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Show AS TO ELECTION FRAUDS. The gross frauds disclosed in tho Chicago Chi-cago primary elections will undoubtedly undoubted-ly work very heavily against the Hopkins Hop-kins candidacy for re-election to tho United States Senate from the State of Hlinois. Chicago gavo Hopkins a tremendous tre-mendous boost at its primaries for his re-election. Ent even with that fraud and with the dishonest vote so accruing to him, he failed by largo figures to get the majority of the Republicans of Hlinois Hli-nois to support his candidacy for reelection. re-election. The matter will go before tho legiblaturo of Illinois, and it looks as if this development of fraud at tho primaries pri-maries in Chicago might bo fhe clinching clinch-ing nail in his political coffin. While on tho matter of election frauds, it must not be forgotten that at tho recent general election in this "State thero were enormous election frauds iu this county, committed by the Republican machine in outrage upon popular rights aud in utter defiance defi-ance of honesty and fair dealing. The registration books wore padded, names bemg added to them unlawfully; not ouly unlawfully as to the secrecy and the time at which those additions wcro made, but the additions in from two to three thousand cases were undoubtedly undoubt-edly uon-r'esident3 of Salt Lako and residents of other portions of the State, as Springvillo, Labi, and various settlements settle-ments in Sanpete, Cache, and Box Elder counties. Probably settlements iu other counties were also raided for tho purpose pur-pose of adding fraudulent names to tho registry lists in Salt Lake. Tho opportunitj for such addition was afforded by the attendance hero upon the October conference of thou sands of pooplo from outsido sottlo-monts sottlo-monts in the Stato. Tho difficulty of proving these frauds would undoubtedly undoubt-edly bo very great. But it 13 cortaiuly a fact that thoso who havo investigated this matter aro fully porsuadod that these frauds wore committed, and committed com-mitted on a very oxtonsivo scale. That tho Mormon church authorities wcro in collusion with thoso frauds is altogether probable, othcrwiso tho church politicians poli-ticians would not havo darod to undor take any such frauds as indicatod, Tho American party will havo to bo on its guard in tho futuro against this sort of election dishoucsty. Tho lawlessness law-lessness was not expected nor provided against this timo; thoroforo it was easy for unscrupulous, dishonest por-sons por-sons to conduct that 6ort of a campaign, cam-paign, tho result being that whereas Chicago is shown to have been engaged in a monstrous scheme of fraudulent registration and voting, tho church management of tho campaign in Salt Lako very likely committed election frauds at an equally extensive rate in proportion to tho population and tho number of votes as compared bctwoon the two cities. It is all a disgusting, despicable outrago upon popular rights wherever such frauds aro committed. They aro an infamous outrago in Chicago, Chi-cago, and no less an infamous outrago in Salt Lake. |