What is the state of the facts? Just think of it. A lawyer by the name of Bowles and another man by the name of Havens. respectable and intelligent men. took that alleged imbecile before Judge Blanehard. of the circuit court. in October. the month preceding this election. and signed as a witness and swore to the requisite certificate to get him naturalized. and the judge. Blanchard. administered the oath. and gave him his certificate of naturalization. These men who took him there were political friends of the contestant. Greenback Democrats. They knew him intimately and well. lived in the same town. and they took him before the judge of the circuit court and swore to the facts. and the judge administered the oath and naturalized him. and he received his certificate. and about a fortnight after that cast his vote. and no man in that township where he was so well known challenged his vote. He voted for the contestee. and that. I presume. they think is sufficient evidence of his insanity or imbecility. if ho had voted the other way contestantwould not perhaps have set up this claim. and he would have been held to be a sound and a sane man. Indeed. the witnesses who got him naturalized do not swear that he was an imbecile.
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