Show THE CONTE contemplated vI PLATED STEAL wo have a contemporary that following its usual urual cuttlefish tactics Is trying to befoul the waves of 0 public opinion and obscure tho this proE pro ramme gramme which Is now going on to if 11 possible count out a majority of fifteen delegates to the constitutional convention and give elve their seats to fifteen men who were never elected it raves through a great deal ot of space but doers docs not say anything it takes the same tack th that it victor hugo huge makes the boy who when called to account by an indignant man with the words you young scoundrel I 1 you have insulted my iny wife puts on art an injured tone and says me me search me it wants the absolute proofs that something lias iris been done wrong or else wants the criticism to stop the best authorities have decided that circumstantial evidence Is better than direct proof because the one Is a chain which when it cannot be broken Is absolute the other rests upon the infirmities ot of the human eye or ear car or some other of the st senses rises we know this we know that the men ol of san rete peto are furious over the result as declared that almost all it if not every one of the judges tire are ready to make affidavit that their was absolutely correct and that the ballot boxes must have been tampered with we know that some of those boxes came without seals some without looks locks arid and they bore every evidence e v idenie ot of having been tampered with further ther that while there have been ten thousand election contests never before have the mistakes been all one way ard and oil all in favor of one party further ther that when the board of canvassers had bad weber county in hand band it was found that there nap was s a discrepancy of about seven v votes otes there were teven seven votes c cast list that were ilot act on the poll list with those seven votes the average majority was twelve and in discussing the matter it was proposed that the seven be thrown out as they would not change the result and then a proposition was made to open the ballot boxes and count the returns tor for the county clerk mr gilbert who was a candidate tor for another office and who was sitting by proposed that his vote be counted admitting that he be was beaten by seventy one of the judges judge dey objected because one of the ballot boxes boves was unlocked and unsealed and lie he insisted that no solemnity could attach to that and no reliability be placed upon what it contained ile he was a democratic judge and tin an honest man but after more conversation it was agreed to count the returns and it was found that in one pro precinct mr gilbert had votes enough to elect him whereupon judge dey indignantly said gentlemen I 1 will mill have no more to do with this it Is too transparent a fraud or words to that efret elt ct mr barcomb took the same ground but art an adjournment was taken until afternoon it in the recess judge dey was called up by telephone by jar or of the utah commission we may say in explanation that when judge doy dey took that place he said he might be called away or might have to resign in that recess when called to the telephone mr letcher asked him about his lion judge dey said he would resign as soon its as the weber county canvass was made mr letcher asked him it if he could not resign right then ile he answered that he could it if desired but a few minutes later meeting air ilar har comb sir barcomb Har corob asked him it lie he had bad resigned and dey explained what had passed through the telephone tel e whereupon mr barcomb said he be too hid had been asked by letcher to resign and then judge dey went to the telephone and calling up mr letcher told him that he would not resign until the weber county canvass was finished this cornes conica to us from a direct source and Is we think absolutely true and it I 1 Is those ballot boxes boses that the utah commission proposes to count the weber county vote through more when the weber county ballot boxes were sent for one was found unlocked and unsealed in a blacksmith shop the box from poll 2 shows that the populist candidate thomas had ca E more votes than were returned by the judges though one ona judge was a brother another the bro ther in law of 0 thomas there Is not one of the canvassing board republican or democrat who 1 will III not certify to his belief that the ballot box that held the votes of poll 2 in weber was shamefully tampered ith this contemporary tries to turn this whole thing on tho the tribune and says in its toplofty top lofty way w a ir that there t h e re was a time when this paper could intimidate timi date and detor deter public men from doing their whole duty but that that day has gone by all of which Is in keeping with the sheet aforesaid it has been saying that same thing tor for years and it Is just as great a falsehood now as it was when originally stated abated from the same source this does doca not happen to bo be a matter with the mno tribune at all this is a matter with the people of this territory and the people are ara the ones who are directly interested the tribune says and the people believe it that there was never as transparent as bold and as bald an attempt to defeat the will of a berti territory or ot of a state as ij 13 right now being attempted here in salt lake city and we are backed not only by republicans but by thousands of 0 democrats san pete wants to come up one thou sand strong to protest against the in famous wrong which has been done the democratic judges there say eay there has been stealing somewhere they can call riot not locate whether in tho the office ot of the th commission or through some men who wh have had access to the ballot boxes mr letcher aya baye tho the boxes bo iea are secure in hu ahli room and ana no one but himself has the tee key there la Is noting not ing in all al that there aro are ten thousand men here hen who can open auy door in the town towi tiny trouble but when the boxes reached the home or them were open some of thorn them wi wei e u ri sealed and beyond all that the very nery character cha char actea of the changes made Is a conclusive proof 0 of the attempted frauds because sono one has taken the returns lias has sem been how bow many votes voles were needed to change the majority from a republican to a democrat and so they have run tour four or five or six with a unanimity which Is simply appalling in favor ot of the democrats and against tile the republicans this contemporary says bays it was at the request 0 of commissioner sacr S her man that the san pete boxes were sent tor for that it probably true arid and it was because be no had seen by what had bad been done with the weber counting that there WAS no safety in leaving the ine boxes that the only thing to do was wag to have them under the control of tho the themselves it will not flo do there Is enough to establish the fraud before any court in the world and we vie again caution 1 l the ars that they had better save their regulations reputations ions while yet they can there aro are a great many secrets in this connection that will all have to come out if tho the I 1 thing is pressed to a conclusion the job was too bunglingly done the is it manifested nil all through la Is the that was manifested first by tie the I 1 C governor ov when lie to sign ale the bill to do away alth the commission and to trust the election machinery to tho the county courts of this territory and what was carried out in the same spirit last summer by throwing every possible obstruction in the way of llepun laicans and giving every possible advantage to the democrats but fifteen delegates acles dele gatis ate s out ot of one hundred and seven are too many to steal and we caution the majority ot of the commission to so ro ve very ry slowly it they would save the re remnant of 0 the reputation that lg Is left them As to this vile sheet across the way a single word Is enough for it it has always been a liar and a slave always ready to endorse any infamy proposed by its party leaders it has haa been branded as the most unscrupulous bungling liar among newspapers for years and years its words do riot not count among docent decent men be they democrats or republicans |