Show the springville Spring ville case decided VOTE ALLOWED Cs decided on n strict ary vote the county contests arc on today utah county canvass occupied the of the xetah commission and the canvassing board all day wednesday the city contest was taken up and acted upon by the canyan serb this case was one in which the votes of certain portion of mapleton precinct were charged by the kepueli can contestants to bo illegally cast on the grounds beet forth in the following complaint presented ty mr J W N on behalf of the spring dihe republicans territorial canvassing board in the matter of canvassing the municipal vote 0 utah county utah ome now 8 M davis H M dougall Doue all william and don 0 fulmer residents of the said 8 M having been at the last election held at springville Spring ville a regular candidate tor alie office of mayor of said baring ville aud the said H M dougall william bimson and don 0 fulmer being at said election regular candidates for city in eaid city and object in the of said vote to the counting or of any votes or the returns of any votes cast at mableton Ma oleton precinct in utah county or at what is called noil aso 2 ol 01 springville Spring ville for laid of on the following grounds to wit 1 that none of the persons voting at precinct fr said officers at baid springville Spring ville were registered in 2 that the returns made of said election held at mableton Ma oleton show upon thir that they are from mapleton and not iram 3 llo returns made of the election him at mableton Ma oleton for eaid officers goes not enow that it was an election for municipal officers in and doea not on its face purport to bo returns of the municipal election held for springville Spring ville but on the contrary purports to ba on its face and is the returns of a municipal election held at mapleton mr delivered a lengthy argument on the propositions embodied in the objections his contention was that mapleton had been set apart as ft separate precinct from springville Spring ville and istanish fork and elected ilg own constable and of the peace spring villa did not levy taxes on mapleton Map lelon and had a bumen the entire responsibility for the bond wrentha wh entha dia jo ning of mapleton Ma occurred we contend continued cattou that if they had registered at own precinct all would have been well the nad no right to establish polling place after the regis lad bean taken if the people of mapleton wanted simply to vote for slate fien they aoud have registered at their own precinct but if they want d 0 vote for springville Spring ville municipal of ficera their names should have ap pea ed on the registration list mr cotton contended not within the province of the commisa B un to make lavra and it was an un hoad ot thing for people living outside the limite of city to be al bowed to yote for its officers mi P L william arener for the democrats who had induced tha maple ton people to vote in for its officers the corporate limits had bean fix elsaid he by legislature and all within those limits wore entitled to vole for city of ficera part of mapleton being included on those limits the board by a strict party vote decided that the mapleton people wera entitled to vote for officers mr intimated to the board that abo case would be carried into the courte there waa no doubt in the of many of those who listened to that the republicans will bo victorious in a court of justice the utah commission canvass the returns of the state election abair man graham of utah county was pree j ent with attorney arthur brown to j watch the count it was clear that I 1 james T thorn republican wae elected and the face of the returns showed that fiyo democrats De were elected though this is by no means conclusive aagut three only were required to elect J F bringhurst Bring huret and then there were discrepancies enough to give the election fo mr and possibly the only way to settle this question or will be to open the boxes of lehi american fork and probably two other precincts it is that today mr graham and mr brown will demand that these boxes be opened there arc five ballots that were not counted by the lehi judges because they were found in the box put there in mistake by the presiding judge and there are two more republican ballots that were for the same reason not counted by the american fork judges these votes when counted will elect mr without doubt chairman graham has also a number of cases of illegal voting and cases where republicans wrongfully denied the right to cast their ballots in several of the precincts of utah county which when adjusted will give mr T 32 cutler hia rightful seat in the state senate the utah commission mai conclude that they have no authority to make the adjustment and chairman graham may have to look elsewhere to gret justice done the republican candi dl tates there has within the past two weeks been a considerable number of irregularities discovered which in reality when corrected should sat five of the republican legislative nominees the democrats conducted the recent election in a highhanded manner and perpetrated some palpable frauds mr jame T thorne before the canvassing board on wednesday and asked that certain corrections be made in the pleasant broye count consideration will be given the matter today SALT nov 29 special to the enquirer the ittai county wag commission hay under consideration the proposition for tho opening of the american fork and lehi boxes which would elect bringhurst Brine hurst republican oyer lemon democrat if the commission refuse to open the boxes the case will be taken into court or to the legislature and it ia expected that four republicans will finally be seated |