| Show I THE PARK REGISTRAR REPLIES liie Peoples Party Howl About Fraud But the Fact is Not nstal > lislie l iI I i Mr J W Cohen registration officer I of Park City precinct Summit county in a conversation with a DEMOCRAT reporter this morning said that the charges in the Salt Lake Herald of the flth inst which I represents that in revising the registra ton list the names of those who died or i I moved from the precinct were still cared car-ed on the voting list is false and that there is no cause for any such allegations i His returns to the Commission show I I about ISO canceled names from the list I I I submitted last year twelve of which had j I died and the balance had removed from I i the precinct Only one name of a man > who is dead remains on the registration lists and that is of A M Smith who died since registration was completed Mr Alma Eldredge chairman of the I Peoples Central committee of Summit 1 I county has charged Mr Cohen with fraud I i in not striking off the names of persons who did not at that time reside prsons precinct By comparing the registration I list of this year with that of the last alec I ton he would easily have seen that he was mistaken wa I but instead set kel up a cry of Ih j fraud without making the proper investi gntions 1 The only fraudulent votes known to II have been cast were those of a polygamist of Erickson and his wife by the name Erc 8n wie I and were for the Peoples party Erick son has since skipped the precinct and has not been seen since the Saturday I after the election This polygamist of twenty years standing has his first wife inthis city I cty There were two members of the Peoples I Peo-ples party posted outside of each of the four polling places in Park City precinct At the principal polling place in Park City where 665 votes were cast the judges of election were under the eyes of Alma Smith and E T Erickson until 1 oclock Smt one registered voter being challenged by them until that time It chalenged is possible that a mistake could be made but Mr Cohen emphatically denies that any fraud was committed |
