| Show THE MORMON moemon pei work WORIC OF THE UTAH S AND HOW IT HAS lias beey BEES salt lake correspondence d eif eff 9 republican bo much has been 94 country relative to tin problem problems both true ani adi andew 0 wish through your celal a few words to ti tl the a to the utah to a body of men ed pointed by the no united states I 1 to elio ei parts of the so bo callady callet called of 1882 these nive five g selected from nive five dat 1 they are all gentl 82 esai ty as much op oppose edif dM it as those anti antl who have cri crl criticized criticised ticked their powers are loald contained in Inthe the two tw the law they camb came V august with the bancer doubt to execute the t good faith they hase have K utmost verge of v thed thet I 1 powers and in the ck oe persons have tether s alique little in order 00 law effective how lis ils bri v tiemen be been on treated be expected the morin norin 1 ec ted and protested ag sg 1 0 and nd the manner of its to but as could 31 ot 11 have been expect expected odi adi tin the d bcd ded n na bion alon was wag critic d CIS oll CISs s certain by a t tiles lles fron frola the ID a eoon econ after their arri nd they were told bycy hymy bywy by these sti oti wo 01 etan that they I 1 ugh 0 f ed here that they thoy legally holdan hold hoid an election for delegates to congress s that there was not time to make grake ea a legal registration and they had better look around awhile and go back to where they came from but S at the lino line willough wet yet lough rough to know that the laws of the united states declared that every territory terri territory tor should be entitled to a delegate i to congress and that an election for such buch delegate should be held in every territory on an tuesday after the first Mond monday siy sty in Noy november ember 1882 and they were further notified that there was time enough to make a registration i in other words the commissioners having taken an oath path of office to support the constitution and laws jaws of the united states state s preferred to obey the laws rather than to violate them at the behest of a small coterie of malcontents this determination of the commission to obey the laws lawn was their first of fence no I 1 am too fast it is evident that thad tha they gave mortal offense offence in coming here at all the coterie had not obtained tho the law jaw which they wanted and the commissioners were not conot selected from the right place liace salt lake city the branot ers ere not complying with the polite request to leave the territory proceeded to execute the law after framing rules and regulations for registration they appointed registration officers in making these ap point polut menta ments they acted upon the theory that gent geni gentiles iles lles were to be preferred but nut ansome in some bome instances they had to appoint Mor mormon mont mout which they did upon the recommendation of intelligent and honorable gentiles that buch such appointees were the best besu men mon to be had in those localities for this the tha commission have been censured by the coterie the commissioners were asked by these men to make au an order that tb the a women of utah should not vote the commission exam examined ned the la a and found that woman hai haj existed ty law in this territory for a number of years vears and during that time Congress had bad in deflect confirmed and approved the law so bno that the commission declined to resort to nullification conr this raised another howl how With without outgoing going into many other particulars showing the unfriendly and inhospitable treatment which the commission has received ree rec eved oved at the hands handa ot tuta this cit cui elique ellque quel quei 1 will call attention to a very unjust attack upon them in a little newspaper of this thia city issued last saturday in an article headed A farce the writer censures the commission bo be cause castein in their late jae rules they make the june regis registration ration nation a revision in stead of rc requiring quiring a new registration by going from house to hou bou housep bouse house sep ete etc the gentleman who wrote this has haa certainly never read the law or he would know that it provides for 11 i only one original registration and that was in 1878 and that every subsequent registration is only a revision by adding and striking onn oil names A salt lake correspondent ot of the blobs globe democrat in the issue ot of that paper of april 21 1883 1853 takes the commissioners to task for holding an election fur delegate to congress last august in spite of the fact that thag they were assured by the best gentiles here the clique that ther thet ewaa not then sufficient timo time to arrange for it properly it should be borne in mind that the commission commie slon sion had declined to hold hoid an election to fill the term in the fotty forty seventh congress and the governor of the territory had refused to order an election for that purpose but the committee on elect electie elections lens ns of the H use of representatives in passing upon the application of T r calne caine to be admitted to said seat in the conclusion of their report said grit it Is vi dent that if the office of delegate strictly a territorial office within tho the purview of the utah statutes statute then the governor mistook a plain duty in not calling a spec special lall election to fill au an admitted vacancy but if the office be not a territorial office strictly speaking then it Is a clear cases cazes omissus omis sus in avent the people should not be of a right guaranteed to them by tolean public law especially al y when vhey uley have performed thel their whole dull duli duin anin in the premises promises by fairly choosing cho as their delegate a citizen against adal admission ision no disqualification la Is urged 1 this report was unanimously adopted by the house of representatives representative ta tive tives and mr caine admitted now if the commission are to be impaled for allowing the people oy 0 thia this terni terri territory tory the inee vree ree exercise of a B right guaranteed to them by solemn public lanin lavin law in olec electing ting a delegato delegate to congress what ought to be ba done with the Congre congress nor for giving the beatton beat seat to a man who was elected at the same time by the people 0 despite the non act action ion fon of the the governor of the territory is as well as aa the commission this thia writer aisa aiba bays says that among othen other t rulings the commis commission slon sion declared ared that men and women who for y years ears eans had been out oat of polygamy and hated it with a holy hoir hatred should not nol vote widows who yearb years eara eare ago had been the first and the legal wives of men long dead at the time of the ruling ana anu who hail had always opposed polygamy were ruled out and insultingly told that they would first have to be pardoned by the president the rule made by the commission deprived from reg regi istra stra tion all persons who had ever been in polygamy while it may have operated harshly in a few instances it was received with favor by fair thinking gentiles became because they knew that a rule that would have let in one of those referred to by the writer would have admitted a score of mormon voters but the crowning crowni dg act of infamy in the eyes of this sweet scented patriot ibis ahls would be official hanging on to the rugged edge of hope deferred the commissioner madu made a brosy roby rosy re port to the secretary of thet the in teror geror terror which ente d senator edmunds rom baving having another bill passed to give needed strength to existing how ed out when it is ata ava ametter utter auter of history that the very lawa laws sought bought to te be enacted by senator edmunds were thosa those recommended by the comila slon bion in the bame rosy rory report leport but communicatIon this thib is id already too long these are only a few specimens of the wise incubations or of the coterie the people of the united states are aro fast finding out that there Is isa laa a very small clique in utah who would rather destroy the mormont than thau reform them who would not care a cent for p it if th eythe clique auld c uld hold all the office ew and who for earb ears have vili vilified tied fied aud allet ta tin deuced every federal official who re freij to violate the law and his of flaral oath at thein their dictation FAIRPLAY GENTILE |
