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Show ALLEN IS THE VICTOR. Judge Anderson in an Able tad Eabcratj Opinion Decides tie Election Contest. A DIGEST Or THE DI0REH The Votes at Bicgoam Thrown Out tal Btjectcd Ballots at Cottonwood not Conn teil. The atrmtapher In Jndge Andrnnn'i chamber this morning at 10 o'clock was stilTtlng. ono was an unknown Ingredient. In-gredient. Imbed it was so dull and heavy as to be mrphllic. The court, luelf foil it gathering around his stupendous stu-pendous collar and ordered a window raised. Politician, ward workers and! loungers had gathered from every Mult am In Fareo Buffalo Courlnr. ,. ' , Whoop! Whoop! WHOOP. " i i source. The aisle leading to the suits) In which the Ferguson-Allen contest, that was now ou its I tat chapter, was choked with a mats of iulnnlng humanity. hu-manity. In both room tho adheranta of one side or th other were packed! tike sardines. Presently the machinery was lohricwtcd and fate began to weave itself about the contest. In the eturdium of his remark th court stated that one raws was following follow-ing another over th calendar with such rapid siu-ceiwlon that he had found It Impoaslbl to appropriate the time required re-quired to a written opinion and woubt therefore proceed orally. As regard the Bingham ra lu which the contestant con-testant alleged that thirteen fraudulent votes had Iwen cast and counted fvr lb defendant there was no donbt as lo th proof. It wahown that several who names wer on the registration lUt wrre well and personally known lo the) presiding judge at lheo polls. To thbs ha had admitted In his own vldcswe). Several voter were not present ai4 testtlled that they did not Vote. Tnle In the alwttre of othmr thing, justitted the cutting out of these thirteen rote at Bingham. Thoriitire case then, rontioued thu court, hinges on the South Cottonwood precinct where siiUen Wen bad tendered their Votes on tha day of election. The ' vol had lieen rejected, Th roter then returned re-turned with said vote acMimpaniwdl with affidavits that were In rejected, on the ground that the names of th sixteen mvu did not appear on th registry reg-istry list. This far as It affect th candidate would not count for or agalnat either at tbein, as th supreme courts of Alabama. California, Arkansas Arkan-sas and Kentucky hav held and rul4 that no vote can be ronnted for cither rsndiilate unlet depeiii within Ui Imj or at Wt received by th Jadgest. -llenc Ihu court rule thai the prv-mil Incmnbcnt retains th ouV. " , In a supplemental clau Juifgn Anderson An-derson took occasion to ngrlaUt plaintiff's attorney for th able manner man-ner in which their ess had been presented. pre-sented. Hail Urn Utwn votes at Sonth Cottonwood been rt plitlnlilf would bav received th el?-lion el?-lion but so far s candidate ar cor rerned th court ran only Judg of th voles raat leaving to th defrauded voters their right sgainst th registration registra-tion officer, Mr. Brown ak that th finding now this etat of fart which was cua-curred cua-curred In by th emirt. Iteferrot e was also mad to the jndg at Beaver to whom certain p. rm on the registry list wer personally known and whose, name wer on th day tf election fraudulently voted. Tbeovnrt was verv careful in fact lo roret very-thing very-thing that hal com up in th nwu) that ha Smmn m closely contested from) start to finish vid wa listened lo with profound! deference until be conci ded. Th sixteen elector who dm were reje'td st houib Cottonwood tr very indignant and threaten to !nstUirt proceeding on their r g'it, a bnenj, referred to in to decision. In the ftoolb Cottonwoxl it wa shown from th witn ahair thai th sixteen name were stricken foo th registry list by wdwr of th rtri trsr who ruled that utidrr th Kdmtiutt-Tucker Kdmtiutt-Tucker law that disualifl a polyga mist or any on that aid. abt or wvm puthl with It I barred from th rfgbl nf fram-hla. Having IxKU strteiea from ih lit on iti day of i4tiia ihttm waa no Immediate rcconr and, the sixteen men wr at lat letupor-anlv letupor-anlv disfranchised. The rise ha been of a very Interesting Interest-ing nature throughout and now that if i disposed of a large number OB both side wilt breath frr. |