Arizona republican., 1917-12-23

scented Governor Hunt jn the hearing before the supreme court.
 In the beginning there was only one attorney for Governor Hunt, the late Eugene Ives. There was subsequently associated with him, F. c. Struckmey- CT. L. B. Whitney and Frank E. Curley The attorneys for the contestee were Judge R. E. Sloan, Judge John H. Campbell of Tucson, John L. Gust, Bullard & Jacobs and Hon. E. s. Clark of Prescott.
 The inspection of the ballots had been ordered by the court to begin on December F and it was begun, but on that day the contestee filed motion to Quiash on the ground that there was no subject of contest. The secretary of state, though he had issued certificates of election to many of the officers elect. had issued none to Governor Campbell. This motion was granted after a hearing on December IS and the inspection was ordered discontinued.
 An appeal was taken by the con- testant. That resulted in a stipulation between the attorneys under which the secretary of state should issue cer- tificate of election to Governor Camp bell on or before noon of December 21. That was done and the inspection was resumed the same day. Though the inspection was supposed to be con- cluded and the case was set for trial on January 9, the inspection or re- inspection continued. practically throughout the contest which ended on May ,. after a run of five months. Governor Hunt on January 1 declined to surrender the office, holding that the duties of it devolved upon him until his successor should have been determined by the court. Governor Campbell pre- scented himself for induction and a large crowd gathered at the state house where it was addressed by Gov ernor Campbell who counselled mOder- atiOn.
 | A writ of mandamus was sued out | and about the middle of January the supreme court declared MT Campbell l to be de facto governor and he entered upon the office without salary pending the final determination of the contest.
 In the contest trial first the disputed | ballots disclosed by inspection were | taken up. There were nine classes of them: Ballots with a cross before the | name of Campbell; straight party and l split for governor; straight prohibition and straight democratic; straight party and marked individually on the same l ticket but not marked for governor
 straight prohibition and split for gov ernor: ballots marked with the word
 ives" instead of the cross; the use of
 a mark other than the cross; cross be-
 heath the name of a candidate; dis tinguishing marks There were 469
 ballots under all of these disputed | al icin
 in 3S1 disputes and Campbell in 1SS | cases.
 This phase of the contest occupied
 che court until early in April when the
 contestee began an attack upon Doug
 las precinct No. 1 where fraud and ir- regularities were alleged. Indeed | immediately after the election it was
 reported that the laws had beer
 shamelessly disregarded there; there l was said to be drunkenness at the
 polls; the polls were manned by out
 siders: the ballot box was left un- guarded; election officers had beer
 betting on Hunt and democrats in Co.
 chise who were not unfriendly to Hun
 declared that the proceedings at tho
 polls of that precinct constituted al
 outrage.
 On the part of the contestee condi.
 tions in the precinct were investigated
 by a detective agency. There were 4
 ballots which had been disfigured. Th'
 square adjacent to the name of Camp
 bell had been smeared as if a mari
 had been rubbed out: there was ;
 cross in the Hunt square. In this re
 spect 47 ballots were so similar tha
 it was suspected that they had all beel
 prepared at the same time by tn
 same person. After a hearing of sever
 al days. in which a host of witnesse
 for both sides appeared Judge Stan
 ford threw out the precinct. Late that order, in the final decision. wa
 set aside the precinct was admitte' and the forty seven ballots were count ed for Campbell. which gave him
 larger majority in the precinct tha the original return had given Hunt. This was the beginning of a series o sttacks upon precincts. An investiga ton of Snowflake precinct in Apach county was begun at the instance o the contestant. Some irregularity wa shown there though it was not con tended that fraud had been cOmmitte or intended-that the result of tn election had been in any way affected : But that precinct, which had cast majority for Campbell, was thrown ou Other precincts attacked were Bis bee No. 1. Swansea. Keohan's Rancl
 Curtis. Cottonwood Miami No. : Eager. Some of these precincts gen s erally small ones, were thrown oU !. and others were retained. but later 3 the final decision all were restored an 7 Campbell was found to have receive t a majority of e. It was also ordere s that costs outside the cost of inspeC S ton should be paid by each side. I'll total cost was in the neighborhood ( t s53, 900. the greater part of it havin been incurred in bringing scores s witnesses from distant parts of u : state. An interesting fact of the COT e test was that q very large majority
 the witnesses for Campbell were den r ocrats. An appeal from the judgmel t of the court was taken on May l n The record was the most voluminol y ever offered to the court.
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