The Coconino sun., 1918-10-11
THE PEOPLE OVERRULED
How Tom Campbell Deprived Governohp After Having Been Elected by Peope-Not
 Out But Forced to Pay s4 12225 o Huntas Costs

this question up to the people of the state in the coming election.
 Gross Fraud in Douglas Precinct. One of 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 convinced and any school boy could tell upon examination of them that the cross op- posite 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 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 mutilated, and the inspector of the election precinct had fled the state.
 Record Conradicts High Court.
 The supreme court says that "all of the officers who officiated we're residents of and electors of Douglas precinct" but the record shows they left this precinct to vote in the ad- joining ones where their names were written on the precinct register, as provided by law in Par. 2891. The court says: "The election board was composed of Republicans and Demo- crats." The record of the trial shows no Republicans served. The court says that no bystander observed anything wrong being done, yet the unimpeach- ed testimony of Deputy Sheriff Cross says that after hearing complaints of irregularities he inspected the ballots being counted and found small bits of rubber and paper still adhering to the ballots where they had been erased.
 Watcher Was Intimidated
 The court says that no party watch CT made any complaint. The record is that Mir. c. w. Redline was forced to leave the polling place under threats of the election board when he complained of the method of counting. The court itself, in it's decision, de- scribes the marked ballots in Douglas No. 1 as being mutilated. The law says that mutilated ballots shall not be counted, but the supreme court counted over seventy mutilated bal lots in Douglas No. 1 for Hunt.
 The sworn inspection notes made by Hunts inspectors and submitted to the supreme court in the mandamus case brought by Tom Campbell to ob- tain possession of his office, admitted a loss of sixteen votes from the of ficial returns of Douglas precinct No. 1. There were more ballots than names on the poll book. The ballots, after being changed, did not agree with the count, but the supreme court held that the official returns of the election board were correct.
 Fraud" Says Judge Stan
 ford. ...
 The supreme court would not con slider the confession of H. H. Hart, the election judge, made to Bruce Steph.. enson, assistant county attorney Of Cochise county, in the hearing of an- other reputable attorney, nor the con fession of Hart made to w. w. Hol- ther in the hearing of five witnesses, one an ex-United States marshal, and another the city attorney of Douglas. This evidence was never impeached.
 Judge Stanford, in ruling on this precinct. after listening to all the evi- dence, said: Desperate fraud was in Douglas precinct No. l." and found the ballots were taken from Campbell and given to Hunt at some time during the count or shortly :.
 If Judge Stanford was correct in his finding that the election officers stole voes for Hunt in Doug las No. 1, legally cast for Campbell, the supreme court of the state of Ari- zona, in deciding against Campbell, gave him the rawest deal ever given a man in the history of American poll tics.
 The record shows that the supreme court is in error when it found that the board of supervisors of Coconino county re-convened within the six-day period and duly canvassed the returns off Camp Ten, which had not been re- reived along with the other. ballots. but which the supreme court counted for Hunt.
 The supreme court. in its decision. the mark (X) as the word scross" as set forth in Section 2941. Notice to Voters. They then looked up the word "cross" in the Century Dictionary, and under the definition If the word "cross" found four other kind of Crosses" which they substi- tuted for the mark (X) in order to count twenty-eight ballots for Hunt, while shortly before this in their de- .ision they held that voter must sub ,taptially comply with the law.
 Blind to Distinguishing Marks.
 The supreme court says, In regard ,o distinguishing marks, in order to