The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-16
THE TESTIMONY ANALYZED
COMPROMISE OVER RED CANYON
NINE DISASTER.
Park City Democrats in Favor of
No Compromise With Republic
cans on Senatorial Candidates-
Funeral of william Watson
Wyoming Happenings.


The evidence given by the prosecution
vas somewhat of a boomerang. 1t
went to show that the greater number
of errors made were more in favor OF
the contestants and against the con-
testees. In one instance where 1t Is
alleged that a certain young man was
a nonresident and voted, which was
illegal if true. the yolnG man tathef
testified that the boy (as ne called
himl lived in the same town that ne
voted in and that he was entitled to
vote. IN nearly every instance where
il is alleged that parties voted wrong
fully il was shown by the evidence
for the contestants that they were en-
titled to vote Just where they dld vote.
w. +. Wiseomb Of Springville testl-
fed that he was present at the polls IN
SpringVille when the votes were count
ed and saw q Republican ticket with
a sticlzer on. ". NJ ROylance's name
being on the sticker. The stiCker COW
cred the names of Siraons, Bringhurst
Thorn and Graham. completely cover
ing the name of Thorn and leaving
parts of the other names to view. This
vote was counted for Roylance and
against Thorn Graham. SimOns and
I3ringhursts names were counted on
this ticket This vas the only thing
which could DE objected to by the
contestants and this WAS in their ia
vor. William R0ylance testified sub
stantially the same as the previous
witness. Was present at the counting
Of the ballots Assisted in the tally
by request of the judges OF election.
Witness made q diagram Of the bal
luL above mentioned showing the po-
Sition the Roylance sticker was in.
Witness said that ali that showed of
Graham's name WIS ham" This
is quite "haggy,' but true in its lit
eral sense The vote, however. was
counted for Graham, yet he contests
the election on this showing
James L. Han, assessor Of Utah
county, testified substantially the
same as above.
As to the MaDleton election. which
The Republicans are trying to throw
out it is all a bluff on their part. II is
now as Il was on the day of election
q grand stand play. Some of the Ma
pleton voters were ordered by the
Utah commission to cast their bal
lots in Springville because they lived
in the corporate limits of the city
The Republican ward heelers chal-
lenged every one Of these who vera
Democrats and succeeded in intimidat-
ing six Democrats and prevented
them from voting. Later in the day
the Republicans run in eleven voters
of Mapleton who reside in the cor
porate limits of Springville and voted
every one of them. After doing all
this they now cry fraud" '4raud."
The people of MapIeton are disguised
with the way the Republicans are
proceeding. There is not an honest
man in the town bat who says the cleo
ton was perfectly straight and accord
ing TO law. The Tribune refers to II
as a black spot in the history Of Utah
1t is right. Republicans have made
the black spot and are now making it
blacker by showing their SIDE in its
true light. The true inward workings
of the Republican party if brought to
light would be so black it would pDt
the light out According to the pvi-
dence before the special commissioner
the Republicans tried their best to
steal the election in Utah county by
illuminating Democratic voters They
failed in their scheme and now rhirT5
they can steal it by CRYING fraud and
ask a Republican legislature To believe
their allegations of frand and seat
three men whom the peonie have said
by their ballots. they do not want
Their motto is IF the people won't
elect Us we viii elect ourselves"
SUMMARY.
At Lehi there were five state ballots
found at Doll No. 2 in county box
two straight Democratic. two straight
republican and one Republican with
all candidates scratched except
Bartch, Wells and ChfDman These
ballots were not counted. At poll No.
in Lehi there were three state bal
lots in county box-twO Republican
and one Democratic There We're
enough ballots without these to tally
with the voted list. and they were not
counted At Highland precinct, one
state ballot was found in county box:
1t was straight Republican and coun-
ted At Pleasant Grove there were
two straight Republican state ballots
found in the city box They were
counted. At American Fork there
We're two straight Republican state
ballots found in city box They were
not counted.
Al Provo First Ward there was
one straight Democratic state bal
lot found in the city box. 1t was
not counted. In Provo Second ward
there was one state ballot-straight
Democratic-found in city box; not
counted
In Provo Third ward there were
three state ballots found in city box
two straight Republican and one
straight Democratic. They were all
counted
In Springville there was one Renuh-
lican state ballot scratched by past
ing the name of W. NJ. Roylance over
the names Of J. f. Bringhurst. ]. 7.
Thorn and J. c. Graham in such a
manner as to completely obliterate the
name Of Thorn. and as far obliterate
the names of Graham and Bringhurst
as to make them completely unrecog-
nizable The ballot was counted for
R9vlance and all the Republicans ex-
cept Thorn. AS regards the Illegal vot-
ing, the only proof made by the Repub-
licans was against Eli Robinson. Thorn
as Lloyd, jr, Ephraim Rowe. p. S.
Cowley, John w Pike and Jonas
Schow. Robinson was born and
reared in Spanish Fork, has a home
and blacksmith shop there and pavs
taxes thereon; has a wife and family
and for about year and a half has
been working for another Spanish Fork
man at Mammoth. He has worked
for wages by the day as a blacksmith
has never voted anywhere else hut
Spanish Fork and holds his place there
as a residence. LLOYD it turns out
did not vote the state ticket. but Re-
pUblicans swore he did The fact is
his name was not on the state regis
tration list
At any rate he is a Spanish Fork
boy, born and scared there. his par
ents reside there now; he is unmarried
and makes Spanish Fork his home
when not off at work for wages.
The same facts are true as regards
Rowe. except that Rowe voted the
state ticket z. s. Cowley married q
Provo girl. lived in Provo until a short
time before the election, when he
went away to find work, taking His
young wife with him, leaving his
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