Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-04-01
THE OTHER SIDE.
What Mrs. Munds Has to Say About the Challenges at Saturdays
 Election.

In an article in the Herald issued last Saturday 1 am charged by D. D. Mcdonald with challenging the votes cast for MT. Baehr for school trustee while let the votes cast for me pass. 1 wish to say that 1 was there to pre- vent as far as possible all illegal vot- ing l had reason to know that the people who were supporting me were respectable, qualified voters. My friends and had solicited no other kind of votes, and if anyone voted for me who was not qualified it was done with innocent intent and because they were unacquainted with the law. l can testify that in no case was the oath taken by anyone challenged by MT. Dillon unless the voter was quail fled. This is not true of a number of the votes challenged by me. One of the first votes I challenged was that of gambler who frankly admitted that his only qualification lay in the fact that he had paid a gambling li- cense. He was reluctant to take the oath and appealed to the judges to know if he were qualified. Mir. Crock CT said: ''I am of the opinion that having paid a gambling license would qualify you under the law" Upon hearing this the gambler took the oath, and his vote was accepted. 1 challenged one voter who admitted that he was not qualified until asked rather insistently by Mir. Ling if he were not the guardian of his little niece whose mother is living, and to all appearances supports her child. After some parleying, therchallenged voter said he was the child's guardian and his vote was accepted. A woman voter upon being challenged admitted that she owned no property in her own name. Her husband insisted that she was tax payer because he paid taxes and she was allowed to take the oath and her vote was accepted. La ter lady offered to vote on the same ground and she was challenged by MT. Dillon and her vote refused. Another man offered to vote, when 1 chal- lenged him and he said that he was not tax payer and left the polls. Mir. Dillon informed him that he was tax payer because he belonged to the order of Elks, and in some way which did not understand that made him tax payer. The man then came back and was sworn and voted. These are only few of the illegal things that were done at this election and MT. Mcdonald has nothing to say about them but arraigns me because l did not challenge the votes of his printers. I will say as I have said be- fore that 1 had reason to suppose that all ballots that were being cast for me were the ballots of legal voters, and did not during the day challenge one vote that 1 knew or supposed was legal one. 1 saw number of ladies turned away and not allowed to vote because they held my ballots who had they held MT. Baehr's ballots would have been passed immediately by MT. Dillon. Some of these ladies believed themselves voters because their hus- bands paid taxes, others had children of kindergarten age and believed they were entitled to vote. In no case did ask one of these ladies to take the oath, but advised them not to do so.
 Mir. Mcdonald says if the women were enfranchised they would be
 'iust exactly like the men," and I judge that he thinks this the worst thing that could befalI them.
 In conclusion l will say that I en- tered last Saturdays contest because 1 was fighting for a principle and the object l had in view was accomplish ed and l am perfectly satisfied over the result. Mrs. John l.. Munds.