The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-30
PEOPLES TICKET
IDAHO DELEGATEsHIP.

Singiser, the Republican candidate for
Delegate to Congress in Idaho, is having
shout as rough a deal as even his most
bitter enemies could wish him. There
are very few ofenses known to the Grim
nal calendar which have not been laid
at his door, and the most of it is the
accusations are backed by the afida-
Wits of responsible men. The Idaho
papers are either filed with affidaVits
charging Mr.. Singiser with fraud,
drunkenness or swindling, or with long
denials of the allegations on the part Of
the candidate, Among the many affida-
Vits that are now being published is one
charging that Singiser proposed to lease
from Curtis Estes certain quartz mines,
It being understood that Estes and Sing
iser were to share equally the proceeds
from working the property; that Singiser
drew up the lease and read it to Estes, as
II it were drawn in accordance with the
verbal agreement; but that afterwards
Estes learned that Singiser had deceived
him, the lease as signed placing every
thing in the candidates hands, and
@nthorizing HIM "to appropriate to his
own use all the proceeds derived from
working said mines, and crushing or re-
ducing the ores in atlantis arastra"
Another affidavit is signed by Isaac
d. Bingham, who swears that in 1882,
when Singiser was candidate for cleo
ton 20 Congress, he (Bingham) was en-
Ployed by Singiser to take the poll
books OF junction precinct, Alturas
County, to the nominee, who with
OtheTs took 500 Republican tickets with
&Dgiser's name thereon, land erased
from large portion of the same thename
Of ]. H Harris, the Republican candi-
date for joint councilman, and inserted
IN lea thereof the name of Z. 4. Wall;
that 500 of these tickets were thus pre-
pared, and that thereupOn said Singiser,
Riley and Leonard prepared list of
bogus names corresponding with the
number OF tickets; that the tickets and
Inst thus prepared, with the poll books
we're, the morning Of election, returned
by said Singiser, Leonard and Riley to
tie house of O'COnner, the place where
he election was appointed to take place;
here being no box prepared for the re-
eepETon Of tickets, affiant made box
shout 219 feet long and cut hole in the
top thereof, near one end; that Singiser
with his own hands aided in putting the
bogus 500 tickets in the box; that at the
request Of SingiSer, Leonard and Riley,
and in their presence. af4iant nailed up
The box with the said bogus tickets
therein; that the box was then delivered
10 Thomas Hart, who at once an
Hounced the polls open and proceeded
with the election; that not to exceed $50
legal votes were cast at said precinct at
the November election for 1882, and vet
OxsT 100 were counted and returned as
Aaying been cast thereat; that said
Thomas Hart was induced to aid in
the fraud aforesaid by the payment of
money"
Another affidavit is so rich that it is
worth reproducing in full. It's as fol-
lows:
Territory OF Idaho,
County of Bear Lake. s.
Henry Bolton, being duly sworn. de-
poses and saws that he is a resident of
Bear Lake county, Idaho. That lust
previous 70 the election for Delegate to
Congress IN November, A D. 1882, he
rDr-pSpr,r oOr,,par, v.r;4I
leading Republicans in Paris. said
county. That one George Bigelow was
there rs an agent and representative of
The Republican party, and that said
George Bigelow stated it was his inten-
ton TO prosecute all polygamists that
voted at the election
Deponent further says that he heard
said Bigelow make Overtures to the lead
ing Republicans present. In effect as fol-
lows:
That if the polygamist Mormons
would cast their votes for I. T. Singiser,
the Republican nominee for Congress,
he would not challenge the votes, but If
they would not. and voted for George
Ainslie, the Democratic nominee, he
would challenge every vote and give
them ali the trouble ne could.
HENRY BOLTON.
cHDSCFlDeu anu SMOEH 10 DcLOAS uAC
this Both day of September, A. ID. 1884.
GEORGE OSMoND,
Probate Judge, Bear Lake county,
idaho. --.--.-..
There are other affidavits, to some of
which Singiser is attempting to reply,
but as Is too often the case with his
kind, the denial is simply confirmation.
The man has apparently been so oyeE-i
w9lelmed by these exposures of his |
irregularities and crookedness, that he |