The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-07
Case Being Considered by the
Committee.
HAS FRAUD BEEN ATTEMPTED ?
The Contestant Makes trong Show
ing, Which May be Weakened
When Carlisle Responds
Thoebs Carlisle

Il
The contestant, Thosbe, was present
with his counsel, Messrs. Sypher and
Steyer of this city. No one formally
represented the Speaker.
Sypher began the presentation OF the
Thoebe case, taking up hrst the brief
already submitted with the record
which assumes as the basis Of the case
that the State election laws were VIo-
lated in the appointment of judges OF
election. This ipfraction OF the law. he
asserted, was sufficient to warrant
favorable consideration OF Tnoebes
claim, but if committee dld not
agree in this view, he was prepared TO
present evidence to satisfy them OF his
clients election. The record alone
would not reveal the facts In the case,
and it was the autysot the commlttee
to ascertain the facts. Important
papers had been destroyed as he could
prove by attidaVlts.
Taking up the details of the
case, Sypher said that on the
night of the election it became apparent
to the Judges OF electionI at COIng OF
that Carlisle had been defeated by more
than 1000 votes. ct l o'clock they
SAINT for Carlisle and brought him to
the house of a friend. He (Sypher(
could give the name of the friend and
the location of his house but would
not do so unless the committee urged
him, as he did not wish to state all ne
knew at this stage of the case. Alter
consulting with Carlisle, they tele-
.graphed TO have the returns OF outside
counties withheld.
WHO are sthey'?" inquired Heard.
"TheyP why friends OF Carlisle" re,
piled Sypher. He said it was a TACT
that the returns of six outlying counties
were withheld for five days, and Car
Isle had publicly confessed that he was
defeated.
~You do not attach any Importance
to this peint2" suggested Heard.
mo, 1 just mention it," replied
Hayes, think, confessed his defeat
at first" said Heard
yes" replied Sypher, land I think
he ought to have stuck to it." Sypher
said that in seven or eight precincts OF
Carroll County, the poll books were
written, signed and certified as to all the
names in one handwriting, and 1t was
evident that all must have been written
in the election by one man, as he could
not have been in all the precincts at
once OH 6l6CblOA 10y pl1CI AOAo AOGN
an affidavit of John J. Pierce. Pierce
tells that the signatures on the poll
books were in one hand, "a peculiar
hand.n while the signatures of election
officers were in different handwriting
The counsel said that Carlisle mad failed
of election through neglect. In some
precincts no tickets were printed until
3 O'Clock, and there was virtually no
election in 81 me precincts. In one case
only three judges voted, two for Car
Isle and one for Thoebe. In Boone
County 200 votes were cast on election
day, but the returns finally showed
567 votes, In Carroll County there was
practically no election. He could show
that voters had failed to go to the pelis
on election day, but when they found
that Carlisle had been defeated they
voted next day. Not only was this the
case in Carroll County, but in every one
of the outlying counties. Sypher quoted
from statement by ]. j. tlakely, who
was, he said, prominent Democrat
and an attorney OF Covington, to the
effect that twenty-four names appeared
to have been added to the names on
one of the poll books, after the sigma
lures of the judges had been affixed.
After the election. seven of CarllSle's
friends met and sent for Col. W. r.
Nelson. They told him that Carlisle had
been defeated, and wanted him to assist
in devising some means OF changing the
result. Thereupou Colonel Nelson left,
declaring he would take no part. Gar
Isle dare not contradict this gentle
man." said Sypher. Counsel next took
M an affidafit by the contestant to the
effect that Carlisle's friends had cor
rupted his (Thoebe's) attorney, and in
duced him to abandon the case and
suppress the testimony. Sypher said
that they had been given the name OF
q man who had purchased the attorney
(Wood). and if their inf rmant told the
truth, that man was CarlisIe's relative.
TIE price named for Wood was $3.50.
Touching Carlisle's refusal to Join him
in taking testimony, Sypher remarked:
"He did not dare meet me; he dare not
go now into that district and take testl
mony."
where he accuses Wood of delaying the
taking of testimony, and with telling
him (Thoebe) there might be money in
it for both of them, if he would with
draw from the confess Sypher declares
there was enough evidence in his brief
to warrant the committee in seating his
client, but if it did not think SO,
certainly Cner6 was aC leaSC Sum-
Gent ground for re.opening of the
case. With what is he (Carlisle)
here before committee? Nothing, not
even certificate of election. Either he
knows he has no case, or be is going to
throw himself upon the mercy of the
court. In conclusion, he told the COM
mittee that it was known to those in
terested that both of the old parties
had been ooquetting with the indus
trIal party, both seeking its votes for
the next campaign, and the committee
could not afford to refuse to investigate
the claims of this workingman (Thoebe)
in face of the disclosures he had made
to the committee.
The contestant, Tbebe, next made
statement to the committee. He said
he was born in the same county
with the speaker, and was 40 yeats OF