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Show i J L' Ls Oi - ON Alleged - That Republican Tickets Were Counted ; By the Democrats. DENVER, Dec. 1-Hearlng in contempt con-tempt cases growing out of violations of injunctions writs issued previous to the lecent election, was resumed in the Su-; Su-; preme court yesterday. ' The men charged in the cases on trial are John Sullivan, Democratic commit-,toeman commit-,toeman In Precinct 9 of Ward 6; 8. S. Barker, William Reid, Willie E Bpencer. Acction Judges, and Charles W. Branch and John K. Dixon election clerks. The substance of the charge against the men is that they conspired to steal the election in the precinct in which they -served by stuffing the ballot boxes; that the election officials -refused to appoint a Republican clerk of election, and in-, in-, tcrfered with Supreme court watchers. . Chief Justice Gabbert ordered the ballot box brought into the coart and opened. The Clerk of the Court counted 325 bal-' bal-' lots in the box. The returns made by the election officials and certified by the election commission in the official can-.vass can-.vass was 872. . It Is claimed that a. number of ballots placed in the box were not those of legal le-gal voters and the court appointed two : handwriting experts to examine the ballots. bal-lots. They will determine which, it any, are fraudulent and will report to the court. It was also developed duilng the count- InK of the ballots that thtre was a discrepancy dis-crepancy between the amount of straight - - Republican votes returned .by the election elec-tion officials and the number dlsclowd whtn the box was opened today. The covrt found 116 of this description, whereas the returns showed seventy, nine. A number of straight Republican votes were found mixed with the bunch of "straight Democir.tic ballots." and ' the inference is made that they were counted as such. |