Volume 15 , Issue 20

One Hundred Years Ago - 19 May 1913

One hundred years ago (May 19, 1913) this is what was happening in Blaine county, Oklahoma, as reported out of Washington, May 19, 1913, a lower court set aside indictment against Tom Mosley and Dan Hogan, when the case was appealed to the supreme court. It seems that these two election board members refused to count, return votes for certain precincts for representatives in congress.

The Tulsa World, newspaper dated 20 May 1913, reported, "Whether federal government forbids discrimination merely in regard to the physical act of casting the vote at congressional elections or also forbids discrimination in the counting and returning of the votes, was raised in the United States supreme court today by an appeal by the government from a decision of the federal courts of Oklahoma in an election case in the second Oklahoma district.

"The lower court set aside an indictment against Tom Mosley and Dan Hogan, the majority of the elections board in Blaine county, Oklahoma, because it merely charged them with conspiracy to refuse to count or return the votes for certain precincts for representatives in congress at the election last November."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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