| Show iba si KO in hid licht aej of the local lection campaign there is a ray 0 in an announcement n llie of the liberal parly to ita voters pub in last evenings athla committee lie address with a piece of rare humor it assures bui parly that desperate endeavors aro liepins made to intimidate and threats liae been and very likely will bo made to keep polls but declare these leaders b will protect overy liberal voter in lia right to vote eliat a parly which hax the whole of alio election machinery in the hands otila sympathizers should suddenly begin to fret and worry in chis extraordinary tra manner would bo amusing if it vero not so absurd if the committee mean that jn requiring gome of their party to answer their names should not be etri cLen from the lift the other party is desperate threats again ft them they may have fifine idea of but ery little idea of the of common words the would be voter to how cause is not a very alarming kind of intimidation yet that is all there is and if liberala have afen thus notified we think we fiade heard that some of the peoples party have had similar threats hurled against them neither party need lose much sleep over this part of it for w hether atie threats be serious or ridiculous the hearing is to be before alia registration officers and they will Sot be likely to lend countenance to anything very unlawful now that the matter is brought up in this way however we do recall that was abino rank intimidation timi dation practiced on the occasion of a previous cletion ele tion alie executive committee doubtless leave the same circumstance in mind alie officers whose legal duty it is to collect the annual poll tax called upon certain delinquents for payment alie latter were registered and claimed the right to tote but they would not pay the poll lax when election day came the collects began to challenge them at hie polls it haq then found that they were liberals aliis is the licad and front of alie much talked of intimidation atie collector maintained that if the parties challenged were residents aliey owed poll tat it they were not aliey had no right to vole and for performing ins sworn duty in the one case and exercising his prerogative as a citizen in hie other he was rudely hustled away from the spot by alleged liberals alio made no secret of the fact that aliey were armed we hope both parties and every member of both will discountenance every kind of threats and bull lozatie that aliis hope w ill crystallize into lull realization the closing sentence of the executive committees address gives promise it sa s avry niran alio by threats or otherwise attempts to intimidate oi oter will be promptly and vigorously buted so be it |
