Show president ballot the honest ballot of an honest veteran openly cast comos in for censure in the now york imea ar bicle it ia claimed president wood raff doted early in tho morning openly refusing a Democrat io and accepting a ballot for political effect and that his action was telegraphed to all parts of tho territory on election day the salt lake tribune saya we do not believe that the men out faide of those atiat surrounding the bohe anew until the polls closed that night that the old man had voted at all is abent the truth in the matter it was regretted by the ahm laign managers in this county where the population la about ninety per cent latter day saints that it was not known on the day of election that president had voted the straight republican ballot not an inkling of thia fact reached hero before the salt lake tribune brought the news the next morning we do not believe president woodruff voted at all for political effect he quietly drove up from hh farm chose the republican ballot and voted it without ostentatious display as all good citizens should do it waa a quiet suburban precinct and few politicians were there president cannon not noar to toll him how to vote president acted oi big own goo 3 judgment and his rights aa an american citizen still that quint and patriotic act of the veteran is now agitating the national remnants of a once powerful party the organ of acho administration parades it before the nation as one of the evidences that the people of utah have been unduly influenced by the church tc vote the republican ticket the administration little dreamy it seems that out here in utah there is as much intelligence as in the many States gained the day and sa much independence and patriotic manhood |