The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-07


While the Tribune is throwing a.
cloud over ali the facts that are cen
hected with SaDpete election matters,
let the public gather the truth. as it
comes direct Since the truth regard
ing the returns can hurt no honest
man there is no good reason why The
following should not be published.
Some af1idavlts have been sent in,
among them one by MIR. Lewis Sven
sen, of Moroni, who under date OF
December oath. states the following:
s.On the 9Th Of November last was
acting as deputy. sheriff for Moroni
precinct, and was present at the time
Of counting the ballots cast for Dele
gates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton. AT one time while the judges
were comparing their tally sheets it
was found that Mons Monsen had en
his sheet three TALES in favor of the
Democratic candidates. David Bail
ey'E tally sheet not agreeing with
Monsen's caused the tellers of either
party to count their tallies and 1t was
found that they agreed with Bailey's
sheet. Finally Monson gave in to
Bailey and the tellers. saw Mr.,
Bailey repeatedly make mistakes anc
did call his attention to this fact, I
also observed tire tallying of Mr. Mon
son, but did not notice him make any
mistakes.
Here is another under same date.
Andrew Nelson states:
4 was at the polls on the night OF
November 9Th in Moroni precinct dur
ing the whole count of the ballots.
There was a tally
sheet kept by a Republican judge and
and one by a Democratic judge in
which they disagreed at different times
land Strengthened it UP the way they
thought was most apt TO be right. The
sheet of the Republican judge was SO
poorly arranged--or in other words the
count was sometimes tailed by fours,
hyes and sixes-that it was impossible
to make a correct total.
And here is still another. Mons Mon
son, one of the judges for Moroni pre-
cinct, states
Il acted as clerk of the election and
wrote down the names of everyone
that had right to cast theig ballots,
and also kept one
tally sheet-Mr. Bailey keeping the
other. During the count we compared
lists. but rarely did Mr.. Bailey's tallies
agree with mine At one of these
times it was found that Mr.. Bailey had
three more TALES to each of the Re
publican candidates than 1 did. I held
them off for ten or fifteen minutes,
claiming that L was Eight, and Thought
it best to count them over again, but
was overruled by the other judges in
this wise. When the dispute arose on
the three tallies it was referred TO the
checkers and challengers and they
agreed with Mr.. Bailey
and 1 conceded to the decision, though
not willingly but by odds being
against me. My reason for believing
that was right is that during the
count repeated changes were being
made by Mr.. Bailey in getting others
to tally for him.
J What makes the above of special in.
terest is the fact thar they were sent
in by Mr.. Bailey, the correctness OF
whose work is. in question They ought
to be sufficient to show that there is
just reason to complain OF irregulari
ties and discrepancies, and to lead tc
the conclusion that only by going tc
the ballot boxes, as the law provides
can the question of who was elected
IN Sanpete county be fairly and finally
determined