Arizona republican., 1917-04-12
COURT GIVES NJ EXPLANATION IF
 REASON FOR ACT

The more than 200 votes of Snow flake precinct, Navajo county, lost Nov. [; they voted to no purpose; they might better have stayed at home that day.> The vote of that precinct was thrown out yesterday by Judge Stan ford, who granted the motion of the attorneys of former Governor Hunt to strike it out In granting the motion immediately after court convened in the morning, Judge Stanford offered no statement of his reason for making the order.
 Later in the day Mir Bullard of longer to repress his curiosity, naively asked the court why he had thrown the precinct out. The courts reply was either inadequate or superfluous, because of the evidence he had heard" MT. Rullard subsequently stated that his question was not the product of idle curiosity. He really wanted to know why the precinct had been thrown out, the information to be us ed for the guidance of attorneys for the contestee in the gathering of evi- dence relating to misconduct and ir- reguiaritieS in precincts which had cast ma iOlities for former Governor Hunt and which it was now proposed to bring in for investigation
 Judge Stanford said that he would later give the attorneys for Governor Campbell the information sought, but he had puIposely neglected to accom- pany his order with statement for he desired to avoid being led into a trap. The statements the court had made in relation to the exclusion of Douglas precinct No. had been seized upon by the attorneys for both sides during the investigation of Snowflake precinct, each side Undressing it's case with the language from the bench.
 Immediately the order was made in the morning, Judge Sloan for Governor Campbell sought an arrangement for bringing in some half dozen Hunt pre- cincts to be investigated for irregu larities similar to those alleged in Snowflake precinct. MT. Ives of coun sel for former Governor Hunt, did not then offer a formal objection, but he made a vain attempt to reach some understanding with the attorneys for the other side The conversation might as well have been carried on in two different languages. After some col loquy. at the suggestion of the court the investigation of certain uncounted ballots in Superior precinct was taken up. A MT. Wright, clerk of the cleo tion board. was put on the stand by Mir. Struckmeyer for former Governor Hunt. but the ballots in question could not then be found and a recess was taken until the afternoon.
 It was in the afternoon that Mir. Bullard sought light regarding the reason for throwing out Snowflake precinct and soon thereafter he an- nounced that aplication would be made
 to bring in six or seven other precincts. I,o +l,a ho at T-
 ernor Campbell had not determined whether that would be necessary. i Judge Sloan said that that would de- pend upon the ruling of the court with
 reference to the B Hunt ballots in pre- cincts where the vote couHted exceeded
 the vote cast as shown by the poll lists. Until that had been decided, Judge Sloan said that counsel for the contestant were in the dark
 Put during the noon hour plan had
 evidently been agreed upon for NIT. Pullard made an informal aplication l for permission to bring in six pre- ! circts. MT Ives interposed an ob- i lection, not formal at first, urFing that 1 the attorneys for Governor Campbell l should first make an avowal of the matters they expected to prove. He 1 said that the counsel for Governo pr l Hunt had been required to do that in 1 the case of Snowflake precinct. and ! they had also been required to offer an affidavit He would not insist upon the
 latter MT. Bullard retored that the contestant had then closed his case and i it would be opened only at the discre- i tion of the court. MT. Ives replied that ! it was within the discretion of the i court to demand an avowal before i granting the continuance sought by 1 Mi. Bullard.
 | The court intimated that the con- Itinuance would be granted anyhow, ] though he hoped that it would be talk | en for no longer time than necessary. (Continued on Page Two)