| Show LET THEM BUZZ UP to the year 1878 1875 when thelreg the registration act was passed utah had a simple simpie effective and inexpensive election law it was framed with the view of sei sel securing euring honest elections in the territory and provided that each mach elector shall provide himself with a vote containing the names of the persons he wishes elected and the offices he lie would have them fhern to fill and present it neatly fol foi folded ed to the judge of the election who shall number and deposit sit it in the ballot box the clerk rhall shall shail thed thena write the name of the elector and opposite it the number of his vate the obi object tat of numbering the ballots and placing the number opposite the name of the voter was in case of a contested election to trace every vote and determine its validity also to prevent repeating doub doubling lingor or amy any other of the tricks resort resorted ted led to by politicians in many parts of the country on counting the votes each one had to be compared with the damoon name on we the list and after the returns had bad been kept ten days by the county clerk were to be destroyed unless the election was contested A maximum maximua n penalty of two hundred doll dollars drs fine was imposed for ex amiling any auy ballot for tb the e purpose of ascertaining any anything tiling but bul what candidate had been elected the law worked well and was efficient and satisfactory to all except persons disposed to find flad fault faul t under any circumstances but as soon as there was anything like a party parts of individuals calling them themselves seive selve s liberals a hue and cry was raised against the marked market ballot it was denounced as un american an invent invention loff fonn of ithe priesthood and a means of intimidation whereas it was not new to utah was in vogue in several of the tiie state and no in instance of its use to intimidate was ever adduced when asked what could be sub for it atas as a guard to the ballot box the answer was registration 0 the hullabaloo was catl cati caught up by the press and the marked ballot of or the ahe mormons cormons Mor Ifor mons was assal assailed ledas as though it was something peculiar and unique to aqui guiet quiet e t this noise the ma marked r ked led ballot was abolished by the legislature and the rew rep registration strat ion fon act was pas passed sedi but the saino same bame merceil another comp complaint laffit they didiot did not want alyre any registration gi and they register the tho consequence is they have llave many many of them forfeited temporarily the right to vote which they cannot regain till they register the new law provided enthat that for the purpose of ma maving making luin 9 the act net effective the assessors in the various counties who were made that thet registers should 4 appoint a resident deputy in each pr precinct so that in person or by bi deputy the register might visit every in the year 1878 the first year odthe operation of the ao act for the purpose of registering the them voters this requirement about the resident deputies applied simply to that year for the purpose expressly specified to revise the lists add omitted names change those ot removed persons to the proper precincts etc the assessor in in person or by de deau pu tv is required to make careful inquiry at the time in each year of ot making the annual assessment at the dwelling houses of the voters and every second year in the week beginning on the second monday in september 1878 the assessor in person erson or by deputy is required to beat ee at his office and register such per persons 80 n s as have been omitted from th the 11 list t on their appearing and taking the prescribed oath some of these complainers having refused to register now say it is too much trouble to come into town if they live at some outside settle mentor precinct of or the county and attend to the requirements of the law and are trying to make it appear that the assessor should have a permanent deputy in each precinct with an office for their accommodation although the law provident provi dest hat such shall be appo anted but for the first year of registration anti and requires none of them to have an office anywhere the assessors being the only office designated we are exe much amused at their turnings and twi tings stings and also at the change of heart hearl recently exhibited by some members of thi the press upon pou pon the marked ballot system here is the sacramento record union for instance which once had no words too wo strong in its condemnation dem nation of that American un method when it was in use in utah and which now bow attacks the alabama democrats for abolishing it we make the annexed extract from that paper before they gained control of the state an excellent election law had been framed by the republicans it brov provided aided that every ballot should be marked previous to deposition in the ballot box with the number opposite the voters name on the register this afforded a simple but sufficient means of tracing the ballots and so long as it was in force there was no possibility of throwing out votes without detection the democrats abolished the numbering of the ballots and prohibited r habited the placing of any marks whatever upon them this excellent election law it will be perceived was in ahk particular exacts exactly y identical with the old utah method it was horrible for the utah mormons cormons Mor mons but crek crai ex i cellena cel lent fon for the alabama Re repute nepul pul pui laicans A simple but efficient means m eans for the latter but a terrible system of intimidation in the former funny IV it I 1 this clamor and pretended nation and arrogant demand on the part of a small minority echoed by people and kj papers apers anar arar aaaron om need give no concern whatever to the permanent perm anent citizens oi ol utah the rights of the minority should be res respected doted ted their reasonable requests eo que st should uld be duly entertained any real grievance they have should be redressed but their tumults their threats their impudent demands should be treated with quiet disdain what they want is utterly unreasonable and absurd it is 19 the dictation of the majority and the control of public stairs they have a perfect right to organize to press their claims upon public tion to op oppose tl se by fair means th 1 6 policy of t the tle 1 e majority and its r earb se senta motives mU tives and to endeavor by all lawful met methods hodg to lucrease increase their numbers and lessen the majority but while the peoples peopled part pant party panty y ter yer forms its duty while its lt ml members rv comply with the law avail 1 selves of their political right rights and sand neglect 0 no opportunity for the exercise of the power of the ballot billot the little party 0 of f discord misrepresentation tion buncombe I 1 bitterness and bo bombas t twill twili amri 11 ll have nomore bomor in influence fluence to disturb estul the peace of the territory or I 1 interfere with the harmonious harmo working of our internal policy than the buzzing flies which now tickle ones roseand irritate very sensitive persons have to stop the shining of the summer sun or stay the sweep of the mountain zephyrs zephyr li which cool coot our prospering vales when the cloudless day is dane let them all ali buzz in cutting down a large willow tree in the old oid id mown town cemetery at itt newburgh NT N Y a ii few baysa days ago a marble marbie was found eni ed ded bed in iii the he trunk two feet from tho surface of the ground the t h e tree treo 14 ar PW ning wing ng had picked up the foots roots tope topo Q id drawn awn it from the earth t |
