Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-20 | Page 3 | Gross Frauds Found

GROSS FRAUDS FOUND I Startling Charges Arc Made at Toledo To-ledo Ohio Toledo 0 Marc 19 Gross frauds are said t have been discovered by the bard of elections today in its investigation by special request of the tally sheets used in the Eleventh ward primaries Friday evening and the result may be that the convention of Saturday wherein Mayor Major was renominated will be declared void In the examination today it was discovered that five of the antiMajor delegates in the ward in question were counted out whereas they had a minimum mini-mum majority of 2 over the others and the Major delegates declared elected Other questionable methods are said to have prevailed in the Second and Fourth wards and tally sheets of these will be gone over tomorrow by the board The antiMajor men point to the fact that the convention refused to appoint a committee on credentials as evidence that fraud prevailed In the primaries