Show A LIBERAL TRICK WB az learn that at the school meetings held on monday the alth dinst a trick was resorted to by the so called liberals I 1 which ought to be exposed and in future provided provi oed against persons who reside in one school district voted in arother aa other shifting their votes to a district where there was likelihood of eliberal liberal victory this was wrong in principle and clearly illegal in practice we have the names of individuals who it to is said committed this of fence and among them are those of men as conspicuous for their pretended devotion to the law as they are notorious for their unscrupulous animosity to the melons ll 11 the law on tim tal subject provides that sec 2 at a school meeting to be hold held in each school district in the year eighteen hundred and eighty there shall be elected by the registered voters of the district three school trustees for each school district one for the term of one year one for the term teem of two years and one for the term of three years and annually thereafter at the school meeting provided for in section bof this act there shall be one trustee elected by said registered voters in each school district whose term of office shall be for three years and until his successor to is elected and qualified no one is entitled to vote alen aben in any school district unless he is a registered voter of that district A citizen who resides in the fourth district can only vow legally in the fourth district it if be votes in the thirteenth district fr for example his vote is illegal instances of this kind could be named the object of the te trick was to strengthen the liberal vote in the thirteenth district where there was prospect of a liberal victory by tile the ballou ballots of ef men residing in another another district where the peoples party was sure of carrying the school election it is claimed we are informed t that ahti t some who perpetrated this liberal beral trick tricia excused b by saying baying they did business in the thirteenth thirteenth district though they lived in another no one knows better than they that this is no excuse at all their residence determines their voting district as it does their voting precinct no proposition can be clearer than that a poor excuse is better than none I 1 I 1 but bat this pretense la Is far worse than silence for it adds sophistry to subterfuge and folly to unfairness airriess the remedy for wrongs of this kind is vigilance on tile the part of those who are in trusted with the duty of watching over the public interest in some instances the school trustees were a little behind the times they should have been ready with lists of the reg registered I 1 s voters of their districts every improper vote should nave have been challenged persons living in a certain district should not have been permitted to vote in another district in future this must be seen to the experience of the past should be profitable pronta blein in time to come it if tricks of this kind can be used with effect in school elections what is to hinder binder them or similar tricks at the general election nothing but prompt action by the committees of the peoples peeples party in the several precincts and by such judges of election as are disposed to act fairly instead of as offensive partisans in certain precincts especially advantage will be taken of every possible dodge and scheme to gain the election for liberal candidates in addition to measures maures to secure the attendance at the polls of every registered voter of the peoples party steps must be taken to purge the registration lists of all names of persons transients and others who may have been induced ito sign siga their names to the oath we should think that respectable ROU boa cormons mormons who consistently inconsistently rallied to the support of ef their own nominees on monday night would be ashamed of such illegal acts as that we have referred to and would openly deprecate anything that has the taint of 01 illegality and we the color of unfairness at any rate it is necessary that those who act for tb the people should take precautions with a view to preventing illegal voting on monday the 1st ast of august 1887 |