Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-12-16 | Page 8 | Bar Pigs and Geese as Election Expense

I I I i I BAR PIGS AND GEESE AS ELECTION EXPENSE MINNEAPOLIS PO TS Minn Juice Juice of corn barley drippings roast suckling pi pie and roast goose are arc not legitimate items of election expense e alCor according h g- g to the county founty auditor When heir Peter Bun Bun- Jun Bert It tried to file an affidavit of expense expense ex ex- pense else pense jig such edible items thet tho the t document was refused Mr IJ Bun Bungert ert was bras Democratic I tuc for alderman of the tho eleventh ward and ran Ian se second to A. A P. P Isis His political venture cost mst him hint 50 but ho takes satisfaction in having reduced reduce f rho ho l Republican majority Whether Whether a was trying to be 10 facet facetious tons is unknown to Io the auditors auditor oS staff which gave official disapproval al to the following items hive Five suckling roast Ii pigs s served sen-rd on toasted boasted breast bread cut from froin a sixteen sixteen ounH ounce loaf and seasoned with horse radish mustard oil biJ of Jf k grapes juice junco corn cornand corn and aDd barle barley drippings s an and served sen-cd to infirm in in- I firm and disabled t voters to assist to and from flom tHe polls poJ Gt Ten fen full grown roast roasted cd geese gar ear garnished with green barley straws and cornstalks and served to w and infirm ot voters rs prior to the day o ot of election elec elec- t tion ion to tu prepare them for the or ordeal cal of election day dav 60 Mr tJ Bungert makes this statement in his affidavit it Affiant further states that as a rei result result re re- sult suIt of the foregoing expenditures and the efforts of his bis friends it has lIas been his pleasure to watch his numerous friends enjoy the roast pigs and geese eose I aforesaid and especially and tho the accessories thereto and has bas succeeded in reducing the Republican majority of of four years rears ago to plurality and although slightly d disfigured affiant enjoys good rood good health and is prepared regardless of costs or or consequences to lo continue in his liis efforts for a return to the tho sixteen sixteen- ounce loaf oaI of bread bread- Further affiant saith not saith-not not until tho tile campaign campli n of 1912