Show TO PREVEXT VOTIXU ROGUERY I In view of the suspicions that attach at-tach to the election of 1894 in this territory ter-ritory it seems advisable that some thing shall be done if possible to prevent pre-vent such scandals in future The ame may be said of similar proceedings proceed-ings in other places California has repudiated the Republican attempt to steal fhe Governorship but a certain amount of odium attaches to all apparent ap-parent efforts to subvert the will of he people at the polls The Australian ballot system has its recommendations as a secret method of voting but it may be open to that manipulation of returns which casts a cloud of reproach over the latest election elec-tion in Utah However there is an invention in-vention which has been tried with great satisfaction in the east to which our leading political thinkers should give some attention It is the Myers voting machine which is thus described describ-ed Almost every man who has examined the Myers patent says the New York Tribune is satisfied that for rapid easy and < abs 1utelY secret voting it is as perfect per-fect as human ingenuity can devise that it will prevent fraud of every known kind in voting canvassing and return ins the vote and so expeditiously does It register and count the votes that within an hour aCter the polls close the result of the election in the entire city can be known The adoption of the machine will do away with the cumbrous blanket ballet and in the end save the taxpayers the large sums paid out of the treasury of the several large cities > and counties for printing and distributing official ballots to say nothing of the amounts which party organizations and candidates for office yearly expend for pastels and ballots bal-lots of various kinds There is no danger dan-ger of fraud where the Myers machine is used for the instant the voter has pushed in the knob registering his vote the apparatus is automatically locked and so remains until the voter leaves the polling booth The entrance of the next voter unlocks the machine Different Dif-ferent colors indicate the cabinets of the several party organizations so that unless the illiterate voter is colorblind he would be able to pick out the cabinet of the party whose ticket he wishes to vote without difficulty A machine which cannot be improperly improp-erly manipulated by the most astute politicians would be the very thing needful The legislature of our new state should be clothed with ample powers to prevent as well as punish frauds in elections While there Is a doubt cast on the returns of any election elec-tion the will of the people cannot be said to receive expression by the ballot bal-lot To preserve Ihe purity of election should be one of the foremost matters to receive close attention by the consti tutional convention |