Arizona republican., 1910-05-03
IA PLAIN STATEMENT
 REGARDING TWO FACTS
OF WHICH AFTERNOON PAPERS
 HAVE MADE MUCH.
The Explosion of Report of an At
 tempted Registration Fraud.

The cry of 'wolf'' by the afternoon papers has been taken up and re- echoed by those who are served by it. to such an extent that disinterested parties who do not take the trouble to inouire into the facts may be misied, that being the only excuse for The Republican wasting good time ana space in making a search for the facts that right minded readers may be re-
 liably informed.
 As announced in Sundays issue. re-
 ports were of such q nature that
 Mayor Christy felt it due to himself and his party to inquire into the pos
 sible connection of Policeman Front
 man with an alleged colonization pro
 feet. He did so and suspended MT.
 Troutman pending such an inquiry by
 the council. Last night the situation
 was laid before the council and Coun-
 cilman Campbell moved that MT.
 Troutman be discharged. There was
 no second. Councilman Hackett tdem-
 ocraD held that the officer was cer-
 tainly entitled to d square deal and a
 proper investigation. On Mr. Cisney s
 motion the matter was laid before a committee of the council for inveStiga - ton and report at its next meeting pr
 as soon as possible. The committee
 is composed of the mayor. and Messrs Cisney and Hackett. There was no time for investigation before the cleo ton as the council worked last night to q late hour on more important business. Beside, it is not an election question but one of good government The council has shown it's disposition to stand for good government and If there is any punishment coming to Mir. Troutman it can he inflicted as we'll after election as before.
 The editor of the Democrat which newspaper voiced the original charge
 came into the council meeting late last evening. after the matter had been ! disposed of for the time being, and made inquiry as to what had been done. When informed he expressed his i regret. saving that those who made
 the charges had hoped that they might
 be given an opportunity to substan tiate them before the election.
 Following upon the heels of the | Troutman incident. the Gazette last ! evening charged Fred Gardiner with [ colonizing men in the second ward i specifically stating the case of Albert | Chisam, q negro. Application was | made to the city recorder in respect oi | this registration and that officer pro- | duced the original registration blank ! and made the fnJlnwiHg statement: T don't care tp he- drawn into this
 thing at ali but it is due Gardiner tc
 say that I registered Chisam. The | registration is undoubtedly illegal and l the irregularity is due either tc ! Chisams ignorance of the facts or tc | my own carelessness for things of ar i identical nature arerbound to occur in l every registration, 5I asked Chisan
 where he resided apdl he said 401 East | Monroe street, Knowing that the Sec { ond ward is the only one voting al | this election through which Monroe | street runs. l entered the name hastily | and I admit carelessly, as 6 resident , Of the Second ward, l think it quite ! probable Chisam believed. himself q voter in this election. At least he did
 not give any street address in the Sec
 ond ward as he would have done had | he been trying to, colonlze. or as would have had to do had 1 sought to colonize him. When the names were ! checked for the great register the CT
 TOT was discovered but l could not [ change it then for I did not know which to change; whether the mistake
 was in giving his address East instead ! of West Monroe street. or whether the | man himself made a mistake by not knowing which ward he was in The name was therefore printed in the
 register just as 1t was taken, and l am informed the republican challen- gers already had Chisarn listed for challenge. before this matter was dis ! covered or ventilated by those making charges of colonization. IL was pure ly clerical error and I fail to see | where Gardiner had anything 10 do with it.
 Gardiner himself was not found last ! night but it is understood he told an-
 other man that he, had nothing what
 ever to do with Chisam's registration and ii he had sought to coIonize a negro he would certainly have more sense than to put one in a ward where
 there are very few negro voters and
 all of them publicly knov,1.
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