Show makes a bad showing for democrats contestants WILL WIN certainly they ought to abany democrats toted who if ad no legal at the opening of the proceedings be lore special commissioner dudley yesterday mr announced that the contestants expected to show that two ballots cast in american fork for bringhurst should have been placed in the state box but were by mistake of the judges of election placed in the city box and when they were discovered die covered they were in behalf 0 bringhurst hurst but the judges failed to count them that at lehi poll votes were wrongfully placed in the city box and not courtad but dt stroked at poll 2 five votes were found in the wrong box and not counted and that tour of these were for as were the other votes not counted at poll 1 mr also stated that the would chow that at mapleton no proper notice of the election wag given that a notice waa bostad postad staling that the election would ke arild at the meeting houfe but that the election was held in the house of aan johnson that at santaquin San the poll was closed at 0 and ion minutes after was reopened against the protest of the republican judge of election and john agun ahun permitted to vote and that he voted against he contestants mr also named the following whom ha would show had been permitted to vote at different llacsa in ahe county but who were not legally entitled to vote and who voted against the contestants provo first ward john W pike william gibbie W 0 norrell provo fifth ward IS 8 bowley emil faeber lehi jamss pateion VV E wilson J A bees E hancock spanish fork E E robinson chomas lloyd jr ephram bowe george bell 0 A mr also stated that hs would show that the names if B H gilliland and H bastion were Bt ricken off tha registration list of fair field beso gentlemen gentl emea bad legal righetto right to vote 8 M davis of springville Spring ville waa first witness testified on october 28 1895 saw notice of election to be held nov 5 1895 at mapleton posted on mr curtica Cur tisa store notice stated thai i the election would be held at the meeting house meeting diagonally across the street ten rods from the store saw no other notice and there is no other maetina me etina house in mapleton M W molan of the same evidence luther chase also of identified a copy be had made of the notice did not know where the original ia he bad left it on the store after I 1 taking copy copy ia correct it was introduced in evidence witness had looked carefully for other notices of election in the mapleton Maple toa precinct but had not boen able to find any john R hindley of american folk testified was judge of election oo 00 nov assisted in counting votes at close of election in the city box there were two state balati in blue enveloped they were net chanted anted co witness had one of those ballot 3 the other one had been lost while in bid testified ahat the lost one was exactly like the one be now bad the ballot was introduced in e it was an republican ticket witness testified further first saw the ballot as it came out of the city box it was in a buff envelope there were two ballots for city officers in blue envelopes put in the state box the presiding judge objected to their being counted witness received ballots from presiding judge on cross examination witness testified that the ballota had been placed in the proper boxes BO far as the color of the envelop ia would indicate tha blue envelopes in the bbate boothe bub eai in the city box george hales of spanish fork testified that george bell of that place voted at last election and that bell ia looked upon as being insane mr Is he a democrat or a republican A ft bard question to gnawer Q abo does he train with A his hoys train with the demo crate he dont trin ath anybody witness testified also that lloyd of winter quarters carbon county and E E robinson of mammoth aleo voted in spanish fork at the last election mr robinson witness said had not lived in spanish fork for about two years had a home there which he rents to other parties george A hicks of spanish fork testified that E E robinson and his family livel at mammoth thomas lloyd jr alsi lived at mammoth he voted at the last election and witness also thought mr robinson voted but was not anre of men were democratic ocra tic he also knew george bell he is religiously insane could not say that ha was politically insane did not know his politics but bis surroundings were democratic ephraine Eph raina rowe another democrat cime down from winter quarters to vote be did not live in spanish fork thomas evans of spanish fork fled that ebhraim rowe lived somewhere in pleasant valley cairon county he voted at fork on the ath of november bitress did not know how he voted thomas lloyd jr of mammoth bad also voted in spanish fork george bell fork waa crazy and he voted E E robinson of voted on the ath of november Noy ember at spanish folk on cross witness testified that thoa lloyd jr was a young man about 25 years of age par enta live in spanish fork and he sometimes came 10 spanish fork to bia parents joseph I 1 chatwin of santaquin San tes tided that the poll was closed at 5 presiding jude announced that the polls were closed ater that a man by the name of john A allin had deposited an envelope which witness supposed contained a ballota ballo tm the state box he did not know bow krablin Mr Ablin voted but knew he was a democrat this evidence in adjournment waa taken until thia at 10 thomas dallin testified that the mapleton election was at the rosi dence of aaron johnson not at the meeting bouse aa specified it would bo held in the notice of election judge of election at poll 2 lehi testified found three republican and two democratic state ballots in wrong box they were not counted one republican ticket and one democratic waa scratched wm evana another judge gave game evidence the ballots we re not counted he burned them of in corroborated the testimony of yesterday that john ahlin a democrat was allowed to vote ten minutes alter poll clord ah ian to yote when only two judges were picked his ballot from the table on which the democratic tickets were kept 0 A mace a nonresident and a also bein allowed to vote mons Anu oreon of lehl testified thai jamba resident over to voe E of leai talve county tickets were found in the state box and thee state tickets in the city box two were republican they were not count ed T H duff testified that had been in germany for two years previous to the election he was permitted to vote at the provo fifth ward poll and he voted a democratic ticket witness testified that E 8 Cowley of aalt lake city had voted democratic ticket at that poll also J W N testified that gowley and his family lived in salt lake john 0 graham testified that emil maeser had returned from germany about two or three daya before the election maaser bad told witness that he voted at the election and voted the democratic ticket be also said to witness that he had a right to vote the city ticeen bat did not have a right to vote the state ticket because be bad not registered no one however had challenged him and he voted the stale ticket also john H mcewan testified that mae voted the democratic state ticket straight john W pike testified that last no vember he waa residing in provo bis family resided in salt lake they moved to salt lake about tho middle of october at that time was in doubt aa to whore he would make his residence when bis family moved away be had expected to return to aca did return but bad no expectation of moving his family to provo to reside here permanently sinca the election he himself had lived at salt lake with bis family when not attending bis ties aa court stenographer in provo he voted for state officers in provo first ward on nov ath last after hia family left provo he lived at tha hotel roberts which Is io the second ward Pr oTObe fore bib family left he lived in the S R tharman testified that he had known mr pice ten or twelve icare and hoped he was a democrat in fact he knew he was would give his opinion RS bow mr pike doted but did not know george evana of lebi was recalled re called and testified that janus a nonresident voted at lehi and voted the democratic ticket john baxey of testified that maeder and cowley are democrats THIS AFTERNOON spanish n at ed hales testimony to the effect that Robert aou and lovd don and democrats voted at spanish fork professor woolfe and Jesse J knight are testify ing as to gibbie and norrell Damo crati cot entitled who voted in ane first ward provo |