Show EIGHT THREE i And the Eight are LibeMs THE SCHOOL BOARD PYer People and Williams Liberal go in Together INFAMOUS LIBERAL FRAUDS The Vote is Nearly 1600 Under the February Vote Tho People Lose Nearly 1000 and the Liberals Over GOO The school election under the new law is I over and the city board of education will consist of eight Liberals and three Peoples Peo-ples party men follows MAI OR GEORGE 11 SCOTT Chairman Liberal HIRAM JOHNSON Liberal G W Sxow Liberal WILLIAM NELSON Liberal T C ARMSTRONG JR Liberal W J NEWMAN People J N PIKE People GEORGE D PYPER People P L WILLIAMS LiberaL L U COLBATH Liberal C E MITCHENER Liberal It will stand that way it should be said with a proviso which is that the scoun drelly frauds perpetrated in the Fourth precinct are not found t be sufficient to unseat P L Williams who went in by the small majority of two votes The Liberals win whore it was a foregone fore-gone conclusion that theywould winin the First Second and Fifth precincts In the Fourth Richard Young pulled the full strength of his party 339 votes but Lippman was scratched in favor of Pyper which elected that gentleman by a majority major-ity of 15 Williams cast two votes more than Young In the Third always a Peoples Peo-ples party stronghold Newman and Pike go in by safe majorities As the tables below show the voting was far below that of February last I will be a mortifying reflection to the Peoples Peo-ples party in the First precinct that had I they taken care in registering and only polled as heavy a vote as they did in Feb ruary they would have won the victory and should Williams be unseated put the whole board People by a majority of one Frauds and swindles ofa character more open boldand unblushing than in February Febru-ary were perpetrated notably at the Third and Fourth precincts and more especially at the Fourth where the Liberals Liber-als knew it would only take a few votes to turn the result P V Junction evidently sent up its hordes again or if not that point the same rascally but cunning hand that before manipulated frauds along the line of the Rio Grande Western and around its depot in this city was at work and with a good degree of success The steps of the theatre last evening of the Deseret National Na-tional bank of the Commercial National and the saloons around Godbes corner all al told in unmistakable language of the herds of tough looking strangers who had flocked t the town for voting day With grand and petit juries with registration regis-tration officers and a majority of the judges of election with justices of the peace court commissioners deputy marshals and policemen all Liberals the public have expected ex-pected a great deal in the way of election frauds but were not prepared for the open and barefaced dishonesty that characterized char-acterized the voting Word came to THE HERALD in the afternoon that some of the saloons were Open on the side and were being usel b Liberal Lib-eral heelers in hiring men to go to the polls to represent and vote the names of absent members of that ambitious party The purchase price was sometimes whisky sometimes cigars sometimes even women eveJ and in exceptionally difficult cases cash The modus operandi was to secure the voter furnish him with the name he was t vote put him and a squad of his fellows in an excursion wagon and convey them to the doubtful poll under the guidance guid-ance of a tough where they were turned over to another heeler who instructed them in a few of tho points upon which they were apt to be questioned by the Peoples challengers They marched into the polls but were sized up by the Peoples challengers and were asked some very pertinent questions as to the dumber of their houses and the names of the streets on which they lived which in nearly every instance they were unable to answer further than to say they lived in tho Twentyliri ward or as was stated by sevcnil of those less instructed at Becks Hot spring or the Denver Rio Grande depot hotoL Many of these worthies were frightened1 at the fusi scent of danger and were glad to tiscjpu from the polls without arrest Otlieis without doubt eluded vigilance of tho Peoples party m2n and it is conli denily believed enough frauds can be ox Pposc to unseat P L Williams the man j who got in by so narrow a majority The I public is asked lo read the account of some I of these frauds taken down on the spot by KcuiLD representatives This shameless disregard of the common decencies of politics will be considered a disgraceful by those who are not so completely com-pletely American as to completely unfair un-fair I is a suggestion we take ifa wry faint one ofwhat may be looked for in August |