and therefore served as such otiicers and held and conducted said election in said township contrary to law, in consequence of which the said election held and conducted by said electicui officers on the fifth day of November last was illegal and void, and the entire return of votes i)olled in said township at said election for the said office of lieju-esentative in Congress should be set aside and be now excluded from the entire return of votes cast for you for said office in said twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania. CURTIN VS. YOCUNf. 75 47th. Tliat in tlicclcction district coinposcd ofllictowiislii]* ofHiady, in said comity olCU-arlidd, tlicic wci-c one liundrcd and ni<»i(' persons, wiio were not i('.i;ally qnalilicd voters of said townsiup, heeanse they were not citizens of the United States and of this coinnionwealth, hnt were, aliens and iinnatniali/.ed, and one hnndred and more other ]>ersons wlio had not been resich'nts of said townsiii]) for two mom lis immediately preceding; the. lifth day of Novendter last, and who had not within two years ami more than one nn)nth before the lifth day of XoviMnber last l)aid either a State or eonnty tax which had been assessed two months before said artisans and sui)porters of yours, in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive nu)iu\v or other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which several illegal and corrui>t negotiations, bargains, ancl transactions, they foifeited tlu'ir right to vote at said election. That in said election district ot" the township of Brady, in said county of Clearlield, fifty and more other jtersons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for youatsaid election foi' said ollice without makingany ]>roof or olferingany legal evidence of their rigid to vote in said election district, as riMiuiicil by law, wliich said illegal votes were received, counted, and I'etnrned for you for saits, contiary to law; tliat after said ballots were counted, said oflieers illej;ally and liaudulently nejilected to seal the ballot-box securely, inclosing- the ballots and papers therein retiuired by law, but left it unsealed and did not deliver it into the custody of the nearest justice or magistrate, as i-equired by law, but illegally, fraudu- lently, and eorru])tly placed it unsealed in the custody of one William Sehwan, jr., a hotel-keejier, and his hostler, Conrad Long, in whose cus- tody it remained for several days; in consequence of all which illegal, fraudulent, and eorrai)t action and irregularities of said election officers, it is now im]>ossible to ascertain and determine how many if any legal votes were polled for said office of Representative in Congress, and the said election held and conducted by said election officers was illegal, fraudulent, and void, and the entire return of votes cast for said office of lvei)resentative in Congress, in saul township, should be set aside and disregarded, and be now excluded from the general return of votes cast for said office of liepresentative in Congress, in said twentieth Con- gressional district of Pennsylvania. 48th. That in the election district composed of the township of Eurn- side, in said county of Cleartiekl, there Avere fifteen and more persons who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they had not been residents of said towniship for two months before the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before the fifth day of IMovember last paid eitlier a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the office of Eep- resentative in Congress, which said votes were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for saidolfice. That in said election district composed of the township of Burnside, in said county of Clearfield, twenty and more votes were polled, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office, which votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the persons who severally polled the same were not legally qualified voters of said township, inasmuch as they had illegally and corruptly received money or other valuable things from partisans and su])])orters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter, in consequence of which several illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transac- tions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That ten and more other persons, whose names were not ujion the registry -list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said office without making any i>roof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. 41>th. That in the election district composed of the township of Chest, in said county of Clearfield, there were ten and more i)ersons, who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because they were not cit- izens of the United States and of this connnonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately in^eceding" the fifth day of Novend)er last. That in said election district of Chest Township, in said county, there were ten and more other i)ersons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said electioii district, voted for you at said election for said ofiice, without making any i)roof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as re- CURTIN Vf^. YOCTM. 77 quired by law, wiiicli said votos wero roooivcd, ('(miitcil, and ictnincd for you for said ollicc. Tiiat in the said olectijHi district of Chest Town- ship, in said county of Clcarliehl, live and nuMc ])cisons voted for yon, ami tlieir votes were receiveitorters of yours in consideration of votinj^ for you, or they voted for yon in consideration and u[)on tlu; i)roniise thut they should receive nn)ney or other valuable things thereafter, iu conserjuence ofwhich sev- eral illegal and <'orrupt lU'g'otiations, b;irIection in s;iid townshi]), were not (bdy and le;^ally elected, chosen, or ap])ointed to sei've as such ollicers, and therefore they acted and served iis such otlicers at said election contrary to law. 1'hat said election olli- cers held and conducted s;ii(l election without bein^- duly snid legally sworn, and did not take, subscribe, and return the o;iths or iillirmations of ollice rccpiired by law; that said election ollicers ille.i;ally, fraudu- lently, ajid corrui)tly received, counted, and returned for you for said ollice the votes often and more ])ersons whose names were not upon the reg,istry-list of said township, without demambn^^- or requirint mannei-, and the entire election return from said townshij) should be excluded from the iieneral return of votes cast for said ollice in said twentieth Conj;ressional district. oOth. That in the election al evidence of their riiiht to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said ille,iial votes Avere received, counted, and returned for you for said ottice. That in said election district composed of the town- ship of Fer, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and who had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before the fifth day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corru])tly voted for you for the said office of Eepresentative in Congress, which votes, illegaliy, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes for you for said office. That five ami more other persons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said ofiice without making any proof or offering CURTIN VS. YOCI'>r. 79 liny logal ovidoticc of tlicii- rijilit to vote in said election (lislrict, as ic- qnired by Ian', wliicli said votes were received, connled, and retnnied for you for said ofliee. That in tlm election district of the townshij) of (Ireenwood six and nioi'c ])ers(>ns voted for yon, and tln'ir votes were ic- (•eived, counted, and retnined foi' yon at said election, who were not <|nalilieerly, irrciiularly, illejially, and fraiulidently in this, that they failelection otficers illcjually, francbdently, and corruptly, on the day of said election. lace tixed by law for holdin^i' said election, by means of which illeii'al ami fraudulent action on the })ait of said ollicers, ten and more lej^ally (lualilled voters of said townsliii) who were im-lined, dis]>()se(l, and intended to vote for me, were dei)rived of the i)rivile<:e ot votiui;- for ine at said election, because of said i)olls bein^' so illejially <'losed. That said ele<^tion ollicers failetl and ne.yleeted to seal u]> the ballot-box and dei)Osit it with the nearest Justice, as re(piired by law, but left it in the room where the said election was held unsealed, 0])en, and uniiuarded for the s])ace of one or more days, in conseciuence of all which illeiial, iric^ular, fraudulent, and corru])t actions of said ele<'tion ofticers said election held and comlucted by them was illegal and Noid. and the entire return of vot<'s polled at sai, fraudulently, and coriui)tly jtolled, were receiveil,connte(l, and returned as so nnuiy lei;al votes <'ast for you for said ollice. That in the said election district of (luelich, in said county of Clearlield. six and more jx'rsons voted for you, anrecedin.i' the litth day of Nov( niber, and who had not within two years and mor«i than one nnuitli before the tilth day of Novembei- last paid either a State 80 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. or county tax wliicli had been assessed two months before said day of election, ille<;ally, frandulently, and conn])tly voted for you for the oftice of lvej)rescntative in Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrnptly i»(illeers()ns, Vhose names were not ui)on the registry -list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said ollice, without making any proot or olfering any legal evidence'of their rigitt to vote in said election dis- trict, as lequired by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said oflice. That in the said election district of the township of Huston, in said county of Clearfiehl, there were ten and more other persons who voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not legally qualified electors, because tliey were minors, under the age of twenty- one years. oOth. That in the election district of the township of Jordan, in said county of Clearfield, Robert Patterson and ten and more other ]>ersons, who were not legally qualified voters of said township, because tliey had not within two years and more than one month before the said fifth day of i^^ovember last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly voted for jou for the oflice of llepreseutativein Congress, which votes, so illegally, fraudulently, and corrai)tly polled, were received, counted, and returned as so irtany votes cast for you for said oftice. That in the election district composed of the township of Jordan, in said county of Clearfield, ten and more other persons, whose names Avere not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said elec- tion for said oftice without making any proof or oftering any legal evi- dence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That in the election district of Jordan Township, in said county of Clearfield, five and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty- one years. 57th. That in the election district composed of the township of Knox, in said county of Clearfield, there were eight and more persons, who w^ere not legally (lualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, and w4io had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two vears and more than one month before the fifth day of November last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulenth^, and corruptly voted for you for the oftice of Representative in Congress, which votes, so ille- gally, fraudulently, and corruptly polled, were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes for you. That twelve and more other persons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said oftice, without making any proof or oftering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said elec- tion district, as required by law, which said votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said oftice. 58th. That in the township of Morris, in thecountyof Clearfield, twenty- five and more persons, who were not legally qualified voters of said town- ship, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this commonwealth, but were aliens and unnatm-alized, and who had not CURTIN VS. YOCl'M. 81 lu'i'ii icsidnits of said townsliip of Morris (or two inoiitlis iuiiiicdiatt'ly I»roc«Mlin<; the tiftli day of Xowiiilx'r last, ami who had not within two years and iiiort' than one uuuith jtaid t'ith<'r a Stato or connty tax which had Immmi assessed two months hetore said (hiy of eh'ction, ilh'ually, fraudulently, ami eorru]>tly voted for y«m for the otlie** of I{e|iresentati\ e in C'onji'ress, which votes, so illeually. eorrnptly, anersons who severally jxdled the same were not lepiUy tpialilied voters of said township, inasnuich as they had illegally aiul corrui>tly rec«'ived money or other \alual»le thin.us from i>artisan.s ajul sui>]>oiters of y<»urs in consideration of voting' for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the jjromise tliat they should receive money or other \ alualde thinj^s thereafter, in consecpience of which sev- eral illepil. fraudulent, and corrupt nej^otiations, barj:ains, and transac- tions they forfeited their rirjht to vote at said election. That ten and more other persons, whose names were !iot u]>on the rejiistiy-list of said eleeti(ui district, voted for you at said election for said ottice without makin.u' any ]>idof or orterinji" any le^al evidence (tf their ri^iht to vote iu said election district, as required by law, which said v<»tes were received, counted, and returned for you for said ofHce. That in said township of Morris, in said c«»unty of ("leartiehl, tive and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counte(l, and returned for you at said election, who were not cpialilied electors, because they were minors under the a^^e of twenty-on<' years. That the eh'ctioii nfW- cers to wit. the judaic, inspectors, and clerks, who held and conducted said election in said township on the fifth day of November last were not duly and lej^ally elected, chosen, or ajipointed to serve as such oMicers, aud were not duly and lejially sworu as such otticers before entering;- upon their duties on said day of election, and dire after the hours tixed by law, to wit, seven o'clock a. m., for openinosit the sanu'- with ii maeriod of thirty days or more in violation of law; that said election ollicers ille- jijally, fraudulently, and c(»rruptly acl«'d in disrejiard of the various laws re<;alatin.ii' the c(»nduct (tf election officers, in conse<|uencc ol" all which said election, as held aud conducted by said ofiicers, was illejLral and \<>id, and the entire return of votes cast for said otlic(! of IJejuesentative in said township should be s«'t aside and be now excluded fr<»m the •general H. Mis. 14 6 82 CURTIN VS. YOCUM. return of votes enst in said county, and in said twentieth Congressioual distiiitt of Tennsylv ania. r)!>tli. That in the eh'ction district coni])Oscd of the townshi]) of Penn, in said coiudy of Ch^arlield, thcr(; were touiteen and moit? ])ersons, who Avere not h'.yally qualified voters of said township, because they were not citizens of the United States and of this comniouAvealth, and who had not been resichMits of said towuvslii}) for two montlis immediately x>reced- ing the r)th day of November last, and who liad not within two years and more tlian one month before the 5th day of November last paid a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day ot ckM'tion, ille,yally, frau«bilently, and corruptly voted for you for the ottice of lvepresentati\e in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraud- ulently, and corru])tly polled were received, counted, and retiu'ued as so many legal votes cast for you tor said ohice. That eleven and more other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you as legal votes in said township, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, be- cause the persons who severally polled the same were not legally quali- fied voters of said township, inasmuch as they had illegally, fraudu- lently, and corru])tly received money and other valuable things from partisans and supi)orters of yours in consideration of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter, in conse- quence of which several illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That ten and more other persons, whose names w^ere not upon the registrj^- list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said ofiflce, without making any i^roof or offering legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said otiice. 60th. That in the election district composed of the township of Pike, in said county of Oleartield, twenty and more persons, who were not legally qualified voters of said township of Pike, because they were aliens and unnaturalized, and w^ho had not been residents of said township for two months before the 5th day of November last, and who hacl not within two years and more than one month before the 5th day of No- vember last paid either a State or county tax Avhich had been assessed two months before said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly voted for you for the ofiflce of llepresentative in Congress, which said votes were received, counted, and returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office ; that in the said township of Pike, in said county of Clearfield, twelve and more other persons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said office without making any i>roof or ofitering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as requh-ed by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office : that in said election district consisting of the town- ship of Pike, in said county of Clearfield, seven and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years ; that the election officers, to wit, the judge, inspectors, and clerks, who held and conducted said election in said township, were not duly and legally elected, chosen, or ap])ointed to serve as such officers, and therefore served contrary to law ; said offi- cers were not duly and legally sworn as such, and did not take, sub- scribe, and return the oatlis or affirmations of office required by law ; that said officers illegally, fiauduleutly, and corruptly, during the said CURTIN VS. YOOIM. 83 :iiHi closed tlio said ]»olls dminji' the said day iM'twrrn tin* lioms »»t s«'\ cii o'chx-k a. in. and seven o'clock i». ni., the time required by law that said ])olls should be kept coutiuMously open, and ten or more olls for that puiposc. were illejially dc]»ri\ed of so votinjj beciinse of said jtolls beini: so illcu;dly closed; tlnit s;iid election ollicers illeiiiilly, friiuduh'ntl.N , iind corruptl\', during the time they were holding; anartisans, ami sn]>i»orteis to bet upon the result of your election in said townshij), and alle.<:ed and lace the said ballot-box in the custody of a magistrate, as re(piiri>on the rejiistry-list of votes for said townshij), without demanding or re«iniring any j)roof of their riuht to vote at said election, knowinj:: that said votes were illegal and void, anally (pialilied voters of said townshij), because they -were not citizens of tin* I'nited States and of this common w«'alth. and who had not been residents of said townshij) for two months immedi- ately j)recedinii- the tifth day of NoNcmber last, and who had not within two years ami more than om^ month before said tilth day of No\end)er last j)aid either a Htate or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illejially, fraudulently, ami corrui)tly voted for you for the ottice of Hej)r<'sentative in ("on<;ress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruj)tly j)olled were received, counted, and n'turiu'd as so many legal vote cast for you f«)r said oflice. That t»Mi and more other votes were j)olled, counteil, and returiuMl for you as legal votes in said townshij), which said xotes were illegal, fraudulent, and void, because the j)ersons who sexcrally j)olled the same were not legally (pialilied votei-s of said townshij), inasnun-h as they had illegally, fraudulently, and corrni)tly n'ceived money and other valuable things from j)artisaus ami suj)j)orters of yours in consideration of x'oting for you, or the.y voted for yon in consideration and uj)on the j)ronnse that they should receive money and other valnal)le things thereafter, in con- se(iuen<'e of which several illegal and corrujjt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That in the election district of Woodward 'fownshij), of said county of Clear- field, live and more persons voted for you, and their votes re<' ived, 84 CURTIN VS. YOCTM. counted, luid rctniiicd for you at said election, who were not qnalitied electors, because tliey were minors uiuler the a^e of twenty-one years. That twehe and more other ]>ersons, wliose names were not uixm the reji'istry-list of said ele<'tion district, voted foi- you at said eh'ction for said otiice, without inakiui-- any proof or offering- any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as re({uirero( hunation of tlie sh«'rit1' of Clinton Connty, tixinj; tin* tinn; and place of holdiiiii- said election; that in violati's school house, remote anaid either a State or county tax winch had been assessed two months before the said day of election, ille<;'ally, fraudulently, and corrui)tly voted for you at said el«'ctiersons who were not legally ([ualilied \oters of said townshij», because tln'y had not been residents of said township of Coleltrook for two mouths immedi- ately i>rc<-edin.u- the lilth day of Xovcndter last, and who hat lej;ally (jualilied votei"s (►f said township, because they haf said township for tw<) months immediately ineeedinjj: the tilth day of November last, and who had not, within two years and more than one month betbre the tilth day of November last, paid either a State or «"ounty tax which had been assessed two months before said day of elec- tiresentative in ronf;ress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and ctly ]»olled, were received, ctmnted, and returned as so many le^^al votes cast for you at said election. That in said election district eiy:ht and more persons whose names were not upon the reji'istry list of said election district voted for you at said election for said oliice withimt making- any proof or offering- any le<;al evidence of their rijiht to vote iu said election district, as required by law, which sait (pialilied electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one (21) years. 7lM. That in the election district composed of the township of (Ireene, iu said county of Clinton, tifteen and more ]iersons who were not legally olled, were received and counted and returned as so many legal V(>tes cast for you at said election. That in said election district ten anon the registry-list of said election district voted for you at said election tVn- said office without making any ju'oof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said elec- tion district, as reaid either a State or county tax, which had lieen assessed two months before sait<'is of said to\viislii]> Ihmmiisc tln'y liad not hreii n'sideiits of saiil townsliijj for two inoiitlis iiniiicdiati'Iy int'ccdiii^- tlu* fifth day of Novendx*!' last, aiitly voted for yoii for tht' olliee of IJe])i('sciitative in Con^iress. whieh said \otes, so ilh'iially, franchdentlx , and corrnittly i)olh'(l. were leeeived, counted, and retnrne(l as so many h'.ual xotes cast for ycai for said ottice. That in said eh'ction district live and m(»r«' jtersons wliose names wer«* not ui>on the rejiistry-list of said <'lecti<»n district vot<'d for yon at said (dee- tion for said oMlce, witliout making an\' jtroof or otVerinii any Ie;;al evi- dence of their riuht to vote in said tdection district, as recpiii-ed hy hiw, Avhich sai' the fifth day of No\ eml)er last, and who had not within two yeais and more than one month before said lifth day of November last i)aid either a State or county tax; which had been assessed two months before said day of election, illeiially. fraiululently, and corru])tly voted for you for said olliee of l{e]»resentati\'e in ("onjiress, which said votes so ille<;ally, fraudulently, and ersons, whose names were not ui)on the rejjistry- list of said election district, votesaid election district five and more pers«>ns voted foi' you, and their votes were receiv«'d, counted, and r<'tui'ned for you at said <'hM'tion, who were not le.ually (jualified electors, l>ecause they were minoi's under the age of twenty-one years. 78th. That in the ele<'ti(»n disti'ict com]»oscil of the hrst wai'd of the city of IjOcIc Haven, in the said county of Clinton, ten and moi-e jx'rsons who were not legally (pialified voters of said ward, because they had not been resi(h'nts <)f said ward for two months immediately ])receding the fifth efore sai«l day of election, illegally, fiautlu- lently, and corruptly voted for you at said election for saiersons voted foi- you, and their vot«'s were receiveaid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, ille- gally, fraudulently, and corrujttly voted for you for said offiat of Itepre- sentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and cor- ruptly i)olled were received, counted, and leturned as so many legal votes cast for you for said ottice. That ten and more other persons iu said election district, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said oltice with- out making any ])roof or otfering any legal evidence of their right to A'Ote in said election district, which said illegal Aotes were received, counted, and returned for you for said ofHce. That ten and moie persons A^oted for you. and their votes were received, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years. 80th. That in the election district composed of the second w^ard of the city of Lock Haven, in said county of Clinton, ten and more persons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said ward, voted for you at said election without making any proof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote iu said election district, as required by law, whicli said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That in said election district, ten and more persons, Avho were not legally qualified voters of said ward, because they had iiot been residents of said ward for two months immediately i)receding the fifth day of November last, and who had not within two > ears and more than one month before said fifth day of November pairesentati\e in Conjiress, wliich said votes so ille- }^ally, frauduU'Utly, aiul corruptly jiolled were received, eouutol, and returned as so many h'j^al votes cast for you for said ollire. That in said eh'ction district ten and more jtersons, whose names were not ui»on the rejiistry list of said ward, voted for ycui at said election for said office without makiu,i;- any ]u-oof (M offeriuin' any lepil evidence of their ri}rht to vote in said election district as required by law, which sai«l ille- j;al votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said oflice. That in said election district ten and more persons voted for you, and their votes were receiv*'d, counted, auil returned for you at said electicm, who were not (jualified electors, because they were nnnors under tlie a;:e of twenty-one years. 83d. Tiiat in the election district composeersons votetl for you, and their votes were receive«l, connted, and returned for y(m at said election, who were not legally (pialilied electors. lu-eause they were minctrs under the a.i,^e of twent\ -one y«'ars. Sfth. That in the election district composed of the t(»wnship of Noyes, in the said county of ( "linton, ten and mt le^ially (pialified voters of said township, because they had not b«'en residents of said township for two months imnu*diatel.\ prec«'dinji' the fifth day of >."ovember last, and who had not within two years and more than one month before said fifth day of November last ]>aid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said ted for you. and their vot«'s were received. «-ount<'d, and re- turned for you at sai<>lled, countetl, and returned for you for said otiice at said eU^ction wliich were illejial, fraudulent, and \ oid, be«'ause the ])ersons who severally polled the same were minors under the aj^e of twenty-one years. That twenty other votes were polled, counted, and returned for you for saidotliceat said election tliat were illegal, fraudu- lent, antly recei\ed votes and depositeei-sons whose nanu's were not iil>on the refiistry-list of voters tor said boroujih, without (lemandiufj or requirinji' any ju-oof te counted, to seal n\> and sit the ballot-boxes with a magistrat<'. as icfpiired by law. That said officers illegally, fraudulently, auolls and (dosed the same during the h(»urs they were reipiiicd by law to be kept ojien, and illegally and corrujitly per- mitted unauthorized jiersons to be present in tin? room where saiil elec- tion was held during the time said election was holding and after the polls were closed, and ])ermitted said unauthorized persons illegally, fraudulently, and <<>rruptly to hamlleand assist in counting olV said bal- lots. That said election officers further acted illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly in this, that they kept and drank intoxicating li«piois of vari- ous kinds in and about the rocun where said tdection was held and <'(Mi- ductcil on said day of election, contrary t(» law, and said election otlicers becanu' grossly intoxicated while holding and c(Uiducting said election, so nuu'h so that they became wholly unfit and incompetent to ludd and ccuiduct said election, in consecpu'uce of all which sev<'ial illegal, fraud- ulent, and corrupt actions ui>on the ]>art (»f said electi(»n otliccis the said electi(tn held and conductecl by them was illegal and void, and should be set aside and disregarded, and the entire return (»f \otes cast at saieneriil retui-n of votes cast for said office in said county and in the said twentieth (.'on«>iessional district of Penusylvauia. 8Sth. That in tlie election district coni])osed of the township of Wayne, in said county of Clinton, thirty and more ])ersersons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, A^oted for you at said election for said office without nuiking any ])roof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election district, as required by law, which said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That ten and more persons voted for you, and their votes were receive for two months immccliately j»receding the fifth day of X(>vend>er last, and who had not within two years ancl more than one month befoic the tilth day of Xo\'embcr last paid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months l)efore said day of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corru])tly voted for you at said election U)v said ollice of Ivcjjresentative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly ]>olled were received, counted and returned as so nniny legal votes cast for yon for said otKce, That in said eh'cticm district ten and more votes were ]>olled, received, counted, and returned for \ on as legal votes, which said vot<'s wei-e illegal, fraudu- lent, and \i)\i\, because tin' persons who sc\erally i)olled the same were not legally (pialilied voters of said township, inasmuch as they had illegall>' and corru])tly i-eceived money and other valuable things from jiartisans and su]>porters of yours in (MUisideration of voting for you, or they voted foi' you in consideration and ujton the i>romise that tlu'y shouhl receive money or other valuable things thereafter; in coiise(|uence of which sevei'al illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at snid election. That in said election district forty and more ]>ersons whose names were not u]>on the registry- list (►f said election t within two years and more than one month before the ."ith day of Novend)er last i)aid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of electi(Mi, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you at said election for said otlice of lvei)resentative in Congress, which said votes s«) illegally, fraudulently, anersons voted for you, aiul their votes were received, couut('d, and returned for you at saifficers illegally, fraudulently, aiul corruptly received and deposited two hundred and more l>allots for you in the ballot-boxes before the election board was duly and legally organized or sworn; that said election officers, during the lu>urs which by law the electiaid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of election, ille- gally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you at said election for said office of Representative in Congress, which votes so illegally, fraudu- lently, and corruptly polled were counted and returned as so many legal votes cast for you at said election. That in said election district ten and more votes were polled for you for the office of Representative in Congress, and were counted ami returned as so many legal votes cast for you for said office, which said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and void because the persons who severally i)olled the same were not legally qualified voters of said township, inasuaich as they had illegally, fraud- ulently, and corru]>tly received money or other valual)le things from partisans and supporters of yours in considerati(m of voting for you, or they voted for you in consideration and upon the promise that they should receive money and other valuable things thereafter; in conse- quence of which several illegal and corrupt negotiations, bargains, and CUKTIN A'.S. YOC'UM. 97 traiisactioiis tli«'V luilcitcd tlicir rii^Iit to \nic at said clcctidii. Thai in said «'lecti(»n distrift a poitioii (if wliicli said iiKtiicy, t(» wit, the sum ot' s('\ cnty-lix «' dollars (>r'i~>)^ and other xahiahh- thiii;;s, wcic deposited hy y(Hi with a Di'. Shaessly, ()f said t(»wiisiii)t, lor siicii iUe^al and eorriii)t }»iir|»(tses. Tiiat in said eleeti(»n district li\e or more persons, wliose names \v»'re not n]Mni tiie rej^istry-list of said election district, \"oted lor you, for the said oilic*- without makini; any ])roof or olVerinj;' any le;:al evitli. That in the election district coni|)osed td the township of lli;:li- land. li\(' an, because they had not within two years and more than one month before the lifth day of November last ]>aid either a State or county tax which had been assessed two months l»efore said day of election, ille.iially, fraudulently, and corru]>tly vot<'d for you at said election for tlu' ollice of l{ei)resentati\ <• in ron<;ress, which said votes so illegally, franduh'ntly. and coirui)tly ])<»lled were countese names were not ui»mi the registry list of said election district, votre persons xoted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and retuiiied for you at saiil election, wh(> were not (pndilied ele(;tors, because they were minors under the age of twenty-one years. iKJth. That in the election district com]>os«'d of the township of Hortcui, in said county (»f VAk. there were ti\"e or more i»ersons, w ho were nor legally (jualilied voters of said township, because they had not been residents of said township for two months immediately jireceding the lifth day of Novendtei- last, illegally, fraudidently, antly voteersons who w»'re not legally qnalitieer last i»aiolled were connted and returned as so man> legal v<>tes cast for you for said oflice at said electi()n. That in said electiini distii<-t live and autre jiersons, whose minu's were not u]>on the registry-list of said election district. \-oteersons voted Ibr yun. and their votes were received, connted, and returned for you at saites cast for you for saiters of said town- shij), inasmuch as they had illegally and corruptly received nu)ney or other valuable things from partisans and su])i)orters of yours in consid- eration of voting f ( r you; (n* they voted for you in consideration and u]>on the promise that they should receive money or other valuable things thereafter; in consequence of which several illegal, fraudulent, and c'or- ru})t negotiations. l)argains and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That in said election district five and more other per- sons, whose names were not upon the registry-list of said election district, voted for y saireeedin.'o\ ember last jKiiil either a State or county tax which Inid been assessed two imMiths before said (hiy of election. ill(\iially, frau(bde!itl>', and corrui>tly voted for you for the ollice of licp- resentati\"e in ('oii,:L:ress, which said votes so illeually, fraudulently, and CorrujttlN ]>olled were counted and returned as so many le^al xotes cast for you for said olhce. That in said election district ten and more ]»« i- s(uis. whose names were not upon the registry-list of .saieisoiis, who were not leji'ally (lualified voters of said townshi]), because they had not been resi- dents of said township for two mouths immediately ]»recedin^' the tilth day of Xovember last, and who had not within two years and more Than one month before the tilth day of Xovember last paid eitlu-r a State or county tax which had been assessed two months before said day of elec- tion, illc<;ally, frandnlently, and corrn]>tly voted for yon for the olhce of lle])resentati\'e in ('on<;ress, which said votes so illey,ally, frandideiitly, and corruptly jtolled were counted ami returned as so many lej;al vot«\s cast for yon foi' said othce. That in said election district tiv(» and more ])ersons, whose names were not njion the registry list of said (dection district, voteil for you at said (dection for said onic<' without makiiii: any l>roof or offeriii};- any le«;al evidence of their riuht to vote in said elec- tion district, as re(piired by law. which said ille-ial votes wrvv received, counted, and returned for you for said ollice. That in the election dis- trict coni])osed of the township of Spriiij.:' ("reek, in said county of I'dk, tive and mor<' persons voted for you. and their V(>tes were receivt'd, counted, and returned for you at said election, who were not <[ualilied electors because they were minors under the ajic of twenty-one yeais. 10-d. That in the election district composed of the borou«;h of Saint ]\Iary's there were ten and more jtersons who were not le;.;ally (piali- tied voters of said borouuh, because they had not been residents of said boroujih, for two months immediately ])rece(lin.2,- the fifth day 100 CURTIN VS. YOC;UM. of XoN'cmlx'i l;ist, and wlio had not within two years and mow than one month bcfcne the tifth day of November last paid either a State or county tax Avliich liad l)e''n assessed two mouths before tlie said (hiy of election, illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly voted for you for the oflice of l\e])resentative in Conj^ress, which votes so illegally, fraudulently, and corrujjtly ]»olled were counted and returned as so many le.i>al votes for you for said oflice. That in said election dis- trict John Walker, and tiftcen other ])ers()us whose names arc to me as yet unknown, voted for you at said election for the othce of Ke))resenta- tive in Conjiress, which said votes Avere received, counted, and returned as so nuiuy legal votes cast for you for said office, Avhich said votes were illegal, fraudulent, and A'oid, because the i>ers()ns who severally ])olled the sanu^ were not legally (jualitied voters of said borough, inasnuich as they liad illegally and corruptly received money or other valuable thing from ]>artisaus and su})i)oiters of yours, a portion, of which, to wit, the sum of fifty dollars ($50) and more, was given and deposited by you with John Walker of said borough for such illegal and corrupt pm*- l)0ses; in consequence of whi/'h several illegal and corrupt uegotiations, bargains, and transactions they forfeited their right to vote at said election. That in said electiou district twenty-six and more persons, whose names were not ui)on the registry list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said ofdice without making any ])roof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election dis- trict, as recpiired by law, whicli said illegal votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That in said election district tive and more persons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted and returned for you at said election, who were not i(l, ami slioiild not liavo been counted and returned, and slionid now he exelndeil from tin* return of votes east for you in the said eountv o!' Mifllin. l(>."»tli. 1'. That in the ele<'tion district eomiH>sed of tin* ea.st ward of tlie horouuli of Lewistown, in saioii the le^^istrs list of saiu for said otlicc. That in the election district com|»osed of the east ward of the l>orou;:h of l.ewistown, in said county of .Mifllin, there were five ami inoic peisons voti'd tor you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned tor you at said election, who were not qualified electors, because they were ndnors, uinler the aj^e of twenty one years. That in the said election district com])osed of the east ward of the borou<;h of Lewistown, in said county of Mil'Hin, the election oflleers, to wit, thejud^t', inspectors, and clerks, who Indd and concbn-ted the said election, did not take, sub- scribe, ;ind return the oaths or atlirnmtions of otiice requireil by law, anoted for you at said election for said ollice wi'.hout making any jnoof or otlering any legal evidence of their right to vote in saiersons voted for you, and their votes were received, counted, and returned for yoti at said election, who were not (pialilie(l elect(»rs, because they were minois under the age of twenty-om' years. 107th. 4. That in the election district composed of the bor(»ugh of ^lc\'eytown, in said county of ^liftlin, there were ten and more persons, whose nann^s were not u]>on the registry list of sair('s were r('<'«'i\ cd, {•oiiiitcd. and rctunuMl for you at said elcctioii, who were not (jiialiticd electors, because they were iiiiiiors iiikU'I' tlie aijc of twenty-one years. l(l!>th. (!. Tliat in the eh'ction district coin])osed of the ohl i»r<'cinct of the township of Arnianinh, in the said connty of MifHin, ten and more ])erson.s, whose names were not ui)on tlie reji'istry list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said ottice witliout uiakinji' any i)roof, or offerinu' any h'.iial evidence of their ri^ht to AOte in said election district, as reijuired by law, which said votes were received, counted, and returned for yon for said office ; that in the election dis- trict coini)osed of the old precinct ot the townshi]> of Arinau<>h, in sai of Decatur, in said ;ht to vote in said election os«Ml of tlu^ township of (Iranville, in said county of Miftlin, the (dection oflicers, to wit, the jml.u'e, inspectors, and clerks, who held and (;onducted said (dection, did not take, sui)scribe, and return the oaths and atlirmations of ollice re(piiied bylaw, and said officers were not duly and lejially sworn as such; in c(Uise(pU'nce of all which the said (dection held and conducted by said (dection ollicers in said townshi]) was illegal, fraudulent, and void, and the entire return of \'otes from said township of (Iranville, in said county of Mifllin. for i-ail office, should be set aside and e\th. IL', That in the (dection district composeil of the townshi)* of Minna, in said county of MiHliii, there were ten and more persons, wiiose names were not u])on the registry-list of said (dection district, voted for you at said election for said ollice, without making; any pi'oof or otl'erini; any evidence of their ri;;ht to x ote in said election district, as re(piired by law, which said illej^al votes were received, counted, and returned for you for said office. That in the (dection district c(Miiposed of the townshi]) of Minna, in said county of Miriiin, there were five and more ]K'rsons \oted for you, and their xotes were receiNcd, counted and re- tnrned for you at said (dection, who were not (pialilie(l electors, l»ecause the.N' were minors undei' the a^^c of tweiity-(Mie years. IKJtli. l.'>. 'J'liat in the (dection district conii>osed of the township of Newton liamiltoii, in said count \ of Mifllin. there weic ten and more l)ersons, whose names were ii(»t ui)on the rciiistry-list of said (dection dis- trict, voted for^you at said (dection tor the said office without making; any proof or olieiin^- any le,iial evidence of their ri^ilit to vote in said ek^ction district, a.s refiuired by law, which said illciial votes were received, coiuited, and retuined for you f(>r said office. That in said election district composed of the township of Newton Hamilton there were five and more persons Aoted for you, and their xotes were received, 104 ClIllTIN V8. Y0( I'M. counted, jmkI rctiinied for you at said cUn'tiou, wlio were not qualilied electors, because tliej^ wore uiinors, under tlie aye of tweuty-oiu' years. llTtli. 14. That in tlic election distri<'t coiiiiK»seolIed w<*r<' r«'c<'ived, counted, and returned as so many le.nal votes cast for you for said (»ftice. That in the election district composed of the townslii]» of Oliver, iu said county of ^liftlin, ther<' were ten and more persons, Avhose names wei'e not ujx)!! tlie iciiistry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said otiice without making- any proof or oflerinectors, and clerks, who held and conducted said election, did not take, subscribe, and return the oaths or aftirniations of oftice reqinred by law, and said ofUcers were not duly and legally sworn as such: in conse(pience of all which, the said election held and conducted by said election ofticers in said townshi}) was illegal, fraudulent, and void, and the entire return of votes from said township of Oliver, in said county of Mittiin, for said office should l>e set aside and excluded from the general return of votes cast for said office of Tlepresentative in ('ongress from the twentieth Congressional district of Pennsylvania. 118tli. 15. That in the election district composed of the township of rjnion, in said county of Miftlin, there were five or more persons, Avho were not legally (|ualitied voters of said townshi]) b<>caiise they had not been residents of said township for two months immediately preceding" the fifth day of ]Novend)er last, illegally, fraudidently, and corruptly voted for yon the registry-list of said election district, voted for you at said election for said office Avith- out nuUcing any ]»roof or offering any legal evidence of their right to vote in said election osed of the nortli wai'd of the bcu'oujih of Lewisbnr.ii-, in said county of rnion. there wore live and more piMsons who wore not le^all.v (pialilietly voted foi' you for the olh<-e of l{e|»resentative in CoUi^ress, which voti's so illeuallv . fraudulently, and corruptly i»olled were received, counteose(l of the town- ship of White I )eer, in said eoiint.\ of I'nion, live and more peisons \-oted for yon, and th<'ir votes were recei\ed, (.'onnteil, and r«'tnrned for yon at said election, who Wi-re not iinalilied electnnte(l, and ictnrned for yon tor said ollice. iL'Citli. That in the eh'ctioii district composed of t he township of West JintValo. in saitl connty of I'nion, there were five anon the rciiistiy-list of said election district voted for \'ou at said election for said ollice without maUinj;' any proof or otVerinji' an.\' leual evidence of their ri.uiit to vot»' in said election district, as reipiired by law, which said illegal votes weiv icceived, counted, and i'cturned for you for said ollice. iL'Tth. That in the election district composed of the west ward of the l)orouj;h of MifHinburo-. in said county of irnion, at said election, there were counted and returned for yon for said ottice seventy-seven votes in said election district, yet, in truth ami in fact, there were but seventy (70) lefi'al votes jjolled at said election for you tor said ottice in said dis- trict. That the Judj;es of the court who canvasseil, counted, and re- turned the \()tes polled at said election, in conntiiii;- the retm-ns from said ele(;tion district of the west ward of the borough of .Milllinbnr-;-, committed an error in c(Mintin<^- the return as seventy-sev«'n (77) votes for yon, when in veiity it slioiUd have been coiintetl and returned as but se\-enty (70) votes for you, and the said se\-cii (7) votes credited to you in the <^eneral return of votes cast for you for said ollice. in said county, should be deducted IVom the u-eiieral return of votes cast for you for said ollice in said county. And 1 further aver that althonuh there Avere counteii ami returned for me for said otiice. in said twentieth Con- gressional district of Pennsylvania, comi><)se(l of the counti«'s of Centre, Cleartield, Clinton, I^lk, Miniin,aiid l^nion, thirteen thousand four hun- dred ane con- tested. Yours, trulv, A. Ct. CURTIS. W. H. Blair, Attorney. 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