Show TRYING TO JUSTIFY FRAUD W WE E DO 10 not feel called u upon pou to take cake notice of every groundless charge made by the liberal s organ of this city which makes a specialty of publishing falsehoods about the mormons cormons Mor mons ss if we were to reply to one third of these fabrications we would have little space left for anything else we touch upon one of these wilful untruths un truths today to day because it is of a character that scarcely admits of silence which is often unfairly construed as con dent A short time ago we gaye gave a brief history of the passage of the election law of 1878 and pointed out its ita essential differences with wita the present administration of the law unable to meet the facts and deductions in that article the liberal Liber alss organ resorted to its usual tactics and in justification of the frauds perpetrated by the liberals liberal officials and the robbery of the franchise from bom legal voters of the peoples peopled party stated that liberals had been so defrauded under the act of 1878 and that it was enacted for the purpose of defrauding them thus the argument is the liberals liberal party is clean because their organ says the peoples peopled party was dirty first the fallacy of the reasoning is evident to any one with senses sense even if the statements upon buon which it was based were facts but here are the asser eions Theune the tribune says in point of fact this provision of the utah ad act of 1878 was intended to be used and was used as aa a means of excluding a sufficient number of legal votes in the county of tooele thoele to return the peoples party to power in that hat I 1 county about one hundred an fifty names of legal voters were then challenged before the designated justice of the peace in that county and he would not hear any fact in their favor unless they chev each paid in advance the sum of of five dollars for his services in hearing bearing the several cases the result was that all the names of such voters were arbitrarily stricken from the lists and excluded from the ballot box and they were of sufficient T number to give a majority to the peoples party candidate this is a fact of record as well known as any other A careful read reading jag of the statute will show that it was not designed for any purpose except to secure to every legal voter a secret ballot and to exclude from the polls all persons who had no right to vote this as a matter of fact was the purpose of the lawmakers law makers makem who were aided in their wark by liberal judges attorneys and business men and b by Y the governor the impeachment of motive cuts cubs at them as well as the legislators but it is only lashing the air now as to the facts we deny in toto the statements contained in the paragraph we have quoted from the tribune we challenge the writer to produce produce the proofs HeSAYO he says they are well known we have delay d replying for the purpose of making diligent inquiry to see if there was any ground for the charge nobody seems to know of anything which would justify it he says it is a fact of record if that is the case the production of the proofs will be easy let us have the re corl bring it forth or stand convicted for the thousandth time of trying to lie your way out of a the truth is that in the year 1878 the justices Justice of the peace in those precincts of tooele thoele county where the liberals 0 were in force belonged to the liberal party if they or any of thea acted in the manner described the blame lay with them but this falsifier says it was the designated justice of the peace in that county what does lie he mean by that who was the designated justice what pre was be in who were deprived by him of the right fight to vote we say no person who was legally entitled to vote in any precinct of that county was deprived of his right by the peoples party or any officer belonging to it every old resident of tooele thoele county of whom we have made inquiries laughs at the charge and scouts it as absurd as well as untrue we maintain that neither the law nor the party under whose influence it was enacted are response res responsible ble for the robbery of the franchise which many legal voters have suffered since the utah commission has so handled the law as to render possible the he wrongs which could not have been perpetrated by virtue of the law and further that these crimes would not beju be justified stifled in law or in morals if all that has been falsely charged about the peoples party were true the villainy remains the samland same and blac blackens keDS the persons and the party that perpetrated it and the sharn shameless elew paper that strives to condone and justify it by silly falsehoods and sillier logic |