Show THE UTAH commission the utah commission was waa appointed under the edmunds law to come to this territory and to take charge of the election machinery of this territory and to guide it in such a way that what was fl illegal before should be stopped and to see that those not qualified to vote under the laws of the country should not vote that all who were qualified should have a chance to vote and have their va votes tea fairly counted of course the foregoing Is from the liberal organ it is a small part of a column of laudation of the commission mingled with abuse of dr goo L miller it would be interesting to compare this with the attacks made by the same organ upon the same commission in the fall of 1882 the commission then had not became an adjunct of the liberal Libe raly faction the commission then had not played the shoestring game in liberal interests the commission then had not made it possible that liberal methods method sin in elections could be pursued in utah the rhe corn com mission then favored an election for delegate which the tribune opposed and therefore came in for its bill ingate and bile we do not quote their fulsome adulation now DOW so 80 we abstain from reproducing their abusive language then but let us examine the sentences we have clipped above the law under which the commission was created does not convey any such ideas as are claimed there is in nothing illegal appointment which was wa to be stopped the law made new bondt tiona and the commission was waa appoint ed under them with certain defined powers which it proceeded at once to overstep and aad had to be called to a halt by the supreme court of the united states previous oua to the coming of the commission there had been nothing illegal at elections in utah except the ellb lib era eral 11 frauds in tooele thoele county which were fully exposed and finally over come all who were qualified to vote had bad a chance to vote and have their votes fairly counted since then fraud has been rampant hundreds of legal voters have been pro prevented from depositing their ballots they have not had the chance to vote nor to have their votes counted at all this has been proven beyond question the utah commission know it as well as we do there are other things they have understanding of but do not know as well as swe we do for the simple reason that they did not want the evidence the tribune has had a good deal to say about 1 flim flemmers 11 until the writers upon it who seemed to be famil tar with that kind of gentry used the term we had never heard of it but the only flim flemmers utah has ever had were liberals working for the liberal faction and they were nev never er heard of in utah nor could they have operated here before the advent of the utah commission the tribune says say s they were I 1 brought here by the mormon church and paid for by the mormon church the records of the courts do not bear this out they show conclusively that they were liberals and that they him film flamed flam med md for ct liberal ii interests inter ess t but were checked up by the strong arm of the law As usual the tribune lies about this matter and the wilful falsehood la in very stupid too nobody but a liberal has had a chance to flimflam flim flam pa it to is peculiar to liberal methods and rendered impossible to any but Ic liberal illiberal tools because of the liberal liberi 1 I composition of the boards of election officers the work of the utah commission the 99 mormon church did not send for anybody in reference to el election edtion affairs nor did it pay anybody for election work we believe the tribune people understand that as aa well as any body and the peoples PeO pIts party neither sent for nor bad b a d any use for or connection wi with thany any flim film flammer or other criminal of that kind for they are all I liberals and their Is ia al work and their company and as so clates are entirely 4 liberals of the baser sort eort we do not wish to say very much 1 about the utah commission and would not now but for their false and fulsome praise by the omune which once spit upon them with its ordinary venom A body sent to see that justice in election matters to is done which will use the tactics for which the name of gerry has become nationally infamous refrain from adopting measures that would secure a fait fair registration gi refuse to remove men of its own appointment who were robbing citizens of their legal rights who would wink at palpable corruption and injustice so fix the election boards that a minority bad the power to defraud the majority of hundreds of votes and do other things in the plain and open interest of a faction instead of the public is not entitled to the respect of honorable men of any party dr miller has an established leputa tion which no tribune scribes can lessen or besmirch he Is the peer of any man on the utah commission in every respect and his name and work will shine when the body called the utah commission is covered with the clouds of oblivion and relegated to the limbo of un american relies relics of oppression and other political monstrosities |