The Arizona champion., 1884-10-25
County Recorder Carter's Re. ly.
PRtsColT, Ger. 2I, 1884.

hot ho" " DSPu'y NSSoiuS' O' tHis county, under or by any appointment from me, and, therefore, had no au. thority to register any person as Dep uty County Recorder. When you know the above facts you will see that 1 had no choice but to refuse to re. ceive and enter such names on the great register.
 Please publish this in justice to me, could give you some of the inside history of this registration list, but
 Very Respectfully Yours,
 H. H. CARTER,
 County Recorder.
 We cheerfully publish the above explanation from our County Re. corder, but we are not yet satisfied with hls action Tn the matter. We desire to make statement, which we get direct from those present on the different occasions when th.s matter oi registration was under discussion. About August Ist, last, which was be- fore | he Democratic convention, Nc Cauley was appointed by the Board Supervisors as registering officer for Copper Basin. About two weeks af- ter the appointment Mir. McCauley 7 was in Prescott, and knowing there were number of voters residing be- tween Copper Basin and Prescott, he went to the court house and meeting Mike Lawler, Deputy Sheriff, in the hallway, made known to him what he wanted to do, inquiring of Lawler II he thought Recorder Carter would grant the request. Lawler replied: "We'll go in and see Carter" They both went into the Recorders office, and the matter was explained to MT. Carter. "I'll fix that," replied Mir. Carter; "take off your hat and hold up your hand" The Deputy Re. cordership oath was administered to MT. McCauley, when Mir. Carter re- phed, You can now go and register voters wherever you can find them. " On this authority, and this alone, MT, McCaulev performed the duties of registering officer. Alter MT, Carter had refused 10 receive the names given m by Mir. McCauley, that gentleman, Tn company with w. C. Dawes and others, met MT. Carter on the side walk, near his residence, and the cir. oumstances, as related above, were ad- mi,ted to be true by MT. Carter. as those present can be brought to bear witness, and Mir. Lawler and Mir. Me Cauley are willing to testify as to what transpired in the Recorders of. flee.
 So far as Flagstaff precinct is con. cerned, we know McCauley registered no one but legal voters, and oI those on the list any one of them will answer d telegram to that effect. And fur ther, we have the statements of a large number of those registered here ny MT. McCauley, that he never asked them the question whether they were Democrats or Republicans, and there are more Republicans than Demo- crats on the list obtained here.
 The whole matter comes from a letter written by James A. Marshall, registering officer at this place, to the Board O! Supervisors, probably pro- nouncing Mir. McCauley's list fraud, or a repetition of his list, which we know to be false. Mir. Marshall's un- heard of stay in Prescott, when he had such important duties to perform as registering officer here at home. and our citizens knowing there were a number not registered, became anx- louS, as the time was drawing near when the registering of voters would be closed. Letters were sent 10 Prescott to that effect, and the re- suit was MT. McCauley coming on the road. We give these details as we heard them.