Arizona republican., 1899-01-11

there was any partisan manage
 men at all. It was, in fact, dem-
 ocratic election until the votes were
 counted.
 The deDositions of only two wit
 nesses were taken. The first was A.
 s. Arthur, who testified with great
 particularity regarding the com
 plaints above, set forth. He be-
 lieved the violation of the fifty
 foot limit to have been chiefly re-
 sponsible for the calamity which be-
 fell the faithful on November s.
 He darkly insinuated that Col. Will
 liam Christv was the foremost of-
 fender. A hush of astonishment fell upon the deposition proceed ings The spectators beheld the
 unusual spectacle of Col. Christy
 raging about in the ifty-foot trocha intimidating persons who were con-
 templating the support of the dem>
 ocratic ticket. Under the inqnsi-
 torial management of Judge Kib-
 bey Col. Christy's' conduct was put
 in a rather better light Mr. Ar thur admitted that the colonel had
 kept his republican ferocity pretty
 well concealed. The witness had not seen h i'm actually seize demo- crats by the collar and yank then, around with the object of affecting their suffrages and compelling an abandonment of the time honored principles of Jefferson and Jackson, but he had been inside the fifty foot limit, or at least had had one foot in it and considering the well recognized proportions of Col. Christy, that was a fragrant viola tion of the election laws The ale gations of the complaint were not very well supported by MT. Arthur on cross examination.
 The next witness was H. M Will lis. MT. Willis relation was in ef- feet a repetition of Mir. Arthur's cx- planation of the decline and fall of democracy in Maricopa county. Re garding the ''reversed' ballots Mir. Willis admitted that they had been held to be legal in the Bark-Murray contest. Mr. Davis explained that there had been no active democratic contention against them then and there. The prosecution had winked at them knowing all the time that they were off color
 The deposition-taking was a josh Nobody regarded it seri- ously except Mr. Davis and Captain J. c. Evans, whose sense of humor was oppressed by an ever impending financial disaster. w. N. Tiffany had been employed as stenographer at 20 cents folio. In the direct ex- Mr. Davis employed care fully chosen words, as short ones as possible and very few of them, in order to impede Mr. Tiffany's flight | toward affluence. Messrs. Arthur and Willis were equally economical in the use of language But when Judge Kibbey began cross -examin- ing, an era of monetary ruin seemed to have set in. He asked [ questions with as great freedom and | sang froid as if there were no ste lographer nearer than Tucson. Words were to him as air or water, pr new Mesa wine J. Milton Davis groaned at the judges devastating The witnesses were infected and seemed to sud- lenly join Judge Kibbey in d con 'piracy to break the contestants who were paying the freight. Captain Evans sat behind Mr. Davis to hide rom his vision the swift moving fingers of the stenographer, but the scratch of the pen seemed to be scratching his soul and he winced Is he calculated that every five folios were costing beloved silver dollar. More than ever he lamented the tri- Imph of the gold bug. With Bry- lnism and silver dollar worth only fifty cents one could talk twice as much in Mr. Tiffany's hearing for he same money.
 Frequently MT. Davis rose to pro- est against Judge Kibbey's sinfully course. ''This costs 20 cents folio" he repeated again md again. The commissioners ,new of no way to restrain the judge md he went on making a millionaire 'f the stenographer
 When MT. Willis deposition was inished the commission adjourned mil Ii n'clnck this mnrninr