Arizona republican., 1917-03-20
ARTHUR C. PEARSON IS
 MENDACITY CHAMPION
 w GOVERNOR CONTEST

If there were any in the superior | court room yesterday gifted with that | peculiar second Sight which enables l them to visualize White People i those long since passed away, they |, must have seen the humbled ghosts i of Baron Munchausen, Sinbad and !, other famous fabricists lowing low before MT Arthur C. Pearson in the witness chair, and rendering him the'l championship belts they had so long worn Pearson was the chief figure in the rebuttal to be offered by the>contestant l in the governorship fight against the proof of fraud in Douglas Precinct No. ! 1 on which the attorneys for the con l testee had relied in their motion to strike that precinct out in it's entirety 1 Pearson who was the inspector or 1 judge of the election in that precinct, arrived in the city on Sunday morning Other witnesses in rebuttal were H. H. Hart. the other inspector or judge, ana i whose name next to that of Pearson, had been mentioned more frequently than that of any other in connection with the alleged frauds, Robert Car IisIe and O. B. Nelson, also members ot the board There were, beside them, Mrs. Bertie Hart the wife of Hart Clyde Grammar. in whose lntreest as candidate for justice of the peace or Douglas precinct it was alleged that fraud had also been committed, and dozen other persons all of whom had been subpOenaed by the contestant
 The Rebuttal
 If was not known until yesterday morning that the rebuttal would be at temnted Judge Stanford had an nounced that he would rule yesterday on the motion to strike out this pre- cinct unless the contestant should elect to introduce evidence in rebuttal, : thoueh he had not indicated what hls ruling would be. On Saturday MT Ives chief counsel for the contestant P had indicated that rebuttal would pc ioffered and he made what was lntenE- ed to be an astounding statement that s Pearson had been discovered at Dem c ing. New Mexico.
 He pictured him at that time as a moor weak mortal who had been splr- !, tied ont of Arizona by designing de- = tectives in the interest of Governor x lCamDbell They had taken him to Dem
 ing and had kept him under the m < fluence of liquor had paid his board n bought his clothing and had otherWls' s contrived to keep him out of the stat' l. until after the settlement or the con 1t fest The denunciation by MT. Ives O V inc detectives had been exceedingly e hitter and he had more than insinuateI
 that this kidnapping ot the Wea'
 Pearson had not been without LII T knowledge of the attorneys TOT the col'
 testee. { It was not therefore, with surpris i that it was learned from Mir Ives yes
 terdav morning, that he was ready [
 nroceed with the rebuttal; that he va ! in nossession of Pearson and also, Una | he had secured the presence or H. l Hart who had been subpoenaed 10 the contestee, but who was so III las Thursday that a telegram was receive
 announcing his inability to be presen When MT. Hart appeared to be swor
 before being placed under rule ne ol
 not look like one who mad been
 recently grabbed out of the Jaws
 death.
 Rut at the end of the day, surprl!
 was expressed that so astute laWy' ] as MT. Ives had permitted Pearsoh G go on the stand with such a story
 he related.
 a Witness Who Didn't Know
 Ii had been the intention of MT. Ives nlace Pearson on the stand tlrst, to
 followed by Hart. But Pearson WI
 not in the court room and 0. 5. Nelso
 
 z another member of the election ooa VI was called Nelson is quite youi man and told what appeared to pc straightforward story under the SKI ful questioning of his attorney, thoul
 under the rigid cross examination
 Mr Bullard it was shorn Of all |
 value it might have had for the co ,eG testant. But out of it in the light to q later statement by Pearson, II W ow not without value to the side or | Mr. oontastee
 Nelson claimed to have been at tn 1W time a resident of the first precif ely though he was not later He sala up went to the polling place at fiite minutes before o'clock. He sald the t first that he went there with Fears .F illF hut later that statement was corre' aoI loll ed he went at the suggestion or Pes SCI son. On his arrival there was no c ;n there. Pearson testified that he ss- first at the polls and that he had go
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