Show SEVEN SEVET TO CONTEST CONTE ELECTION ELECT 1 N I RESULTS ak seek to H have ve vote at helper and price declared null and void many irregularities alleged by republic democratic can nominees during the day reen proceed edings inga wilt will be tilt filed d by defeated candidates foi bounty frices at the no so vernier emler election the title of the tile t lunt tats are an as fol follow loNs 1 m I 1 outs on la huff va is colling hn ham m vo v draper loo va is Ila hamilton mllton a golding ve no ballin per xer and wetzel a I 1 orester the sw seven e n contestants ask that all vote votes creal credited eted the contestant contestants in the helper and price precinct st be declared by the district court to be he null and am void nold and be excluded from the official count of votes notes for contestants and cont contesters estees for the several olcen for which the contestants contee tanta were ere can did ates in each instance the nature of the rom complaint plaint Is 1 practically the name with the exception of the number of 0 kotva o tea credited to the candidates b thy the camas canvassing ing board the particular particular grounds upun which the contestants base their contest in the helper district are as follow fol ioNn a that the voting in eat mat district waa was through error fraud mistake and on the part of the pretended judges of election contestants then allege that II 11 8 S allison san sam stein and inoch arl ner were ere appointed by the board of clenty corn com t s of carbon county BS a the judges of election of helper precinct but that none of slid persona persons m so appointed took or subscribed to the constitutional or oath of office and that no pi reon raon qualified a a judge of e election in said a ild precinct and further that raid said stein and bryner caused to t be he opened the sealed scaled package containing the official ballota ballots of said 9 of pt allson that said pretended judges of election failed to provide any guard rull or other equivalent or any means of obstructing bystander bystanders and eneta ton tora from approaching hing ulphin elx six feet or any mothr distance of the basolt box or of the voting booth booths or corn com P pirt menta and that no obstruction or div dh lelon islon waa was erected or provided whereby hereby the approach of bystanders or other person could be or avae as pre ent d and that by reason of which derti spectators and the general public were illegally permitted dur ing all hours from the opening of the poll polls until the close thereof to be and remain in close 1 proximity to and within the prohibited distance of the ballot box and the noting booth booths and apartments apart menta po ro that waa wax not afforded the elector electors and that security from froni interference intimidation timi dation and annoyance ann oance contemplated by lav ie is necessity necess iry gary and proper here ere entire disregarded regarded die and that large numbers of persons were per milted to remain within a statie di of leia lem than elx six feet of the I 1 allot box booth booths and compartments during virtually all the time from the ope opening nini to the closing of the polla polls and were permitted to intermingle with loters while in the act of obtaining ballots ant noting at said election the contestant contestants further allege that said pretended judges of election permitted william T hamilton candidate for the office of county i i commin eloner for the four year term and J T I ritch candidate for the boffl offlie e of tale state to be and remain at the entrance to the room where euch much election was in progress reee and within twenty feet from the ballot box where iotes were being depo elid and during nearly all the time while a ich election wilm in progress eald said pretended judgen judges permitted said hamilton and fitch to there electioneer and to anno pers persuade intimidate and influence voter oters and person persons cornine corning to eald said election place for the purpose of voting noting by entreaty conversation and argument and to poet post and keep posted outside of thi room where wherein ln luch uch is 11 to in progress a camp imite ba ballot lot marked to indicate how the ballot might be cast for the resole candidates at such election and that a large number of voter were vere subjected to euch such interference annoyance intimidation ana and persuasion ef of euch much candidate candidates that at meen clock the judges declared the polls closed and excluded from the room the general public there as cal emeled led and locked the doo of said room and that a few having at key to the door of aid alj room were permitted to enter except euch ouch bemo a ts who entered by the invitation vi or pe 11 of persona persons po tice of ouch much a key and that euch such keys were posses possessed sd only by william T joseph barbogollo and william cok cook and that euch such malcon duct was committed r ith the knowledge and consent nt of the pretended pret i judges of election that eald said judge permitted one I 1 D D 1 gibson t to electioneer within the th room on behalf of the candidates that a private cataen wan was permitted to enter the polling place and to have to the ballot box and the 11 lote lots therein contained about 3 2 0 clock the following morning and allowed him to t eort sort ballete and otherwise tamper and interfere with them that after the closing clotting of the polla polls th said judges of election carusd the voting I 1 booths to ae e plad d against the wi wan n dowa of the room wherein the election was held so as to effectual effect effectually ua 11 ext lude all ovation if U rough a earh is window I 1 I 1 that m T hamilton ita milton at dif dit feret tilts during the night rf of november sit anil and in the earl morning hours of hoveiler hov emler ith fth amused to net and actually did act ni am a judge of aid said electron election and actually took posses aton slon of aind made entries upon one of the official tally sheets and anti participated in the corint of the official ballota ballots and waa aliened to relieve and take the place of wild enoch Dr arnner Il who at dif different feren v ent to a distant part of the room and slept while cald enid hamilton acted in his estrad that eald said ballot box was not kept locked ao 80 that the ballots would be free from be being I 1 ng tampered with seeking tri t throw out to iu frice erice district the contestants rn ke the following allegations that at a meeting of the board of county commissioners on april ath 1913 three election elet let tion precincts were ero created in n aal mat I 1 distri t that on october 19 1914 the following electon n judges were named by the comai john mathis john potter and john 11 II pace 1 judges of district no 1 which should include all namee names from A to 0 john prince ser TI 01 ol an men and john A forsth judges of district no 2 which should include all names from it to N george fausett ed oleon olson end and george E ockey judges of 41 strict no 3 which should include all ill names from 0 to Z that judgen of ot election within bald said price celins precinct dt thathy hat cidern had no or ki ToWing he location of any of the voting precincts therein and that no territorial 0 geo eo graphical or ve designations were made or attempted and that by reason cf of a it t failure on the part of the courly ho rao valid registration of the voters of either of said pretended three election pre delte waa was made or kept and no valid legal election waa was had within either of said pretended election districts and no valid or legal votes were cast therein the reason that such pic pro tended district districts have hae no real existence that one matt gilmour a mem her ber of the progressive party wa wits cho oen to act as the registration agent tor for each and a of said three pretend ed election districts so 0 o that oa an to at least tuo of euch such pretended election districts no qualified registration agent wax appointed to act or acted the contestants further aver that belthe nel the john mathis nt r john pace nor john potter were ere qualified dec elec tore tors A f district no I 1 and that neither of them had the right to vot not in th district which they pretend it d to represent A similar allegation Is made malle in reference to john prince seren 01 nien and john A JL forayth For myth pretended ded judges of district na 0 o 2 in district dietr lct no 3 it la Is averred that george fau nett wa wan not a qualified elector of pretended distri district Lt no 3 ily fly reamon of these alli ced irregularities the con tx aver that all ail of the vote notes cast la the three districts were fraudulent und void old and that the aid mald judges had no authority au thorit to count them or include them in the election return returns in their prayer to the court the contestant contestants ask that all vote votes credited the contestants and cont exteen in the precincts nt of price and helper be de oared null and void old and be ev excluded eluded from the official count of alz is for contestants conten tanta tants and contesters cont estees for the several cour ty offices contested and that the official canmann and returns of the county commissioners of carbon county flitting pitting an a board of be corrected after the exclusion of the artee tea lat cant in price and helper pre ts is tn tit the event the contestants are su in having the vote note in the two precincts thrown thron out on account of the alleged it would mean the election of the entire lican democratic ticket with the exception of the county rec ador and aud state representative 8 1 alt helper aune one be thrown out ire I 1 mar etien wetzel and hill would have majora ties over oer their opponents ponente op in accord accordance accor dince ainee with the election statute the content must be heard not leea less than ten nor more than twenty lays 1 after it Is has been filed with the county clrk clerk the complaints by the several con t will be he verified during the afternoon and filed with the county elerk clerk W N wetzel and george col langham ling harn of sunnyside Sunny side candidate for th the officer of county suroor eur sur eor and county assessor respectively george iluff of scofield for tie tic two year term and i W JIM of wt we lington candidate andl andi date f for r the office of a wilt will arrive arrhe on in price during the day to swear to the complaints |