| Show A CLIMAX OF 03 ABSURDITY now HOW ame tae thein THEIR E the testimony in the case of the contested elea elef election aion tion between mr J mcgrorty the candidate of odthe afi the j gentiles and mr hooper the bandl bandi candidate date of the mormons cormons of utah Is boing being printed and it is expected thattie that the matter will come before the committee Committe eon oon on elections at an early day mr mcgrorty it is 18 said presents a strong argument against the right of mr hooper to represent the territory in congress and it seems as though congress will be obliged to fo grapple plew with ith the serious question of polygamy in deciding between the contestants mr mcg MeG mcgrorty will show the unlawful manner in which elections are conducted in the land of the saints it is disclosed in the testimony that on the day appointed for an election the judges of election who are also bishops and elders of the mormon church take their seats at the polls before them is laid a quantity of printed tickets the voters come up in succession and state how they wish to vote whereupon aher cupon the judge selects the tickets and deposits them in the ballot box at the same ame timo time informing the voters that their ballots are in A c clerk jerk near at hand records the name of the voter and the number of the Jb allot ballot it frequently happens that one person presents a list of voters names ail all of whom aro are absent from the polls and thus a great number of ballots are taken by proxy the testimony also shows that el eight ht tenths of the voters are foreigners w who fo hae have never been naturalized thai that hooper ran as a candidate for representative of the state of deseret as aswerus that of delag air nir utah an and d that if iche he is admitted it should bo be as tile representative of a foreign government vern ment and that located within the territory of the united ft tt will wiil bo shown that the ig f riet is regarded by them as a eab elb fig ham young issues messages as governor of the state of degi desi deseret e re and that no law enacted by the T territorial errit orial legislature of utah will be recognized by the saints until itaas been passed by the General assembly assemble of the state of deseret it is also aiso proved that mr hooper when he was endowed by the church was required to take an oath of hostility to the united states and is therefore not a proper person to be admitted to the tho congress of the united states tye fid bid fio y e is a dispatch from the washington correspondent of the 1 rew rew tew york herald hereto to that paper and appears in its ila columns this mcgrorty election case ease i is s io so utterly absurd and contemptible chati thab that we 1 should never have efio thought ug ht of noticing it only that wesee statements respecting i it going the rounds of th the pape papers rs were ive vvo we to let iet these paragraphs pass by unnoticed and without comment or explanation our bur silence might be construed into a tacit adais sion slon that the statements they contain ard are correct our citizens know the particulars of the case too well to need any enlightenment lighten ment upon it neither is theretha the there thene rethe the tha sli slightest tz haest necessity for us to allude to it for the purpose of strengthening our delegate hon ron win 11 hooper at the rouse house committee on election is familiar d doubtless ou atless with all the abd dodge c usually fe resorted sorted lo 10 by men of this M mcgrorty ci M r orty stam stat mip fp aud and will dispose ofal IQ camoin ca the pro proper per manner the iaea of congress having to grap 1 1 i wi til ill th the I 1 serious quest question ibn of po poleg byg fil amyy 11 1 1 p in the disposal of this case cage is alf all boh boli what in the nanae narae of all that is IK sensible has polygamy to toda 46 with it that serious question of polygamy 11 is ig a harp of bf a thou thousand sanf strings on which every rase rascal al in the country who ha has S some pa po antto gain against us plays the tune triai trial be thinks will suit M his s purpose best ouri mahner manner of conducting elections here heie mcgrorty alg AIG ads fault with but w would d ul d we vve hear of any suell objections iii had the M majority T f arity been becia cast in his liis favor hi he obtained we believe belleve one hundred aud and nine votes principally from the little town Stockton of but without sayong anything abndt the wonderful darful bedess accession 1 oil to the numbers of the voters of stockton on an that occasion by a process well weil known to unprincipled and disrud we can cah say that if the ru anner manner in which elections were held throughout the territory Terri territory tor y is iobe be urged to invalidate captain hoopers election then it can with equal force be bd applied against mcgrorty MeG MG if the judges judged election of at stockton complied with th c forms of law the election there waw waa conducted as it was in this city and ana throughout the territory we ave hata nave have yet to learn that there is a anything thine in the least unconstitutional or improper in a bishop or an hn elder sitting sifting as a judge of an election we confess a man should act in that position we would I 1 feek feel beus as safe in in depositing in our dur vote as if some drunken arge ily lly politician of the meu mcgrorty mcg McC stripe acte acted das dal as judge As to the statement that it frequently happens that olle olie one person presents a list of or voters names all of whom are ate absent from the polls and vote votes for efiem them by proxy it is a bl barefaced aret aref aced fali falA falsehood elio eilo 04 S so 0 also the statement that eight tenths of the voters are foreigners who hav enover enever been naturalized the assertion that because captain hooper ran as a representative of the state of deseret as well as that of delegate for utah he is not entitled to ta his seat is farcical in the extreme me nic groarty must have a dreadfully low opinion l nion of the mens judgments to 1 w whom om headdresses he addresses such an argame argument nt if he expects it to have weight with them congress knows that for years utah has been asking for admission into the union as a state under the title of deseret every member of that body knows that a state constitution has been formed and adopted and that a bill has haa been introduced into the house by the mon hon W H hooper asking for the admission of deseret which bill has been referred to the appropriate committee to say that the state of deseret is a foreign government because the laws jaws enacted by the territorial legislature of utah are by its general assembly shows what miserable subterfuges and lies chisdes this despicable creature resorts to in his anxiety tomake to make a case from the sitting of the first session bession of the legislature of utah until the pres prea present ent the laws passed by that body have had full force and efrece effect throughout the territory they have haye been the laws of the land to which our citizens have yielded hearty bearty and un conditional obedience they did this too for many years before the general assembly of deseret was organized bitt bilt it may be asked does not the general assembly of deseret take any action upon the laws passerby pass passed edby by the legislature of the territory of utah yes but not for the purpose of making them more acceptable to or binding upon the people of this territory mcgrorty dic would like ilke to make it appear that this is the object he would torture a very innocent and constitutional proceeding into treasonable action and by playing upon popular prejudices try to gain his point but the thi facts are that for four years past op or since tu the formation of the constitution of the state of deseret by bv a convention of the people the general assembly of the embryo embr tid state has annually adopted the laws jaws passed by the territorial legis lature of utah and this has been with wi th a view to the admission of the territory a asa as t a state of the union A more ridiculous proceeding than tili this df mcgrory ys we never heard of he was looked upon as better be ater than thau ah nii insane man ile he was so regarded almost universally his present confirma that thab idea who but ah all insane man would base a claim tobe to be the z representative of the people of this ter territory upon votes or what sane man would assert that eight tenths odthe votes out the cast for captain hoop hoor hooper 1 er were ware citizens citizen zens 1 according to the united sta states tes statute a contestant has to tj file his protest within thirty days after the b election I 1 this mcgrorey failed to do because wonderful torel to relate delate ate he wa afraid that the people of this city would learn through the telegraph from washington ton t that at he had bad done so and his life ilfe would be aa in danger I 1 there were upwards bf twenty two hundred votes polled in this county at the election for delegate Delegat eto to congress out of that number so 86 voted for him we would not yonder wonder if it he should yet say that they had all been slaughtered and eaten aaen by the people of this city or that the voters whom there a are ar ap probably not half a dozen at the present 0 9 cut ent time cimei had been gobbled up la in the cpr same M way Y t we would be astonished at any person list listening ehIng to him or paying the I 1 least east attention to his statements had nob not ii adur our e experience taught us that there isa ta certain class who will believe and alid patronize a any fool if ile be will only tell lies enough about the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 we repeat again agal n that this must ba our apology g V borall for alluding adin 0 to him |
