THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, DEO. .13, 1890. on t&ra, and Powers, and Richard and Paine tickets? A. Yea air. Q. And those tickets that were taken out of your hands and torn up had Boyd's name on as well as Powers? A. Soma of them, yes sir. vi. do r as you Know you naa as many tickets of the one man as of another! A. No sir, I had more of the Powers tickets. Q. You were more particularly inter ested In Powers? A. Yes sir, I was. . Q. Promiscuously, the tickets that were taken out of your pocket and torn up had the names of all the candidates on? A. Yes sir. Q. And if a man wanted to rote the demooratio ticket you handed him a ticket. A. Yes sir, if he requested a democratic ticket. Q. Yu did not reside in this ward? A. No sir, I did not. Q, You' didn't rote in this ward? A. NoBlr.. Why didn't you peddle tickets in the ward In which you lived? A. Be cause my ward was sufficiently manned and it was so considered by our com mittee, and that was a ward where there was no workers, and I was sent there by. the non-partisan committee, and also the request of our Indepen dent club." Q. That was a very strong prohibi tion ward? ,A. I think so. Q. The strongest in the city? A. I don't know that I could say that. Q. Well, one of the strongest. A. Ye3 sir, one of them." v Q. You had no design in going over there to stir up strife? A. I had no desire to stir up any difficulty, no sir. Q. What time in the morning was it when you went there? A. It was prob ably half past nine when I first went there, or about that time. Q. And how long did you stay there? A. About; fiv mtniitoa Q. How soon were you back at the polls? A. Well, we went over to the T J. Sit n -i . )oiice station; i aon t naraiy Know, it s probably eight or nine blocks, and re ported the matter to the police, and we were driven back as soon as the patrol wagon could take up. Q. How long did you stay then? A. Probably live or ten minutes. Q. The second time? A. Yes sir. Q. After that you did not go back? a. No sir, and my reasons were how ever I was too badly hurt to go back; I was sick. Q. You heard the word that the chief of police would send a squad of fifty policemen? A. Yes sir, but I was not able to go, and besides I didn't con- fcuv WiiVU nuuiu JJlVLCsV LUpi Q. You didn't think the police would protect you? A. I didn't think they would, no sir. ' . . Q. Did you see any one there pre vented from voting for Powers at that poll? A. No sir. Q. Or any other state officers? A. No sir. Q. Was there any opposition to a free ballot there for any state officer? A. I don't know as to the ballot. Q. But so far as you know there was none. A. I had no opportunity to find out. Q. Have you the names of these people who assaulted you? A. No sir. Q. Did you try to ascertain their names? A. I didn't, no. Q. Did you file any complaint against them? A, I didn't consider it neces sary as the police officers had seen the acts done, and I did not consider I would get justice. , Q. If you thought your life was in danger, you had the right to appeal to t.h fnl1TtS? A T ' IIHn t fl DOm if nroo necessary, because I lidn't think I would get justfce. Q., You made no complaint against them? A. No sir. I filed my com plaint with the chief of Police. Q. Did you see those people that took the tickets away . from you? A. Yes sir. Q. Do you know the names of them? A. I do not. Q. Did you try to ascertain their names? A. No sir; I reported them to the police and asked them to arrest them. Q. What ward did you go to after you left this? A. I went home. Q. You were not seriously injured? a ven, i was connned to the house for a number cf days. Q. From the injuries you received at what point? A. Do you mean the in juries! received at what point? Q. Yes 6ir, you stated you were toned? A. Yes sir, that was at Six teenth and Williams. Q. What is the . injury you received from missiles thrown at you? A. Well, I got an injury on the body at a point where I least expected it. I was struck on the back of the head and knocked down to the pavement and skinned my knee, and I didn't think it was serious at first and I was out for a couple of days and it swelled up and became in flamed so I was confined to the house oh account of a stiff leg. Q. And that was received two blocks away from the polling place? A. About two blocks. Q. What were the names of the po licemen who were there the first time you were there and who failed to pro tect you? A. I don't know. Q. Did you make an effort to ascer tain their names? A. I didn't. I know the policeman by sight when I see him. Q. You voted at your own precinct before you went there? A. Yes sir. Q. That was in the Sixth ward? A. Yes sir. Q. Did any one object to your ballot at the time you x6ted? A. They did not. Q. And these tickets you were dis tributing had simply "For the amend ment" printed on them? A. Yes sir. Q. They did not contain both "For" and "Against?" A. No sir.. : Q. And from your observation there, at the time you were at the polls, it is a faot, is it not, all the excitement and all the difficulty grew out of the prohibi tion question? A. I could not say as to that. Q. You saw no wrangling and no con test over the officers? A. I don't know what was over. I think the mest of it, as I said before, the most of the dif ficulty was on accourt of the amend ment. - Q. You stated you saw some personal .rights leaguers Who had the Boyd badge on? A." Yes sir. Q. How many? A. I do not know. - Q. Did you see any republican badges? A. Not on personal rights league men. I don't think I saw any republican badges; I don't remember of seeing any. Q. How many.men did you1 see.there having Boyd badges who also had per sonal rights league badges? A. I could not say as to the number. - Q-jJThatis juurbest recollection? I A. It was a promiscuous crowd and therawas a great many who had per- sonal rights badges; personal rights ( league is the right name I believe. . Q. Did you know the men who wore I them? A. No sir. J Q. You do not know the name of a person who had those badges on. A. I rln nrt. air. tj. i ou never made .any enort to as certain their names? A. No, sir. BECIRECT EXAMINATION. By Mr. Striekler. Q. Was it not understood in Omaha that Boyd was the candidate of the anti prohibitionists? , Mr. Harwood objects as irrelevant and not a part of the specifications. Overruled. Excepts. A. Well,' from what I heard and what I believe myself, I think so. Excused. Charley B Elton, of lawful age. being first duly 6 worn, testified as follows: Examined by H. H. Wilson, Esq., on behalf of the con testants. . Q. Where do you reside? A. In the sixth ward; 33rd and Taylor streets. Q. In what city? A. Omaha, Nebras ka. '. - Q. How long have you lived in Oma ha? A. I have lived at that place for about 20 years. Q. What is your business? A. Gar dening. Mr. Harwood objects to the taking of the testimony of this witness for the same reasons as those to the evidence of , the witness Prugh. Q. Are you acquainted with the wit ness who was just sworn,- Mr. Prugh? A.. Yes sir. Q. Were you with him oh the 4ch of November; election day, last Novem ber? A. Yes sir. , Q. Had you been to the polls in the Fourth ward before you went there with him? A. No sir. , Q. That is the Second ward is it. What ward is it you went with him to? A. We were told is was the Fourth district of the Second ward, 16th and Williams street. Q. The first you were there you went with him? A. Yes sir. , ; Q. When you went there what did you find about the polls? A. I found quite a large crowd there. Q. Did you see any badges worn there by those in the crowd? A. Yes sir. ; . Q. What were they? A. Personal rights. That is all I remember of see ing. Q,. Now, how long were you there at that time? A. Only a few minutes. . Q. What was the occasion of y our going Jhere? A. We went there, at least I aid, for the simple purpose of doing what I could for the prohibition amendment. Q. At whose instance? A. Mr. Prugh the day before requested me; he said he would like somebody to go down with him tomorrow, that was Monday, and I says, "What is the matter with me?" and he said, "All right, I would rather have you go than anybody else," and I said, "Then I will go,", and I went with him. Q. How long did you stay the first time ? A. Only a few minntes, perhaps a quar ter of an hour. Q. State what occurred to you while you were there that time? A.. Well at first there 'was a man came up and wanted to see what kind of tickets we had and we let hina see tham and he said they were bogus; then others came along and they saw we had prohibition tickets, and they said to give them some Erohibition tickets, and we let them ave them, thn after the crowd got pretty well satisfied we were handling prohibition tickets, they snatched them out of our hands, and somebody would get by Prugh and get him be? tween them and somebody else and shove this person up against Prugh, but they didn't shove me, and Prugh and I spoke to the policeman; and he said for the crowd to let us alone, and that is all he said, and we got into the crowd again and they commenced to shove us around, and we again asked the police man for protection, and he would not, and we saw the safest thing for us to do was to get outside of the crowd and after we got on the outer edge of it, there was a man, I don't know his name but he had on a Personal. Rights League badga I think, he struck Prugh, and we started to get out of there and we had about 200 men after us. Q. With what was he struck? A. With the man's fists, and then after we started and going away pretty liyely, brickbats, coal, eggs; or anything they could get hold of was firedxat us. Q, Did they hit you? A. 'No sir. . Q. Did they hit Prugh? A. Yes sir. Q. How far were you away - from the polls when these missiles were thrown at you, fir3t? A. Just about a block. Q. What effect did the blows have on Prugh at that time? A. He was knock ed down twice, once I know of, and af ter we got away from there I saw blood running down his neck and I told him to turn around, and he turned around and I saw a hole back of his ear, and quite a little bunch where he was struck with something. Q. Where did you , go then? A. We went from there to the police head quarters. . . Q. What conversation did you have with the policeman at that time? A. Well, we told the chief what the crowd had done there. "Well," he says, "Get right in the patrol wagon and t will ofinH crhmo mnh im 4-Vi -- wit K rn " ojuu Dvu-Kvy ujvu uv n u iuji v niuu jf vu and he called the captain the captain and two other policemen, and sent tnem aown oesiae tne driver, ana we got in the wagon and went down there. Q. Was the same crowd there when you got back? A. Yes sir. Q. What did you do then? A. ' We got out of the wagon and the captain asked one of the policemen that was there what was the matter, and I don't know, I didn't understand what the answer was this policeman gave to the captain, but the captain didn't stay there very long, but there was still the two policemen by us, and very soon the captain went away, and the crowd again commenced, to push ,us around, and snatched the tickets away from us, and so on; and ttien the policemen said to us to come down this street, Fifteenth street: "No, we would not," and. he said the best thing for us was to get out of the crowd because they could not protect us, and also people in the crowd told us to go. ."Well," we said, "we would, provided thev would conduct us through the crowd," and then with a policeman on either side of us they took us along through tho crowd up towards Sixteenth street and before we got up , toSixteenth street and we walked, be lween the policemen. JL was struck with an egg, and we got down to Sixteenth street ana walked nor.h toward the viaduct and after we got some little distance the policemen said they could not go iny further, and they had to go back to the polling place, wen, tnere was a considerable crowd running along towards the via duct there and stopped, and we said we didn't want to go through the crowd that way without them along, and thev said the best thing to do was to wait till a motor came along and take the car, and we waited till the car came along and we got in the closed car and the policemen got on and conducted us through the crowd and they got off and I suppose they went back. (J. Where did you go from there? A. We went to the police headquarters again. U. What had those fellows upon the viaduct in the way of missiles when you passed, them? A. They had , bricks and pieces ol coal, v U. Did they make any demonstra tions when you went by? A. Yes, sir. (J. What was it? A. 1 hey hollered at us and jeered and so on. . i - Q. Did you hear any names or ,A. Well, I don't know that I did. I presume so, but I hain't sure about that. ' ' Q.' What report did you make at the police headquarters? A. The second time? Q. Yes, sir. : A. Well, we told them just what had happened, "Well," says he, "Get in the patrol wagon and go back , there.'; "Well," we said, we didn't Want to go back, that they would not protect us. He said all right, and we went out. Q, What kind of tickets were they you had in you possession? A. Re publican, democratic, peoples inde pendent and prohibitionist, with the. amendment written on the bottom. ' O. Did vou have anv tickets bearing the name of Powers taken away from you? A. Yes sir. '" , Q. Who was the favorite candidate of those fellows wearing the Personal Rights badges f er governor so far as you gathered from what you saw and hear a there? A. From what I saw and heard I think Boyd was. Q. - Were theieany persons at that polling place as challengers. A. Not that 1 know of. - Q. From what you saw and heard there would it " have been safe for any one to challenge any democratic votes at that polling place? A. No, it would not have been safe. -'.. Q. About how many men were around the polls there when you were there? A. I would think somewhere between two and three hundred. - , Q. , How near did you get up to the polling place ? A. The nearest I think was within fifteen feet. - Q. Would it have been possible for you to go up? A. Yes, I think it would. - Q. Was the crowd crowded in and about the polling places? A. Not very close, the crowd was back in the street and formed in lioe going up to vote. Q. What did they say to you the first time, these people wearing the badges and those ; that were acting for them? A. I do not remember what they did say; they did not want us around there and wanted us to go away and so on. Q. What language did they use? A. They swore considerable. Q. Was " any . epithets used toward you? A. Yes sir. Q. What were they? A. I heard one man call Mr. Pragh a son of a bitch and considerable other language around there. Q. What other' epithets did you hear them use towards yourself and Mr. Prugh? A. I do not know. I did not pay 'enough attention at the time? ' Q. What was the reason that you left the first time? A. Because I thought it was nOtsafe for us there. Q. What was the reason the second time? A.- The same reason and that the police would not protect us. Q. What did they say to about your advising advising you to get away? . i A. They advised us to go. . ' Q. Why? A. Because they ; said thev could not protect us. Q. Had you given them any reason for hostility towards them? A. No sir. Q. And never quarreled with any of them? A. No sir. Q. No erudee towards any of the fellows there? A- No, not at all. Q. Did the judges of election attempt in any way to preserve order? A. Not at all. ' - j Q. Made no remonstrance with this crowd outside? A. No not that I saw or heard. - ; Q. From the best of your informal tion what was that polling place, what tfrecinct and ward? A. It was what we were told was the fourth district ofUf Q. Corner of the streets, what streets? A. Fifteenth and Williams, f Q. Who was it generally understood was the favorite candidate for governor of the personal-rights league in Omaha? A. From what I saw and heard B thought Mr. Boyd was. j CROSS-EXAMINED " I By Mr. Harwood. I 8 Q. You were not in there 1 yourself?. A Jr bit Q. How long were you at the polls altogether both times? A. Something less than half an hour I would think. ; Q. During the time you were there did you see any one prevented from, voting for Mr. Powers? A. I did not.; Q. Did you hear anv one object to k.ny one voting for Mr. Powers? I did a not. Q. Or any one else? A. No sir Q. These tickets that you peddled', had all of the state officers of all the parties on the tickets? A. Yes sir. Q. And these tickets that wereAl inrown away ana torn up ana lairent away from you were tickets having' Boyd's name on them as Well as Mr. Powers and Mr. Payne and others? A. Yes sir. " , Q. And .so far as you observed, there, so far as the election for state officers were concerned the : elec tion was a free and open election? A. I did not see anybody prevented from. Q. You were not within fifteen feet, of the polls were you? A. Not at all 1" do not think. Q. You did not see any of the judges of election did you? A.' No sir. Q. You did not know what the judges of election were doing,, as a .matter of fact? A. No sir. Q. So that all you mean to be under stood by saving that the judges did not make anv attempt to protect you or keep order was that you did not see the. luagesy a. xes sar, Q. The iudgeswere in the iogid the polling place, were they not? A. I think they were: Q. And did vou receive th word which Mr. Seavy sent to Mr. Pugh? A. No sir. Q. That he would send fifty men if necessary to protect you to go back? A. I did not know about that. Q. You did not go back after the second time? A. No sir, Q. You were not a voter in that pre cinct? A. No sir. Q. What precinct were you a voter in? A. The second precinct of the Sixth ward. Q. You voted the ticket of yourchoice there? A. Yes ir. Q. No one made any objection to that? A. Not at all. . Q. What was the occasion of the hos tility of the crowd there to you and Mr. Prugh, what was the cause of the hos tility to you and Mr. Prugh at this poll ing place that you speak of. A. I thought, the trouble of ..our part was because there were very few for the ' prohibition amend ment. Q. Did the crowd object to the ballots because they said they were illegal be cause they only had for printed on them? A. Only one man. said anything about that. " - . Q. The discussion grew out - of that fact that, did you discuss , whether that was a legal ballot or not? A. Not that 1 know of. Q. You would remember it if you did? A. Nobody said anything about whether the tickets were all right but this one man; this man said they were illegal tickets. ' ' - . Q. Did you say they were or Mr. Prugh? A. I think we did. Q. Did any one else indulge in the discussion? A. No sir. Q. How long did vou discuss that? A. Just simply said they were not legal tickets and we said they were, and we thought they were and that is all there was to it. , . Q. Was he the man that tore up the tickets? A. No sir. ' Q. One of the men that struck either of you? A. I do not know that he did. Q. Did vou have hot words? A. No sir.. ' . Q. Mild, peacable discussion? A. Yes sir. ; Q; He said the tickets were illegal and you said they were all right? A. Yes sir. . Q. You did not have any fuss on that account? A. No sir. , Q. Were the crowd stapding around while you were discussing this point? A I believe .we were rather on the outside of the crowd at the time. There were a few people around but not so many as afterwards. Q. Was that, the principal cause to the opposition of your tickets because the crowd said they were not legal bal lots. A. One man said it was" not and nobody else said anything abot it. Q. Do you know whether he told the qther people? A., I dp not. . Q. Were you around at the other polls? A. I just went to two other places, but I did not do anything at all, and did dot intend to do anything. Q. How long did you stay there? A. 15 or 20 minutes probably. Q, Then did you go home? A. We went around to different places in Omaha; we did not go home at all un till I think it was 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Q. 'Who was that, "Mr. Pugh and you? A. Yes sir. . Q. You were around there until three or four o'clock in the afternoon? A. Yes, I think it was. Q. But yea did not peddle tickets any more? A. No sir. , Q. What wards were you in? A. One of the places we were down on Eleventh street and Harney, and the other place was up at the board of trade building on Sixteenth street; I think it is on Sixteenth street south of Farnam street. Q. And you saw no one at any of those polls prevented from voting for the officers of his choice of candidates of his choice You saw no one pre vented from voting for the candidate of his choice? A. I did not. J. S. Miller, sworn by the contestants examined in chief by Mr. Striekler, testified as fol lows: Q. Where did you reside ou the 4th of November, lo'JO this year? a., yis North 19th street, Omaha, Douglas county, Nebraska. The defendants made the same ob jection as to the testimony of Mr. Prugh. Over-ruled and excepted. Q. How long have you lived in Oma ha? A. Three years. Q. In what ward? A. In the 8th ward. O. Are vou a voter in that ward? A. I am. Q. In what district? A. The 4th. O.. Were vou at the polls on . election day? A. I was. . Q. Did you, see any efforts made to take tickets away from persons? ... A. Not in the 4th district. I did at the other two polling places on Cuming street just west of 24th. Q. In what ward? A. The 8th ward. Q. I will ask you to leoic at this map and state the numbers of those two dis tricta. A. I do not know whether 1 can or not. O. If vou can. A. I voted at the cor ner of Cuminsr and 23rd street, that is in the 4th district. O. And then vou went up to Cuming street, west of Twentv-fourth? A. Yes . - sir. Q- That would be the first and sec ond district. A. Yes of the eighth ward. Q. State what you saw with reference to those two districts. A. I saw the tickets taken away from the men wno were peddling tickets for the amend mnt? saw thena taken awav from them and destroyed, torn up and tnrown into the ditch: sometimes they took a half dozen at a time, and sometimes more; and sometimes they would go into their nnckets and take them from tnem, out thev would ffo awav and come back with more, and they would take them again and destroy them Q. Do you know who it was that took those tickets away from those persons? A : No sir. Q. Do you remember whether any of those parties that committed those as saults wore personal rights league badges? A. I would not say as to that; I testified yesterday that I did not see any personal rights badges on perse ns at the noils, but I have thought of it since, that I did, but whether these parties took the tickets had badges or not, I do not remember. O. Did vou see those parties wearing i personal rignts images lamug any pat b of'at all In thef j demonstrations? A. Xes Q. What did you see them do? A. I saw them In the crowdvthat was gather ed around those men that were peddling these prohibition tickets. In the first place there were four or five. of the men witn these tickets there; sometimes their attention would be paid to one and then .to another. First one and then another would gather around them and crowd them into the street, put eggs in their pockets, get some men up near to them and push them, t nd the men would hit the pocket with the egg in it and break the egg and it would ru n down in their pocket, and finally they threatened them and drove them away from the polls, and would not al low them to be near the polling place; they kept them away. Finally they got the in back against two of them back against the side of a house, one side, and then the eggs began to fly. Eggs were thrown. I did not see any eggs hit any man, but they would strike the sides' of the building and drop on them, and one of them leaned against an elec tric wire post, and the eggs would strike the post and drop down on their heads and coats. Q. Those eggs were thrown by the mob that was there? A. They were thrown by the crowd. . 4 Q. How many people were gathered around the polling place?. A. I would think it would vary from 150 to 500. Q. Do you know who those men fa vored for governor, from what you saw and heard?. A. It would be impossible to say what man or men were actively engaged in these outrageous nets, fa vored for governor; there was a large number of tnem about the polls that were wearing the Boyd badges. I osaw no other badges of any political party outside of those personal rights league. . , Q. State whether or not those per sons wearing the Boyd badges took any part in. thos-demonstration??; A. Yes sir. , . - Q. Did you see any persons who were handling the Boyd tickets . deprived of their tickets and subjected to this treat; ment? "- A. I would not sav that. I do not wish to be misunderstood, that all the men that wore Boyd badges participat ed in this outrageous conduct, but some of them did. Q. Did you see the police arrest any of these parties who threw those eggs? A, I did not see them arrest auybouy. Q. Frem what vou saw at that pre cinct, what do you say as to whether the police were in sympathy with, that mob? A. I would . say that the police were in sympathy, or must have been in sym pathy, or they would have prevented any such couduct. ," U. 1 will ask you to state whetner or not they subjected you to any indigni ties that day? A. No, .not particularly, only after I became somewhat angry at the conduct at the polls, I thought it was an imposi tion upon our rights of franchise, and I remonstrated with some of them. They seemed to get an idea that I was favora ble to the amendment, and I told them I was not, and had not been They then put some eggs into my overcoat pocket, but they did not any of them seem inclined to break them. Q. They filled your pot ket up with . A. lney put a couple ot eggs into my pocket. Q. Do you know the parties ' that did that? A, I have my supposition, but do not know. O. Is not it true that Bovd was re garded as a candidate for the anti-pro - hibitionists in the city of Uinaha? A. 1 guess it was not only understood so in the city of Oniaha, but everywhere else. That was the fight that was " made in Omaha against Richards; it was that he would not j lace himself, square before the people on that issue. Q. Have you not before stated how L vou voted on that prohibition question? Q. State it. A. I voted the straight republican ticket and against the amendment - ' Q. You were not at the polls that day in the interests of prohibitiQn? A. No sir. . . Q, Wrhat impression was made upon your, mind by the aeis that you wit nessed -.hat day, with reference to its being a free and fair election! A. I think it was Objected to. Q. What have you to say as to whether or not that "was a free and fair election at thosejuo precinets? Objected to. . A. So far as the election or vote was concerned, 1 saw no one interfered with in their right to vote, but as far as being allowed to ex press their opin ion upon that one" subject of amendment, it was ceri.nnly attempted on the part of peopl - there to prevent it, suppressing anything, of the kind, the mot disgusting thing-' 1 ever wit nessed in my lite. . Q. Is it not true that the men were working x'or Boyd were also working against prohibition? A I think that would be a foregone conclusion, they were. Q. Did ou, or did you not state that if ydu had seen the e occurrences be fore you voted, that you would have voted for prohibition? A Yes. I would, Q. Is that a fact? A. It is t fact, and if I had had to vote again that day, I would have voted for the amendment, just on account of this conduct. Q. What business are you engaged in in Omaha? A. I am a lawyer. Q. How leng have you'practiced law? A. From 20 to 25 years. CHOSS EXAMINATION By Mr. Harwood. Q. In Omaha, among all classes of men, business men in particular, - there was a very strong sentiment against prohibition was there not? A. Yes sir, very radical. Q. It was felt as violating the in terests of Omaha to favor that question? A. Yes sir. Q This feeling permeated all classes of people? A. Yes sir. Q. Republicans as well as democrats and independents were strong anti prohibi.ionists? A , Yes, as a rule. Q. The vote there showed that? A. Yes sir. Q. And whatever excitement there was at the polls on election tuy grew out of that question? A. No doubt about that. The people of Omaba had this impression, that to adopt the con stitutional amendment was going to be a great damage to the city, and we : were opposed to it, and we fuather had the impression that throughout the : state, outside of the large towns, that the amendment would carry and that that it would depend largely upon the majority in Omaha for its defeat." Q. Strenous efforts were made among all classes of men who were opposed to it, to get out a full rote and mate a ma jority as large aa possiple. A. Yes sir. Q. So far as you know and ob erved on that day, the election ticket for city officers was free, fair and open? A. I saw nothing to the contrary. Q. You say no tone prerented you from voting for Powers or any other nandidfttnf A. Thftv did not. and I want to say here that there was Uss disoussion ox candidates at tne pons oi any election that I ever saw. The only demonstrations that were made at the polls at all, by any of the workers, were generally demoorats and they were enthusiastlo supporters of Boyd; that is all, I saw no other demonstra tions. Q. This crowd that you speak of at his district, the first and second district of the Eighth ward, was not real vicious, was it; you saw nobody injured? It was more a rollicking, making it un comfortable for the men working for prohibition, than otherwise? A. The men peddling prohibition tiokets were in dead earnest. Q. And these tickets that they were peddling were generally tickets that had for the prohibition amendment? A. Yes sir. Q. They did not have on them "For and Against?" A. No, just one kind of tickets. Q. Did you hear any discussion there, as to whether that was a legal ballot? A. Yes, I heard a good deal ofi- Q. . And a good deal of the difficulty grew out of that fact, did it not? A. No sir, that part of it was generally carried on by -the more respectable class of men who were trying to per suade those parties not to use their tickets, but without violence. Ther was only one that I saw at the polls, who argued the question at all with them, and tried to persuade him that his tickets were fraudulent, that it was not a lawful . ticket because especially so far as the democratic ticket was con cerned, because the democratic party had voted a resolution against tho amendment; therefore they contended that the democratic ticket that had ou it "For the Amendment" was a fraudu lent ticket; it was being used for the purpose of deceiving the voters. There was a good deal of that disoussion, and all that discussion was quietly conduct ed. There was no violence on the part of the men. Q. These men that were peddling the amendment ticketf then, had on them for Governor Boyd as well as Poweis, uicnaras ana rainer a. xes, tney nau all the tickets. Q. And these tickets that you saw. these ballots that you saw destroyed were promiscuously tickets witn Boyd s name on as well as others? A. It was the amendment clause that they want ed to get rid of. Q. You saw no one injured there? A. No, no other than the throwing of eggs. U. xou did not see any one nit with the eggs? A. I did not see them hit; 1 saw the eggs break on the side of the building and drop down. Q. If it was, a very vioious erowd, they would haver thrown the eggs at the individuals? A. It would bate been a difficult matter to have thrown the eggs at an individual, because there was such a crowd, but they got up against the building, evidently for fear of violenee, and they thlew the eggs up there and let them drop down on them. U. Did teese amendment people stay there all day? , A. I do not know. I staid as long as I could and went home. How long did you stay? A. Until about half past eleven o clock; I was afraid that I might get into trouble and went away. Q You did not leave because you had any fears of violence? No sir, only I did not want to see any more of it; I was afraid I might get Into trouble. . Q. You were afraid you might lose your temper. Mr. Stnckier, did yoii see any challengers at either of these precincts? A. I do not think I did. I do not remember now of seeing a sin gle challenger or hearing a single chal lenge. Q. Do you think it would have been safe for a man to have challenged an anti-prohibition vote at either of those precincts. A. No, I do not. I heard threats to that effect. I heard some men say something about challenging; some one came up to one of those men and asked him if he was there for that purpose, and he said he was not, but was there simply to peddle his tickets, to give every mna a rightto vote; them that wanted to, and the fellow ripped out an oath and sayst "I would like to see a man challenge my vote. I would be d d if I would not smash his head, if a prohibitionist challenge my vote." I heard several threats of that kind, and tried to reason with the men, that, that would not be a proper thing to do. I told them if I was an American citizen, born and raised in this country, and a man wanted to challenge my vote, he had the right to do so, and I had my remedy to swear it in. Q. Did they make any reply to that? A. I cannot give the exact language of the reply, but it was to the effect that it was all right for anything else but by these prohibitionists. Q. But as a matter of fact you did not see anybody challenged in votes? A. No sir, I did not. 1 Q. Nor did you see the police make any arrests at all that day? A. I did not. Mb. Harwood: Q. The difficulty with challenging there would not be because it was a challenge of a Boyd vote, but because the challenge might be made by a prohibitionist on a vote that was against prohibition and against the amendment A. The man that made the strongest effort of that kind was a republican. Newton J. Smith Sworn for the contestants, examined in chief by Mr. Striekler testified as follows: Q. Where did you reside on the 4th of November of this year? A. Tenth and Bancroft htreets,' Omaha, Douglas county, Nebraska. Q. How long have you resided in Omaha? A. Between three and four years Q. In what ward of that e-tv do ou reside? A. In the first ward. ' , Q. Are you a qualified oter in that city? A. Yes sir. Q. In what district of the First ward ? A. Fifth district. Q. Did you vote at the election held in that city on tho 24th day of Novem ber? A. Yes sir. The contestees object"! o the testimony