Show ec BALLOT BALOi iSil adain IT Is useless p q expect thal editors 1 any more than preachers will try to inform themselves on the mormon ques before attempting 0 enlighten the i public thera are arepa alepa papers east and west west endorsing endor eador sim 1 the new edmunds monstrosity because lt it abolishes the system of 01 warded ballets pallets allots by which its asserted thai tha marmon Mormon nt leaders nind find out dut how people vote and p as near neah a neigh neighbor bor bof as til the sacra sacramento ento jeard chion en ion kon of the measure for robbing the women of utah ot tb the elective franchise althou although u it J favors woman suffrage ge oil on general 1 principles and bases its ita its app approval rovil on us tion to those samp marker ballots i we will explain once ouge moru more to thour our misguided thau that there are no such things as marked ballots ballot s I 1 in 0 system of voting why a man as well weil informed As senator edmunds Is supposed to be would introduce awil a bia containing to th marked ballot no such system exists the au Is senator edmunds Is re really as ignorant ign Igo g orant of utah affair a the average averige editor or preacher who has acquired A a ea chant hito fito the ormos Nl and that his nev llew bill bifi cion clon lalas pro pru visions to annul several utah laws that are not upon four jour noo nou B but it t to make tb tats matter 6 eles cles flear to the dullest or anost skeptical l antl laoc aboc mon mon we as fron from the laws JAWS of utan 1 the court cohrt shall furnish th the judges of OV elections in every prec litel with a sufficient number of plain envelopes f for election purposes said envelopes shall be uniform in co color lorand and size without any marks writing or printing or device upon them and no other kind shall be used at any given election eption el 1 every voter snail shall desi nafe on 1 n a single ballot writt written 11 or prin printed tedi the miamo of 0 he voted fo forr 4 L of the office td be f filled and when any ant js is X IQ be decided n athe the affirmative or negative ulve be he shall sull state the proposition at the bottom af the ballot and write lyeal yes jes or no 1 ashe as he m may ay desire deore deore sire to vote therm tiler fh erm ay which ballot hail hali hall shall baet r and placed in one of the envelopes pro pru vided aided f or and delivered to the pr pre 1 siding judg jurgo of election who shah shall y in n the presence odthe of the voter on od the name tiam i e of the proposed voter being found on the registry list and bd on all challenges challe neg n nes eg to buch vote being bein decided in favor of such voter deposit deposits 4 it in the ballot box without any mark whatever wha placed on such envelope otherwise the ballot shall hall be rejected laws of 18 1878 1828 81 p 32 2 these provisions render the ballot absolutely secret what the A to talk about Jl mormon ormon leaders coercing citizens nt at the polls 1 there Is another thing which wo would like ilke our contemporaries to consider that esthe Is the provision of the edmunds lawi now in farce which puts the control of election affairs in the hands of persons appointed by five commissioners who are appointed by the president and senate of the united states since sinco 1882 the elections jn a utah ulah have been so conducted will the sacramento record union 0 r any auy kotlier paper east or west test inform us as how the mormon leaders under these conditions compel voters male maje orte maleto rote vote for fon or against anyone any une one br anything contrary to their own freewill free will and choice and how many editors who have endorsed senator edmunds cata data catapult puit against va I 1 cancy will rectify their error v when en they read real these proofs of their own IV n auddis information pils |