| Show rol OF RAI 1 complaint from froin a taxpayer tax T ta x payer tayer ABOUT BALLOT BOXES be careful where you do de your ballots hygienic reform club I 1 editor I 1 there is ia a man in the employ of tha city as superintendent of waterworks water works at a salary of 0 75 03 per month who if I 1 am rightly inform edie edis taking up the most moat of his time in lobbying for the tha democratic municipal ticket now as a taxpayer tax payer I 1 object to paying taxes to support a man in a public capacity who spends most moat of his time in trying to further the inter interests sets of 0 tha democratic party it the democratic piny wants heelers and ward bosses let them get some come one beside s city officials ano are paid by the taxes tarts ot of ALL the people gentlemen be hoheb honess t and do not use public money for the far therance of the democratic Damo cratic pa ltv arty TAXPAYER be a reful about your four ballots bailor editor I 1 DEAR Ds AsSiR SIR As you are aware the legislature of the TArri territory tory at its if list last session changte the time fr r holding elections in such a way that the municipal elections had bad to be ba held en cu the same day and place as the territorial and county elections but bat this keces 1 situates the use of two ballet boxes at each voting place and just there thera is where the trouble comes in and it comes this way it is 19 almost impossible for the election judges even it if b honestly disposed to prevent preveat misplacement of af the ballots some of the county ballots will come in the city box bax and vice versa now it seems as though the ballots ought ti 0 be counti zd for whoever they were cast but that is not the way it was done here sat last year in ephraim we only had two ballots misplaced one county balot ballot in the city box ani and ono one city ballot in the county box all the three judges ar ed that it was wag only oaly a misplacement br bi one of ham was wag nat sure hure that t ati ti N hail had a right aright to count bloj misplay sl ballots and so they sent with their report to the utah commission a writ ten statement eio eiD laining tte matter and signed by all three judges but the tha commission presumably too busy ti t notice such small affairs pail paid no at to it in this place the people like lika in so many othar parts of the territory are about evenly divided between the two darcies oar Dar ties and the throwing out of one city and one ona county vote made one vote less for cannon and two ties between republican and democratic candidates here to tj settle which they received a polite invitation from the canvassing board oi of the tha territory to come to salt bait lake and draw to see who should have the offices now we believe that a similar matter was tak en to one ot of the courts an I 1 a ruling had in some contest last year but we do not remember where and as misplacement of the ballots to some extent is very nearly unavoidable and as the whole electon elect on machinery of the tha territory are inthe in tha handa bands of democracy this year tle tho danger is that if not restrained too many republican votes will be misplaced and thrown out therefore we think if yon von would kindly took look the matter no and publish the purport ol 01 above mentioned rulings we retain a few more mora republican votes and you yon would confer a favor on yours respectfully VOT or AIR Ern KAiM utah oct 31 womans comans ll lle Ite forni form tha stake officers ficera of of the comans womans VV II 11 hygienic keford association held A meeting on the alst 1st anat at mrs lira olive beans there were present thirty officers representing lehi american fork pleasant grove provo and the reports from all indicated earnest earner ness and progress ress in their reform work the time till 1230 was spent in profitable and instructive manner and the remarks were timely timaly and practical by dinv inv invitation i ration david john and bishop J E booth were present and set apart the following named officers president delia I 1 booth provo councilor ilor mary A webb lehi 2nd and councilor ija ida allen alien provo secretary lydia lund pleasant grove assistant secretary zina chipman american fork missionaries missionaries mary B adams and hannah peterson Peter sou after a few encouraging remarks by bros john and the company repaired to the dining room where a dinner was partaken partaker par taken ol of which for combined health had and substance has probably seldom teen I 1 een equalled equal led and never surpassed in provo dr B S II 11 allen alien delivered a lecture in the afternoon at the provo meeting house to a good auli aurience ence on respiration pi ration which was highly appreciate led 0 d I 1 these women seemed to be doing an excellent work and should be enczur abed |
