Show THE lineral BYE DETECTS AT THE POLLS reaver precinct asked to ho thrown out abiud ail letter THE T alio board of canvass orb ip pointed by the utah to tauvaa tho election returns mot in salt lake city last wednesday the board consisted of A L thomas W W riter V C A bryan t B and F hayt hon arthur L thomas was elected ih airman the canvassing then began and in alphabetical order beaver county stood first when beaver precinct was reached alio chairman brought forward following communication muni cation CITY utah august ath 1886 70 the utah election lake cuy and arthur L secretary tho candidates on tho liberal ticket for beaver county utah at tho august election 1886 hereby protest alifi issuing of certificates of election to any of the candidates on the peoples ticket and ask eliat all of alic votes cast at said election at alio beaver precinct in said county be thrown out and not counted by you and that certificates of election be issued to each of the under signed for the for which were cast fur hun at said the following grounds to wit 1 irregularity and fraud in the precinct wherein lamca eliat bad been marked removed on the list for 1881 1 and the parties from eaid precinct of beaver were again sd upon list in after the list had been returned to alic county registration without proof ftc or the taking of the affidavit by law required and tant eaid parties voted at said election on alio ad said others not on eaid list were allowed to vote unlawfully 2 eliat alic ballot box was not locked and after the closing of the polls the judges of election left said box BO unlocked in alic rom and went oft to their and were gone for more than one leour during illich time paid ballot box was left unguarded that eaid judges did not commence to count the votes polled until after 9 at night 3 eliat alio names of persons qualified to vote in said precinct were left off of alic registry list and were not allowed to vote 4 that bets were made by two of the judges of election on alic result thereof and in favor of the peoples party for which party the majority of joics were returned as having been cast 5 that liquors were freely used by the judges of election and in the room said judges were receiving votes during tho day of election and during the timo they counting alie eliat tho accompanying affidavits arc made a part of the foregoing protest jyo WARD wt n low mcgairy McG AKRY R S Lipe E W jn the last named gentleman how cyca having the above document or avon knowing of its existence or that hia namo was on tho liberal or nn ticket na a candidate for it may not amount to anything but perhaps taic rest of alio names were obtained in tho same way affidavits of mcewen james mcgarry arid win mcbride were also presented abo affidavit of joseph mcewan hales that hie name waa not on tho registration list fur 1888 alion lie voted at tho on the ad but was subsequently fraudulently placed on alic liet by jolin barra clou gli the ini davit of william mcbride Mc Brido supported by ono from mcgarry bets forth that one henry cox alias heury emerson was a from the U S army and changed his name m order to avoid that ho V 1 I B once ar restad for desertion and tried it fort camaron Cam cron but diw released from lack of evidence lib fraudulently placed tho namo of on tho registry list after it wax filed with emerson as county clerk and after barraclough had amlo ina returns to the registration of beaver county james mcgarry in liis letter to the commission says in relation to Barracloug hs conduct in placing namo on tho registry list this shows to my mind eliat john barraclough lias acted fraudulently for the purpose of obtaining as many voles as possible against the liberals of beaver county at the lato election alic following communication was read by chairman thomas utah august ath 1886 arthur L sec y utah commission si liec cili sir I 1 have tho honor to protest against the counting of alic votes of beaver precinct beaver county and also as to all votes cast in the rest of the precincts of county for one henry emerson for alic office of county clerk let ae to throwing out all alic voles of beaver precinct tho returns will chov eliat one henry acted aa one of alic judge of said election and eliat alie name henry emerson is false and assumed alic true name ofilio said fco callad henry emerson being henry cox I 1 protest against the counting of all alic votes of the eaid beaver precinct as the signature of the said henry cox alias henry is void nicil af no I 1 protest against alie counting of all votes for anc henry emerlon for tia 0 uco of county clerk as in truth fact no such person aa henry emeron exists in this county respect fully E mab attorney for james mcgarry candidate for aherin and attorney for win M low candidate for county clerk beaver county THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT MILFORD Uta hAuR ith arthur L thonis lq hlll lake uilia dear sir I 1 send you enclosed protest on of mcgarry and low we know eliat a right namo is cox und we think wo can prove eliat lie ia a from the regular army if we cun throw out beaver we will elect all our candidates please advise me as to abo proper to take in tho matter and oblige yours E mab the protests were laid over to bo disposed of at the of tho can and tho counting of tho entire beaver vote was pi oc ceded with resulting as follows commissioners to locate university lands F G W shaynor St aynor I 1 M waddell buu probate judge P it clayton oil J V christian county clerk henry emerson wm M low selectman jos H joseph alma barton as L county recorder adwir d tolton wm P smith assessor and collector samuel N slaughter R S lipscomb Lipsco mu prosecuting attorney enoch E cowdell thoa T willia SOL sheriff jasso baldwin jaa mcgarry au john G armstrong ago county treasurer C P bird R burk county surveyor J F tolton E W thompson jr coroner charles gil superintendent of district schools 11 macsar 40 WOULD if beaver precinct biad been thrown out then tho votes would stand aa follows total bal J bilge F R clayton all aia 20 73 jayo baldwin 39 1 ail CO 11 C bird 39 1 i tyyri JF 1 rl aw b jau at albair AlB tir n 1 74 9 k T chi aho ji gil i ha a ant indic ilu lie olwe abo aisy diro cc ff 10 lo glat ii favl ti eria th li aliro bri ole eKil 1 i |