| Show assumption oyle OFLE GIgL AND JUDICIAL powe yowe POWE the utah failed to satisfy the the rabid clam class of antl norl nori Morl but have done doue all that WM wag laela power shott of entirely eu ing lag the restrictions upon elar ers defined in hi the 11 law W which breaw their officio to hiva hivo the minority all ail the ho zd vantages advantages possible in the chemes schemes that have hae been attempted tG subjugate the large majority of uhe ube he citizens of utah they were forbidden by the edmunds law to exclude any person otherwise ither wise eligible eligi ble bie to v vote 0 te from the polls bolls on account of any opinion such f lerson may entertain on the subject f bigamy or polygamy s thus the majority of the mormon af f the territory were not deprived ft f the franchise but all persons who bo by the widest and longest at retch of the eighth section of the 4 edmunds law and even by going ame distance beyond it could be included from the registry lists and so 0 prevented from voting have een jeen practically deprived of cf the ight to the elective franchise chich they have exercised for labuy years and that without any uricial proceeding or proof of guilt ut yut simply simpy for uee declining 1 ning to take a eat cat oain oath for which there was not he slightest warrant in law but this is not all our territorial provide for the election of ertain territorial omm off meers leers by the leople eople the commissioners have the prerogatives of the t arts and have pronounced those aws awa invalid and in addition to nat hat they have formulated a rule hat bat any ballots voted at the coming enral election containing the lumea ames of candidates for other 0 offices ban those designated to be filled by he Com commission minion will be rejected ud iad not counted for any purpose here bera are two thing named which be e commission have no authority a odo ao first they have no nt in law for ahat offices are to be fili fill filled ed he ninth section of the edmunds tw iw covers the whore whole ground of the creation of their office and the of their powers it gives blem tiem em iio right to designate the offles to be filled at any election they re to appoint proper persona to tak take e he ble places of the registration and I 1 officers of every description ca the territory of etab but they re not endowed with the functions fany of these omeera officers save sano and ex ept i pt in the case ot of cauna canna canvassing ising the otes for and of biving giving certificates to tle ile e members elect of ke es embly they have no right to an elke eike ele eie cUon uton to give notice f r the offices to be filled to count he e votes or do anything pertaining 3 the elections in person parson with the exceptions we have named the bounty clerks under the territorial I 1 CW itt should give notice ot of the lection and of the offices to a filled as provided by law ander the edmunds edmunda act the om ra appoint the r to give this notice in the lace ace of the county cerk clerk but ahen hen appointed he be can do no more nan ian an the county clerk could have one for the edmunds law pro ldes ides that the officers appointed by be a sha rha I 1 perform pe e duties of these thebe offices under rie ule a laws jaws of the united ute tte and said territory thus ta hae tae e elec elee llou lloa officer acting instead of je ae county cleu cieu can onty only do w what hat leclerk nae be clerk would have bave done ie le circumstances simply announce jeh jeb offices to to bo filled as are designs td by law the Commission commissioners erB have 0 more right to what falces ces cea are to be filled than five at ineys or five editors or five mer nant nanti i have they cannot find it ai the law they have simply surged it tho the other thing for which they have 0 warrant in law is ibe the Ye lection rejection ol 01 0 ny ballot which contains the names f candidates for other othen offices than aey ley hey have designated the sw w provides ebat that there shall ot 0 be upon the envelope obtains the ballot any marks writing iri yul ting ling printing or device davice but p e voter may inay place what marks maihs or y ri ting he pleases upon the ballot ie e may way add the name of general for president of the tho united I 1 I 1 ates afes if he chomes chooses like ilke the tho old of missouri that bhat would idt kot tot lot invalidate the voto vote for tor such boffl jars ers sra named on en the ticket as the law ro vides for supposing for bentle sake that hat no territorial offices an be filled by popular election and lat lav it is me tho province of the oom corm ners rs to decide on that point I 1 adado nd aso avo to designate what omm off meera leera he people eo by the gracious per ti jasion ot at those dignitaries m may ay proceed to vote for would t be tho ji essence on ticket of names for illges not to be b filled invalidate he vote for thoe tho e pe sons named i lon ion tt it for of ficera that are aro to ba b BI t I 1 if so show the of the stares slates or of the Teni tory Eory of D ah tah that so BO provides la is tuero there aay nty aw upon upun it whatever at thelast thela thell theil at delegate election the ers took the correct view they ruled that while they would not count any votes for delegate for the term yet the presence of a candidates name for that term on the ticket would not invalidate the rest of the ticket there is neither law nor re reason on why it should do so unless the commissioners rulings are laws duly enacted and binding upon the citizen citizens q as some of those gentlemen seem to think they fulminate decrees which are in the nature of new legislation and pronounce opinions which are judicial in their character and present effect and yet their powers clearly and ex expressly presely defined and limited in one section of congressional law do not even hint bint at any such remarkable authority the commission not the law baya bays only county and precinct offices are to be filed filled at the general election the commission not the jaw law says tays as a qualification to register gister you must take au an oath concerning your marital at affair stirs e the commission not the law says you shall not vote for any officer but buch bach as the commission choose to designate the commission Commie sion not the law says all votes for any but such officers shall not be coun conn counted tedd tede after atten such tremendous stretches of and assumption of power ought not the anti antl mormon element to be satisfied with the work of the commission but it is not and the gentlemen jhb have thus exerted themselves to the utmost to matlaf y the mormon cormons eaters have signally failed and we belle believe fe have more consistent friends among the people whom they have temporarily Injured than among the virulent and scheming class which has looked to them to be helps and aids in the accomplishment of anti 6 mormon designs for with all the strictures anich we have felt it our duty to make malae we look upon the commissioners as officers of whom a great deal more was expected than the law jaw authorized them to undertake and who have tried to meet that expectation as closely as possible without falling into the vindictive dic spirit and ultra on tra geona me ghods of the dissatisfied and baffled conspirators against the peace and welfare of the people of utah |
