Arizona republican., 1917-04-29
CONTEST END
 DEPENDS UPON
 HUNT ATTORNEY


 torneys for the contestant. decision would have been handed uoWn by ! Judge Stanford yesterday in the gov ernOrship contest. The day before MT. Ives of counsel for the contestant had | indicated that that side of the case i would be closed along with the case of ! the contestee which had been ordered | to he closed yesterday. Remarks by | the court in the morning pointed to a | decision in the course of the day and | it appeared that it was about to come | when in the middle of the afternoon, | Judge Sloan, saying that though the cOntestee had several other precincts | to bring in in which Irregularities had been reported, and though other phases of the case such as the Blank A" bal lots could not be gone into for lack of time, said that the case of the con- testee would now be regarded as closed and he would move to strike the re- turns from the precincts of Bisbee No 1, Swansea, Keohane Ranch, Cotton
 wood. Curtis, Miami No. 3 and Eager. MT Ives objected that the motion was premature. He was asked by the court if he was not ready to close and the court said that he had understood from the remarks of counsel the day before that the contestant would have i nothing further to offer. Mir. Ives said that he had not so stated definitely
 and he could not then decide whether evidence would be offered in rebuttal of that adduced by the contestee re- garding the questioned precincts
 The court suggested that a short re- 1 cess be taken, but MT. Ives said that 1 he would be unable to reach a conclu- l sion in the course of the afternoon. It was then decided to let the matter go ! 11ptil NIon1atr IJo
 the attorneys if they desired to offer i arguments. If not he desired to ques- 1 tion them regarding various phases of 1 the case. When it was finally decided 1 to take a recess until Monday morning ] when possibly rebuttaI testimony
 would be put in, Judge Sloan said that , the attorneys for the contest had been 1 diligently trying to bring in other wit i nesses as to Cottonwood precinct. He
 had heard that one of them was in
 town, but had been unable to locate
 him. The court then stated that if ne 1 or other witnesses should appear by
 Monday morning they might be heard.
 The contestant had one witness from
 Cottonwood, but he was not called to
 the stand. He is Charles D. Willard,
 the inspector of that precinct on No
 vember and whose alleged political
 activities were made the basis for the
 eLb'fiCh uBoIl lHdl precinct.
 In his address in the morning Judge
 Stanford stated that he had worked
 the night before in connection with his
 stenographer in collecting the figures
 and data necessary to a decision He
 took occasion also to refer to rumor
 that he said had been repeated to him
 by one of the attorneys, that he had
 made up his mind already That he
 said was unfair to the court and could
 have had it's origin only in the mind
 of one unfamiliar with the proceedings
 or the labor and thought the court had
 given to the case and must yet give
 10 it. It was developed later in the
 day that the attorney to whom the
 court refH"red was Mir. Struckmeyer
 Evidence in FebUttal
 Very late in the afternoon the con
 testant put on in rehuttal of the evi-
 dence for the cOrtoetea as to Swansea precinct. Dr. Tolleson. one of the mem bers of the election hoard. Dr Tolle-
 son gave the impression of sincerity g and though desiroUs of serving tn, n case of the contestant, did not contro
 vert essentially the evidence of tn,
 Witnesses for the contestee Dr. Tol IT. leson stated that of the twenty-eigb Q voters of Blank A. ballots five cam . rom Planet, the register of that ore 70 cinct having been for some reason sen . to Swansea. Bv the way. it turned oI ii that some of the voters of that precinc i voted at keOhane ranch in anothe e county. Dr. Tolleson said as one of tn r former witnesses had said, that Swan Q sea was a ten day" camp the voter is coming and going. On cross exami < nation he said that F. R. Bunker tn
 merchant at Swansea and an actiy
 democrat was man of great influenc e in the community
 If Regarding the testimony of one e - the witnesses that a voter so drum is that he had to he physically assiste ,e mad voted, Dr. Tolleson said that whil d the voter was not helDlessly drunk h n was under the influence of liouor. On n or the most significant admission J., made by him under cross examina n ton was the statement that a man b :" the name of Ming of Yuma, a Hun IS worker, had asked him to sign an af er 1daVlt stating in effect that the cleo m tlon at Swansea had been conducte " regularly. The doctor had refused " sign it. He stated that all the electio
 officers were democrats
 . The hearing began in the mornin
 With the testimony of Miss Jaeger. or k ot the clerks of Miami No 3. Her tes III timony corroborated that of Lukesh , HI the day before and added some strong HI CT features to it. Regarding the occr HI pancy of election booths by two Del HI sons at the same time, she said tn; III she believed that husbands were show HI Ing their wives how to vote On cro, HI examination she said that though sI HI dld not know any of them the fa, HI that one was a man and the other HI woman had led her to such a concl, HI sion. She said that one voter. RoseI HI SWeig had assisted his wife outside fl HI booths and in the course of the i, Hi struction there seemed to be some di HI pute between them as to one of u HI candidates to be voted for
 HI Dispositions from Eaqer
 HI The dispositions from Eager precin lll were read. There were some eight Ill ten of them, mostly those for the col HI testee. One of them was the depos HI tion of Mrs. Cecilia Hamlin. 6S yea HI of age and of defective vision. Sl Ill had asked E. w Wiltbank. one of Il III election board to assist her and he hf III done so, showing her where to mal III the ballot, or she was not sure that ljl had not marked it himself. Udall Il HI republican judge, she said on eros HI examination, did not accompany Vii III bank to the polls
 III In his deposition MT UdalI corrobo II ated the testimony of Joseph H. Pier III and Henry Udall the day before. I III sad he went to the polls about HI o'clock. There was nobody there b III Cha rlpe cb.r