Show fri n the daly THE LISTS THE OATH alie salt balce anin Tn in is suddenly possessed of a great desire to have the registration lists of the capital purged ot thir superfluous names and an entirely new list made before the february election the other papers will doubtless pin in the demand and the powers that control euch matters cannot very well refuse their gracious approval of the universal desire it registration lists bae any value at all it is in that they furnish a true and accurate roster of those legally entitled to exercise the As they frequently fail in this respect and are then only an invitation to fraud and dishonesty at elections they should in all reason either be made to fulfill the object of their creation or be abolished altogether we have had experience in the matter in ogden and know what a farce the thing has been our therefore to the and a hearty wish that when the corrective movement shall be inaugurated its course may not be stayed until its beneficial results shall have swept off oar lists scores of deceased and departed voters whose zealous friends are at times tempted to prove that the former though gone may still speak through the ballot box the secret of the In bunes anxiety lion ever lies in the fact that it wants the zane form of voters oath instead of the carleton form administered to the candidates for the suffrage it has strangely overlooked th idaho test oath which is even more comprehensive than judge zanes and would seem to be in everyday every way preferable fe as many of the tribunes own friends could not swallow the bolus as prepared by the chief justice Ju we will not be strenuous upon this point however and we trust the will not As the formulating of an occasional oath and the of a few registration officers are about the only arduous duties or performing which the honorable hino rable utah commission get tzuoo each per annum we all ought to be considerate enough to let these toilsome efforts pasa without criticism and be accepted without cavil well take the new list but shall not insist on any additional swearing |