Show THE COMMISSION COMING The secretary of the interior has done wisely in ordering the Utah commission to come to this city Its presence is demanded now more than ever before since the creation crea-tion of the board A vile and wicked conspiracy con-spiracy exists which has for its object first the theft of this city by a gang of reckless and unprincipled adventurers and next the taking of the territory Already Al-ready considerable progress in the scheme has been made and further advance is daily recorded The conspirators have gone so far in their infamous work that only by prompt and effective action can they be thwarted and the only power which can check or defeat the conspiracy is that of the commission The deputy registrars all of whom are active and conspicuous con-spicuous members of the Liberal party and one of whom is a member of the Liberal Lib-eral campaign committee are working early and late in the interest of their own illiberal organization and against the People As has been frequently pointed out in these columns they are shamelessly neglecting their duties in the matter of house to house vists some of the gentlemen gentle-men having spent days loitering about the saloon and hotels drumming up men who will vote the Liberal ticket while large districts of their precincts are not visited Liberals are registered at their offices in barrooms at hotels on the streetseverywhere in fact while there is an emphatic refusal to register members of the Peoples party at other places than their dwelling houses and to them the deputies do not go or if they go it is at such times as the owners are not likely to be at home In their blind and willful partisanship the registrars are exercising ex-ercising judicial functions impudently passing on the eligibility of citizens declaring de-claring that citizenship papers were not regularly issued and are therefore invalid striking names from the registration list without authority and doing other things which fair and impartial officials would not do So many have been denied registration so many homes have not been visited and so many names have been arbitrarily and maliciously stricken from the list that it is doubtful if the harm that has been done can be recovered from in the few remaining remain-ing weeks before the close of the registration registra-tion The chief registration officer is powerless even if he were disposed to interfere his deputies being bigger men than he in this matter He is such a figure head that one wonders why there is such an office as thatwhich he holds Only the commission can interfere to defeat de-feat the outrageous conspiracy and its interference must come at once to be effectual Hence we say that the secretary secre-tary of the interior has done well to direct the board to come to Utah where it belongs and perform some of the duties for which it is paid so much money It is to be hoped that the gentlemen gentle-men will not only come but will bring 1 with them an intimation if not direct instructions f in-structions that they will be expected i t a to see that the law is carried out in a spirit of fairness without regard to political po-litical parties If they will be impartial that is all that the People will ask Nobody No-body on the Peoples side in this controversy contro-versy desires more than the carrying into effect of the plain provisions of the law And THE HERALD speaks for the Peoples party and all its members when it declares that victory in the coming contest is not desired by them if it cannot be won honestly and by fair and lawful law-ful methods If there is a man in the Peoples party who would accepta victory won in any other way his plane is among the Liberals and the sooner he goes where he belongs the better The community simply asks of the commission that it will bring about a fair and lawful expression of the public will at the ballot when so far as the People are concerned there will be a ready and contented bowing to the wishes of the majority It is expected that the commissioners will reach this city the first of next week when there will be presented to them such a showing of facts as should induce them to either remove all the deputy registrars or compel them to perform their duties as the law requires |