Gregg Co. Tx 1889 Petition Submitted by Sharon Pierce, Elaine Martin Co-CC Gregg County TXGenWeb ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ 1889 Petition Longview, Texas, Feb. 11th, 1889 To the Hon. Cone Johnson, Senate, and Hon. R.B. Levy, Jr., H. Rep. Austin Texas Your petitioners and constituents would respectfully request that you use your influence in the Senate and House of Representatives in securing the passage of a law requiring the payment of a Poll Tax to be necessary before any voter can exercise the right of sufferage in this state. In support of the justice of this request will state that over six hundred voters were returned delinquent on Poll Tax by our collector for the year 1887, about one third of the total vote. Should anything like this ratio exist all over the state, the loss to the school fund is simply enormous, and an army of able bodied men are permitted to choose our officers, and are protected by our laws who do not contribute one cent to the expense of state, county, and municipal government. NAMES: (These are the actual signatures, some faded and some written poorly, and are transcribed to the best of our ability) T.E. Clemmons W. L. Butt J.R. Magrill Ed or EJ S***is G.W. Munden *.M. M*ttl** T.R. DeLoach C.W. Lawrence, MD A.F. O'Bryan, MD N.C. Ogilvie, Dentist Henry Simms J.T. Buttrill W.T. Cain E.S. Terry T.A. Flewellen F. Mearschalk R.T. Smith *.A. Womack W.G. Northcutt C.B. Cunningham L.*. Jarvis J.P. Cl******** *.*. Yates J.G. Nunnally J.E. Prothro Jno. S. Barr O.H. Poynes C.J. Luckett Mayfield & Luckett H.P. Carter E.E. Crain T.E. Durham J.M. Curvis B.*. Brown L.G. Calvin R.K. Walker M.F. Capps J.J. Flewellen J.H. Smeley *.*. Smith R.*. Brown John Harrison C.C. Morgan J.F. Christian *.*. McKinney W. Roe L.D. Stansbury *.*. Law B.F. Lewis B.L. Brown J.A. Lane Luther Davis E.L. Morrison G.J. Clark W.A. Williams T.C. Clark M. Rosenfield Isaac Gams *.*. Graybill J.C. Gurnet F.T. Rembert F.D. Cocke Hatch May A. Howard R.C. Hill *. Whatley A.S. Taylor R.A. ***tis R.B. McKain J.B. Whitney Thos. H. Taylor R.B. Ha**thon, MD Jno. T. Poe A.R. Ha**thon, MD W.F. Poe *.B. Hamilton G.S. Briekelus B.D. Marshall Rogers Whaley A.J. Robert F.L. Whaley M.M. Morris J.C. Lacy C.C. Hanks J.C. Howard W.F. Young J.M. Magrill F.B. Brown Jno. P. Singl** Jr S.C. Thomas R.S. Harris G.Z. Na**es These pages are each stamped "Reproduced From The Holdings Of The Texas State Archives" and were found in loose papers in the Genealogy Dept. of the Longview Library. This page was created by Sharon Pierce & Elaine Martin 8-18-2000. Copyright © 2000 by Sharon Pierce & Elaine Martin.