| Show V V V IRREGULARITIES ARE V Republican Judges of Election Who Were Candidates Tampered V With Second Their Names on Ballots Which Were Given Men to Vote Many more Irregularities in tho con duet of the election lit county Were yesterday in the judge judgeship ship It was shown that ono of the judges of election was himself a candidate for justice of the peace and I that hex personally saw to the writing of his own name under the of nearly every ballot led to voters for use In his district kie per personally wrote his namon and C E I Condie a RepublIcan c of another district wrote ninetyfour This lal district was Morgan No 4 and the 1 candidate was Mornan H Welch This circumstance coming out after the first recount injected a new element into the ease from the fact that part of the lets were written by a candidate The district was gone over again and ballots reclassified Mr Welch and Mr ComBo each testified anti also Richard Frye one of the election judges it also developed according to the tes testimony of SW White candidate for justice of the peace of Canyon Creek district who had acted as Judge of olec tion nd had written his own name on tile ballot In the Republican column be before fore supplyIng them to the voters had also written the name of Samuel Fior ence Republican candidate for con stabler Orson M Porter Republican checker had also assisted in the writing and testified tO the fact Also that the ballots were given to the voters not fold as hr law There were many objections raised by bythe the attorneys for the contestant In the I light of this evidence on the ground that the ballots contained identifying marks that the candidate for Office lied acted as judge of election and that parties other than the judges had been allowed to handle them and that this balot was not secret The sIxteen packages of ballots from Davis county were identified by the Davis county clerk Henry Stahle and also by his deputy The envelopes were all found in good shape and the two officers testified that they only hind had access to the whore they were kept A start was made On the Davis county ballots but it soon developed that the contestants attorneys Powers and C c Rich ards were challenging practically all the ballots and theIr finally extended into a general challenge on the ground that the ballots were not accord lug to law in that they contained a od motto V above the Socialist coi nina This motto was of the World Unite After some Judge Morse that he would pass on this objectIon this morning During the day several witnesses were also relative to the Weber county the witnesses per sons who had had access to the vault where the Weber county ballots had kept and the testified In every case that they did not know of the ballots being tampered with |
