Show MORE COMMENTS ON THE ELECTION TH R weft wed shore is a magazine published in Po portland Aland oregon it is not a heavy weight in the arena of journalism but it has a few comments upon the recent election in this city which we will notice here they arv are truly every american has cause to rejoice in the official overthrow of the mormon priesthood in salt lake city and if the stories of official corruption and misrule in that city be but half true the citizens of that misgoverned governed mis m municipality mon I 1 n ici be they gentile or mormon have great t reason to congratulate themselves the mormon prom press claim that notorious fraud was practiced without which the liberal majority of would woud have been the other way if there is any ground whatever for this assertion they should should take the matter into the courts the american people cannot afford to permit fraud to be practiced at elections even for the overthrow of church domination in civil affairs the chances are that there is but little wool fraud is cried by a defeated party 19 so pe that the shout is expected t d every time corruption is overthrown no one will be inclined to believe in its existence unless at least an effort is made to prove it in the courts such talk as aa this about the coffi official cial overthrow of the mormon priesthood in salt lake city to is absurd to a degree difficult to describe the members of the non mormon P churches in this city were almost solid in their opposition to the peoples peopled party aud the result was sue BUG cess to the liberals I with whom they united now suppose that the peopled party win next time tim how would it sound for a man or public journal to say that the priesthood of the catholic episcopal methodist baptist and other churches here had been overthrown overthrow nl would it not sound like the gibberish with which idiocy amuses it itself se if the language used by the west wed shore has much the same sound to intelligent people here the weal or woo woe of the mormon priesthood no more do depended upon the municipal election in this city than did the fate of the catholic priesthood or the clergy of any other denomination the ignorance and stupidity of the average editor who undertakes undertake to treat upon utah affair is only equalled equal led by the assurance with which he feigns to possess correct information concerning them the intimation that the city has been corruptly governed by the peoples peopled party is new As a matter of fact tourists travelers and writers have almost invariably y referred to this as a model among Amer american tean cities in its low rate of taxation and the excellent order maintained corruption of city officials was not even alleged as an issue in the campaign that the liberals won the election by frauds of the most daring and brazen character is not even denied by their peaty party managers indeed they virtually admit and glory in the che truth of the oh eh irge relying upon the condition boasted of publicly by one of their leaders that the liberals have control of the courts of this thin territory the condition of jurisprudence in this Territt territory ity does not inspire confidence in the outcome of a case between mormons cormons Mor mons and their opponents unless it to is one that can be appealed to a higher tribunal that than the territorial courts jury trial in the english and A american me belse sense of the term has long been practically abolished in this territory mormons cormons Mor mons are rigorously excluded from the jury lots lists hud and should one happen to be summoned on a venire a cast iron oath aimed at his religion must be taken by him the practical result is that no mormons cormons Mor mons sit on juries that proof of fraud is entitled to no weight unless presented in the courts is a proposition original with west wed shore apply this rule to practical politics and the result would be that the honesty of public men man ought not to be questioned and the people ought to continue to elect them teem to office and support the party they represent until they have huff been convicted of crime pacts facts notorious as say aay circumstance of current history ought not to influence the citizen in casting his ballot nor in determining ter mining which party he willen will endorse until judicially established the absurdity of such a position n to is too apparent to need comment the frauds by which the cliber liberals 11 secured a triumph in this city are historical and will be held by the community as notorious facts whether the evidence of them shall or shall not be introduced in court |