El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-21

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should wait until the man asked for
assistance to make out his ticket
Nj Brooks watched every move
that I made.
The Yellow Tickets.
Another thing that I recall, a num-
per Of people came in with long yellow
tickets all printed and scratched out
ABOUT 40 came in with those. All did
had slips of paper The yellow tickets
showed the ring candidates with the
anu-rlng candidates plotted out On
the short ones the anti-ring candidates
were marked out Of this number
there were 80 or IS yellow tickets. I
saw some of the yellow ones. The
They might have been hidden. I had
seen the yellow tickets all over town
before the election.
Il saw the yellow tickets because
some. men would come in with their
poll tax receipt in one hand, and the
yellow ticket in the other. I took
some of them away from the men in
the booth. I suppose they were using
right before them These yellow tick
cts were the same that 1 had seen be-
fore the election"
On cross examination he stated: Il
was presiding. judge and Mr.. Brooks
was associate Judge The policemen
did not interfere with any voter, as far
as I could see.
the dispute over the Chinaman. Mr..
Brooks said: BY c., he will vote
and I said: Be damned if he will
was there as presiding judge
and was going to satisfy my own
mind The Chinaman had the tax re-
ceip- I made him bring his papers
and then he voted.
Says They Sent for Burgess.
About the greatest disturbance we
Burges. Burgess said I had to let the
Chinaman vote, and I said he could not
There was another who had a poll tax
receipt from Tarrant county, and il was
reported to this county. His name was
on the tax rolls. He swore that he had
lived here six months
baWled out one Of the fellows be-
cause he told me he had been drinking.
1t was strenuous. I held out Saturday
and sunday 1 sent word to both sides
to send new clerks, The discrepancy
was four votes. We counted the bal
lots three times There were Il OF
1T was the intention of both sides
to give both sides a fair deal It was
my intention if I could out trade them
I would"
Question-.Is there anything unfair
that you could put your finger on and
say 1t was unfair2'
Answer-'I know Of one man who
lost vote that ne was entitled to.
That was Mr.. Vowel. We knew that
we were absolutely correct. We were
two ahead We gave way. The anti
ring lost one vote absolutely. Vowel
The yellow ticket was made out for
the purpose of instructing how 10 vote.
It was ring ticket In the majority of
instances II was the little tickets
took away. I took them away every
time I saw them. The little tickets We're
evenly divided; some for the ring and
some for the antiring-
Drank 4 Little.
4 was offered a drink during the
GlHcT1nn -I--s- l.
Some fellow came TO the polls Six or
eight OF US drank a half pint"
On redirect examination the witness
stated that the yellow tickets were
marked to the bottom Seven or 10
cinnamon, he said, voted at the polls.
He stated that mostly Mexicans, and
TOUR OF i've Americans had the yellow
tickets He said that he did not get any
yellow tickets from negroes or China
men
The Cinnamon would say" said the
WITNESS, that he wanted to vote the
ing ticket. turned him over to Mr..
brooks a Chinaman came in and said
that he only wanted TO vote for Tom
Lea and Juan Smith. -----.----
Ihey had four ways of saying how
they wanted TO vote: Some would say:
l want TO vote for Escajeda and his
friends, or the ring ticket, or the anti
ring ticket; or. Alderete and his friends.
mat Is the way they would ask to vote
They did not know the offices. About
30 OF them went out of there without
knowing who they voted for.
Guess Work
The summing up of the count. as to
the absolute correctness, was guess
work Today I could not say that il is
a correct count. as compared TO the
The first clerks would go to sleep.
We had one old man, father of grown
boys, ne could not see. He was half
asleep and trying to keep tally.
Burgess insisted that / should ac-
cept the Chinaman's vote. I don't know
who sent him word ". H. Burgess never
said TO me that he was assisting the
It was admitted that Mr.. Burgess was
a ring man by the attorneys.
Judge Falvey asked the witness o if
ne could state under oath whether the
in favor of the ring or antf-ring. The
witness said he could not only In the
case Of Mr. Vowel.
Alex Gonzales Testifies.
Alex Gonzales testified: 7 was
IN precinct No. 3. The entrance
70 the polls was the door on the
street Most of the voters entered
mat mat d 1927: Some Some came through the
alley.
Mr. Saunders was presiding judge.
Albert Gonzales was the associate
The place where the voters were
lined up was at the north of the house.
twenty-five or 80 came in the back
uOOI QOQ know VINO they were.
There were some firemen. They had on
uniforms. A few Mexicans and Amer
leans came in No one asked them how
they came in They were coming in
both ways.
I'VE had six or seven voting booths.
Most of the time they were filled with
voters Men who came in from the back
end filled the booths. Sometimes when
the booths were filled. they would take
the ballot and make it out against the
wall.
at the time we closed there were
lot of people standing outside. About
Is voters.
Voted After Polls Closed.
THE clerks and judges of the cleo
ton voted after the close of the pools
There were some people left in there.
They voted.
I saw Fred Delga6o passing several
times around by the back door He was
working for the ring ticket. When I
saw him there, 1 saw some people come
in there
There was plenty of whisky at the
polls. When / say plenty I mean that
there was enough for three or four
DAYS"
Thurmond asked: Mr.. schilling.
those people who came into the polls.
drunk, where YOU were, did they vote %
Schilling-''Yes, sir"
Witness said: I was pretty near
drunk The other clerks drank as much
7 did 7 saw