Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-05
RATHER MIXED UP.
WITNESSES PROM sASpErr.
Methods Employed In Making Up tht
Returns - Proceedings
Today, Lie.

closed yesterday afternoon judge
Bar,ch At once directed tuat the tule,
Prohibition Casts uU taken ny. Tao
feiltloncrs areragc, Larsen aud Jollcy,
or In the mandamus proceedings. III,
writ IL prayed Tor TO prevent the Utah
Commission from gciug to tho ballot
boxes or behind the tally sheets.
10 was moved by Attorney Zane thai
the same evidence Ia chief ne was given
In the maudamus cases bu applied Ia
this case.
Attorney T.. l.. Williams objected,
but the objection WAS ovorruloj and N,
evidence put In subject to an exception
by the defendants.
AmasA Alirllch was the nrst wit
ross called and IN reply to Attorney
John 81. Zane suii ho was the preslI q,
ing Judge o. election at Mount p.oa..
ant.
"Whht dld you 10 with tho ballot
boxes after the o.cclion was over aud
tho ualloia cJuul,d3"
Wliuess said .ac boxes were ,akcn
TO bis rcfidcugo atgr being looked by
the judges. Witness further explain.
ing said ON the night OF election they
Wcto taken 10 witues1' room In the
poet flee, ho being postmaster, aud The
next day were taken 90 biz rcsl.cucr.
lhcy were thUrs about three week.
ana were then forwarded Co tho Umu
lUmm'H-iDu on tuguIrt NJ "a telegram
rom the commandments requesting that
they &c sent The two boxes .fiull In
WitucFa' pNlJr ull that tine. MI
Abucr Crane one Of tao Judges, hclpOI
90 move tho boxes o. tue depot alter
the C0mmissiun ordered thUm no.
Crane sid one of the boxes was found
20 be- unlocked, Witness did not
know how 10 come 10 be open aB hu uad
locked %. Tbs lock, however, was de
iccuyc and 10 was bgtd 90 determine
lust when the box was locked aud
when not THIS Wa. the Constitutional
box. Air. Crane anu witness fastened
u up with string aud paper aud locked
u before shipping II 10 the Commission.
A piece OF paper wuH fastened over the
hole In the ballot box. Tho Keys 10 tho
two boxes were sont 10 the Commission
separate package.
Cfcg9.cyaminud ny Judge Powcts,
witness SAID Lo had no IDEA VI how
the ballot box came 10 be Opou. Ho
was confident 10 was locked when nut
away. The aperture In the box was
not patlel over on tue night the ballots
were counted ant tho box put away.
Redirect uy MEHane,n witness stated
ihAt the boxes were tgEuu from hlH
huuac 90 the depot by M cNprotamau.
NO ugth was uuministufc. 20 the oX-
prcismgn, Tie box was locked when 10
was shipped aud ~ it was upun when
received ut thO Utah Commission %
must have CImU uuuuuu on tho way,
Auntr luuu, another Judge ui uIuc-
tluu ut Mount PluuBlut, HuiI the b1yys
were locked ami taken Cuarge OF uy
Mr -Aldughi witness uiu not 500
them again COS iWl or three weeks and
that was when they were shipped 90
salt Lake. lu SAW them then Ia a j..
dnich'a ppt,ur anu he'll HI o. put them
un wagon Tor the puTp0sUOl chipping
them 90 Salt LAKE. Witness asked
Mr.. Aldrich 20 accompany him ~ the
depot Us he didn't like 90 ba lrft alone
with the ballot buEtf. (Lguphttrl o.
the WY 10 the depot 10 was discovered
that tue constitutional box was ~.
locked. They were very much sIf.
prlhgd ut IGig and didH't know what
10 do. Some Of thcm proposed count.
ing the ballots again Uutthat wasn't
done.
w. ID. Candlanl was presuut when
the votes were COuEtrl. HB watched
the count clOscly ON behalf OF ono OF
the delegates. lie kept an account NJ
tho vote, 2lj OF which were straight
Republican, .3l strait Democratic, Al
scratched Republican anu scratched
Democratic.
Cfuss.cxHmlnoi b. Attorney T.. l.
Wilnams-Wituesss said he stood with.
In thTen or four ieet OF the Judges when
they were COuuling the bsll0ts. lie
hal not ateu the Judges make up the
tally sheet. The tally sheets were
made up after the votes were all
counted,
VIM, Luke, the PRECEDING Judge at
Mautl, testified that after the election
no took charge Of the boxes, licked
them AMI took them home aud kept
them there till November g5lh, whom
he sealed them by covering the hole
with n piece OF paper ana mucilage
and shipped them to the Utah Com.
mission. He delivered them 10 an
omplgye Of tho Express company anu
got receipt, but did not remember
tho mans name. Tue keys were sem
In separate package. Tho other
Judges Of election had compared the
tally sheet aud the poll lists and they
agteei. The POLL lists, books and tally
sheets we're mailed 20 the Utah Com.
mission.
CTOss.eXamined by judge PowoFs.
witness said the judges had punched
tue t,taight votes aud then tailed
them. Tue tally sheets MS returned
were copied from the original clips II
paper on which thoy were made up.
Tue tally sheets Rs returned were NOT
the originals on which the talliea Were
entered. Tho tally sheet showed that
iD1 yOtea were cast, and the poll book
showed 4B2 as having voted the Con-
alitutlonAl ticket Witness said he
could name parties who were marked
IN the poll book a6 having voted Tor the
Constitutional delegates who really
DIDN'T vote tho Constitutional ticket
which would account Tor some OF the
James II, Lowry, the Republican
Judge OF election at Mauti, said Mr..
Luke took tho ballot boxes after the
and tlat was the last witness
had seen OF them. Four hundred and |
siXly'seven people had voted In all,
hut hvo OF those did not vote Tor Con.
bIitutional delegates Oue ConaliIu.