Show T lie I 1 oniest lasts there can be no question bat ballots though put m wrong boxes ought to have been counted by the election judges the evidence in the contest cases shows a number of republican ballots not counted because the to put them into city boxes the mistakes in those cases were plaicey the neglect on the part of the judges to do their duty and when pointed out ought to have been corrected by the judges their failing to do so makes it incumbent upon the legislative committee on elections to make the correction the showing also made that in mapleton the polling place was arbitrarily moved from the published place to a private residence makee it plain that the law has been violated democrats hoped by changing the polling place from the spanish fork aide of mapleton to the eide to gain an advantage to spring ville by allowing mapleton residents on the latter side to vote for spring municipal officers in doing so however those making the change did not take into consideration cen the violation of law they were coilty of and now their conduct may come up to vex them the law says that fifteen days notice must be given of the time and place of an election but in the zeal of partisanship to make democratic no notice was given of the place of the polling place it would not surprise us if this should invalidate the whole election in mapleton precinct and result in the casting out of the entire vote the other cases of alleged illegal voting will have to be decided upon their individual merits of course residents of one precinct have no right to vote in another no matter if party does need their votes in order to succeed party zeal undoubtedly ran away with the better judgment of a great many patriots at the last election and the machinery of election being entirely in the hands of democrats led them to do things which would not have bean done had everything not been run in such extreme partisan grooves |