Show WHY SO MUCH SECRECY 7 let it be assumed for the purposes of this argument that the registration officers are public officials not working improper for the success ot the liberal ticket but animated solely by a domire to provide a fair bonett legal election then why have they in their iro i ro cee dicus all the registration cast such doubt upon the assumption if they are public why hare all their acts been character iced by a star chamber secrecy voters haie been ol 01 to inquisitorial angat the close not informed whether their names remained on alio lii t or not the list if now supposed to ba corrected and prepared for the judges 0 election but who knobs which names have been off and which retained A legal voter may present himself at the polls on monday only to learn that his name has been dropped from the list by boine bedya order lie is put to trouble and is grossly wronged not even a jude ot election if lie belong to tho peoples set to seo the lists UD til it maybe too late to correct any omission the liberals boast that they have a clear legal majority and are guro to carry alie day it their claim lias any foundation there need be no secrecy about the list they alao du clare that they causa win surely mr corey and his deputy or assistant cannot all currency 0 o the suspicion that thia must has any ulterior meaning the only must which concerns the is to eee that all their acts aio performed open ly and honestly but ne regret to pay they seem blow to take thia view atit A GOOD MOTTO for ft liberal banner wo are short on lauilo but long on wind A significant ETHAW reference was made in our local columns last sunday morning to an improvement which had been adopted and axed ir running order in the store of scow croft sons of this city the object of ft lich V as to do away with the expense and inconvenience veni ence of cash boys and substitute what is called the lamson store service system an automatic arrangement by the bailsman without noise or delay can transmit the cus joiners to iners cash to alio llio desk and receive in the same manner the change it there be again other men hants of alio city were baid to liae considered hie system favorably and one firm at least masars W II 11 sons had decided to adopt it in their houe tiie representative 0 alio lamson company remained in the city two or three days and then went to salt lake be naturally expected the enterprise of the merchants would provide him with considerable bi iciness in his line lie baa juat beut word to this city that he finds the business houses of the capital lath to adopt the improvement pro course concerns only I 1 be merchants who are supposed to know their own affairs and himself cut the reasons which they give him for declining to negotiate are of some value to us here mr thorns was informed so bo writes to this city eliat the storekeepers in bait lake declared their business was to warrant them in considering bin proposition that they could not afford it that while ita advantages in large cities and in stores where a large business was dono coald not be denied alicy felt that hie time had not come for them to go to the expense which it would involve this coming from the capital the salt lake city which boasts times population w bich senda its exhibition car all over the union and alludes to this city as a suburb goes as tar in maintaining ho modest views which we hold of ourselves as anything we could wish it is a politically laigh compliment to the merchants of this city who whatever they may think of the relative lake ind ogdan are not compelled to confess eliat business is so slack that aliey cannot entertain propose tiona involving expenses for alio convenience veni ence of themselves and their cus |