Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-03
THE EXPOSURE
OF Liberal" Frauds Still
Going On. 5
P. V. JUNCTION C0LONIZERs
Furnished with Cigars and Whisky.
While Registering.
THE PEOPLE ARE ON TO THE
LIBERAL" GAME.
And Uncover the Gigantic Pho, I'm
Good style.
P. V. JUNCTION COLONIzERs
THE PEOPLE ARE ON TO THE
LIBERAL" GAME,
And Uncover the Gigantic Plot I'm
Good style.

: The "Dibersl' managers are get
ting Wild. They have been fairly
caught in their robbery scheme.
The careful and persistent efforts
made by the Peoples party have re-
/ suited in uncovering at least por-
: ton Of the method, by which the
''Liberals' were so confident that
they could steal the city election,
and the exposure is making the par
ty OF fraud less hopeful Of thesuccess
Of its villainous plans.
We have before stated the fact
that after the hopse TO house can
vass in this city by the registrars,
and while the list, were closed to
bona fde residents of the city, n spe-
eial train was run over the R.G.W. as
far as the Colorado linz, stopping
on the way and registering work
men along the line as voters in Salt
Lake City. Conductor Lamb
and Engineer Burrows, with engine
No. 90, took the special out with
those who were doing lie alleged
registration. Many Of the names
thus obtained were placed on the
list OF the Second Precinct by Reg
istrar Clute, who was rewarded by
nomination for assessor and collector
on the ''Liberil' ticket. So COM
pletely was this part Of the bust
ness done that even Engineer Bur-
rows name was listed in the Sec
ond Precinct though his residence !
is I'm tho Third - the Sixteenth |
Ward.
As a sample Of gathering in the
P.V. junction dvoters, (" the follow
ing affidavit affords interesting read
ing:
TERnIroRr OF UTAH. q.
County OF Salt Lake.
William Gerard, being duly sworn
deposes and says that during the
NORTH Of Ueccr.iter he, wss working
along the line OF the DENVER a Rio
Grande Western Railroad between
Price Canyon and Pleasant Valley
junction. That the foreman Of the
gang In which aftlsnt worked WIS one
Harry Goss, an employe Of said rail-
road company. That on or about De-
cember 2Oth, and about O'Clock in the
afternoon, while affiant was working
about three miles east of Castle Gate. a
locomotive engine with a single pas
senger coach passed where affiant was
working, and On the following morn
ing, about o'clock, the safiio car re-
turned and stopped at the place where
afiiant was working and remained
about an hour. ira. there were work
Ing in the saIiie gang with him about
fifty or sixty men. That most of the
men in said gang, including affiant,
entered said car when ii stopped and
signed affidavits similar to or identical
with the one this day inspected by ain
ant, and which purports to be an all
davit for registration as voter. That
affiant heard one Of the gang speaking
TO said Harry Goss, 10 which Goss an
swered, go ahead. and We VIII stand
the responsibility That when afliant
signed said affidavit he was only asked
to give his age and the place Of his
birth. That afIiant did not, at that
time aud place, ask To be registered,
but was directed by the person who
asked his name and place OF birth 10
sign the affidavit or paper presented 10
him. That there were two men filling
out and presenting the afiidavits for
signature, and another man in the car
who gave each Of the men who signed
whisky to drink. And affiant further
says that he never, at any time, signed
any affidavit or oath for registration N !
the city o, Salt Lake, and that he did,
and was not requested to hold up his
hand and swear to the affidavit signed !
by him as aforesaid, nor did he affirm |
to the same. That he did not see or
hear any oath or affirmation admin
istered TO any Of the men in said car.
WILLIAM GERHARD.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me
this 2ith day Of January, 1880.
RICHARD W. YOUNG,
Notary Public.
With such showing, If il could
have been kept under cover and
operated, no wonder the Liberals"
were confident Of success. But the
Peoples men were not idle /
all this time, as will be made
to appear later on, for they /.
were taking in the proceedings and
jotting down notes Of what trans
pired. The foregoing is only a sam
pie II what occurred at p. V. juno
ton and other places. Here is an
other that the "Liberals'' won't ,
like, but which they have to admit
is true:
TERRITORY OF UTAH,
County Of salt Lake,
James Thomas Jones, being duly
sworn, SAYS that have been working ,
along the main line OF the ID. & r. G.
Railway and on the Schofeld branch
Of said railroad since the 9Th day Of
1859; that about the middle
Of December, 1889, / was at the "Hale"
switch on the aforesaid Schofield g.
branch; that between six and seven
pm. was on the dining car OF the ,
train when the time
keeper came in and said / was wanted
outside. / asked him what it Was for,
aud he said il was to register; the
was called Pat; / do not
know his last name; he has lost his
right hand; i went out and saw an
engine and pRssengercar on the main
track; the timekeeper told me TO go
into the car and register; went in and
saw a car nearly full Of men standing
in a line, going in one door and out OF
the other; fell in line with the rest;
there was a man dealing out cigars and r
to every man present who
desired Il: tho man gave me a cigar
and did not pay for il, nor did see
anyone else pay for cigars or liquor
TO him; there wore two men in the car J
who, 1 understood, were registering; | /,
one Of these asked me IL WAS cili-
zen Of the United States; he asked me ,
Fort Madison, Iowa; he did not ask '
me how long / had been in the Terri
tory; the first question he asked me
was, where do you make your home
in Salt Lake City? told him that a. n
general thing | stayed at the White
House; he did not ask me IL / had |
lived in any precinct of Salt Lake !
City for one month; he did not ask me
TO take any oath, nor did he read any ,
TO me, but he did ask me to sign my (
name to a paper he had there. but OF
which paper / do not know the con-
tents; j saw other men signing their
names there at the same time; the
man who asked me the above cues )
lions was of slight build, not very /
tall, with a dark mustache; j heard ,,
ene man named Mike Petersen, and
other men whose surnames do not
afterwards say they were
registered to vote in Salt Lake City.
| first came TO Utah Territory in Oc-
.ober, 1889, and ] had never been in /
The Territory before, except once ten ,
Or eleven years ago as passenger on
! through train. II has been general
ak along the line OF the D. & r. G.
W. that a registration car had been
DOWN the road and tina, a great many
men were registered.
Subscribed aud sworn 70 before me
his 10th day Of January. 1880. \
J. T. JONES.
Richard W. Young, Notary Public. .
This also Is a little more Of the 7