Show WHO ARE POLYGAMISTS In Fridays HERALD were published extracts ex-tracts from the decision of tho United States supreme court in the case of Men inv and others against the Utah commission commis-sion defining who were polygamists within tho meaning of the election law That opinion was handed down in April 1SS5 and on the tilt of the month the commission commis-sion issued a circular of instructions for the guidance of the registration officers Pamphlet 2 of the circular read as follows disfranchlsemeat operates upon the existing ex-isting state and condition of the person and not upon a MSt offense It is therefore not retrospective retro-spective He alone Is deprived of his vote who when he offers to register Is then in the state and condition of a bigamist or polygamist or Is then actually cohabiting with more than one woman But a bigamist or polygamist Is such a person as is described in naracranh two above Paragraph referred to above was as I follows A bigamist polygamist in the sense of tho 8th section of the EDMTLNDS law is 1 1 man who has entered into the state of plural marriage at anytime In the post and still maintains that re ationit not having been dissolved by death divorce or other effective manner and he Is still a polygamist even though he retrict his cohabitation to but ono woman It may be as well to state that while registrars have lately departed from these instructions the circular is in force today as fully as the day of its issuance A good many mens names have been irregularly stricken from the list on tho ground that the men were polygamists whereas they did not come within that class as defined by the law and by the paragraphs above quoted Parties whose names have been illegally erased should at ones apply to havo them restored |