| Show GOOD WORDS FROM THE commission the utah commission have issued instructions to the election officers the substance of which is that there should be a fair and impartial election 11 they say they are de sirous that everything like fraud shall be put down that en aery ery lawfully registered voter in the territory shall have the privilege of depositing his ballot freely as he be wishes and without intimidation and that none who are not legally registered shall be permitted to vote no matter what may be the circumstances I 1 this is very excell excellent emt talk whether it will amount to an anything Y I 1 more will be seen perhaps before the election is over the history of the municipal election which is preserved for future use does not disclose any great anxiety on the part of the commission to do very much in the direction indicated by their pleasant prattle however we hope their words will be backed up by their deeds and that when called upon to assist in the enforcement of gf astruc eions they will not be fu found d amit ing their powers it is true are not very extensive but they can remove officers of their appointment who plainly neglect or wilfully refuse to perform heir duty it is A notorious fact that legal voters who have exercised the suffrage for years have had their names stricken from the registration lists some of these we understand have already appealed to the commission have been referred to the registrar and af after ter being given the cold shoulder until repeated imbor eunity has compelled an answer have been told roughly 1 I cant do anything about it the utah commission should take cognizance of the facts that liberal voters are not treated in this way that it is peoples peopled party voters who are summarily crossed off the lists that notices are being served upon peoples peopled party voters only in the nature of vexatious objections and not in good faith well known monogamists are informed that they are ob objected to t as polygamists il the miserable tool of disreputable party managers who signs the complaints does not appear to substantiate them and does not even kno know w the men to whom he objects the whole scheme is known to be a prostitution of the law framed for the protection of legal voters and the purity of the ballot box and the appointment of a registrar known to be strongly part izan and to be working against the people who have to appear before him and in the interest of their political opponents is of itself a strong comment on the extreme desire of the commission to secure a fair and impartial election the utah commission can by its removing power exercise great influence in the direction desired they can aid voters who have been without reason or law stricken from froin the registration lists in obtaining redress in time to be of service they can manifest some come real interest in this important matter they should notice the fact that their county registrar is put up for a lucrative county office by way of reward for his official work in the interest of the party that is resorting to the tricks and dodges of which the peoples peopled party justly complain and it would be much more seemly so many conservative citizens think if the commission did not exhibit quite so much desire for liberal success und not quite so much indifference to peoples peopled party complaints of manifest adjust injustice ice 2 ve e fo hotl oot charge the utah commission with being implicated in the attempted robbery of Peo peopled pleys party voters by striking their names from the register and by placing names of liberal non residents upon it without any address so as to prevent identification and thus bar detection but we say when these things are done by their appointees they could do something in the matter if they would and an opportunity should be afforded them to see if their good words mean anything more than talk |
