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Show - f?! COXTEST. fof?hmak,DS "ie opening argument tMfiC0"e8tnt' Mn Brown aald ihowedtS??? "S b " '" 1mT lir' f"en had received flf. heeSi7T,0teathn Ferguson and to aE flrtWM accordingly issued thi. fri.'i V10 eTldice adduced in this trial fchowa to demonstration alS8 P?.1 DI counted for Allen: ahthat more than enough legal thii "Ferguson were rejected n Eerei necessary to overcome Allen's majority. thiffi" .fborough's doctrine !ri .". U no PWer on earth that S?..rtniteere Vth- or "' e adjudication ora registration ofllcer, "monstrous and untrue. To ay SiliiSit ,? ofl?.cer ba upreme court all la himself, independent of any other court, ti a libel upon justice jus-tice and American Institutions, and ft"i" ?ot J1"18 "me arguing upon It- This officer, when asked why he struck the names of legal voters from the reglstrr lists said they would not Inform hjm whether or not tbey had contributed to the defense fund. Thatwas their business, busi-ness, not his. Had that man be-i?0?1. be-i?0?1. to "" People's Party, the united States Attorney would have taken up the matter long since and he would have been sent to the penitentiary. If the one vote cast forFereuson at iJlufTflale, that was codnted for Allen, and the seventeen votes that were rejected at South, Cottonwood ffocounted for Ferguson, and thet thirteen HlegalTrotrt east at Blng.) ham for Alien are tbrown';eni, as' they ought to be, this will give Ferguson a majority over Allen or sixteen votes. ' This morning when the court metMr.Bawllna delivered a pointed argument. He quoted -numerous authorities insupport or his assertions asser-tions tht the actions ot a reglstra tlon officer are not final or conclusive his authority being like that of an election judge, prima facte only. Where fraud or irregularities ir-regularities are charged tho matter must be determined by the courts. The will or the majority or the lualified electors mutt decide who shall fill the office. An unscrupulous unscrupu-lous nrflfer mutt not be permliu! to thwart the will or tho majority oi tue jieoule. Judge Loofborough made a lon and somewhat fruitless argument for the contested, In which he endeavored en-deavored to Justify the Illegal and fraudulent conduit of the election officers at Bingham and South Cottonwood. |
