Show The Peoples Rights The heat of the local election has passed and a look at its manipulation manipula-tion makes it appear very peculiar and strange in a republican country for whatever may be the laws passed by Congress for the regulation regula-tion of election matters in Utah it is presumable that the design was to still keep within the bounds of the spirit and genius of our republican repub-lican institution First of all in relation to the judges of election The commission had full powers to appoint registrars of whatever political complexion they pleased but after the ordeal of the oath had been passed through by the applicants for registration those whose names were placed on the list were the legal voters and they should have been respected The judges of election were selected and two out of the three were taken from the political party laving less than onefourth of the total vote in the Territory and the remaining one to the party that so largely preponderates in our suffrage suff-rage strength Some of these judges were so incompetent and slow that voters were shut out from casting their votes on account of the polls closing at sunset before the people had had an opportunity to deposit their ballot The commissioners issued an order to some of the registrars reg-istrars that no person need be allowed lowed in the building when the voting vot-ing was going on This was literally carried out in but one precinct pre-cinct in this city the First and there the judges with the ballot boxes were stationed at two windows win-dows and men and women had to stand in the cold air on the shady side of the house sometimes thirty or forty at a time for several minutes min-utes then climb on dry goods boxes and reach their ballot through the window halloo their names and hang on to the window frame while the inexperienced judges wer < lookIng and looking through the lists for a name they took a long time to find Very frequently a name was spelt wrong or wrong initials ini-tials placed there which made it obligatory to wait sometimes for an hour until the registrar came around and gave permission to have the name changed on the list If the day had been stormy the vote in that precinct would have been smaller than it is from the causes mentioned In some precincts we < I have heard that the polling places were located at the most iuconv ni ent point that could have been se lected for the purpose In the name ot the people we protest pro-test against many of these kind of things that were allowed at the last election and ask that the legal voters have the fairness exhibited to them as used to be before the machinery to carry out the Ed munds law was put in force That law does not discriminate against legal voters which we think some the registrars did |