Show LENTZ CHARGES A p VILE LOT PLOT Accuses lt et eta c al in Fil Filing Filing ing mg Contest CITES THE THEAND E LOG LOGAN AND PROVO CASES Says His ills Exposures Led to Mc lin y 4 Columbus 0 O Dec John J Lentz today served formal no notice O tice Uce on CoP an ct Tompkins would woul the latter s seat in the house hou e on charges ch s of wholesale whole bribery and fraud in the count countIn In his notice of contest conte t addressed to Mr Tompkins Mr MT Lent Lenta says Y I 1 claim and ad shall prove proe that your al nl alleged plurality of IS L votes was ob obtained by bribery debauchery emil and cor corruption corruption corruption of voters vote seducing certain stu students students dents in various educational Institutions in the district to remain here and vote for tor you without wi having any y legal right to vote hi this district by b indue Indu Inducing ing many of the employees connected with the various state institutions in lo Jo located in this city to remain main n here and I f vote for foe fo you although their voting residence e was wan U in tn some other district of or orthe the state by importing and colonizing voters in io this district dt for tor the purpose of having them U m vote in your behalf and against apin t myself m lf In your alleged plu plurality plurality plurality of 18 iS votes out nut of ft a total of 51 were east cast t t in the First t your bene ben beneficiary of nf the methods method and proceedings aforesaid as welt weN as ol s the beneficiary of I manifest errors in the th count and return of eC votes and diverse and sundry file I and irregularities Cites Controversy 1 Mr Ma Lentz then theft tt tz forth in detail the specific pounds unde of ot contest alleg alleging lug ing that a r plan of ot campaign was wag w projected by b The he e Republican lead leaders leaders leadem ers em in connection with the administration tion Ht at t Washington WID to and that a 8 large corruption fund amounting to many man thousands of dollars rs was wa procured by men residing re yon oui 1 the boundary of this thin district dJ jent into this district with the deter deLer nation to secure your election ejection and encompass sue ent my defeat by bribery because be certain Republican leaders leade connected with fth the national ad nil administration ministration at Washington on feared the fleet effect of my exposures expo of the moaning meaning of or o the tM Eagan JM by hy President Mc J Jn my m cynosure asure of o President Me Mc s misrepresentations ml n a ax to the condition of the Philippines of ot President President President dent M use ipe of the United States army to to and destroy union labor Jabor In tie t Coeur dAlene din die district of Idaho and pd nd President McKin leys appointment of Orson OrBOn n Smith and J 3 C e Graham polygamist postmasters at Logan and nip Provo City ity Utah and my criticism o Q ot President rr dent ratification of ot the Ja treaty Peaty eaty permitting slavery and polygamy in lit the Sulu is IH islands islands lands a part of the Philippine archipelago ago a n and my exposure of if f President Mc ys appointment of Rufus W V Lane Lam AS aB u to a rna immediately imm t following the of his hl vot voting voting ing f r r Marus u A Hanna for United d dS State S senat p b sid said Rufus Ia Lan W HiJ kI l lite 1 ia jg the legislature I of ot othi th hi i i C tick tUk i ilso ot o j ji i o fl J my I Ii i r treatment of Secretary of State Stale John Sherman Secret Service Handle unc He alleges that tn j chief of ot the United SW Sta States s a se Be secret cret service participated in the bribery and debauchery of voters oter In a scheme to o elect Tompkins and that he was vas assisted by various other agents of the federal government Specific Instances of Bribery are ar al eged but the names of the persons nJ al to have received bribes are aN I not nol given There Thu an all in iLl all twentynine t I specifications alleging bribery illegal I I voting and other irregularities I |