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Show MAY NOT THWART WILL Of PEOPLE ji Supreme Coori Decides Town Election, Declares Republican Candidates Candi-dates Legally Elected in Scofiold. Technical Effort of Town Officials to Perpetuate Tliemselvco in Office Defeated. ATTEMPTS of tho former Democratic Demo-cratic Board of Trustees and Clerk of the Town of Scofiold, Carbon county, to perpetuate themselves In ofilce by, holding an 11-logal 11-logal election last fall havo, been declared de-clared of no avail by the highest State authority, an opinion having been handed down by the Supreme court yestorday affirming the decision of the court of the Seventh Judlcl.tl district In declaring tho Republican candidates for the positions legally elected. The circumstances of the case, In brief, are that the Town Board of Sco-fteld Sco-fteld and Its Clerk apparently conspired to make last fall's town election. Illegal, first, by the Clerk's refusing to register voters or to file the nominations made by the Republican party, and, secondly, by Inducing the Judges of election to rpfplvrv nn vntni nn iloptlnn rlnv fnr the reason that there was no registration registra-tion liaL Held Election, Anyway. Finally, between the hours of 9 and 10 a. m. on election day, ten or more voters .appeared to vote, and when their ballots bal-lots were refused they elected a new board of election Judges and proceeded to hold an election from the registration registra-tion list of Scofield precinct, which Included In-cluded the names of all legal voters of the town of Scofield and some besides. These Judges received a total of ninety-three ninety-three votes, the great majority of which were cast for the Republican candidates, candi-dates, whoso names had been offered to the Town Clerk for filing at the legal time, but were not filed by hlmx These candidates were H. H. Earl, F, H. Mereweather, A. Greenhalgh, Lewis Jacobson and Louis Allant. Late In the afternoon of election day the first Judges of election reconsidered their decision that an election could not be legally held and opened tho pools, with the result that their own votes and three others were cast for the members mem-bers of the old Town Board for re-election. The old board was composed of B. E. Lewis, president; Nell M. Madson, Albert Nouren and Frank Broylea. Both Sides Make Returns. Both sets of Judges made returns to the Town Clerk and on the following Monday the returns were canvassod by the Town Board. The returns showed that the first Judges received eight ballots, bal-lots, all of which wero cast for the canvassers, can-vassers, while the other Judges received re-ceived from sixty-three to seventy-six ballots for the Republican candidates. But the board Ignored these ballots and declared themselves elected Tho Supreme court decision, which was written by Justice C. J. Baskln and concurred In by Judges Bartch and McCarthy on tho principle that "the object of elections Is to ascertain the popular will and not to thwart It," holds that In this case the will of tho electors Is so apparent that legal technicalities tech-nicalities which were made use of to prevent an expression of the popular will should be waived and the Republican Repub-lican candidates, who were tho contestants, contest-ants, are declared1 elected. |