Show NOT DEFEATED BUT BOT ROBBED ar iris Is not a victory gained but a robbery consummated which has given to the liberal the majority they bey I 1 claim let it be remembered that during the whole campaign not one single complaint has been heard from a solitary liberal Liber alJ that be was not permitted to register and vote go fio far ar as known or even from any source any mau man desiring to vote the liberal ticket had bad every obstacle removed from the path leading to that opportunity on the other hand ever since the house to house registration began complaints without number based on the most substantial grounds have re sounded all along the line of the peoples peopled party As was amply shown in the investigation before the utah commission the grossest discrimination wa 4 practiced p by the registrars during the house b 0 use to house canvass liberals were registered wherever met with by the registration officers either night or day while the houses of peoples peopled party voters were avoided and their owners harassed and impeded in the attempt to register scores of peoples Pr oples party voters have been compelled to devote the whole or part of a day for many days in succession to the task of getting their names upon the registry lists naturally under the circumstances some of them became disgusted and discouraged while others had bad all their attempts to register defeated though qualified in every respect then came the scenes in the old engle eagle foundry building where the registrars sat for a week to register tames names not entered on the lists duri ng the house to house bouse visitation it stormed almost continuously during that week and applicants for registration were compelled to stand on the sidewalk in the snow sleet and rain often for hours at a time in order to secure an interview with the arrogant official who controlled their dest destinies ioles so far as the elective franchise was concerned here again the grossest thop was exercised against peoples party voters many of whom were on frivolous and unlawful gro grounds undo denied the right to register next came the notorious webb crusade when it began the peoples pie s party managers estimated their strength at something over of these about 1400 rec received elved challenges from webb nearly all of which were known t to be utterly base baseless legg at the time they were issued the scheme sell erne was not to support the challenges but to take advantage of the default of such as failed to promptly appear and answer by striking their names off the lists these challenges reduced the strength of the JPe peoples oples party it is estimated mated from to notwithstanding the rulings of the utah courts and of the supreme court of the un united cited states to the effect that the legal disabilities of polygamist al ceased when their polygamous status ceased that is when they ceased to have more than one wife the registrars ruled that owe oace a polygamist iet always a polygamist and on thel the strength orthis of this contradiction of the courts and common sense they struck off names of such as had once had more than one wife at the same time under the provisions of section 2007 of the revised statutes of the united states a man qualified to register and vote whose name dame through the wrongful acts or omis of the registration officers falls fails to appear on the registry lists may on making at the pollis an adi affidavit davit to his qualifications be per emitted to cast his ballot the benefits of this law were uniformly granted to liberal voters during the progress of the balloting but were uniformly dented denied to voters of the peoples peopled party about of whom made affidavits in the various precincts by the foregoing methods the strength of the peoples peopled party was decimated to the extent of several hundred their low loss through the improper and unlawful tactics of the liberal officials and manipulators would in all probability amount to votes this estimate to is made in all soberness and candor and is confidently given as under rather than over the truth at the time of the investigation before judge anderson Ander sou it was well known that there were in this city several hundred men who had not been natural naturalized led but who were in sympathy with the peoples party the decision in which shaf bearing culminated put a stop to the naturalization aliza tion of aliens who would not vote the liberal ticket and deprived ved the peoples peopled party of a heavy reserve force which had not ot of course taken part in any previous campaign the act of the utah commission in appointing to judicial authority the registrars under circumstances that enabled them to pass judicially and without the possibility of appeal from their decision upon their own unlawful doings was a flagrant wrong such as would in any state in the union be held sufficient to render the election null and void on a contest and now we come to the climax with which the liberals capped a long series of frauds wrongs and unlawful acts that special registration train which went from this city over the rio grande western railroad to the colorado line that suf dueh h a train made such a trip has been in effect admitted by the chief I 1 liberal organ that men were unlawfully registered by the hundred during that trip has we understand u been fully proven by many witnesses under oath Thata fraud so extensive outrageous and notorious to so e ally and so fully proven should not on a contest before impartial courts in any of the steles vitiate the election cannot be doubted by any sound lawyer |