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Show Robert Baxter Talks i Sterling Man Denies Certain Saatements About That Ballot Matter. Robert li.itlci.of Mt Sterling, w.is In Logan SaiindU, and when Intel- I viewed In repaid to. the Mt. Sterling I ballot mattei hcchnrnclerlcd report 4 j of Ills connection with the dltllcully las thoioughlv misleading, a tissue of misstatements almost as a whole, and h6 asked tlial hi-, statement be given the public This is substantial!) as follows. On election motnlng Mi Baxter was up bright and e.irh, having decided to bring a load of his ruinous cracked wheal to this ell) He was leadv to leave Stelllng befoie the polls weic open, and desiring to vote waited until the propei hour He was the llrst votr. and happened to notice that ballot No t had been given htm Mr Itaxter Inipilred casually of one of the, ( Judges as tow licic the other two were, and received the reply. "Oh, thev raust be about sum.) place " Mr Baxter Bax-ter lhouglil.no more about it, went into thl' booth and voted, and then euue on to Logan with the load of wheal, arriving hereabout 10 o'clock. According to Mr liaxtct, the ballot mailer did not again enter his head until about three or four o' lock In the afternoon when, as he was watering hi- team at the trough In fiontof the court house.Treasurer I'aikinsoncamc from the court yard, handed him a ballot and asked him If he would 'deliver 'de-liver It to the election Judges at Mt. Sterling He said he would, and President Presi-dent Parkinson returned to the court house. As Mr Baxter started to climb back onto his wagon, he wondnied whether the election iudges at Sterling would know what to do with the ballot, once I H was In theli hamU,ind as .1. M. Bliili walked up, he asked him as to the law on that mattei Mr. IBIalf made suggestions butollered nothing specific and told Mr. Ili.xter that he nitklu tlntl Atiornc) Xebekei at Item-ociatlc Item-ociatlc hc.iriipiaiicrs. He went there ami iuipiiied, butvivs he did not show the ballot not make his business known lie then went to Nebeker's onlce. hut did not tlntl him, and Dually went home to Steillng w lluout having consult! d ant Inwvcr Aside fiom the fact that he Inquired at Hvriim for juothei paper President Parkinson said was thcie, but which had been dellveied earlier. Ills concetti in the mattei wehl onl) so far as staled He denies that he made any special linpiiiy about the missing ballots, bal-lots, that anjonethen told him wheie thev we u that he or an)one else was Mispuioiis about the matter, that he c.itm- to Logan for any otliei puipose than to dellvt-i his wheat, that he showed the ballot at deinociatle head-(juaiters head-(juaiters or that he consulted an at-tornev at-tornev Ills claims that his connection connec-tion willi Ihe matter was w'ioIIv disinterested, dis-interested, almost involuntaiv, and so trivial as to be unworthy of comment. Mr Baxter insists that all statements contrary to his own aiu deliberately false and thir the attributed intent piit upon Ins act ion In the mattei Is ellhei from criminal ignuiauee or willful will-ful malicious Intent. Tjii: It r.rimi.iUAN presents the state-men state-men i fm what It may be worth, and in Justice to Mr Baxter adds that lie Is'geni'iallv logaided as a truthful, upright up-right citizen wot thy of conlideuce and respect lr the ordinal') walks of life. |