The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12
A SHAMELESS PAPER.

We invite any Liberal to tell the public
what this stuff means:
And one reason our contemporary and its
friends are so particularly bitter about the cleo
ton management of the ward in which
ALLEN was one of the judges is
that an impor. ed fim-fammer in that
ward, imported by the Peoples party, for
some reason did not do his work well
Who was this Slim Hammer imported
by the Peoples party" into the Twentieth
ward! Does the apologize sheet mean that
ALLEN did not do his work weIl AND is it
0razen enough to say that he was in the
service of the Peoples party
Notwithstanding that the Twentieth
ward scandal is fresh in the public mind
the Liberal organ already begins its vague
and shameless intimations that the fraud
lay with the Peoples party, Just as it as
serted that the Peoples party had run the
special registration train and had registered
Liberals all the way to Colorado. But it
forgot to state that the names thus regis
tered were found upon the books of the
Liberal registrars, and it now presumes
upon the stupidity of its readers so far az
to intimate that the ''flim-famminpn at the
last election was not Liberal affair at all
1t IS worth while, therefore, to print
again few scraps of the court testimony
in the case referred to:
B. T. THoRNBURG was the first witness called
by the prosecution. He testifed-I went IN the
Fourth precinct to vote on the school election
in July last. When l went I'D to the window
ALLEN was holding ballot in his right hand
and he took my ballot with his left. He held
my ballot up for an instant and then dronned
his hand down behind the box so that T
couldn seelt don't know what became of II
To Mr. DICRSoN-I had never seen ALIEN
before that time, and he did not know which
political party belonged to. voted the peo-
pies ticket that time.
D. L. MURDOCH teStified-I acted as Judge Of
election of poll /, Fourth pricinct at the cleo.
ton in question. ALLEN was there in tho
morning and anged the arrangements at nou
to suit his ideas. objected to this 10 Jpdge
HoGE
H, S. MCCALLUM testf1ed-I was chairman of
the Liberal committee in July last. and
recommended all the judges Of election for an
pointment
GEORGE E, BLAIR testified was acting as
checker IN Poll in the Fourth precinct at the
election in question. In the morning exam.
that there was quite difference between them
was able TO distinguish the Peoples ticket
from the Liberal. In the morning saw Mr..
PUZEY come to the window and offer his ballot
Mr.. GRIswoLD challenged his vote, and ALLEN
laid PUzEY's ballot by some on the table. When
the challenge was overruled, ALLEN picked I'm
another ticket and put it in the box From its
appearance l think it was Liberal ticket that
he deposited. saw ALLEN make similar sinh
stitutions in two other instances. I called Mr.
JACOBS attention to the matter, he being the
challenger for the Peoples party L cannot say
that there We're more than six challenges exer-
cised by the Liberals at this poll while WAC
there.
riley D. WINTERS testifed-I was at tho
Fourth precinct on the day of the school eJec
ton. When voter came to poll 2 ALLEN in
variably took the ballot with his left hand. and
ne invariably held another ballet ia his right |
hand. In two instances saw him substitute |
ballots for those handed to him by voters. Three
days after the election ALLEN told me that ne |
had changed seventy five ballots that day. On |
another occasion he said: II wonder what BRIG |
HAMPTON would say if he knew he voted Lib |
eral ticket?' ] said that BRIG HAMPTON did not
vote Liberal ticket. ''Oh, yes he did. ;, re |
Piled ALLEN-"That is. 1 voted for him.
The last witness here quoted was a |
Liberal and former registrar.
Now what must the readers think of the |
shameless sheet that already dares to talk as
Il these evidences of fraud fastened the
guilt upon his opponents! To be sure the
Jury brought in verdict of not guilty, and
the Tribune seems to think this proves his
accusers guilty of the charge upon which
ne so narrowly escaped conviction.