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Show THE UTAH (.OHIUSSIO.W Tlirj D-in't Weigh Slxlrtn Ounces to the Ponnd. In their report to the Secretary or the Interior, tho Utah Commission-erssay: Commission-erssay: "The Commission believes that tha election (Februuy) was a fair One anl has no doubt that the Liberal arty fairly won the day." Or the s:hool election tbey say: "On tha IK'i day or July, school elections weru held in Salt Lake, Og ien aa 1 Provo, resulting nt the rorm:r place In the choice or seven Llocrals anl three People's party trusted, thus giving ths control or 8alt Lake City schools to the Liberals or an!i-"Marnns." Coming to the August election, they say: "In the August election which was general throughout the Teirltori,ri)rcammlHloaers to locate university lands and county and precinct ofllccrs,the result was again favorable to the Liberals in Salt Lake county, they electing their ticket with the exception cf recorder, re-corder, sheriff" and treasurer," and In a gen-ral way th rrport as ml. lows. rhuCommlsiIon feels justified in pointing u ith some degree of pride to the results that have been attained at-tained through Its admlnlstratloa of Uie election laws in the Territory aud In expressing the opinion that without such enactments and the thorough and conscientious manner with whicn the Commission has endeavored en-deavored to enforce them, such good results woull yet be among the tilings hopjd for but not attained." In the light of all that has taken t!ace here during tho present year itsccms strange that such a body or men should p:rmit such statements to go forth over their signatures. Hither they are densely ignorant of what has been going on under their vi rj noses, or else they have been afflicted with such partisan blindness blind-ness th it their visions have become obscured and beclouded and they have been unable to erceive what the most casual observer could see at a glance. There was enough of fraud di-tectel iu registration alone at the February election to havo called for a duae scrutiny and enquiry en-quiry had the Commission been actuated act-uated by a desire to see justice done inu the fair administration of the Ian. At the school election iu July the mo-t Infamous frauds were perpetrated perpe-trated that a corrupt political party coull conceive Men wereregister-el wereregister-el to vote In precincts' they never saw until they were driven there on election day. Men came to the polls to vote tho Liberal ticket who could not tell where they lived. How did such men get uixm the registration iUts" Soma of them Were honest enough to say that they were registered iu saloons, but Jut where they could not state, fauch name", some of them at least, have been and are now upon the rvgistrt-tion rvgistrt-tion lists, for future uss I prevunie. Tho registrars have permitted men to ch uge the registration oath at n'easurc to suit their m--1i1 fir. cumstauces in order to swell the Liberal number. The agents or workers or the "Liberal" party, some or them, by the way, appoint-ccs appoint-ccs or t'ue Utah Commission, have connive I to defeat the will or the mjority by sutstitutlng "Liberal" for People's votes, by striking the names of bona flue People's voters from tho lists, by allowing men to pe'sonate others they well knew hal not resided In the precinct for mouths aud even years. Now all this has been done and much more, aud been apparent to ordinary oV Bereeraot passing events here. Yet tho Utah Commissioners seem irr-rectlv irr-rectlv oblivious to it all and 4ake creJlt for and pride themselves on the results that have been attained through its "thorough and conscientious conscien-tious administration of the election law.' How elastic some men's consciences art-! Just what the Utah Commission will next report is a matter, of course, purely conjectural, conjec-tural, but I thin If they are actuated ac-tuated by honesty of purpose, by a determination to see the laws fairly fair-ly aloiluist-red, by using their off -e and power to see corruption and fraud stamped out and the will of the voter mafle supreme at the poll-, a radical change will tak place nud a different stamp of men bachor-n to fill the office of reg-s-trar and judge of election. Surely the Utah Commission have, by r.-afon or the deve'opment in tha cam or Young vs. Williams, Ferguson vs. Allen and other matters mat-ters of p jbllfi notoriety, much rooai to exjerlenco a change of "con-sclent" "con-sclent" In Tvlif Inn in h.l l.. Iort, and If they had thst to do again they would not point with ride to the results that have ton attain-d through tbtlr thorou h and conscientious administration or the election laws." JnJging by the results Hat have been a'.tilu-l In the past, ror which the Comml sion take cred t and pride, am led to think that "the Utah Commission is a useless, ex-u-nIean I unrepubllran tody, the lawful dutlrs of which could bo dl;fcargc-il by any ordinary mdl-"idual, mdl-"idual, that under IU administration administra-tion election frau is have been made M.-lb!e, ir nut actually encouraged, legal vote-w, whose right to vote was beyond question, have been refused registration ad the right to cast their ballots because they were members or the People's Party, lersons not entitled to vote and belonging to Uie "Literal" party have been permitted to rrcisterand vole. The- msjority of the Cora mission have openly, aa well as privately, used their official influence in-fluence iu behalf or the "Liberal" party and against tho People's Party. -v r Too UUli CommWoB has been weighed in the balance and found wanticg. It should be abolished. David L. Mijbdocx: |