The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-01

the registry office and stayed there I'M
til 1 had registered, and then sent me
back TO Commercial street in hack.
l knew he was police officer, end took
his word for it." said George Slade. who
was arrested Saturday for registering
/ Illegally III the Fifty-fourth district.
/ Another instance Of illegal registration
In the Fifty-fourth district, which Ia
| typical OF scores OF instances in the
registration where policemen have been
the instigators and accessories to the
frauds, developed yesterday in the case
of Slade, who was forced to register by
Policeman Kast, on the statement of
Kast that he was entitled to vote.
Three Weeks in City.
Slade was released from the county
infirmary during the first week in Oc-
tober, after he had been in the insti-
/ tuition fifteen months, undergoing medi-
cal treatment for an affliction which
left his arm partially paralyzed and
practically useless. For the last three
weeks he has been living on the kind
ness of q few friends, sleeping part
of the time at the Salvation Army no
tel and loafing about the saloons in
Commercial street. He was in O'Neill's
saloon, in Commercial street, about
noon, when Patroiman Kast entered to
round up another lot of Migrants.
] Anyone in here who can voter
asked the policeman, as he sized up
the crowd. Kast approached Slade, who
was talking with two companions, and
asked them if they had registered.
| SHADES companions, he says, were en-
titled to vote, so far as ne knows, and
they said they had not registered and
had not thought of voting. Slade said
he had been released from the county
| infirmary only three weeks ago and he
thought he had not been in the city
long enough to vote. The policeman
argued that he did have g. right to vote
and spent some time coaxing Slade to
register. Finally the three left the sa-
loon with Patrolman Kast and, passing
through the Tribune mechanical depart
ment in Commercial street to the alley,
they entered The Herald-Republican Of
flee at the rear.
Kast kept his three men at his side
until they had taken the oath, and then
| escorted them to a carriage and sent
| them back to Commercial street, while
he continued his work for the American
party. Slade waited in the registration
office with the others while some work.
ingmen, who had only their noon hour,
registered, and then took his seat while
the oath was read to him. He is lit
I
account of the noise and excitement in
the office, he could not distinguish every
word as the oath was read to him, and
again taking the policeman's word that
ii was all right, he signed his name.
During all that time, he says, the police
man never left him for moment.
Only Obeyed Instructions.
81 had no more intention of voting or
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was approached by the officer said
Slade at the county Jail last night II
supposed of course that, as had only
been in the city three weeks, l was
disqualified, but the officer said the
county infirmary was In the city limits
and he didn't say anything, about being
! sixty days in the precinct. ! did not
know the officer personally, although
have seen him in uniform frequently,
but they say his name is Kast, and 1
knew he was an afficer.
''If it had been some saloon bum I
would not have taken his word for it,
but 1 thought 1 could take the word of
an officer, and, after he coaxed me for
a while and said I had legal vote,
went with him. / told the officer I was
just hanging around, looking for some
kind of work 1 could do, and would be
on hand election day, if 1 was entitled
to vote"
The sheriff has another warrant for
Mexican named Flores, who was in
duced to register illegally by Nick Gull
bransen, jailer at the city Jail, but this
has not been served because the chief
of police refuses to allow the sheriff to
see the man, who is now serving a term
in the city Jail for vagrancy. Flores
explained to Gulbransen that he had
been in Utah only since last May and
had not even acquired legal residence
in Utah. Under the orders of the po-
lice, however. Flores was brought from
the city Jail in charge of a trusty and,
under surveillance Of Policemen Clough
and Rhodes, he registered swearing
| that he had been in Utah one year and
in the precinct sixty days, and gave his
address as Is Commercial street, in
stead of the city Jail. The complaint
against Flores was signed by Fred c..
Loofbourow, who investigated the case,
and if every Republican who knows of
similar instances will see that the mat
ter is brought to the attention of the
Republican city committee and make
out complaints, hundreds of illegal votes
for the American party can be pre-
vented tomorrow.
Earl Clark, another prisoner in the
city Jail, made an Outside rusty last
Tuesday and given his freedom, in re-
turn for his registering and working
with the policemen in rounding up other
Migrants, was serving a sentence for
vagrancy, and his release was another
of the many illegal attempts of the
American party organization to win the
election through fraud.
The completely of Patrolman Kast in
inducing George Slade to register lille
galIy, and Jailer Nick Guibransen in
inducing Flores TO register illegally,
probably viii result in their arrest on
felony charges today.
Hard COlds-People whose blood is
pure are not nearly so likely to take
hard colds as are others. Hoods Sar-