Show A SHAMEFUL RULING lt it will be remembered that when the charge was waa first published that the name of ernest F warner had been unlawfully placed on the registration re 9 list the organ of the liberals made haste to declare that tho the putting of it there was an accident a mistake an inadvertence etc in proof of this it triumphantly exclaimed that no oath subscribed by ernest F warner warber 0 could be found among those administered by the registration officer it is in thus incidentally shown that the ellb liberals 1 1 have access to the oaths tills tide is all right they are entitled to the privilege of seeing the oaths A few deiv days ago representatives of the peopled people Is party made application to the utah commission for an order permitting them thein to examine the oaths the decision of the commission is as follows and application being further made by the said representatives of the peoples party for an order by the Commis commission illon directing that th they have access to the oaths taken during dur eing the course of registration the commission after due consideration is of the opinion that it would at present be incompatible able with the proper discharge of the their r duties by the registrars to grant such request respectfully G L GoDF GODFREY Rny chairman this ruling is an outrage not only upon the rights of thousands of citizens but upon common sense and common justice and even a provision of the very law which requires the oath to be taken the reason assigned as the basis of the ruling is twaddle of the most abject sort it would at present be incompatible with the proper discharge of their duties by the regis tram to grant such request where the incompatibility lies is not explained pla ined it cannot be it does not exist the oaths are bound in books or tied up in bundles suppose the registrar is busy why might not jae he hand those books and bundles to some person and allow the latter to see such signatures as he be might desire to examine not more than a moment of the officers time need be consumed and the oaths need not be taken from his immediate presence at all how could his duties be interfered with by such a procedure has not the commission or a majority of it lent itself to an infamous scheme to corrupt the ballot box and rob the people it is a maxim of the law that I secrecy to is the badge of fraud in this ruling and in the course taken by the registrars the law of congress to is directly and flagrantly violated the edmunds tucker law says in section 24 such registration officer to is authorized to administer said oath or affirmation and all such oaths or affirmations shall be by him delivered to the clerk of the probate court of the proper county and ad shall mall be deemed public records therein the registration oath from the instant at which it to is administered and signed is a publio public record any citizen has a right to examine at any time during business hours that citizens may exercise this right the oath Is required to be filed in a usual depository of public records but instead of doing this the registrars are retaining ta in their private and personal possession the oaths subscribed before them and denying applicants cants the right to examine them all this is in furtherance of a brazen and wicked scheme to rob the people the character of the plot and the reasons why the registrars are violating the law of congress Congre aa are too palpable to be concealed it seems impossible that the utah commission com masslon can cam fail to u understand uder stand both perfectly perfect lv well aud and yet that body bodnor bod or a majority of it 4 du stains the iniquity why are the oaths concealed Is it not because an examination of them would reveal the signatures of hundreds of men who never were nr nor 0 o pretended to be residents of this city of men who live from ten to three hu hundred adred miles distant fromia and whomever who never at any time had bad their domicile here would not signatures of ci citizens of P V junction be disclosed would not oaths be found that were administered and signed at Bunny Sun node side green river and other points far ar distant from this city by men who never even imagined their home was here 0 one ne ot of the foulest plots aver ever hatched in the midst of a free people is in process of development in cop connection with the coming city election the conspirators comprise the active workers of the liberal tt iberal party but their ultimate discomfiture and defeat are as certain as that right will outlive wrong |