Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-11-24
FALLS FRAUDS |
How a Partisan Judge Carried q
County.
DETAILS OF tn. CRIME.

Eiitor- titis.n!
Las Cruces. Nov II To commence
with, ,o I've eur, " success. the demo-
Gratis of this county hal the county com.
mipsion,rp apIsint three democrats NJ
registrars ~ each board of registration. |
Thrr. haris wen, 90 far ~ Ia M, PERM,
the name ~ = citizen To- I've Registered un.
lrss the Irrson "r p,rsuns appeared be.
fore them, and m several cases oil citi.
Gems who h 4 voted for years, which the
former registration showed. were denied
the right Ia r'glrt-r b-cause they were
rrpahlic- NJ, AMI until the la-, dave, no
citizen, unless h. was democrat, was
allowed the right H. examine the Gs,kr ~
registration. TN the other hand, when n
d-m,rrat cSm- Ia with lie, ~ twenty ~
thirty nnIuer, they were registered.
whether they w"r' ciiiLrns ~ not
rw,n,y one wurkm-n of the ~ poru
smelling Co. al NJ PAsn, Trxar, WERE
Registered IN precinct NJ. 3, Las Cruces.
These, Il ~ believed. were FURNISHED with
-rtiirat-s after III, tp,ard II registration
hal rlu--,i. and vo,,d IN other pr-rlncts
In thus way u"t lrHs than 100 ,IIrgri vo,rS
w,rr cart Tor the demo, rate party
Throughout, the county They wrrr morr
liberal ~ appointing juig"r, giving ne
one out 1T the three, but always sure t.
apIu,int one ot our candidates ~ unr ~
our hest workers, In precinct n" 3,
candidate on the republican tck-t ~
fused tu serve ar judge, I" Nil VI" VA.
cnncy MIR Iurru and Mr. G.ris wrr
nominated The ballot Ht-d ~ for Cur.
rem AMI Is Tor Garcia, bu; Ia spite uf thir.
the iu.l yrs ~ election declared 81 GAR
cin, democrat, elected In precinct 10 the
books " registration were reported lnr,
or stolen. and wrr. not found until after
| 10 o'clock They had been placed 10y
some one in Mr. loung's desk in his law
office. and thu lrk II the desk hal tn he
bruken to secure the hookp; after which
the voting went on quietly aud in gosi
order.
At about l o'clock = courier came in
from DrnA Ana precinct aud reported Ia
sheriff LohmAn that the ballot box had
been stolen and stuffed and that the p-o-
pie were rnrAg-d, wh-r~uInn MIR Lob.
man zen, one II his deputies To the scene
with Htric, Orders Ia maintain peace
Judge A. u. Fall, accompanied 10y Oliver
Lee. deputy United States marshal from
the Sacramento mountains. armed "a the
teeth, followed Mr.. Lohmsn's deputy :,
bona Ana. Judge Fall. after peace had
been restored 10y th. deputy sheriff, told
the Judges of election Ia put the stuffed
bsllo, box aside, open the polls aud allow
these Ia vote who had not voted in Ia,
morning and Ia put the votes In = sep
srat. box The Judges Of election. after
talking the matter over, agreed Ia pu
the stuffed box asii- and Ia r~turn unl,
the votes that would b. cast in III. after.
noon, Which s.r. -,.tnrr.d Nv III. thr,..
Judges. and resulted in 10 majnrity foI
the democratic. But az republican ma,
joriter were coming IN from all over tn,
county tue Two democratic Judges at Dns
Ana we're induced Ia return the stuiis
hox in order that their candidate foi
sheriff might I've counted in. In III.
morning It was generally understood
among the democrats not Ia vote until
III. afternoon. and II possible, let the r-.
pullicAna get al their votes in before
| Il. II, - A
gu, Of which - were republican and "a
demo cratic. Had not the ballot tox been
stolen and stuffed with democratic
tickets the rerul, in tba, precinct would
have been njnri,y fer the republicans.
-leciing Nuua Raymond sheriff by n ina.
jori,y IL ~, and the whole ticket by
over 1850 X
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