| Show TOOELE RIGHTED SIGHTED thern THERE appears to be bome some misunderstanding der standing in relation to the status of affair gin sin tooele county an impression exists that some further farther action of the district court la is necessary to settle the right to office of the men chosen by the people at the last election and that the action of judge schaeffer in vacating his hia position on the bench haslett has left tho the matter in dubiety this is a great mistake A little littie reflection with a knowledge of the facts in the case will show this beyond the shadow of a doubt last august county in common with other count counties les ies held an election for fon county and terri torla toria officers under the election ejection law passed at the last session of the legislative assembly a two parties patties in that couil county ty fira first it the peoples party composed of the old settlers and embracing a large majority of the citizens second I 1 the comparatively small Ll liberal beral party which included the men who were in possession of most of the county offices which they had bad obtained through wholesale frauds frands committed at the polls at previous elections on thia this occasion the peoples peopled party paid scrupulous attention to all the technicalities and require m ments ants of the law BO so as to leave no loophole i for the enemy to take advantage of or to invalidate the elec lon ton on the result was the polling of large majority of legal votes for he peoples ticket but the liberals in office determined if to defeat the will of the leople eople and therefore set up foolish objections to the returns the matter was brought before the third district court by F M lyman member elect to the legislature en erx behalf of the people of the county after considerable litigation a writ of peremptory man lamus jamus was issued by the court requiring lu iring the refractory officials to canvass the returns and carry out the provisions of the law in relation to the subject on appeal the supreme court affirmed the decision of the district court being thus led they made the canvass a full report of which was published in his this paper showing the undoubted of all the People peoples lb candi latea by a large largo majority but an attempt was then made to throw out all the returns but those from kwo wo precincts and take the results ol 01 tile the latter alone to determine the result of the election but the district court would not submit to this impudent disregard of its commands and gave the desperate and defeated de officials a few da days vb more in which to make a full iuli canvass and report their doings to the court the canvass was again made and the peoples candidates were A officially declared elected their certificates ot of election were issued they duly qualified on good and sufficient bonds and entered upon the duties of their calling all being done strictly under the provisions of the law jaw but the ousted officials after holding on to their positions for eight sight months after being rejected by the people took another step with the view of trying to keep their places instead of delivering over to their successors the records seals and all other public property in their care they vacated the court house leaving the safe eare and the doors unlocked and tried to raise the report that the new incumbents cum bents had taken possession by force the story was ridiculous ind and without any color of truth but they thought to make further atlays uby this course however juose effier on the very day they were to come into court and make report of the manner in which uey hey had obeyed the mandamus vacated his office on a press report that he had been removed and his we cessor nominated by she president therefore their report war waa not nade mide as required now the question is how does this thib t hi i failure 0 o report affect the status of the nt diw w we answer it does lot rot affect them at alf ali they have beer bee duly elected and qualified they have found the court house andeits ana its appurtenances ces deserted and banci ha quietly entered into possession ot the places to which they were chosen by the people as declare declared dand and ind certified to by their predecessor they were not required to appear in court the district court has das nothing to do with declaring them elected or not elected they ne tre n e now undoubtedly the de facto as well as dejure off meers officers of toode county they can proceeded eed with wita the discharge of their duties without reference or regard to what whit the defeated malig nants may ety or do the people will recognize them in their position and tooele thoele ed from misrule and the nomination of an unprincipled mho milo rity and abd having learned a lesson flom from the severe experience of the past may go on to union prosperity progress and the develop development ment mert of every interest among them it was the ousted officials vho aho had to appear in court for the pir pose of purging themselves irom iron contempt they had disregard id the mandates of the court and wee justly deserving of punishment whether they had been fined anc imprisoned for their off mencel lencel or allowed to go scot soot free would have made roade no difference to the status ol 01 the new now officials this is the whole substance of the matter it Js true that the defeated party may claim that there were irregularities lario lari feb ties at the election elections and that there are imperfections in the law anybody may do that action may be taken at law against the right of the new officials to hold their positions but bat tho the facts are arb are too potent for any such proceeding to prevail tooele thoele has enie enle d itself and all that may be threatened by the ousted and angry usurpers usurp ers is mere bluster and the th vapid mutterings rings of baffled malice the whole thing is settled it is well |
