Show i MACHINES DECLARED ILLEGAL The supreme court of Massachusetts l has decided decided de de- de- de the time voting machine unlawful on the ground that hat the framers of the constitution did not contemplate plate any method of voting which would depend upon the time infallibility of mechanism The Time Deseret News and the time Smoot organ doubtless doubtless doubt- doubt less ess endorse that decision Still it strikes us that it t is a strained decision on The framers of the constitution constitution ution contemplated nothing beyond obtaining a fair air vote and nd did not bother about the thc means selected selected se- se through which to obtain that vote Unless Itcan it itan itcan can an be shown that the time ma machine hine does not perfectly perform its work we do not see in what WH way it comes omes under the jurisdiction of an any court It is I said that Thomas Jefferson on the day of his inauguration inauguration inauguration in in- rode on horseback to the capitol dis- dis I mounted tied Ins his horse ascended the steps of the time capitol took the oath of office then remounted his horse lorse an and rode awa away But that does not prevent a modern president from going to Washington on a arain atrain atrain train rain or in a balloon The point in Jeffersons Jefferson's time was vas the thc taking of the oath In the same way the time point in voting is first to vote and next to have the tile theote vote ote honestly counted How this shall be done is merel merely detail and in our judgment does not come under inder the jurisdiction of an any T court Beyond all that hat the history of the country is filled with the tile stories tories of unlawful voting and fraudulent counts The he voting yoting machine makes both hoth impossible May fay Maybe Maye be e that fact is what prompted the trial of the tile ques- ques tion ion It is a shameful reproach that an aim honest in- in in- in can be condemned and so man many dishonest voters permitted to go free |