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Show 1 1 i i ' "IT IS FRAUDULENT " Hon. John Henry Smith Expresses Some Very Emphatic Views. Hon. John Henry Smith, ono of tho Republican Constitutional dclcgatcs-olect, dclcgatcs-olect, according to die fact of the returns, re-turns, with ft majority of twenty-one, bat according to the recount nlncty-onc nlncty-onc votes behind the lowest successful Democrat, wns questioned nt to his views on the result of tho recount. Mr. Smith bad but one opinion to express ex-press on tliti matter. "I say tho results as shown by tho recount Is a fraudulent ono. I was elected, as n delegate to tho Constitutional Convention nnd 1 proposo to go to thnt convention If nocosi"nry, 1 will raise such n noieo in tho premises as will disturb tho slumber slum-ber of tho dead, The so Commissioners may play tueh election tricks in the South, but they nro not going to be allowed to do It In Utah. Then is but one way In which tho remit could be obtained, and lh.it n by stuffing tho box. That tlio box of the Second poll in tliu Third precinct wns tampered witlint soino stugc of the proceeding, there is no room fordonl t." Mr, Smith was very I'liphatlc In his denunciations of tho j)r tocrutlo method! meth-od! of securing maJorliKt, and declared hlumlf as prepared to assume tho role of agitator In bohnlf of tho pcophi He Insists thnt politics in Utah nrc too young to be dcllled by tlio corrupt practices of tho South. If Democrats nreclccted ho wniitsto sec them counted in, nnd wants the Republicans to bo treated in thusame manner. Mr. Biulth believes the time is ripofor tlio Republican manngcrs to make n call for a lims meeting of citizen of both parties, to obtain n popular oxprctslou from th peopU in regard to tho manner In which their desires, as expressed by their yotes, io being treated, and to-day will devote a portion of his time to such n tubject. THUtnt. |