Show nm OF the attempt to steal the convention BALLOT BOXES stunted isott democrats last tear in county scoundrels unpunished the democratic party in its plat boses aa of an nonet t ballot I 1 let ua see if this is in keeping with their acte when one looks avar the field kofl rascality attempted to the people of this territory at the leas election be must this arst n tion aa a craod and false pretense look at the record in county alone where the democratic party aided by ertsin parties in or employed on the utah commission endeavored to change the result of the complexion of abe constitutional convention by ballot fornary fo reary in sanpete connay at the last election over 80 forgeries were proven tj have bein committed comitted comit ted when the election made their to the utah there were no aror or discrepancies in the returns john T caine and A E avde visited many precincts in lacounty shortly after tha election and conversed with many of the julues of election and oiher persona on the subject of the election after their visit to changes end discrepancies in the were discovered and shown by the oath of many compe tent witnesses on the trial of tha sw pete cases testimony on this trial conclusively proves that the word voted was marked after the names of over 30 persons who bad not voted at all and that the hand resembled that of george E blair who then and ia now clerk in the commission the following were marked as having voted that never voted at all some of them were dead come had moved away or not at home on election day and two were in the peni tertiary tent iary the testimony shows that opposite the mames of the persons the word voted was forged bv gome after the had been made by the judges of election viz F banell of chester andrew mariin H Ephraim Iansen edwin F joanson Job and stevens of Ep braia john W of Fairview richurd crather baas 0 adnson ar i and james hendrickson of gunni son wiliaim and jochin andeson of moroni the testimony aso shows and to which there was DO contradiction that i cross waa marked opposite the follow ng names in different ink from that used by the judges indicating that they had voted when in fast they bad not voted viz john W orten james D T boox hans anderson civille carlston of fairview braun A caspain of fountain green fen blea erastue conrad and jt cob keller ot danli oe P jessen andrew jenann sr i hazard wilcox jamea kaaa ball johnson and andrew johndon of mt pleasant john F of spring cita by meins of these forgeries in eph mim precinct alone the democratic candidates for tue constitutional convention each gained four votes and the republican candidates each lost four it is evident that four straight republican ballum bad been taken out tha box and four democratic ballots placed in the box in fountain green each republican lost five votes and each democratic candidate gained five votes tha evidence shows that 5 straight Hs publican votes had been taken from tha box ani 5 democratic ballots had been ed in the box in dannison Oan nison 3 democratic candidates bained 2 votes in manti all the ru candidates bost 6 and all democratic candidates gain 5 votes in mt pleasant the democratic can dilates gain 4 votes and the republican lose 4 votes it is alao a fact that in each instance where the forebay wa chown that tha highest democratic g lined aad the lowest republican candidates lost by tha forgeries in moroni all a democratic candidates gain 5 votes except three who only gained 4 all republican lose 6 rotes except land who loit lo it 7 this shows that 6 straight republican ballots were taken oat of the bor and 5 democratic straight ballots ra into the box in spring city the test many shows that each democrat trained 3 and each republican loat 4 except lara n and jolley wholes 5 and 3 respectively the evidence ence on the trial of abla cesa shows conclusively that forgeries were planned and curried out by dpn of the democratic party who sought to overthrow the will of the people by the southern method the same tactics were attempted to be carried in the third precinct of aalt lake city and thy testimony in tha hands of the officers show that the most fraud wad there attempted to deprive the peo ole of their ccoce in this precinct about W democratic ballots were put into the ballot box and 50 republican ballots taken out in order to defeat the election of john henry smith and other publican Eo in city the was still more apparent there they even went to the extremity of to build new ballot boxes for the purpose of substituting them in the place of choso need on election day with all the evidence of these etu before the prosecuting of ficera of the territory not one of the have been convicted and no attempt has been mada to indict tae cuilty parties in salt lake or rauda in all decency and candor people jadeite whether or not tha cratic pany are in favor of an honest ballot and a fair count |