El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-20

] over.
! I went home Sunday night I went
there to help them out Monday, but
| they had some more clerks
/ 'Tarango was one of the clerks. he
I was ring clerk l was the anti rlnS
clerk. I went ahead once or twice:
/ ana so did he. We would even II up
On redirect examination the witness
| said that Tarango was drinking too;
We got a drink about every half hour
I the witness said
Lea-'Was there any effort made by
the election officers to keep the ponce
Witness-'No."
The witness said that the ballots
4 were counted one time to get the
] count straight He said he concluded
I that II they had to count the ballots
| would be there forever. He stated
that they decided then to even up the
! counts"
/ VictOrianO Rubio Testifes.
I Nlctoriano RubiO testified: was
| around precinct No on the election
| day saw Montoya and Gonzales
/ there. They were armed. They were
4 there. all day"
I zales and another throw a drunken
Mexican into the polls
Witness said: I saw MontOya and
Gonzales talking to the voters fire.
] quenty. I saw them motion to those in
the line to close up I did not see any
others there.
"As the people went there to vote
they jollied them, and talked to them
They were there all the time that
morning watching them. In the after
noon saw Montoya, Gonzales and
Gurap1 there talking to the voters as
they were going in. They were quite
noon as their attention had been called
in the morning that they were too near
the ropes. I called the attention of the
policeman to it myself. That was about
o'clock
ton changed as soon as the police
man talked to them They did not re-
tire as much as 100 feet from where
the election was being held.
I was about Is or 20 yards on the
other side of the street from the door
of the voting place.
''Montoya and Gonzales were nearer
the voters than 1 was know they
were talking to the voters by their
movements. 1 heard the sound of their
voices. but could not tell what they
were saying"
The witness, stated that he did not
know anything about Gurapi, and did
not know whether he was citizen Of
this country or not He said that he
saw policemen in the voting place, but
there was no disturbance at the polls.
Heard CaIderon Make Offer.
Witness said he knew Z. Calderon-
'Calderon said, How much will you pay
me for my vote, and I will vote for
your. Ike said: I am not paying any
thing for votes Calderon replied:
The other side has offered me SIS and
if you pay me more I will vote for
you
after this conversation I saw Cal
deron go into the polling place at No. ?.
CaIderon told me he had voted He said
ring had paid him SIS. He did not tell
me who paid him the money.
Il only know of the one vote that
was paid for, because Calderon told me
So"
On cross examination the witness
said: "Calderon told Ike that If he
would pay him $50 he would vote for
him"
The witness said that after the po-
liceman had spoken to Montoya and
Gonzales, they moved away, that he
only made the one complaint He
stated that Calderon had voted in pre-
cinct No. 2, Oregon and Second streets.
The witness said that he saw CalderOn
go into the polls but did not know if
he voted there
The witness stated that Marcus was
the name of the drunken man who
was thrown into the polls He did not
remember his other name. He said he
did not hear any lconvc rsation between
Calderon and Montoya
The committee adjourned until
o'clock Tuesday afternoon
Tells of Marking Ballots.
Jules Granmugin, the first witness
called Monday afternoon. said that he
was an associate judge Of precinct No.
z, and Joe Dunn was presiding judge.
Cover 100 illiterate voters voted at
the polls" the witness said. Joe
Dunn assisted them. After dinner
I assisted them. 1 should judge 1 as
sisted 20, Jim Mason. clerk, assisted
No one else assisted in marking the
ballots. Only when there was a rush
did Mason assist in marking the
tickets He marked about five or six
Joe Dunn refused to let me assist
in marking the ballots in the morning.
Some -MeXicans came up to me and
wanted me to mark their tickets Two
applied to me to mark their ballots
Dunn objected He said: am the
judge and will mark the ballots At
ter dinner when they came in marked
some ballots. 1 suppose he let me do
this to save further argument.
There was billiard table in there;
we marked some of the ballots on that
There were no supervisors there.
One came to be sworn in as super
visor. His name was Johnson, an eX-
policeman. I don't know his first
name. He came out there with Ed
Bryant.
Il know that Joe Dunn was a ring
man. I know that by questions that
were asked the voters
Refused to Let Supervisor Serve.
Joe Dunn refused to let the super
visor serve. The anti-ring did not
have a supervisor at the election.
There were none appointed. When
asked for a supervisor in the morn
ing, Joe Dunn wanted TO swear in
city employe, and I objected.
While Dunn was marking the ticket
there was no one there The voter
would stand outside, and Joe would go
in the booth and mark the ticket The
voter never got il.
He brought the ticket to me.
would number it I would not let any
one put a ticket in the box without
had numbered it They tried that once.
Dunn would ask some of them how
they wanted to vote-others he would
not He knew how they wanted to
vote.
The voters would say they wanted
to vote for Escajeda and his COM
panions or Ike Alderete and his COM
panions.
Il swore in four men who in my
mind were not American citizens. Joe
Dunn said he had known them for
years, and did not know what I was
doing. The parties testified they were
American citizens.
Dunn sWore in one of my men, an
Alderete man, who had his citizenship
papers with him. He has those papers
yet I think.
Il have a list of those I swore in. 1
can't recall the names of the others.
'I had no associate judge to watch
me, and I do not know whether Joe
Dunn marked the tickets.
Charley Dunn, Joes brother was
about the polls. He was there a good
many times. He was in the polling