Show iet lez US leave THE FACTS tian THE annexed communication has haa been received by Sec bec secretary rotary A JL thomas the subjoined bub sub joined certificate accompanied the election returns retains the author of the letter and two of the judges es of election ejection are pronoun j ced 61 LIberals f and the tho other judge la Is supposed to be a member of the peoples party Sp bursi ratiA oury olty kuust ith IBM arthur JD thomas eig egg secretary of bunh U la h commission 00 M miu q on dear sir the pretended election held here yesterday ton fon or municipal omm off meers officers for spring city was in my opinion one of the greatest frauds over perpetrated in this or any other territory on the legal voters of this 01 olty tj jearly early in the morning a dozen or more polygamist bullies made their appearance at the polls took possession ot of all tickets threatened the judges of election and intimidated lne the voters placing one of their number jos T ellis euis a polygamist at the polls with a book in which he entered the bame 0 ot t esela emela ph voter and opposite the name the A or 0 as aa ho ile ascertained his 70 to to b bv A yay ray fb a mist friends the other polygamist poly garnish blockaded the polls so eo as to prevent voters from coming to vo vote te and when ordered by thu the judges of election to make room for voters to come comb to the polls to vote refused or neglected to do so BO all the time threat ening the judges and other liberal voters the peace officers of the city and precinct who are aies niba late refused to interfere or preE preserve erve order during neary nearly the whole doy not 1106 a ticket could be had to vote unless buh buy a abject act to the inspection of the bul lies iles I 1 union the tha voter could write his own ticket in the evening while in the dis dib charge of his duty can canvassing the votes the presiding judge judges james commander was stabbed in the back with some bome sharp instrument while sitting in my offices office with his back toward the window by some person on the out outside elde the confusion was so BO great as to hardly admit admi t of the judges performing their duties and resembled veny very much a howling mob 1 now it cannot be possible that such a fraud as this can be called an election for this city we are aio much better os without a city government anyway eim him election returns I 1 cannot see how any person can claim in an office by virtue of any such buch proceedings as these on the part pant of the law jaw abiding citizens of thib this place I 1 must protest against this transaction being considered anything but a farce and outrage upon the americans of this city although there are axe but few leyja very veny r respectfully ully ally jacoe JACOB C J 0 9 officer spring jere jene TM ehn JUDGES we hereby certify that we wem were unable to conduct the city election in the manner prescribed by the utah by reason of tain parties forcibly taking the mat ter into their own hands going ao far as to both threaten and commit violence upon some bome of us and de driving the t be people of their liberties liber flea in general at the p polls 0 lis ils JAMES jaees COMMAN commander DIMs DANIEL geo aw W it la is not a little singular that these occure noes said to have taken pince place over a month mouth ago come to the pillow tor for twe toe farst first hwe aling VA rhia late date we pius plus but little rell reil anoe mn the statement ot of S the registration officer as it Is corthel coccas in language that thuu betokens be tokens rage a part partisan iian isan tand taud is ia too 11 able and venomous tor fot an ans document the of th tle the judges of election is ot of a more to ted fed on ous OUR and demand demands a frn frh and complete investigation elections in utah have be beerli eili erli tolore conducted with propriety jn 03 with one or two rare nare excepts perfect peace and good order 14 T 4 to la so BO peculiarly a characteristics character bt I 1 utah elections that they have 4 come proverbial for their lack of 14 B distinguish dib dis tin lin gulab ing features faa faR tures of elect bau baa in other parts of the where disturbance and n dj and often rioting dr brauen auen and tumult are the rule posed necessary EL a tuli tuii and free ex expression prejon of aue aut can liberty I 1 we are blow elow to credit the thedora elev elew made against the people of bam city citi s a quiet town in quiet 8 county we must muti bear the chai thai edde before believing the etoi jr iff know how easily the abate it can manufacture mout of molehills mole moie hills bills and how bow readi read lih lva tia call names and make without cause or reason vu dk polut ment and defeat make kg persons extremely reckie reckless ex alq ud dio dic fictive tive and it may be that ah ilal ilai have iava lave had something to do with fi assertions that have now come I 1 light right so BO long after they were md ell la in bilting wui Vil ting ung it 11 the tact tenh last to fth in the ceru certificate ficare an are as aa uhe the oena cert parties part lew who threatened I 1 committed violence upon of the election 4 i have broken the law lav and ought t h have been prosecuted grou start d wing I 1 from the U utah statute t of 1928 1879 lars lajo lation to the conduct ot elections bee beo see sea 28 any person 0 wao o shil bool disturb or be guilty of any bloton conduct at any election la in ahlsten thi ten tory tony ory ony or who shall disturb or later into fere ere with the canvassing of tote vote fjor interfere with tae making of ibm turns or who shall anterni in terai terni any voter in the free d th elective franchise rn chae shall ahall to be deml dema guilty of a misdemeanor me rne on au convict conviction lon ion bot bor ti gi crime to is imprisonment la in a 8 cound ali lall all not exceeding six months ott ori fine not exceeding three handled bundred dollars or both it Is il triage that thai some legal action had haa ten tea la in this thim matter I 1 if it lm Is ama mma AwA of the judges of bed in the back with bome some shu sky in jesa lags it was waa pricking him with a pin why m w not complaint duly against the of lender offender it bun BUS to us that if anything could I 1 truthfully alleged as aa stated inh ing in tt letter the secretary the agg relvi persons persona would have only been ti 9 glad to prosecute the individual allty of violating the law we hope to hear bear full tuli of these alleged proceed zig mig from trustworthy sources lej laj ulan nian while trust that a fuli full lattain vesti gation will be ba nega neen idy 7 W w municipal authorities authority ot bubl city that the place may migy be cm acted of th the 0 stigma now new cast the charges are false and it 0 are true that the guilty basyli mai I 1 punished disorder violence 9 c interference with officers in the 6 charge ot of any duty should not noi encouraged or tolerated aspeci cs mong among a the people of utah chor bound by the most solemn esp aig ments menta to be law abiding and orderly let bet the tuli tuii in i fach brought forward no matter W t found to be blamable |