Show MORE CAMPBELL TRICKERY tim THE new york heralds washington correspondent furnishes his paper with a list of all the anti cM mormon ormon bills which have been introduced trod into congress during the last twenty years and all ail of which have perished in their turn he sums up the lons long account as a surprising array of unsuccessful legislation in which some of the ablest men in congress have participated it is plain from a part of the correspondence that the herald correspondent has been misinformed in relation to the woman suffrage ge act passed in utah in 1870 he refers to it as perhaps as extraordinary an enactment as was ever placed on the statute books of a territory or state and no wonder for he quotes it as follows SQ be it enacted etc that every woman of twenty one years who has resided in this territory six months next preceding any genera general 1 special election born or naturalized in the united states or who is the wife widow or the daughter of a native bom born or naturalized citizen of the united states shall be entitled to vote at any election in this terri tory that the period of minority extends in males to the age of twenty one yearb yeara and in females to that of eighteen years but all minors obtain their majority by marriage we need not tell those who are posted on the laws of utah that the jast last paragraph in the above quotation janot Is not in me the women woman suf suffrage act ilat feat all the correspondent has been deceived by the the unprincipled attorney for alien allen GC ampbell who attached that paragraph to the lavi law in a published plea for his client reference enco to the utah statutes will show that jt A is an interpolation the 0 object nall mali act of introducing it as part rt of the utah elect election jon Jou law is to bolster gestar up the falsehood that all married women in utah can vote even if they are under twenty one years of age the law provides to the contrary no woman married or single can vote in utah it if not awen tyone ty one years of age but those who have asserted the falsehood me are compelled to resort to trickery to give color to their lies hence they have taken a section of a law in relation to minors passed feb and as the context shows to define who are bound by contracts and anti tacked it onto on to the woman suffrage act wl with th which it bas baa no connection and to which it has no relation and further the woman suffrage act that a woman voter must be twenty one years of age as will bo be seen above and the closing section which the conspirators have left out and for which they have substituted the section about minors reads breads thus all jaws laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed w therefore if the section a j jut out ut minors passed in 1852 could possibly be restrained strained to apply to the law passed ia in 1870 isto the repealing clause we have quoted would make that section on because the body of the bill provides that a woman must be of the age of twenty one years and to make mabe the matter doubly sure in 1878 twenty six years after the passage of the minors act and eight years after the woman suffrage acta net act a registration law was wag enacted requiring every utah voter male and female to mahe make oath that he or she Is twenty one years of age etc editors and correspondents corre should look jook into these matters for them selves and not trust to the representations of such persons as a mining adventurer trying to steal a seat in jn congress to represent a terri territory tory which has haa emphatically rejected h him m and a speculating atto attorney ey whose price for helping the fraud 10 imm obtain the seat is salary accruing from the office such buch trickery ought to be expose dand the new now york her ald aid can satisfy itself on the facts by simply referring to the Coni complied piled plied laws of utah pp ap 83 and laws of 1878 page 28 or either of them |