Show SOME som OF or OBNOXIOUS provisions WITHOUT discussing in detail the various provisions in bill to regulate elections and the franchise fran chise chisa in utah we may briefly notice a few of the most obnoxious 1 it does not appear to us to be a judicious provision to place the printing p rin ting cfall of all ali ballots inthe juthe n the hands t of the secretary 0 or r the governor in this country civil officials are aimo almo 4 always p politicians with po lit ical leal partialities and prejudices an favor their particular arc ark 1 ahny arty where it is possible it seems beems 0 us as it would be far better for the jaw saw to define the tho size and hile bile of the ballot and envelope i secret ballut is to bo be the law and eve the printing of them to each anty or precinct for its own use 2 requiring voters to produce their naturalization certificate if t lia hia and also those naturalized iu this territory to produce of the rele relevant vahl court le irdi ean can sn hardly be approved if a at mah m ah carries his hla certificate with him to thu tho pulls and there is any of a drunken aud and boisterous character ciu clu going on in there as is often the case ne yale will be liable to ioe loe iose lose his flis certificate As to a transcript of the court record it seems to be anecia a needless les le ies s expense and andt trouble troubie roti ble bie to put every overy va voter ter to for no voter will ba be certain that he will not be and if it he presumes that he will not be and he should happen td d be it might be difficult or for him to go straight way to the court clerk elerk and obtain a transcript of the record in time for him to vote and if he could not thethis then his vote would be thrown away lost through the obstructive 0 operation pe ration of red led tape 8 3 public counting of the ballots in the polling room everybody knows mat toward the close of an fin election day when whiskey begins to circulate and inflame the bad passions of men proceedings of a boisterous and even riotous character are not and this enforced public counti counting nj of the ballots after alter the polling has closed in the room absolutely open to t the he public will be likely to encourage riotous demonstration demonstrations and possibly to violent attempts upon the ballot box it seems beems to us therefore that it would be better to have the counting of the votes representatively not absolutely sol public that is to have the votes counted before a certain number of 9 de designated sigda bigda teil tell by law lawhn I 1 rin fin a room to which the whole of the public would not have r right alit 0 of access 4 in regard to the qualifications of voters tho the the provision that an any y roalo citizen of the united states awen twenty me one 4 yea years ri oid old six mo montha nabs resident in the territory and ten days resident in the prec precinct luet luct can vote is not good in case 0 of f an apprehended close election numbers of ty oters would not scruple t to 6 pay other unprincipled voters sufficient to boar board daud dand and aud lodge them ten days in any pre pro immediately previous to any olec elee election tion and halub no enduring interest in the precinct nor even in the territory A dollar a head a day or less even would do it making ten dollars a voter not a great sum for some bome p euple eupie to raise for sucha such a purpose nay so far as this Christ lancy laney bill is concerned a regiment of of f soldier end erd u might be rp marched arched I 1 into any precinct kept there ten days and allowed to vote 5 these provisions as to suffrage abolish woman butt rage fage in a right enjoyed by the ladies ladles for upwards of six bix years a right the con ferrance of the enjoyment enjoy munt muni of which other territories and states are MarChi marching Dg steadily unwar towar towards da and beme seme bave have already arrived at thi thih is not very chivalric it is not nut even just j it is essentially mean 6 another objectionable provision is chaa man who niver nuver pays a dollar id ift taxes can vote for officers to spend the taxes which other citizens pay I 1 golab gotab of which citizens are excle excluded ded from the polls by Christian cys bill this is liberty and justice with a vengeance our fore forefathers fathers fought against ta taxation kation tation but this is representation without taxation A a policy equally unjust to those w who b 0 do pay the taxes and probably equally unpopular po puiai except as touching utah 7 citizens living or cohabiting with marii more than one wife are excluded from the polls anufrom and from civil office thus a man wh obas more than one wile wife a his religion teaches him to live would be dis fra fro franchised that is he would be disfranchised franchised dis solely on account of his integrity to his religion which policy is diametrically opposed to both the spirit and the letter of the constitution there are two or three bad features about this provision in addition to excle excluding ding good honorable taxpaying order loving citizens from the suffrage veea veca because use of their religion it allows all sorts of bad characters and even actual criminals except they are under sentence or conviction to vote freely A man may be a thief a burglar a highwayman a a murderer a fornicator au an adulterer a ster a rapist thing that is bad and no taxpayer an and d he may vote or hold office under bill but nut if he 1 is sober h honest on at industrious mom moral a good c citizen then a considerate husband band a kind ind father an excellent neighbor a heavy taxpayer and an yet happens to have more than one oue wife as his bis reli rell religion glon gion may him to have then ho he must rot lot not be allowed the privilege of elther either voting or holding office A man may moy seduce his neighbor neighbors daughter or debauch his neighbors wife and pay no taxes and yet vote or hold office under bill but if it he pays taxes regularly and fully I 1 and never those crimes nam ednor any heryet other ot lyet religiously and conscientiously aa a tho the constitution to himself more thau than bue wife and does a husbands duty to them he be shall neither vote nor hold office he may ruin women but he shall not husband them he may drag them down into the iraln of degradation i but he shall not honor them as wives waves and mother mothers sj upon pain of chi and disability to hold office this is benator senator statesmanship his morality his religion which he lie iq ie anxious that congress should adopt I 1 |