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Show THE BEAVER ELECTION. Uow the "fnlou" Party Manufactured Manufac-tured Voles. Blavek City, Beaver Co., August 20th, 172. Editor Salt Lake B.ruhl : A small sheet, published in your city, ha- just been shown to me, which contains, in its isr-ue of the 13ih, a let- j ter from Mr. Winecslrw, certified to by McCurdy, giving their statement of the Beaver county election. Now, as county clerk of said county, I feci it my duty to lay the facts pertaining to tho election before the public, so that they may judge for themselves. Beaver City precinct polled 2SC votes, 207 of which wcro for Geo. Q-CunnoV Q-CunnoV and 20 for Geo. R. .Maxwell. Adamsviiie precinct polled 17 voles; Greenville precinct poilcJ o7 votes; and Indian Creek precinct polled 43 votes, all for Geo. Q. Cannon. Tho last named precinct is one which Mr. V. entirely omitted. It is the locality where Mr. Co plan's steam saw mill is erected, and where a number' of our American citizens, with their families, are engaged in lumberiDg and shingle making, Minersvillc precinct polled 77 votes, 47 of which were for Geo. Q. Cannon, j and 29 for Geo. R. Maxwell the odd I ticket was the same as tho "union" ticket, minus the dtlepate, having probate pro-bate judge, county clerk, county assessor, asses-sor, (officers not elective) and tho offi cers whose term of office will not expire for two and three years. Star precinct polled 192 votes, two! of which were minus the Ablegate, leav-! ing Geo. R. Maxwell I'JO votes. You will perceive, from the foregoing figures, fig-ures, that Geo. Q. Caunon received 401 votes, and Geo. R. Maxwell 243, just as I stated in my dispatch to the Salt Lake Herald. I will further state that if the delegate dele-gate of tho "union" party believed the figures and statements contained in Mr. W'fl letter, I preserved the certified certi-fied list and votes from each precinct, so that either party might have contested con-tested the election, if they felt so inclined, in-clined, by moving in the matter as prescribed in tho statutes. The county court some time since, organized the mining camps in Star into a precinct, called "Star Precinct," and appointed I a justice and constable, who were the j choice of the people in said precinct. When the justice, who w--,s judge of the election at Star, brought iho returns, re-turns, it appeared that thty had been holding elections in tho various mining oamps, instead of coming to their precinct pre-cinct to vote, and, of course, such votes were illegal, and were rejected, inasmuch inas-much as the law pertaining to election says, "There shall be a general election elec-tion held in each precinct, etc. With regard to tho statement in the letter referred to, about the sixty six repeaters for Geo. Q. Cannon beiDg stuffed into the boxes after dark to make up tho 401 votes, etc., from the perusal of the foregoing it can bo Eecn it is a very imprudent assertion. Every man and woman who voted the people's ticket arc known, and can bo found, questioned and cross-questioned in relation to their citizenship. I would ask, could the so-called "Union" party, had they been put to the test one day after the election, have found 315 voters (as they claim that that number voted) at Star? It would have been a poser for said parry to have produced them. Again, had those who voted tho people's ticket sent challengers to Star, the number of icgal votes polled there would have been beautifully less ! Parties at Star, who voted the "union" "uni-on" ticket, have not declared their intentions in-tentions to become citizens, unless they have done it very recently : still, I did not wish to make any noie or fuss about it. The assessor of Beaver county coun-ty stated, that while at Star assessing, he only found two persons who claimed to be in a situation to pay taxes As eoou as it was ascertained what a host of legal voters resided at Star, the assessor, accompanied by another man, arrived there the day after the election elec-tion and found about sixty who gave in their assessments, the whole of which amounted to about sixty dollars; and they could not find to exceed one hundred men in and around Shenandoah, Shenan-doah, and several of them said they did not vote. They struck inlo the hills to visit a camp reported to be very stroDg, met a man on horseback coming from said camp, who told them that ho and his horse were all that was left of it at present, and they were satisfied it was so before they returned. This assessing was done in the region where the ly2 votes were polled the day before; The statements I have made in this letter are facts which can be proven. Nothing but a sense of duty to the public would prompt me to notice such calumnies; hence you will pardon me for tresspassing upon so much of your valuable space. I remain yours, etc., William Fotherinuham. Beaver, Aug. 21, 1872. Editors Sail Lake Herald; By request I forward you a few leading items pertaining to tho annual election held in Beaver precinct, cn Aug. jth, lfc'72, that the public mind may be corrected on those matters. All American citizens who had been six months in Utah over twenty-one years of age, and who had paid taxes in said Territory, wcro allowed to vote. None others arc legal voters by tho statutes. No official interfered except to preserve order. There was no intimidation in-timidation or threats made except on the point of order; which had to be met with firmness to bo observed. One party of foreign birth was very officious excessively so in challenging challeng-ing votes with the oft repeated demand de-mand "show your papers." Some of the aged veteran pioneers of Utah, sons of revolutionary sires took exceptions excep-tions to this. Somo of our naturalized fellow citizens showed him their papers, pa-pers, and demanded his which he declined de-clined to show ; whereupon marshal Farosworth called upon mc to rule on his case, I asked the challenger if he was a natural born citizen. He answered an-swered "No," I then asked him if he had his naturalization papers, he answered an-swered "Not here." Whereupon, on his own ground, I ruled that he had no right to challenge. Tho public will see that I could not in justice have ruled otherwise. Whenover there was a doubt as to tbc right to vote with regard to the so-called so-called "Union" party, that parly had the benefit of it, and voted; but votes known to be illegal were not allowed. I have seen the name of one party in public print, maligning law-abiding citizons and misrepresenting the Beaver precinct election, who was allowed to cast his vote, who it afterwards appeared appear-ed had refused to pay his poll tax, and who, 1 am assured, has paid neither county nor Territorial taxes, although when challenged ho said lie was un American citizen and a tax-payer in Utah. Tho party who certified that he believed be-lieved those misrepresentations true might well say ha believed, for ho was not in a situation to know much about anything. To show how treacherous his memory was, I only need mention what occurred next day. The said certifier filed a motion to dismiss a case in the justice's court. He afterwards after-wards commenced oral pleadings, whereupon the court culled his attention atten-tion to said motion, when be flatly denied de-nied having made any; but the "0, yes you did, judge!" from a fellow-attorney and associate in the presentment present-ment of said motion, caused him to yield. The case was for a violation of a city ordinance, and the motion to dismiss was in relation to souio su-IxiH-d suit between two citizons. I might add much more- but the foregoing fore-going may suilko, with tho remark that said election was legally and fairly conducted; and C. M. Hawlcy, head challenger iur the "Uniun" party, at the close, thanked mc for the courtesy 1 had shown hiui during iho election. Respectfully, Dak l el Tvleh, Judgu of election. |