Arizona republican., 1917-03-17
THROWING OUT ALTERED BALLOTS
CONDON|NG FRAUD, CONTENTION
Campbell Supporters Ask
He Be Given Douglas No.
l Votes They Contend
Were Cast for Governor

No further developments took place
in the matter of Douglas precinct No.
l in the governors contest yesterday.
on the reconvening of superior court,
Judge Sloan for Governor Campbell
asked for & segregation of the ballots
of that precinct, so that those in
which alterations had been made in
favor of Barnum, the democratic can
didate for justice of the peace, might
be distinguished from those in which
Campbell ballots had been altered
for Hunt. Before that went on, the
attorneys Cor the contestee referred
to their motion for the exclusion of
that precinct and suggested an early
ruling by the court. Judge Stanford
Indicated that he did not care to
throw out all of the ballots; some OF
them appeared net to have been tam
pered with. Judge Sloan replied that
opportunity had been given to tamper
with all of them, and it could not be
known definitely whether any of them
had escaped. Presumably, some OF
them had but the count there had
been so conducted that it was i'm
possible to say to what extent the
fraud had been carried. In such
cases the rule, he said, had been to
disregard the candidate in whose in
terest the fraud had been committee
the ballots that had been palpably
altered. it was urged that they We're
Campbell oall0ts and to throw them
out would be to deprive the governor
of votes that had been cast for him
and to permit half the contamination
of the attempted fraud
Mr.. Ives for the contestant Opposes
ruling upon the nation until the
case of the contestee had been closed.
if necessary, 70 contrCVert the teSti-
mony OF Thursday, but he did not
want to inject his defense OF the cleo
ton board into the case at this stage,
and he declared that he would not
do it.
Ruling Comes Today
Judge Sloan and Mr.. Bullard asked
the court if the lew in the case might
be presented, but after some further
colloQuy it was decided to let this
matter go over until this morning
when some ruling will be announced
regarding the view of Mr.. Ives as to
the time for the disposition of the
Douglas precinct phase OF the ease.
The same announcement applied to
the motion of cOntestee 10 strike out
the votes that had been counted in
excess Of the amount shown by the
poll lists. There are IS ballots at
fected by the motion.
There is still another matter to be
determined by the court. That was a
proposition by Mr., Ives to enter into
fraud hunting himself. He said he
had not intended to do so and would
not have done so but for the eXcur-
sion CT the other side into the Doug
las precinct He now proposed to call
into question the vote of Snowflake
precinct He charged fraud there
The nature of it was not. stated by
him, but it has been reported that
several of the voters there had been
accompanied into the booth ~ man
of the unusual c0gnomen of Smith.
Judge Campbell regarded the state
ment OF Mr. Ives as humorous. 1t
was ridiculous, he said. TO suppose
that II Mr. Ives had thought he could
throw ouL Snowflake precinct, he
would net have done so. Judge Sloan
denied ;he right Of the contestant tC
amend his COMPLAINT at this late date
50 that he could enter into in an in
vcstieation of Snowflake precinct. The
proposed procedure. he declared. was
unprecedented. Judge Campbell re-
fesred to d stipulation he had entered
into with Mr. Curiey of The contest
ants counsel on this point undar
which such p proceeding could not be
hognn unless the ground Ior II hau