Show EXECUTIVE FALSEHOOD AND nullification IT seems that the governor received better advice than that which induced him to file the vetoed election bill with the secretary instead of returning it to the assembly as required by law and on tuesday afternoon forwarded it to the council with the request that the secretary might be allowed to make a copy the request was granted the document contain containing im the governors objections to the bill will now become a public paper and the unblushing falsehoods and ridiculous logic which it contains will be placed on record to the shame and disgrace of the hand that wrote them we have already pointed out two of the most flagrant untruths truths un to which the go governor ailor was S compelled to resort in order to find fault with the action ot the legislature and make it appear that they had not complied requirements of congress they are so utterly baseless and contrary to facts that denvill we will refer to them again ile he states that the following oath is required to be taken under the edmunds law I 1 and that the bill which he vetoes proposes to supplant it TERRITORY op OF atair UTAH COUNTY of 1 I 1 being first duly sworn depose and say that I 1 am over twenty one years of age and havo have resided in the territory of utah for six months and in the precinct of one month immediately preceding the date hereof and if a male am a native bom horn or naturalized as aa the case may be citizen of the united states and a taxpayer tax payer in this tius territory or if a female I 1 am native born or naturalized or the wife wire widow or daughter as the case may be of a native born or naturalized citizen of the united states and I 1 do further solem solemnly swear or aniro that I 1 am not a bigamist nor a polygamist thata have not violated the laws of the tile united states prohibiting bigamy or polygamy that I 1 do not live or cohabit with more than one woman in the marriage relation nor does docs any relation exist between betwee if me and any woman which has been entered into or continued in violation of the said laws of the united states prohibiting bigamy or polygamy and if a woman that I 1 am not the tile wife of a have I 1 entered into any relation with any man in violation of the laws of the united states concerning polygamy Y and bigamy subscribed and sworn to before me this day of A U D lbs ibb nesi Ecsi officer Pre cint we invite examination of the edmunds law and challenge any one to produce a section or a 1 line lne or a sentence from that enactment that requires any such oath or authorizes its formulation it is not only without color or authority of law but is in flagrant violation of the spirit and letter of the act which the governor has the audacity to say requires it to be taken the E edmunds law which contains no oath whatever provides that no bigamist polygamist or any person colm colu cohabiting biting with more than one woman and no woman cohabiting with either elther of tile the persons afo aforesaid resal it shall be entitled to vote at any election 11 but the above oath interpolates in this provision the words ilia the marriage relation 11 f thus altering materially teri terl serially ally aily the wording and plain intent of he be law of congress the law would prevent any person cohabiting with more than woman from voting or holding office in utah but this oath while shutting out persons who cohabit with more than one woman in the marriage relation I 1 that is men who marry the women with whom they consort lets in all the whoremongers adulterers schemers male and female prostitutes and persons of either sex guilty of the vilest sexual crimes erlines the governor likes this oath and wants it perpetuated and that it may be continued in all its shameful depravity and violation of a law of con congress ress as well as of public morality lie ne hlas hias has the impudence to claim that it is required by the very law it violates and will not endorse the annexed oath that appears in the election bill TERRI nory rort OP OF uvah UTAH COUNTY OP OF 1 I being first duly sworn depose and say that I 1 am a citizen of tilo tile united states ori have liate declared on oath before a competent c court 0 urt of record my intention to become a d citizen of the united states and have taken an oath to support the constitution and government of the united states as the case maybe may be I 1 am years of age I 1 have resided in the territory of utah six months and in the precinct of thirty thirty dai daS days next preceding the date hereof and I 1 am not disqualified As aa a voter by any law 0 of f the united states or of the territory of utah subscribed and sworn to before me th this Is day of la 18 assessor by deputy assessor another thing to be noticed is that the oath contained in the election bill removes the objections which have been advanced by some persons anion anlon among them the governor hini nini himself self seif against the oath in tile the old election law and the act conferring upon women the elective franchise it places the woman voter on exactly the same platform atford as the male voter it is simpler tier pier in form and leaves no room for those misrepresentations of its meaning in which the governor and others have indulged but this has no merit in his eyes it would deprive him of the chance to repeat the un truths which he has uttered and which have been published in the newspapers in refer ence to woman suffrage in this lins kern the oath covers the whole ground of violation of congressional and territorial law the governor and his associates can take the oath which he falsely says is required under the edmunds law but it is a question que stio 11 whether some of them could take the oath in the election bill which he has vetoed without being guilty of perjury lie says I 1 it is defective because it leaves tile the applicant for reg registration istrati ion lon the right to judge of his own qualifications thus making each one a judge jude iu in his own case but these I 1 se remarks do not apply any more to this oath the immoral one which suits him so well if a person swears falsely to either oath he be is subject to prosecution for perjury and tile the applicant is no more a judge of his own case under one oath twan than tile the other in either instance he swears that he is a citizen who judges that question in one case he swears that he has not committed certain specified of fences three in number only in the other he swears that he is not disqualified by any law of the united states or of this territory this covers much broader ground than the old oath too broad it appears to suit the governor in effect the new oath makes a man swear that lie he does not cohabit with more than one woman for he who naho does so cohabit is disqualified by a law of congress the governor Go it seems does not want his friends nor himself himself to be placed under any such stringent provisions and therefore prefers his favorite phrase t in u the marriage relation as a way of escape for all who cohabit with more lnore than one woman out of the marriage relation well every man to his taste and as the old adage has it straws show which way tile tiie wind blows the other manifest untruth to which we allude in this article is the statement that there are acts of congress which require the present legislature to pass measures to uproot and suppress certain things regarded as organized crime the governor was unable to cite a section or a paragraph or a phrase from a law oi 01 congress which makes any such requirement of the legislature lie he refers to certain expectations of the countr country y and requirements of congress I 1 in this direction those public expectations arc are very dlf din terent different irom congressional requirements some foolish persons expected that the legislature of utan would reenact re enact the provisions of anti polygamy measures or something of tile tiie kind to satisfy ithe clamor of certain agitators who ligure figure as the public and ud call themselves the country but their expectations I 1 were founded in folly for any sane person can see that s ilen tied action by the legislature would amount to nothing lor it would give the laws of congress no further effect and anything enacted by the legislature le T is contrary to congressional lavt lai would be void but whether these popular expect lations tat ions I 1 were wise or foolish congress did not intimate in any enactment that the legis legislature lature of utah was required qui whatever ed or c expected to do anything whatever but provide for tile the filling of the registration and election officers of the territory this the le legislature accomplished complis hed in good faith 1 endeavoring to meet every point that appeared to be necessary necess alry oLry and the only ining thing thus required V Q that body has am n titled I 1 bythe by the governor the term nullification is a favorite one with that official ile he uses it repeatedly and seems to think it answers for argument now we wc defy him to show one law of congress eess gess which the legislature have nullified 19 and we agree in return to prove that he is himself the great nui nullifier nul lifler of the times in his own small smail sm allway ailway way ile he has nullified measures that would have been of vast the people whose interests he is sworn to and he has nullified the application and intended effect of laws of congress by his own unlawful and prejudiced course and official action tile the two falsehoods which we have llave touched upon are arc samples of a batch that mishu might be presented of which the governor is the tile author ilow how much respect is it possible for the citizens to entertain foran official who condescends to such huch methods in a warfare against them and their representatives for the purpose of red ned reducing acl ng this flo fio flourishing ln prosperous prospero usand and peaceable community to a con condition of absolute serfdom om |