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Show I AT LAST. It finally louks as though the citizens citi-zens of Tooele would be victorious. At the last general election in Tooele the sanctified "liberals" tried to rob the persons elected by the people of the offices and positions to which they were entitled, since which lime a legal war has been waged, the directors direc-tors of the "republic" lobing every point, but still maintaining their un Lawful poaitiou with a persistency that would have reflected the greatest credit had it beea displayed in any cause other than the perpetuation of a palpable fraud. When the canvass was made a great many of the returns re-turns were thrown out on the ground that the provisions of the electiop law had not been complied with, when it afterwards came to light that every box containing returns from precincts where the people were in the majority ma-jority was so fiied as to comply with all the req irements of the law, while on the other hand it did not appear thai one of the boxes from nrecincta where the "liberals" were in the majority had been sent to the couuty court in such a manner that it was not liable to serious if not fatal objections; yet the latter were admitted. The fight throughout, on the part of the defendants, defend-ants, has been evasive, and to any fair and truly liberal person, would be convincing proof that the endeavor of "ins," instead of being to secure justice, jus-tice, has been to hold themselves in office by any means whatsoever. On Tuesday the defendants were cited to appear and show cause why they should not be held in contempt for failure to comply with the writ commanding them to make a full canvass of all the returns. A motion was then made by Mr. Baskin, counsel for the defendants, to quash the citation, assigning as a reason therefor that a sufficient canvaBS had already been made. This motion the court overruled, over-ruled, and ordered that the return provided for iu the writ previously issued be made at 2 o'clock on Wednesday. At that hour the defendants de-fendants appeared and asked that proceedings be temporarily suspended, suspend-ed, ttiting that if the request were granted another canvass would be made and the returns previously thrown out would be counted in, the result declared in Tooele next Saturday, Satur-day, and that a return would be made to the Third district ccurt on Wednesday Wednes-day next. This proposition was acceded acced-ed to by Mr, Rawlins, counsel or the plaintifi, and the matter may now be considered as having been definitely settled. Tho proposition made by the defendants is equivalent to stating stat-ing that they would announce the election of the People's ticket, as the counting in of the returns heretofore thrown out will result in such a declaration. Mr. Baskin admitted in open court that after a personal examination ex-amination of the returnsdiscarded he found that the throwing of them out was unjustifiable, which is an indirect admission that be has been conducting conduct-ing a caee with the merits ol which be was unacquainted. However. Mr. Baskin ciaioiB that he fought the case to test the validity of the election law, and whether ibis be the reai cause or not, he haa been instrumental, through this case, in havine one portion of the election law declared void. The portion re.'errcd to is Ibat in which different qualifications are required from voters oq account of 6cx, and the part of the law specifying as a qualificaliou for male voters that they shall bo taxpayers wo a declared illegal. This decision was made by the Supreme court of the territory to which an appeal was taken by the defendants iu the TooeJe caeo from the rulings in the Third district court, the argument being that tho different qualifications rendered the ! whole election law unconstitutional, j Judge Emerson, who read the decision, maintained that portions of a law could be declared invalid without with-out afiecting in any way the other portions, por-tions, and that the law and case in question were illustrations of such a possibility. The case is now virtually ended, and the peoplo of Tooele county, after a long and hard struggle, may be considered as having finally secured se-cured that to which they were entitled en-titled from the beginning. |
