Show A LIBERAL LIBEL EXPLODED The organ of the Liberals In Inthis inthis inthis this city which is ever ready to publish any falsehood that can be concocted and used against the J People of this Territory stated on the that it was receiving hundreds of letters showing that the Mormons continue to bring brings s r colonizers here Out of these hundreds of letters it was wae dilly Gilly able to produce one and here it is isas Isas isas as published WELLSVILLE Utah Sept 19 1889 1850 O 0 W Powers Powers Esq B q Sir Two men from this place o have haTe been sent ent to Salt Suit Lake diV Oi They are there to vote at the next election Their names are re Edwin Mitton and John JohnW JohnW JohnW W Mitton Left here two weeks since This like the story told by the same organ of Liberal libel in regard to some young men from Sanpete is a deliberate false false- falsehood falsehood falsehood hood We do not believe any such letter was received but that it was fabricated in Inthis this city from iI information that thet wo men named were at work here We exploded the pete story made up by a not notorious spotter potter but the organ of falsehood r continues to use it as a fact Act We now proceed to let daylight into the latest colonization yarn yarD The following affidavit Is clear and to the point TERRITORY OF UTAH as Salt Bait Lake County j jEdwin Edwin Mitton and John W Mit- Mit Mitton Mit ton bei ng first duly sworn ea each h for himself deposes ann and says That his residence is now and for more than twenty years last past has been at Wellsville C Cache che County Utah Th That t on or about the 3rd day of September 1889 be bew became became w came to Salt alt Lake City for the sole purpose of obtaining temporary em- em employment employment em employment That neither prior to nor at any anytime anytime time since leaving his hia store store- said has baa he contemplated or even thought of changing his residence or attempting to vote at any time I or or Y place other than at said Wellsville What hat he has not at the prese present t time any intention of remaining in Salt f Lake City except as to work as aforesaid That he did not come for forthe 0 the purpose of voting at the coming election or any other That affi affi- ants are the only persons that now or that ever have have lived Jived in said r W Wellsville ll of the name of either Edwin or John W Mitton That the statement continued in inthe p j the Salt Lake Daily Tribune of the which is as follows to wt wit wit Utah Sept It 19 1889 t to o 0 W Powers Power Esq E Sir Two men from fromN N this hi place have been sent ent to Salt Lake City Y They are to vo vote rote at the next election Their names are Edward Mitton and John W Mitton Left here two wo weeks week since is wholly false and without any r foundation in fact whatever i EDWIN MITTEN J W MITTON Witness A M BUCHANAN Subscribed and sworn to before 0 before me this day of Septem Septem- September September September I ber 1889 L MOTH IVERSON Notary Public E There are doubtless other work work- workmen workmen workmen men who have come into thi this city particularly since the strikes that occurred some weeks since and since the chief farming work of the season has been fi finished It does not follow that because they see an ant t opportunity to earn a little money W to h help lp them through the coming winter they intend to remain here or that they have any intention of J voting ng at the next election But But as aa incautiously admitted by that Liberal Libera religious local poli- poli politician poli politician t the Rev Bev Warren when open open- opening opening ing his mouth a little too wide in San Ban Francisco the Liberals in- in intend intend in intend tend to bring in hundreds of min min- minera miners r ers era and vote them in February 0 It is quite natural that they should suspect other people of their own tricks We know of some of their theira a dodges and hope that in proper sea sea- season season son IOD they will be 00 circumvented We do not wish to prevent one Liberal from exercising the sa- sa sacred sacred sa sacred cred right of suffrage if he is 18 law law- lawfully lawfully lawfully fully entitled to it We do not seek to build up a party by robbing its opponents of the elective franchise We leave that to the so-called so Lib Lib to But we will do our best to I prevent illegal voting and all frauds at the ballot box by whomsoever at- at attempted attempted at attempted tempted no matter what may be his l party or his politics t f tAnd fAnd And we say y now what we have stated before that if any citizen who t has removed his residence from an- an another another an another other part of the Territory to this city has bas made this his actual resi- resi residence resi residence rest rest- deuce dence his legal d domicile intending to dwell here he need not be Je- Je tarred from exercising ing the lawful j K 1 nL 0 rights and privileges of an Ameri Ameri- American American American can citizen by any threats of Lib eral intimidators or their menda menda- mendacious mendacious mendacious cious organ We will countenance no fraud but we will support resi resi- resident resident resident dent citizens in their political liber liber- liberties liberties liberties ties be they members of the Peo Pt People's Peopled pled pIes Party or of the party in opposition opposition opposition tion |