Nogales international., 1940-09-21
Democrats Seek To Outlaw
Political Piracy

TO more than 800 election boards throughout Ari-
Azona's IA countless biggest headache of the Demo-
cratic primary the write-in vote for Democratic
presidential electors No easy task was it for weary
board officials to tabuate thousands of penciled
names on ballots tally count IL names represent
ing four tickets.
Election boards, however, weren't the only ones to
suffer headaches from the confused electoral write
in. To Mr.. and Mrs Voter, the whole wrte-n affair
was a definite painn-the neck, indicated by the
fact that only 80 per cent of the voting Democrats
bothered at all to scrbbe names of one or more cleo
tOral candidates. At weeks end, and with taying in
many precincts yet to be done by boards of supervi
sors, it was apparent that the Writ Bowman-Dela T.
Stuart Andrew P Martin ticket received safe plur
atty if not slight ority Of all wrie-ins Positive
it was that the Frank Brophy INSPIRED Wikie Demo-
crat slate met with little Likewise, as addi
tional returns filtered in from around the state it was
evident that the Frank Gegax-nspired slate of Dr. j.
N. Harder, Della T. Stuart and Andrew P Martin got
but little public response. third Roosevelt tick
ct (itself the brain-child of Willke Democrats to
further confuse Democrat voters) did nothing more
than add to the already chaotic confusion
On the of the third pro- Roosevelt slate spon
sored by Phoenix attorney Of known pro-Willkie
views, this week brought rumblings of possible court
action One of the candidates the ticket-E Stella
Stewart prominent Phoenix althoress-was consid-
ering it learned instiuting proceedings to clear
her name of the unsavOry hint of shyster chicanerv
Mrs Stewart, it was said had permitted her name to
Do uSoO on Cno Wf1Cen tckeJ only alter she had been
assured that there was no other ticket pledged to
President Roosevelt No sooner had her name been
printed in newspaper advertisements than the all-
thoress learned that she had been misnformed that
cheap political trick had been perpetrated to capi-
talize on the similarity of her name with that of Mrs
Della T. Stuart Democratic national committeewom-
an Furious in the knowledge that she had been used
as a party to public hoax, Mrs. Stewart made her
position clear to Maricopa county Democratic leders
Il was misinformed most certainly wouldn't
have permitted my name to be used had known the
situation =. )" the authoress declared
Certain that Roosevelt-pledged ticket would be on
the general election ballot this November, Demo
cratic party leaders this week turned their attention
to ways and means of preventing similar occurances
in future years This years confusion would not have
occurred was agreed had not State Chairman Louis
B. Whitney permitted his official position and office
to be used to foster the personal ambitions of po
litical freebooter. Unwittingy, perhaps, Mr. Whit
ney gave official stature to the Harber-Stuart Mar
tin ticket last month by allowing the state commit
tees to be used the unofically slate
A majority of Demo leaders throughout the state
voiced vigorous objections to the inclusion of un
known, untested, DR.. Harber, fairly shrieked when