The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-16
Records of City Recorder Fal-
sified by American Party
Men to Permit Illegal Voting
in Fifty Fourth District.
TENDERL0IN HABITUE Is
NAMED ELECTION JUDGE
Name of W, J, Harvey Piano
Player in DiSOrderIy House,
Inserted in Records, Giving
Americans Three Officials
REGISTRATIONS PROBED

Falsifying records filed with the
city recorder and substituting the
name of a macquereau in the list Of
election judges for the Fifty-fourth
district, is the latest move on the
part of the American party to force
through scores of illegal votes in the
downtown district at the next cleo
ton.
The American party managers
were caught red-handed in this at
tempt to steal the election when the
city council approved the names OF
three American party judges for the
Fifty-fourth district.
1t is in this district that on last Tues
day members Of the police force, act
ing under orders of the American party
city committee, rounded up 100 to zoe
transients. Migrants and men and
women of the under world and com
pelled them to Register illegally. In
their desperate attempt to force these
votes through members of the Ameri-
can party machine tempered with the
lst of judges and, with the aid of tn
city council, succeeded in having thre'
American party men appointed JUDGES
of election in this district.
The man whose name was frauGu-
lently placed on the list of judges was
w. J. Harvey, who is known as piano
player in a disordeT1y house at the rear
OF 243 Main street, and who. before his
'enga cement with that house of pros
several years in a house of ill-fame al
81 Commercial street.
The law regarding the appointment
of election judges says that each pO-
litical party may file with the city re-
corder list of judges for each district
From these lists the judges are TO be-
selected. and not more than two shall
be from any one political party. List.
were filed by the Republicans anl
Americans, the Democrats failing tC
avail themselves of the opportunity.
List of Republicans.
The Republican list for the Fifty
fourth district bore the following
names:
George Reynolds. who lives at tn,
Salt Lake theatre, where he is nigh
Waterman.
William Howard, Wilson hotel.
W. ]. Biehle Orpheum hotel
The Americans submitted the follow
ing names:
J. NJ. Cain. Imperial hotel.
Maurice Levy, Imperial hotel.
w. J. Harvey. Imperial hotel.
These lists were filed with the city re
corder Thursday morning, and whit
the Republican list was in the posses
sion of J. B. MoretOn, city recorde
and candidate for reelection, the mann
of W. ]. Harvey was fraududently in
serted in the Republican list. Then
carrying out the scheme for whOlesal
frauds in the Fifty-fourth district. TIN
city council approved the names. of ]
NJ Cain and Maurice Levy as Ameri
cans and ". J. Harvey as the membe
of the other party, having no Othe
authority than the fraudulent insertion
Of Harvey's name in the Republican
list
There was great Joy in the inner cir
Gle of the American party when It wa
announced that the council had con
fjrmed the appointment OF three Amer
lean party men in the district wher
they had planned 10 run in q few hun
dred illegal votes. but this joy wa
turned TO panic when it was discovers
Yesterday afternoon that the fraud hat
been detected and steps were beint
taken to enforce the law requiring tina
not more than two judges be Of tn
same political party
Before the lists of judges were sub
mitted and filed with the city recorder
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