Arizona republican., 1917-03-28

of Mr.. Smith. The witness was not
sure. but it was her impression that
ii was voting ballot As to the color
of 1t she thought it was white, but of
her own volition she added that she
could not be sure about that In reply
~ question she said she knew Mr..
| Smith well and that he was an honor
aDIe and upright gentleman.
Democratic Assistance
Miss Hanson, the next witness. said
she had received instruction from w.
Il. Stratton, who, it was later learned,
was a Judge of the election and a dem
ocrat. She said Mr.. Stratton gave her
a ballot and showed her how to mark
1t. 1t was the first experience of Miss
Hanson, who is very young woman.
at the polls. Mr. Stratton only point
ed out to her the names at the head of
the ticket, which he told her were those
OF non-partisan candidates. He showed
her how the cross was made in the
squares and in order to be explicit he
made cross in the square opposite
the name of o. J. Baughn, candidate
Tor justice of the supreme court. The
witness said she permitted the cross
10 remain there and in that shape the
ballot was put into the box. On cross
examination the witness said that Mr..
( Stratton pointed out no name to her
ana made no suggestion as TO candi-
dates to be voted for.
The other witness was Mr.. Flake
who, it transpired, really saw nothing
except Mr.. Smith going into room
and the back of a voter in that room
as the door was opening and closing.
The witness had just voted and he
was leaving a booth to go to the bal
lot box. He saw Mr.. Smith then going
INTO the other room and close the door
A man whom he did not know was sit
ting at a desk and seemed to have a
ballot spread out before him.
The inspector. who it turned out was
the brother of the witness, told him he !;
did not like the way things were going,
and asked the witness to send over a
couple Of the election laws. The wit
ness did so. Mr.. Flake said he had
known Mr. Smith for 3S years. Smith
is cashier of the Northern Arizona
bank. prominent in a political way and
very influential, socially and eccles- |
astically. He has a further hold upon
the community by reason of the fact
that he is the eldest son OF a large
family. In the opinion of the witness
he is related within the third degree to
80 per cent of the residents OF the pre-
cinct.
Well he couldn't help that, sug-
gested Mr.. Bullard.
Mr.. Flake admitted that that ex-
tensive relationship could not he i'm !
puted to him as crime. He said, Il
am related to Go or 20 people in the
community" And you are not to
be blamed for that" said Mr.. Bul-
lard
On redirect examination. Mr.. |!
Flake said that Mr. Smith had told !
him that he was a republican chab /
lenger at the polls and had been !
there all day.
In the course of his direct examin- |
alton, Mr.. Flake said that the cleo !
ton board consisted of James NJ. |!
Flake, inspector; ". Z. Stratton and !
c. H. Ballard, judges; Don C. Smith !
ard George Hunt, clerks. Asked as to
the party affiliations OF the judges, he |
said that Ballard was republican !
and that Stratton "a kind of demo- !
clat." Asked to elaborate on that |
answer he said that he understood |
that Stratton had supported some of |
the republican candidates. Mr. Cur |
leg was disposed to let it 60 at that |
But on cross examination. Mr.. Flake |
said that he did not know whethet !
Mr. Stratton was a Campbell demo-
crat or not. He admitted that STRAIT