Show THE TOOELE conspiracy FOUR years ago thu liberals of tooele thoele county by wholesale frauds at the polls and aided by divis divisions lotis among the deop peoples ies leb les party succeed u 1 cheed ed in obtaining t official control of the county aa As was indisputably proven by the committee on elections of the legislative assembly several hundreds of illegal liberi al alt all votes were cast in the mining camps and the liberal en ten t was in consequence refused a seat in the assembly the county however submitted to the fraud and aff tars have been so manipulated by the regenerators that county scrip which four years ago was worth in the market 95 05 cents on the dollar has binco bince ranged from SO 30 to 50 cents and a few days ago was refused even at 30 cents ou on the dollar one of their officials has been convicted in the third district court of obtaining money under false pretenses pretense sand and their whole regime has been an imposition on the body of the people when the new now election law was passed under presure pre sure of the non norl mormons cormons Mor mons of this territory who wished to have the marked ballot abolished ahe the registration system i was yas made mado one of its main features because there would be no real guaranty of the purity of elections without it in tho the absence of the tho marked bailet at the time the reside crusade ru side was opened against the old lec jhc electoral Jec toral system the agitators contended that registration would meet every objection which might be offered against the secret ballot but just as soon aa as the sebret secret ballot protected by registration was adopted by our legislature a howl was waa raised and the cry went forth we do lox lot not want registration but the bill became a law and the register luts which have to b be 0 p posted us t e du up p tit fifteen t e en days before the election 1 showed that in tooele thoele county the mormon voters greatly outnumbered the Jj iberal 71 voters vaters a matter of fact well understood by both parties independent of this proof chis showing was evident in spite sipito of the improper registration of many liberal names A conspiracy was therefore entered into for the purpose of depriving the majority of the citizens of the county of their lawful rights ille gill vo ine lne wag wao permitted in several liberal precincts and women voters were ere excluded but a fo poo plus ples majority being evident notwithstanding every fraudulent practice of their opponents the m jobity of the county court re to fused to open the returns thinking that by this thia stroke of policy the eli action would be nullified and the liberal of the county would hold over and remain in office the point raised was that the returns from a number of the pre elects where the peoples party predominated were not sealed up ac cording to law th the statute providen that after the judges of election have counted the ballots they shall be returned to the ballot boag box abid arid the ballot box shall be locked and I 1 securely sealed also alio that ata after the thu number of votes for each person voted for has been determined and thu the result placed on the lists and curti certified fled to the lists clee securely V sealed shall be forwarded with the ballot box to tha the clerk of tho the county court it appears that although the ballot boxes were securely C P healed pealed by means of bands attached with mucilage and there turns by envelopes similarly faten fasten the objecting members of the county court claimed that they t raould bave have been sealed with feal huk hug ug wax one of the boxes and re tur urns Ds happened to be fastened with beating mating wax and then they declared the baing wax ought to have been placed paced over the ot of the box reference to tho the statute W will wiil ill ili show that these objections are invalid and outside of the province of the county court to 10 make and the dictionary will show if common sense is not a sufficient guide that sealing wax is not essential to securely sealing any document or other article pub nhu jio or private the intent of the tho law Is very verv plainly nty to protect the bilot billot box aud returns from being tampered with the materials to be used in effecting this oba object act lare are not specified and it was the tho sworn duty of ube the clerk of tha the county court in the presence of such members ra of the court aa as might be on hand band to examine the return returns and if no irregularity or discrepancy appeared therein to accept them as correct but this would have been contrary to the tho scheme concocted and the fr fraud ud determined upon the tors imagined that the leopie people dis heart beart heartened ened at the difficulties presented iu ill the case cate would yield to the pressure and allow the misrule of the paal four years to be perpetuated we think they reckoned without their host bost the peoples party P arty have so large a majority in the county independent of the female vote vole that tho the liberals have not the choit of a chance at a fair election it ilis ills Is not to be supposed that so large largo a majority u wili will ill lii submit to the deprivation of their rights lights in the manner attempted the aid of the courts will be in voke dand nothing that ought to be done will be left undone to vindicate the right and punish the wrong an alternative writ of mandamus will be plied diled for lor in the third district court with the object of compelling the county court to examine the returns hon ron P F M lyman is in this city to push the matter for the People and sheeks and rawlins are engaged aa ai their coun eel in their contest for their rights under the law and their efforts to nee ilea i themselves h em selves from the galling nailing yoke that has hits been forced upon their necks the tho people of tooele thoele count county y will have the sympathy and bupp support cirt of nii alf alethe the right min ted led of both sexes bexes throughout this thia territory |