| Show START LITiGATION TION TO COMPEL PAPER BALLOTS Democratic and Bull u Con on Candidates Candidates Candidates Can Can- File Mandamus Proceedings upon a petition in mandamus B BASED proceedings the tho court yesterday Issued an alternative writ jt of mandate requiring the county count commis commis- commissioners to appear at 2 o'clock this afternoon afternoon aft art and show cause caUdO wh why a peremptory peremptory per per- writ should not be be Issued compelling them to provide pro Australian ballots for use in jn the yoUng voting dl districts of or Salt SaIl Luke Lake county count and an city Ht tit the coming comins election ejection rho Tho petition was filed b by Charles W. W Lawrence Harry Hany S. S Joseph and Ben Den S S. Rives hives Lawrence I Is candidate for Cor county county county coun coun- ty clerk on the tho Bull Moose ticket ct Rives RIve la Is can candidate for the tho sumo Slime office on the Democratic ticket ct and Joseph himself elf as independent candidate candidate candi candi- date for Con Congress As r respondents Inthe in inthe inthe the petition arc are named John C. C Mackay chairman and Walter alter J J. J Burton and 0 O. W. W Carlson The petition is based baaed on the contention contention conten conten- tion that one voting machine will win not accommodate all nil tho the voters oters in sumo some of ot the thc thickly populated districts that thu they do not give the voter a free and proper ex exercise of or his hie voting voting- privilege that the one ono minute of or time allowed each cach voter In Insufficient time for Cor him to vote voto ft n scratched ticket and that the machines arc so 50 constructed that a voter voter voter vot vot- er who writes tho the name namo of ol an independent Inde inde- Independent pendent or additional candidate In the place provided Is not allowed to reverse his vote In case caso of ot mistake Trick Frick Nut ot to Sit Sh Chief Justice J. J E E. Prick being a n. candidate can can- didato for reelection election and having an interest la lit tho time election declined tel Iff consider the matter and when whon t the writ Is heard on return another Judge wIllbe willbe will willbe be culled In by br Justices D D. D N N. and W. W M M. M McCarty McCart to sit alt with them Filing Flung of the tho petition in mandamus proceedings came after otter committees representing representing rep rep- resenting the various arlou political parties had inspected the voting machines The I commissioners Informed tho rho committee I that it was impossible under tho the law to provide both the machine and ballot because o two to of judges would have to be ho provided ell and tho the law ways says there thero shall be he but one set eel of ju judges in to each cach voting place One machine was opened and ox ex Tire The machine was found to l be e working correctly and properly A thorough examination showed no rubber rub rub- rubber ber bands hands or other other contrivances b by which any an crook crooked ll registration or of votes might hl be bo accomplished hed Text Other othel The Time machines not sealed wore worked in every ever conceivable manner but hut no one was WoH able nule to Mho show any means b by n which hielm one ono could cou be o fixed or 01 doctored so IU o as to register improperly Prior to examining tho the machines the protestants gathered in the or orthe orthe the he commission slon on and renewed arguments a a against use usa of ot the machines machine n Those ThoRO pr present were W. W T T. Gunter and J J. J W. W Y Burton Democrats If 11 H H. H Anderson W n WD D U. Livingston J T J 11 II l' l and und A A. A 1 N. N 0 Bull Moose Theodore Peter Peterson on Socialist Labor W. W II 11 H. H Shearman ilp- ilp publican and and II S Joseph Sh Shearman arman was not protesting but hut demanding that those who charged the machines could be bo manipulated produce proof of ot their lc |
