Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08

DAILY INTER MOUNTAIN:
large numherso of votes were cast by per-
sons who had fregistered in certain pre-
c!ncts n cast their ballots there who
were non-residents at the time. That,
persons who were not legally qualified,
were -naturalized and made citizens in
order to further the interests of the con-
%testees. That large amounts of money
were used in the bribery of electors in
TSekS%o6 Independent dem01
Tha in the nine election precincts of
the city of Anaconda and in the cleo
tlon precincts of Carroll and Washoe,
the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway
company, and the Anaconda Copper
Mining company in their operations en-
ploy about twenty-five hundred men
legal voters of said precincts. That the
employees of said respective companies
who are and. Were legal voters, were
affiliated with and We're members Of diff
ferent political parties and a large por-
ton thereof were member of and par
L:ipated in the primaries or. primary
elections of the republican party, of said
county of Deer Lodge. That the. officers,
superlntendents, foremen and bosses of
said companies. issued instructions to
the employees of said companies that
the employees of said companies should
vote for the contestees on the indepen-
dent democratic ticket, and to tintimf-
date and coerce the said voters en-
ployed by said companies, and. threat
n them hat unless they did vote
the independent democratic ticket they
would he 1iScha rpaI frny,, that. o,,rIo, z
ment, that the said companies are al
most sole employers of labor in said
precincts and the vicinity thereof, and a
discharge from their employment would
mean that the voter would be compelled
to seek employment at a place other
than the city of Anaconda and long dis
tant therefrOm and the other precincts
named therein. That, a large proportion
OF aid voters own their own homes in
said city of Anaconda, many thereof,
being mortgaged and upon which large
sums of money is still due, n to lose
their employment and being compelled
to go elsewhere to seek employment
would mean the loss of what they had
invested in their homes. That by means
or these threats, intimidation and CO.
erc1on the officers, superintendent,
foremen and bosses, Went among voters
and instructed them to and demanded
that they vote for the independent dem
ocratic ticket and Informed them that if
they voted otherwise they would be dis
charged.
BOTTLE AND BARREL.
1T is still further alleged tina intox-
lcating liquors We're furnished free to
electors, particularly in precincts 6 and
10, with the intent to influence their
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democratic ticket, with the result that
the election changed against the con-
testants.
: And the contestants herein allege chat
Honorable yelling Napton, the Judge
OF the district court of the Third Judi
cial district, in 'andsfor aid Deer Lodge
county, is disqualified to try the issues
IN this matter for the reason that the
SAID Hon. yelling tNapton. was a can
dldate for the office of judge of the dis
trict court of said Deer Lodge county
upon the independent democratic ticket
and associated With the contestee. on
said ticket, n shat for the trial of
this matter it will>be necessary that
another judge of the district court of
this state be called in to try the same,
and it is further prayed that such ac-
ton herein be had that the trial thereof
be had as quickly as possible. >.
}The attorneys in the cases who ap-.
pear for the contestants are Col. T.
.OLeary and Walsh & James.
The cases of the county officers will
be tried in the district court, and among
other things a recount of the ballots
cast is likely to be ordered. AS to the
legislative candidates, dispositions of
their witnesses will be taken before two
justices of the peace and preserved un-
til the meeting of the legislature, when
that body will proceed to exercise the
right of being judge Of it's own men,
bers. g-
Before filing the contest suits this af-
ternoon more allegations were added to
the complaints, in which the registery
agent at Carroll, precinct 10, is charged
with having refused to register legal yo-
ters there, and in some cases refused to
enter the names of those registered upon
the poll books, and by this means many
legally qualified voters We're refused by
the judges of election to exercise their
right of franchise. That printed notices
were posted in conspicuous places
around the premises of the Amalga-
mated Copper company and b., A. & P.
railway, instructing employees to vote
the independent democratic ticket.