Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-06
THE PEOPLE OVERRULED
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 facts gave Governor Campbell a ma jority of sixty-seven votes.
 ] George w. P. Hunt. the contestant. could have brought the case before any cf the fifteen superior judges in | the state Of Arizona, but he chose Judge Stanford one of the presiding
 judges of Maricopa county, and a Democrat.
 : Following the decision of the trial court against them, attorneys fol Hunt appealed to the supreme court August 6, 1917. F. c. Suuckmeyer, one of the attorneys for Hunt con- testant, field an abstract of record and brief in the supreme court. The ab- stract was incomplete and Tom Camp bells attorneys were compelled by the supreme court to file nearly four hundred pages of an abstract to even supplement and correct the record, causing an extra expense for Governor Campbell. The answer and abstract were field in the supreme court.
 Supreme Court Seats Hunt
 The case was argued in the supreme court on the 18th day of October, and lasted three 'days. The court rem dered it's decision two days later. on December %, 1917 Governor Camp bell was absent from the capitol. but Hunts secretary, who had already re- turned to Phoenix and had made ar engagements to lease a house demanded possession of the office at once, and Attorney General Wiley F. Jones, or dered Governor Campbell to vacste the office immediately. despite the us. ual fifteen days in which the loser in the supreme court is granted, as aHl opportunity to seek for a new hear ing.
 Governor Campbell surrendered pos session of the office to Hunt on Christ mas morning, at 10 o'clock.
 On January 7th a request for a re, hearing was made by Governor Camp bells attorney, Judge Sloan, who pointed out many errors in the su preme courts decision. This request was denied without any explanation by the supreme court on Monday, January IA, 1918.
 Hunt Declines Challenge
 The more notable errors in the case
  Campbell's final appeal to the high est court in the state of Arizona, the will of the people. Governor Camp bell having publicly challenged Hunt to put this question up to the people of the state in the coming election.
 Gross Fraud in Douglas Precinct
 One Cf the sensations of the trial of the contest case was the exposure of the gross fraud practiced in the first precinct of Douglas, where forty two ballots were changed from Camp bell to Hunt by the election officers Of that precinct The lower court which examined these ballots was con- vinced. and any school boy could tell upcn examination of them that the cross opposite Campbell's name had been erased and another placed after Hunts name.
 The supreme court adopted the theory that detectives changed the ballots. when as a matter of fact no detectives were employed in the case until the ballots were in the posses sion Of the superior court at Phoenix. The inspection in the court at Phoenix first disclosed that they had been and the inspector of the election precinct had fled the state.
 Record Contradicts High Court
 The supreme court says that "ali )f the cfficiers who Officiated were residents and electors of Douglas pre- ,inct," but the record shows they left his precinct to vote in the adjoin- !. ing ones where their names were written on the precinct register. as provided by law in Par 2S91. The ,ourt says: "The election board was of Republicans and Demo rats" The record of the trial shows hat no Republicans served. The court ,. avs that no bystander observed any