Show THAT ALLEGED CONSPIRACY It lias been charged that a conspiracy i was formed some time ago 4o secure Utah to the Democracy We might retort with far more reason because there is some evidence to back it that the conspiracy was a Republican scheme for a similar party purpose The collusion beitiween Utah politicians and the national party was inadvertently inadver-tently exposed fcy Judge C W Bennett Ben-nett when jubilating with his party over the results of the last election He declared publicly that Utah Republicans Repub-licans had redeemed their pledges and looked for the other parties to perform their part I The beginning of the alleged Democratic Demo-cratic conspiracy hasbeen repeatedly stated In our Republican contemporary to have been the veto by Governor West of the bill to restore the control of elections the county courts That billwas formulated for nothing else but campaign thunder It was the tinniest kind of stuff to make a rumble with It has been rattled and shaken with vigor to no purpose but make a din Still the stage thunder is kept up and Governor West is indirectly indicated as one of the conspirators because he did not sign the thing which was never expected or designed to become a law It was loosely framed with the ostensible osten-sible purpose of doing away with the ninth section of the Edmunds law There is a special provision of the 3i2nmndTtckr tKl or ich requires any bill framed by the Utah legislature legisla-ture in reference to the Utah Commission Commis-sion to receive the direct sanction of Congress before it becomes a law As the House of Representatives had passed the Enabling ACt which would by bestowing statehood sweep away all the congressional laws specially framed for this territory it would have been the height of folly to throw a Toclc in the way of statehood by the passage of a Utah bill which would hay rendered necessary such amendments amend-ments to the Enabling Act as might have hindered its passage altogether at that session of Congress Governor West set the matter clearly before the legislature in his veto message mes-sage which we nere reproduce To the Speaker of the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives Sir1 herewith return Without approval ap-proval the bill for an act to restore rhe control of elections to the respective > county Courts of UtahCR B No 34 by Mr Allendeeming it an illadvised I attempt to revise and aCter congressional congres-sional legislation By the Edmunds Act Congress disqualified a certain class of persons from voting These disqualifications can only be removed by Congress and this act can not take effect unless approved by Congress In the Enabling Act for the admission of Utah which has already passed the House of Representatives knd is now pending in the Senate with promise of early consideration Congress recognizes recog-nizes the changed conditions existing in the territory and in effect removes the disqualifications imposed by the Edmunds Act I do not think it wise after favorable action by one branch of Congress upon this important subject sub-ject to submit the present bill and thus afford an opportunity if not an I invitation for the reconsideration of what has already been done toward restoring the franchise to persons now disqualified besides causing delay and perhaps imperil the Enabling Act It could not hasten the desired consummation consum-mation and might retard statehood While it is desirable to place the control con-trol of elections in the hands of the people it is certainly more desirable to remove from a large class of our citizens the disqualifications that are now not only unnecessary but unjust and we can not afford to jeopardize our chances of getting the greater boon in the hope of obtaining the lesser which will swiftly follow the Enabling Act Besides we are assured that the present system will be administered ad-ministered during its future brief existence ex-istence by bona fide citizens of our territory ter-ritory I am sir very respectfully CALEB W WEST Governor Executive Office Salt Lake City March S 1S94 So much for that part of the conspiracy con-spiracy Now for another The same authority which makes Governor West conspirator declares that the Enabling Act in providing for a double election in November was another stage in the conspiracy and was framed with that design by some Democrats Dem-ocrats in this territory who are unnamed un-named f The truth is that when the Enabling Act was framed it was designed to have a speeial election for delegates to the convention to take place soon after af-ter the passage of the bill and secure the atfnnission of the new state and the seatdjg Of its Senators and Representatives Representa-tives at the second session of the resent Congress The changes in the times of election the holding of the convention and the ratification of the Constitution were made in the United States Senate and the party here and the trainers of the original bill had nothing no-thing to do with that The silence of Republican objectors to statehood having been secured it was considered dangerous to the bill to I break It by offering any further amendments The double election at i I the same time with the doublo registration regis-tration and double balloting was rendered ren-dered necessary by the Senates action on the bill and thus the second point in the alleged conspiracy peters out into thin but very foul air i The next charge is that the registration registra-tion was planned as a constituent part i of the conspiracy But everybody has to admit now that tit is was conducted con-ducted ith the utmost fairness Every accusation of the Republicans headed by the libellous Tribune has fallen to the ground flat and limp and lifeless Even the attempt of that utterly ut-terly shameless sheet to smirch the Supreme Court for expounding the plain provisions of law on the matter was abortive Lastly the majority of the Utah I Commission have been held up as chief parties to the conspiracy and not anything can be truthfully alleged I against them but that they have proceeded pro-ceeded according to the law as they understood it and were advised < by both Republican and Democratic lawyers law-yers of prominence but not as the Tribune construed it And that paper has changed its own position OD the legal questions involved two or three times Now What Is left of the conspiracy I > 0 > Nothing but cowardly and villainous accusations unsupported by proof all emanating from tine most unscrupulous unscrupu-lous abusive and blackguard paper on earth It declares now that it has never attacked or accused the Commission Com-mission And yet that body has been the pivot on which the vile paper has made its whole conspiracy libels to revolve re-volve It has accused the Governor the Utah Commission the Supremei Court 1 the Salt Lake County Registrar and sundry other persons hinted at but unnamed un-named as parties to a conspiracy which had no existence except on the pages of the Salt Lake Tribune It is unworthy of credence In anything It I touches nothing but to defile it There i is no dependence to be placed on its word about the slightest matter of controversy tioversy It is utterly vile and has neither sense of shame or regard for veracity It it unfit to enter the homes of decent people |