The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-26
JUDGE TRAPPED
IN HIS OWN NE 7
Court Itself Involved in lnyesti-
CATION of Buying and Sell
ing Votes.
HIS HONOR EXEMPTS SELF,
BUT GRAND JURY OBJECTS
Election of Speaker Cannon
and yermiIiOn County Sher-
iG Under Fire.

DANVlLLE. nl Jan. 25.-NermilIon
countys grand jury Investigation OF the
vote scandal today Involved tho instl'
gator. Judge + r. II. Kimhrough III
addition. half 81 score of the leadlhe
Democratic politicians have been drawn
into the inquiSttion. louaS oSNNlop-
ments were:
Judge Kimbrough summoned TO testify
before the grand jury, which he himself
charged To make the investigation.
Mayor Platt asked 10 testify.
Exclusion OF elections more than eigh'
teen months ago under fire.
Courts own election brought under
spotlight.
Mayor and Judge Kinbrough announce
they will go before inqustors and nm
reservcdy tell all they know.
Late today Subpoenas were given The
sheriffs office for Immediate service,
which made the city gasp.
Members of one political faction said
it was "a move to whitewash the others,
now that il is too late TO get action
while the other denied knowledge OF the
motives back OF the move, and said Il
was only a natural step In the much
desired cleaning up OF political condi"
tions."
Cannon Under Fire.
Many subpoenas were issued in de-
fiance OF the instructions of Judge KIM
brough who told the grand jurors they
were empowered only TO investigate al
legged vote traffic during the last eigh-
teen months. The courts Interpretation
of the law which exempted his own elec-
ton became matter of public Interest,
The order also excluded from eXamina :
ton the election OF States Attorney John
II. Lewman and Mayor Louis Platt. Fol-
lowing is n list Of men for whom sub
poenas were Issued today;
F.. R. r. kmbrough, circuit Judge.
who brought about the Investigation.
Mayor Louis Platt, elected twenty-one
months ago, when Judge Kimbrough
was strong supporter,
Nth ~l, tt,l,o l,oe
been summoned to explain a runor cur
Ient at the time that he drove Candi-
cate Platt and Judge kimbrough about
the city the day OF the mayors cleo
the polls.
James Meeks. master in chancery of
the court
George l.. Harroun. a law clerk in the
office OF Meeks.
Clint C. Tilton, editor of the Press
Democrat, a Danvillc Democratic news
paper
Harry Campbell, Democratic commit
teeman from the Seventh ward
Percy Platt, son of Mayor Platt
chris Lions: Mayor Platt's private sec
VIII Connors. politician.
Prominent Men Subpoenaed.
Fred (Dr.) Vutrich, deputy sheriff and
guard al the door of the grand Jury room,
who was objected 10 by Foreman Wood :
YARD: Dut who was accepted when he eX-
Witnesses.
Theodore Anderson. politician
Charles Wecse, election Judge at West
Vile.
Lou Nolan, politician.
among the witnesses before the grand
Jury today was Peter Sanichas. a Greek
polticfan, who has consldera BILE influence
among the people OF his race here He
spent an hour and ten minutes before the
questioners and had announced he would
Tell all he knew. which. he added. smiling.
was nothing. This is the customary an
nouncement Of witnesses before the gra nd
jury,
successful candidate at the primaries for
The nomination OF sheriff He was pre
pared 10 explain the rumor that he had
approached the head of local political
organization not identified and had been
tod II would cost him $1,000 for the or
spend"
How far the new situation will carry
me lnqulsitorS is not known. Every
public official in Vermilion county ad-
mits ne knows of vote trafricking. some
OF II by personal observation, but none
pave expressed Willingness to give this
information unless 1t were agreed that all
would turn In and make Cleaning up. =
peculiar situation will arise when
Judge Nmorough appears to testify He
Will be under fire from the body he him
self directed TO do the firing; he Will be
examined by an officer OF his own court
stare Attorney Lewman-and Incidental
~ Lewman will be asked questions whIcl,
open up his own campaign for inspection
An; And the grand jury In theory is part OF
The court 1t will be questioning.
MAYOR flatt today would not discuss the
automobile ride story in which money
figured When il was mentioned he said
ne personally never had bought vote.
chambers. the chauffeur. said he was
prepared to say that he made several
trips from the First National bank TO diff
ierent parts Of the city. on each OF which
Dags Of silver were carried: He said
however he did not know what was
done with the money. Mayor PIatt said
the money was spent chiefly In kceDinp
together his orga MIA lion.
Until the sudden turn of affairs today
those whose elections were chiefly undo,
Sre were Sheriff John T. Shepard an(
speaker Cannon, both Republicans II
the Inquiry goes back more than eirhteer
months. as indicated ny the list OF wit.
neses named today. II will open 10 attack
the election in which the Democrats
Mayor Platt and Judge Kmbrough-wer,
successful. This circumstance. which re.
moves the question OF party advantage
ls taken as an indication OF Foreman
Woodyard's plan of campaign by which h,
expects 10 get results.