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that they att°I put large were In this we find Mr. T. othercaj^dMiate^Jjywriting: my °wg°n THE LABOR WORLD AN APPEAL To the Voters of the Seventh Ward of the CITY OF DULUTM. As a candidate for the position of alderman of the Seventh Ward, I desire to make the following statement: There was circulated for me in the Seventh Ward, a petition calling upon me to become an independent candidate for alderman in the Seventh Ward. There were signed to this petition 234 names of voters. After about 225 had been signed to my petition, I, in company with Mr. M. M. Clark, saw L. A. Gunderson who was then preparing to circulate a petition as the league candidate for alderman and it was distinctly agreed be tween Mr. Gunderson and myself, that he would not obtain any signatures of parties to his petition that had signed mine for the reason that if any parties signed both petitions, they would have to be stricken off of both by the city clerk. Mr. Gunderson stated at the time that he knew what the law was on the subject and that he would not allow any parties who had signed my petition to sign his, but would refuse positively to let them sign. Knowing that I had far m9re than the required per cent of voiers on my petition I relied fully upon Mr. Gunderson's word and made no effort to obtain any other signatures, bi:t more. Notwithstanding this positive agreement with Mr. Gunderson and his doubly emphasized declara* tion that he would not permit any one to sign his petition who had signed n*ine, he obtained forty-six names to his petition who had already signed mine. He violated his plighted word in the most dishonorable way by urging a number of parties who had already signed my petition, to sign his, even after they had stated to him they had signed mine. And these parties have informed me and my friends, that Mr. Gunder son stated to them that it made no difference if they had signed my petition it would be all right for them to sign his. By this method of misrepresentation to the parties who had signed my petition,* he obtained the signatures of forty-six of my signers. It had appeared after an inspection of all the signers to my peti tion that out of the number that signed, twenty-eight of them had never procured not legal voters at the time they signed my petition. Deducting these twenty-eight names from the 234, we have left 206 names. But by reason of Mr. Gunderson obtaining these 46 names that had signed my petition they under the law had to be stricken from my petition and I was then left with only 160 names that would count, whereas the law required ten per cent of the votes cast at the last election, which amounted'to 173. I have now recited the first act in the campaign which is played by Mr. Gunderson as the leading star. We will now proceed to state the facts as they appear in the second act. SECOND ACT. by proxy, and his proxy is no less a person than Moses Perrault, Esq., father-in-law of said Himebaugh. Messrs. Gunderson and Himebaugh had. come to the conclusion that if my name official ballot as one of the candidates for alderman, that'I would defeat them both, so they determined to resort to a legal technicality, and Mr. Perrault applied to the court upon affidavit the city clerk to show cause why my name should not be left off of the official ballot. When the matter came up in court it was found that the trick of Mr. Gunderson's worked like a charm, for after the^forty-six names were stricken off of my petition, that he had obtained to his, I was left short 13 names, and the court ordered the clerk not to put my name upon the official ballot. Mr. Perrault stated at the court house on the ^otli of January, in the presence of several parties that Mr. Himebaugh was not backing him m^this matter, ana that Mr. Himebaugh had told him not to go ahead upon his advice, but upon the advice of his (I errauit ej wonder any voter is so foolish as to believe that Mr. Himebaugh is not behind a tree father-in-law Perrault to "go ahead, but tell all the boys that it is Brigham that is advising you to do tnis and not T. C. Himebaugh, republican candidate for alderman." Now, fellow-voters of the Seventh Ward, I have made a straightforward, unvarnished statement ot tne facts, and I call upon you to rebuke such deep laid schemes. This is a free country, and every voter has the right to vote for whom he pleases for an office. Altnmign it is a fact that the city clerk cannot print my name upon the official ballot, my name under the names of Himebaugh and Guuderson, and the law says that if this is done the ballot shall be counted as for me. The law is as follows: "Any elector, if he desire, may write the name of any person in the blank space under the namesofca didates printed on any ticket, and this name so written shall be counted as balloted for whether a mark as °Xn other words, fellow-voters, you can all vote for me on next Tuesday by writing my name of Himebaugh and Gunderson, and if more of you vote for me than vote for either of the other I will be the next alderman from the Seventh Ward and they will have plotted all their"nice ^he^esi I call upon you in the name of fair play and common decency to rebuke the dishonorable tactics of yQU ta^e yGur next Tuesday, be sure that you write in a plain band under the names of Himebaugh and Gunderson, J. Richardson. Yours truly, C. Himebaugh, republican candidate, the leading star, playing the brilliant part little ballot and did their was and e\ery 13 cLt mi eight or ten second papers, so printed upon tne obtained an order on voter has a 8®15U^I1S%^ nght to wr t^ and8Gunderton1Ira ira j. richa: