Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-20

| opening q Itne session no box had aIl
peared. He was asked to communicat.
with his deputy by telsphons, and q
tempted to do so, but as this is lega
holiday the county ofYices were closed
and the deputy could not be found
The telegraph company reported tha
the telegram sent Saturday was de
livered at the ONCE The deputy has 8
ranch some distance out Of town. ant
II is probable that he left early on Set
urday to pass the two holidays there
and so did not receive the telegram
To make ASSURANCE doubly sure. how
ever. Chairman Grifiitn ordered Ser
geant al Arms Viancourt and Mr.. Mon.
J tee to take the evening train for Wal.
senburg. get the box and come back
by the morning train OF course the
Democrats are Inclined to magnify
| the incident, but it can be very easily
| explained, in all probability.
The rest of the witnesses introduc-
ed at the afternoon session were on
the usual order OF those put in by the
defense, with the possible exception
! of the last. Three people came In from
| one OF the precincts exported In Adams
| county to identify ballots. They were
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Renner, and Mrs,
Norvault. Tf1i
Coming back to Denver the Demo-
Gratis put Mrs. Topping, an "Independ-
ent Republican worker" on the stand
She was asked to, read over list Of
persons claimed to be non-residents
and Identified several. Asked by At
torney Ward as to who paid her for
her work on election day, she replied
that she considered it none of his bus
mess, but soon said tnat Mrs. Minerva
Welch, who attempted to head a re-
volt from the Republican ranks last
fall, had employed her, and Democratic
Alderman John Conlon had paid her.
Republican jurge of election in
ward 2, precinct T. WAS the next wit
ness. On being handed list Of per-
sons found by Republican canvassers
to be non-residents he said that he
knew they were all legal voters On
eros discrimination he said that his de-
finition of a legal voter was one who
came in on election day and was al
lowed to vote.
c. b. Shepard, w. H. Wilson. and
John Arnold. proprietors of rooming
houses in Ward 2, precinct 2, then fol-
lowed each other on the stand They
were given lists of persons found by
canvassers to be out of the precinct
in the canvass made from the poll
books Immediately after election, and
picked out those whom they remem-
bered. It appeared that most Of the
names were those OF men who worked
in varions parts of the state and al
ways happened in about election time
to vote. One man knew two out OF
seven names read TO him, all of them
reported to have lived at his house.
In several cases 1t WIS shown that
the party had lived in the place q
week or less.
Father Corrigan varied the monot-
ony of boarding house Keepers by
coming in to identify his ballot. He
was followed by a young man named
Weber. a clerk in Ward 2. precinct /.
who took a list of padded voters and
called the names OF % OF them as be-
ing known to him. 80
Al Estes, a Democratic worker In
ward 2. precinct II, then Identified
the name OF people found to be out
O fthe precinct. He said that some OF
the names had been changed and also
residences. He found the name of one
man who has been dead three years,
but had voted, according to the poll
book
After two more Democratic election
officials had testified as to the fair
ness of the election in their pre-
cincts, the star witness of the after
noon was put on. in the person of
Abraham Weber, ward l6, precinct
3, he was a clerk at election time,
and according TO him, there are
large number Of persons VINO require
assistance. So on the morning Of cleo
tion he and the other officials got to-
together and appointed an interpreter
to write ballots. The supreme cossFt
watchers had an idea that the inter.
prefers were writing ballots all the
same way, no matter what the voter
wanted. and finally had them thrUwn
out. Attorney Ward tried to find the
ballot of one woman VINO said TIT
she told the interpreter or Judge to
write Republican on her ballot, but
ii had been reported as Democratic
by the unsealers, but he was unable
to hnd 1t. The experts report Oh this
place was that 113 ballots had been
written by three persons, and this
witness testified that three Of the
election Judges wrote about that
many This Is the first time that inc
Democrats have tried to verify the
handwriting experts. A recess was
then taken till this evening.
Up to date, the Democrats have in,
troduced IFS witnesses. OF these 81
have identified their ballots, and n
persons have shown that the eiasSi.
tication OF the experts in the class Of
"a ballots was right. This does not
include the testimony Of Weber,
who appeared today. r.. p. B.
Denver. Colo, Feb. IA. 1905.
This was expert day for the Dsmo,