Arizona republican., 1916-12-12

northern courts vacated that the ballots might be brought to Phoe- nix. In the course of the running debate, Mir. Bullard intimated that ine contests in the northern coun- tits had been brought for the very ""rnrSe of preventing tbe bringing "f inc ballots to Phoenix and later i1 fhe dny Judge Campbell similarly intlmai"d want of good faith on the part of The contestant
 Tn" only thing finally decided upor at the morning session was that the bond of Governor Hunt O. se00. made at the filing of the papers. ssas in. sufficient. in view of tho great ey-
 pense that would attend the bring Ing Of all the ballots to Phoenix. and the amount of the bond was raised to s2 .0n0
 An adjournment was taken until l 20 o'clock when Judge Stanford announced that the motion Of the contestee to postpone the inspection until the ballots Of all the counties were on hand. was dcnleh But he added. that he would afflx one con dition. and that was that the attor- neys for the contestants should stop the contests in the northern counties
 Mr Ives replied that he had advised that the contest filed in Mohave coun;v be dismissed and while he was tpeaking 2 telegram was hand ed him II was from Attorney Paul f. Thorne. of kingman. advising him that his wishes had been compiled Nuh as to the contest in that county.
 With the Navajo contest Mir Ives said he had nothing to do. but he had been authorized nv Attorney Frank Is curlay. of Tucson. repres- enung Governor Hunt in that con rest. that that would he dismissed. In order that the status of that con- test might be more clearly presented 10 the court MT. CGrley was then associated with Mir. Ives in the
 Maricopa contest. He said that he "onlc have the order for the insnec- tinn of the Navajo ballots vacated. I"dge Campbell replied that the only person who could vacate that order was the judge of that county who had made tho o~der Mir. Curley 1 sald that he would ask to have the order vacated: he would do all he could do to bring the case to Mari copa county. He also suggested that
 the case there might be consolidated With the case brought here. But it 1 appeared that in the Navajo contest
 the contestant was endeavoring to nave the vote Of en entire precinct
 thrown out. Tn this connection. Mir.
 Ives stated that he was not seeking
 that Nothing more was said of the merging of the cases. As to the con tests over county offices. it was aug- gested that an arrangement might
 De made by which they would he l postponed until after the ballots had
 been inspected in the gubernatorial i contest. But that was left very much in he air.
 With the understanding that the l ballots of Navajo and Mohave should i be brought to Phoenix, Judge Stan ! Ford ordered the inspection of the | Maricopa ballots to be begun this i morning, and he added that if 1t should transpire that the ballots from i ths other counties were not brought l here, the proceedings would he
 brought to n stop. He directed Mir l Curley to ascertain at once what ac-
 ton would be taken in the Navajo contest Mir. Curley suggested that l he he given four or five days as fl | would take that long to conclude the inspection of the Maricopa ballots.
 Judge Stanford believed that time
 was unnecessarily long, and gave MT. | Curlev forty eight hours within which l 10 assure him that the contest in 1 Navajo had been dismissed Thus il happens that If the purpose of the governors attorneys in bringing the | northern contests was to prevent the
 ballots of those counties from being inspected here, 1t wlh avail nothing,