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1 Maryland Contested Election - Harrison vs. Davis. Memorial of William G. Harrison, Containing the Election of the Hon. H. Winter Davis, of the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland 1860

handle is hein.trials/aaxe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 36TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mis. Doc. 1st Session. f No. 4. MARYLAND CONTESTED ELECTION-HARRISON vs. DAVIS. MEM ORIAL OF WILLIAM G. HARRISON, cON TESTING The election of the Hon. H. Winter Davis, of the fourth congressional district of Maryland. F=RuARY 9, 1860.-Refeared to the Committee on Elections, and ordered to be printed. To tke honorabe the House of Representatiue of the Congress of the United States: The memorial of William G. Harrison respectfully represents : That at the late election for members to represent the State of Maryland in the House of Represenatives for the present Congress, which election was held on the 2d of November, 1859, the Hon. H. Winter Davis and your memorialist were the only opposing candidates in the fourth congressional district of said State, which district comprises the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth wards of Baltimore city; that upon the returns of said election the. said H. Winter Davis has received a certificate of election from the governor of Maryland, and now holds a seat in your body by virtue. thereof. Your memorialist represents that said election was conducted in so lawless, fraudulent, and turbulent a manner, in all the warda com- prising said district, as to prevent an expression of the will of the legal voters; that a large proportion of the votes counted for the said H. Winter Davis were fraudulent; that the polls were taken possession of by organized bands of armed men, the political adhe- rents of the said H. Winter Davis, who, by force, prevented a large majority of the legal voters, who intended to vote for me, from approaching the polls to deposit their ballots. Your memorialist claims to be the choice of the majority of the legal voters in said district; but if he should fail to establish, by proof, his title to a seat

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