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Show DEMOCRATS TALK OF A CONTEST As a result of a conference between le.idini; D. rnorraij .f the city, held at Dcin.-cratli h adquarters. it has been decided to make a thorough Invcstl-pal Invcstl-pal Inn regardlnfi th, cwidltJon of tho r KlstraUon list of tho S"ventli vollns district, which embraces the Red Llcht section of Ogden. , It wam stated ly Ietnocrat3 thl$ 1 niornlnR that thT(.i aro a larKo nntu-! nntu-! her of fictitious names on the reels-' reels-' tratloo b'oks of that district, and I that a great many itcs were cast Jor the Republican ticket In that district xester.lay that were illegal. Tho I Democrats contend that it xxaa such voting that pave Kelly. Republican candidate for the state senate, a majority ma-jority of 100 over Browning, the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for the senate, tho vote cast In tho district beiuj 130 for Kelly and 30 for Browning. Other Information came to the Democratic central committee this morning that a certain Republican worker approficbed a yount? man and told hfm to go to the Seventh dis trkt polling place and vote n name other than his own. The young man did so, even though ho had to swear his xote In after he had been challenged. chal-lenged. Ills vote was challenged on the ground that ho was nut tho person per-son xvhone name he gave to the Judges of election. The complete returns from the county give Kelly 3,850 votes and Browning C.S38, making Kollv's majority ma-jority only IS j The niode of procedure In the contest con-test will be, It 9 said, the filing of :i protest with the board of county commissioners, when It sets as a board of canvassing of the H"etion returns, against the I as nance of a certificate of election to Mr Kelly and If the certificate is issue,! to Kelly then the matter will be brought before the state legislature, which l-Mjy is sole judge of the qualifications of its members mem-bers and has absolute power to hear aJI contests touching the manner In which a member Is elected. Chairman Browning of the Democratic Demo-cratic central committee states that he is certain there was crooked work carried on in the Seventh district yesterday yes-terday and tho matter will be carefully careful-ly looked Into with the view of correcting cor-recting any wrong that has been perpetrated. per-petrated. Chairman Dye, ruid Republican work" ers who were at tho Sexcnth district yesterday, say they do not think there were any illegal votes cast |