| Show POLITICAL olg ANTI tim THE following affidavit pu published blushed in the inter idaho shows the true inwardness ward ness of mr ar sin Siri giser gisen who Is trying in to run himself into CO oon congress Gon gress I 1 on I 1 the antl anti mormon hobby it also atso exhibits the kind of democracy that emburs COIE cole colea A wall who seems deems to be on the verge of Insa insanity tilty on the crusade que question against the mormon people TERRITORY TERRI tory TOnY OF IDAHO 1 1 county of nez perce J ss 69 I 1 isaac H ingham bl being first duly sworn do depose and say that I 1 am now a resident ofAs of assolin As W T that I 1 was a resident of alturas alburas county idaho territory continuously from the year 1878 until the month of december 1883 that I 1 am well acquainted with T TF F aln giser republican candidate for Dele delegate gite to congress that he was a candidate for the same office in the year 1882 that in said alturas alburas county there was a precinct called junction precinct that the poll books for said precinct were left at the house of one matthew oconner for thomas hart one of the J judges of election and so duly appointed to serve at the november election in 1882 that at the suggestion 1 estion and request of said T P F sing sang fa iser er affiant went to house bouse and procured the said poll books and delivered th the same to one E R leonard who took them the house of one I 1 patton att on a distance of about Is I 1 miles and annd dell deil delivered delivered vered them into the hands of T F and W T riley alley who were there that thereupon said leonard and riley ulley closeted themselves in a room in said pattons Pat tons house and there prepared from republican tickets ticket with name thereon for congress and erased from a ia large portion of the same salpe the name of zhe the J H harris the republican candidate for joint councilman and inserted I 1 in n lieu ilen thereof the name of E A wall that five hundred of these tickets were thus prepared prepared pared and that thereupon said sald sa Fre d riley and leonard prepared a list of bogus names corresponding correspond in with the number of tickets that the tickets and list thus prepared with the poll books were the morning of election returned by said leonard and ana riley to the house of oconner the place where the election was appointed appointed to take place there being no box dox box prepared for the reception of tickets affiant made a box about 2 au feet long and cut cur a hole in the top thereof near one end that with his own hands hante aided in putting the ithe bogus tickets in the box that at the request of sin giser leonard and riley and in their presence affiant nailed up the box with the said bogus tickets therein that the box was then delivered to thos hart who at once announced the polls epen open and proceeded with the election that not to exceed legal votes were cast at sall sali precinct at the november election tion for 1882 and yet e t over were counted andre and returned turne yd as having i been cast thereat thal that said thomas thoma s hart was induced to aid in the fraud adora sald said by the payment of money a portion of which was furnished by that said sald hart ampol appointed anted his own associate j cludges and clerks at said election and by b that means was enabled to and ad did count and return as legal votes the said rm tickets thus fraudulently placed in the box aforesaid 1 I 11 subscribed to and sworn before me this day of septem september er 4 W T I 1 SEAL Is stary public witnesses to the above signatures signature JASPER RAND W F kettenbach N T CATON calon J W PARKER I 1 sam SAMUEL MUEL 0 HUTCHINGS |
