Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-11-01 | Page 3 | Afraid to Have Voters See Machine

lAFHAID TO HAVE VOTERS IE MACHINE County Clerk EI dredge Gives an Exhibition of His Contempt Con-tempt for People. IXCOXVEXIEXOES THEM AT 4 j BEHEST OF FEDERAL BUXCH Removes Voting Machines From I All Places Except Z. C. M. I. i and Sheriff's Ollicc. ; The church Republican gang, under I the leadership of .lody Eldrdege, j county clerk and custodian of the j voting machines in Salt Lako county, , has bt!en appalled at the way voters who havo crowded about the voting maeluncs nnxiouB to bo instructed as to how to handle tho machines and how to voto tho American tielcet. ) Trior to tho eloctions since the voting machines were put into uso hero it has been tho custom to permit voting machines ma-chines to romaiu in a number of public places in order that voters might see and learn how to work them. Particularly Particu-larly is this true as regards The Tribune Trib-une and Telegram and tho Herald. Crowds ot voters have thronged about the machines in The Tribune counting room, and that machine should have been permitted to remain thorc until Monday morning; but under the pretext that it was necessary to have this machine sent to a polling booth .lodv Kldredgo had it taken out on Friday morning. Machine iu Z. C. M. I. However, the machine which he had put up iu the Z. C. M. 1. and the one in the sheriff's office were still in position posi-tion in those places on Saturday. Of course, the instructors in these two places were showing those who called now to voto the church Republican ticket alone. ' I Of course, when Smoot pulls tho string or Ihc federal bunch says jump. Jody lOldrcdgo jumps; he cannot do otherwise. Ills removal of tho voting machines from The Tribune- and Telegram Tele-gram counting room, from the Herald couuting room, from all other places that were known to be against the gang that he represents, was uot necessary. Had he done the saino thing with tlie machines in the Z. C. M. t and the sheriff's office, and had been impartial, no ono would have said anything, but. leaving them, as ho did, shows that ho is a peanut politician and one of ver-small ver-small caliber. Hundreds of people were outspoken iu declaring that his action was most despicable. It is in keeping with everything every-thing else, however, that the church Kopublican gang has done. The federal fed-eral bunch, at the behest of Smoot, i named the ticket; the federal bunch, at tho behest of Smoot, .ordered Kid-redge Kid-redge to remove the voting machines so the voters would theu be inconvenienced; incon-venienced; the federal bunch, at tho behest of Smoot, wanted the Taft electors taken off of the Taft-Libcral ticket; the federal bunch, at the behest of Smoot, said they did not want any one to vote for Tai't unless they voted for Smoot. This the voters resented. This they will resent next Tuesdny. when thev will, b3' their ballots, relegate .Toe Eld-rodgo Eld-rodgo and his gang. Meanwhile the voting machines are still working in the Z. f. M. 1. nnd the sheriff's oflice.