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Show X Town Topics. W In tho last ifsuo of llic Ranker was nn n ordinance, or nn "Election Latv"statlng 1 Unit Itio qualillcntions ol n voter for ' city officers to be ns prescribed by the P nitlonal and Territorial statues nnd to bi a resident of tho city six months preceding tho election Sevcrnl ipjola- tbtis wcro made and comments solicited ly the editor. Three years ago a special election was I " held nnd wo adopted "An Act Trovldinj for Ilia Incorporating of Cities." passed .- - by tho Territorial legislature In March 1888. This was mado supplemental to mir original charter. Articlo XVI Sec. ; . 2. ol this act rofcrrlng to City Elections, , lends, "And no person shall be entitled ! to voto at such election unless he shall ba a qualified elector of tho county duly registered and shall have resided in such city for nt least six months t)expreccd-Ing t)expreccd-Ing such election " Thus It would teem that tho law passed pass-ed by our city fathora was already on tho statute books but for some reason has never been enforced Probably became it is In conflict with Se-c. 24 of tiio Edmunds-Tucker Act, wherein It states "That every male person twenty-one twenty-one yearsof age resident in the Territory of Utah shall, as a condition precldont to his right to register or voto at any election in said Torritory tnko and subscribe sub-scribe nn oath licforo the registration officer ol his precinct, that he Is pver 4 twenty-ono years of age and has redded in tho Territory of Utah for six months nnd In the precinct for one month" etc. riiNiily hpro is a contradiction and it wmild Kim that tho Territorial law inujt givo way. But some of our legal brethcrn claim that "any election" docs not menu city elections. As proof of this they cite to tho school elections where to bo a property holder is a qual- I mention. The Commission does not ap point Judges to control school elections ", but in city elections they do. UowVlbe iWiSAijrnfdjtca'nxVvonfcSrarjUylbc """" jjamunds-TuekeTlaappllcable to our city elections and not allot It isforpiem to explain. ' I think tho now law a good one if it i Ijo enforced, in fact, the old one where It makes a territorial residenco of oue year and a residenco of three months in tho precinct n qualification is even J livttcr. bnouiutiieyupcme to cniorcc the now law it will bo necessary to bavc-a bavc-a challenger at th poles to see that no man who is not qualified votes, as the registrar does not make a six month's city residence a qilnlifictlon. Whllo on matters politic I am remind- 1 id that the now registrar has strlcked off quite a number of names of men who voted last election. Several have bad J theirs put on again and it Vould be well for overy citizen to be sure that his is there so that when he comes to vote ho won't get fooled. The Tonc Eeiroe. |