Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-09
RIGHT ID SEAT IS CONFIRMED
 BY STANFORD
Special to the Journal-Miner.

| drawn-out governorShlp contest has
 ended and Governor Thomas F.
 Campbell retains the office which he
 entered early in the year on an order
 from the Supreme court, sustaining
 his certificate of election.
 At the end of a struggle of five
 months almost to a day, Judge Stan-
 ford of the Superior court late this
 afternoon, at the end of day of argu-
 ment, at times acrimonious, held Governor Campbell to have received more votes on November / of last
 year than were cast for former Gov
 ernor C. w. F. Hunt. How many
 more has not yet been determined; ii will probably take day or two to get the figures strengthened out; it
 can only be said that under the de-
 cision the majority of Governor
 Campbell will range between 30 and SO The official count last Decembef
 gave him exactly 30.
 The decision announced by the court was SO complex, touching upon so many factors, that to many 1t was not apparent whether the decision was in favor of Hunt or Campbell and attorneys of the latter asked how the figures then stood. In reply Judge Stanford said that his majority was somewhere between 30 and 50 Judge
 Sloan asked that judgment should then be entered. The order was made and Senator F. s. Ives, of counsel for former Governor Hunt, gave notice of an appeal to the Supreme court.
 The announcement of the decision was preceded for an hour after the conclusion of the arguments by the offering of ballots by both sides from various precincts in which there were discrepancies between the poll lists and the count, and in which one side or the other had secured gains in their count Neither the court nor the attorneys was clear as to the status of many of these ballots and before the matter was strengthened out Judge Stanford called Judge Sloan and Mir. Ives before him and after brief conference a recess was taken and the judge accompanied by the attorneys retired to chambers.
 On their return the decision was announced, preceded by remarks by the court upon the difficulties of his position. The task. he said, was a T, FAr man. It involved the interpretation of the not clearly expressed will of the people The court said that his judgment had been anticipated since last Friday when he began making up his judgment It had been difficult, even impossible, to preserve secrecy regarding it. since he had been obliged to call upon clerical assistance and to secure data from other persons. The court further stated that he had labor cd faithfully to arrive at a result that would be a fair expression of the win of the voters. Many doubts and prob lens had presented themselves and when the doubts were insoluble, he had decided them in favor of the con testant.
 Then the decision was given. With respect to the ballots, some 25 of them, which had been given to Camp bell by an earlier decision, because the voters had marked the square op- posite his name in the Prohibition column in counties where the name of no Prohibition candidate for gov ernor appeared on the ticket, and the plain intent of the voter had been to vote for Campbell, the court stated that this ruling was now changed and those ballots would be taken from Campbell but would not be given to Hunt
 After statement with reference to l other classes of ballots which had been held in suspension, the court took up the motion of the contestee for the striking out of certain pre- cincts on account of irregularities | similar to those of Snowflake precinct He denied the motion to strike as to Bisbee No. l, Miami No. 3, and Keo- hane ranch. He granted it as to Swansea, Cottonwood. Curtis and Eager. These four precincts had given Hunt an aggregate majority O, l56. The court stated that Douglas precinct No. l, which some weeks aga was stricken out would be restored but 43 votes in this precinct which had been counted for Hunt would be given to Campbell. In this precinc, Hunt had been given majority of l23 by the official count
 There was a further statement by the court which was not understood by all in the room, and not even by all of the attorneys It was that Snowflake with majority of 1lS for which had been thrown out, would be restored, as would also the four precincts which had been just named as having been stricken out.
 A suggestion regarding the costs was made and Judge Stanford said that the statutes required that the