| Show DO THE GROWL ERB went WAST avi aki F ALTHOU ALTHOUGH gli gil tho the returns of the general election of 1683 are not yet an it Is well weli known that the peoples ticket has been elected and in nearly every county by a very large majority this thib was just what was an anticipated tiel by all ip parties artles it could not mot well be otherwise 1 it if there weme were over twenty thousand democrats in a territory or a district against less than five thousand fi F republicans i p ubil abil cans who could expect that th the a be republican p publican ticket would be a elected hoa bon Soa aa athe the peoples party parly n numbers berb bens a about at five voters to every one of the so called liberal panty fanty why should there have been doubt anywhere about the result and aud yet yeh there is a great deal of growling and complaints are made that the election wasa was gel fit farce well the tho only faxel farcical cal cai characters appearing in it were those who voted with the expectation that their few ballots would swamp the many there bisno Is no farce about it except the ridiculous antica antics of the losing party who have lost their favorite cry of and now do not know what to howl about zat eat if their gymnastics are amus ng what bhan bhail wo we aay say about the contort contortions ona ons of papers outside ther cherer er here Is the cincinnati times star talking in this way the uthe polygamists seem not to have found ac lt difficult to evade the law governing registration arid and there Is now nothing to prevent them from going to the polls and electing local officers and legislators who though they are monogamists will do the bidding of the twelve apostles now there has been no evasion of the law in the slightest degree the law has been a compiled complied with the polygamists have not gone to the polls no person who has ever been in polygamy has been permitted to vote yote and yet the result la Is the the tho peoples party immensely outnumbers its political opponent what is the matter simply y that it has more votes and the fact is made apparent that the great outcry which led to the peculiar piece place of legislation known as the he t edmunds law was a falsehood for now that polygamy is ruled out of the baleto box the result Is jis the same politically liti 1100 ally cally so BO far as the antl anti mor gomor mons are concerned they do not gain control of the local offices nor the local treasury hence the antics and the cry of its a farce the san ban francisco chronicle had this to say an election for leg legislative and county of ficera under the tie edmunds law takes tanes place today to day in utah the Gen gentilee Gentl tilea iea leg take little interest jn in it be cause they know the mormons cormons have taken thedith the pith out of the law and that the same old plan of counting in the polygamists will be carried oat oai how could the cormons mormons Mor mons take anything out of the law the election was not in their hands it was not under their regulation the law hsi has actually been exceeded that the commissioners who managed the election have gone beyond the laws law making its provisions retro betro ac tive and stretching it beyond all reasonable bounds the best beat lawyers who have examined the masterfully matter fully agree and anc honcan how can any polygamist be counted in when no was a candidate for office and the mormons cormons Mor mons have nothing to do with the counting if the peopled peoples party were desirous of dying copying the tricks of the politicians they ey h have ave ava not mot the power for the whole election machinery is 9 taken out of their hands bands t is easy to perceive what the prowlers growlers grow lers want now it is the disfranchisement of all citizens who believe in the th a doctrines of the mor cmor mon not express their desires desires in direct terms ce they do not bay eny plainly that the cormons mormons Mor mons should be deprived of political all nil power because of their religious religions falth faith but bat this la Is what they mean the times star put puts it this way the utah Commis commission sion slon must be invested w with jtb such discretionary authority naru narn make it possible to strip of their political privileges all sym bym sympathizers athi with the obnoxious banz bant band of criminals who persist persist in defying the government I 1 that is the growlers prowlers grow lers bijj not be content until the very jamall minor the people of utah are empowered to trample upon the righta rights of the vast majority and establish within the republic of the united hantos a hind kind of government for which there is no parallel in any civilized nation we do not think there is a sufficient clent number of idiots or rascals in any political party to make this thib possible so the prowlers growlers grow lers may continue to grumble in vain tain |
