Author: United States Congress

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780267618859

Excerpt from Contested Election Case of Joseph A. Conry Vs. John A. Keliher, From the Ninth Congressional District of Massachusetts First. That by reason of your action or the action of those in your employ, or act. Ing in your behalf with your knowledge, the voters of said district, or a large num ber thereof, were deceived through the public press and in various other ways into the belief that a certain telegram emanating from the chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee personally indorsing the candidacy of the undersigned, Joseph A. Conry, was fictitious and published to deceive, and this you did person ally, or caused be done through those in your employ or acting with your knowledge and your instructions in your behalf, willfully and maliciously and fraudulently, and with intent thereby to deceive said voters by publishing or causing to be published in said public press a telegram purporting to have emanated from said chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee, which telegram in fact as published by you was never sent by said chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee or with his authority or the authority of any person rightfully acting for him or in his behalf, and was in fact never received by you or those in your employ or those acting in your behalf. Such action by you, or those in your employ, or those acting in your behalf, was fraudulent, misleading, dishonorable, and intended to corrupt the minds of the voters of said district, and to injure my candidacy, and did so injure it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.