Show THE TEEB TOOELE PROTEST NO GROUND UPON WHICH THE LIBERAL B CANDIDATE CAN CONTEST when the board of canvassers completed peeled the counting of the tooele thoele county 0 nt y vote yesterday afternoon it was shown blown that john A be van the peoples party candidate for assessor and collector had received a large majority over david B stover the liberal candidate the latter however served notice of a protest against giving the certificate of election to mr bevan on on the ground that the latter was ineligible for the office mr bevan was notified of the protest and a hearing before the stati commission and board of canvassers was set for today today at 11 a in when the case was called up mr stover stated that he protested against the certificate of election being given to mr bevan solely on the ground that thai the latter was not able to take tte registration oath he read the ath section of the edmunds lawi law chasing polygamists and offered in support of his bis alla allegation gation the fOl following lOwin affidavit of robert scott U US S deputy deptin Y marshal and a deputy registration officer the peculiar document is given without changes in orthography or punctuation blockton TON tooele thoele count utah august 1886 athe undersigned undersigner under signed robert scott deputy registrar of voters for tooele thoele precinct tooele thoele county in may and june revisions 1886 of the list of voters for that fc herby certify that john A bevan has been away on a mission for over 3 years returned to tooele thoele city about the end of february could not se him when going aground in may he came to my office in june at the time I 1 was reves reveling Rev esing 1 ll 11 9 the L st asked me if he could re reg gusLer esier I 1 asked him when he had returned from the southern part of the states he said you mean from my mission he then told me he came back about the end of I 1 then told him he had not been 6 mont months hsin in the territory Terr etory I 1 then read to him the oath or affidavit and and asked him if he could swear to that he replied he could not therefore ther etore I 1 did not re register va 11 ter him as a citizen ROBERT BERT SCOTT deputy registrar tooele thoele mr stover stated that mr bevan had given no reason why he could not take the registration oath and argued that unless the oath was subscribed to the certificate certin cate of election could not be issued mr J H moyle movie who appeared on behalf of mr bevan stated so far as the registration oath was concerned that applied only to voters and bad no effect upon the qualifications for holding in office in answer to ane assertion tet that mr bevan had bad said he could not take the oath he would say that he bad been absent from Utah traveling about iwo and a half years during that time he was a resident here his family were living in tooele thoele county and precinct a and nd he paid taxes there he never acquired residence or voted anywhere else e se he had applied to the registrar regi 8 tr a r scott for registration and the latter told him h in he had not been home six months I 1 so he did not take the oath at that time lime understanding that the mattor matter was referred to the commission ComInIs sion on the last day of registration mr bevan went to scott and offered to take the oath but the registrar refused ref sed to permit peri nit it mr r A S paddock of the utah commission asked mr bevan whether he was willing I 1 to take the oath that he was not a bigamist or polygamist ard was answered in the affirmative secretary thomas then administered the registration oath to Mr Bevan the commission decided that he was entitled to the certificate the refusal of permittie permit the registration was accredited to the registrars not p properly rop understanding the word resided in the 0 oath a t h |