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Show PROTECTION OF ! VOTERS SOUGHT Farmer- Labor Party Makes Appeal to Governor Bamberger SALT LAKE. Oct. 29 Responding to an appeal from state officers of thej Farmer-Labor party for protection of; i their votera at hi doIIs In Carbon j county. Governor Bamberger y ester-! day addressed u letter to the officers.! in which he said there Is no way pro-j vided by law for such Interference by i the state at an election, except in case I of an emergency, which has not yet arisen Governor Bamberger points to the fact that he recommended to the lcg-is'.atute lcg-is'.atute thai a state constabulary bo formed which could, he Intimates, have taken care of Just such a situation situa-tion as the officers of ihe Farmer-1 I-ibor party profess to fear The letter of the governor ogpressjei regrft lhat the suggestion was not re-1 eelved favorably It la a matter of history, however, that the state constabulary con-stabulary idea i oppoxed by per.-ons of classes to which the Farmer-Labor j party now maklns appeal The record rec-ord of the Pennsylvania tate constabulary con-stabulary Is pointed to by boh supporters sup-porters and opponents of Ihe proposal to establish a constabulary in Utah SIGNED BY CROSBY The appeal to Governor Bamberger was signed by George Crosb- of Ogden. Og-den. slate chairman and candidate for governor on Ihe Farmer-Labor ticket and by C- L. Speigl. state xcrretarc of '.he Farmer-Labor party. It asked that th. governor "make Immediate provisions for extending special protection to the votera and the Karmt r-Labor party watchers on election elec-tion day. No ruber 2,, at the follow-ing follow-ing mining camps, in Carbon county, lo Wit: Rlackhawk. Clear Creek. Hla-wutha. Hla-wutha. Bunnyslde. Winteniuartcrt! .ml C.vetlegate " These camps are at mines operated by the Cplted State? Fuel rind thej Ctah Fuel companies The letter aya' that the party is prompted to make the request because of the "un-Atncri-can conditions prevailing in the camps indicated, as well as by evidences evi-dences of discrimination that have al-ready al-ready manifested themselves on the part of certain officials of Carbon county." "The camps above enumerated." continues the letter, "have become notorious by reason of Intimidation practiced upon legal Voters and duly appointed watchers of parties other than the Democrat and Republican parties in the past As Is well known, such IIIckuI practices have been Indulged In-dulged In on behalf of big interests dominating these Camps, whose hired tools, generally operating with the connivance of the local peace officers, resort to threuts and often to physical violence for the purposes of preventing prevent-ing duly qualified voters from exorcising exorcis-ing their right of suffrage, as well as for preventing th- watchers of the more recently 'stabllshed political I parties from keeping check on the count of the ballots." ui i er ro PP1 1 1 Dilan.nra tt'ng maHa tn t U r. f.-ir? 'that appeal was mad- to the supreme court of the state before the nmes of, the Carbon county Farmer-Labor j 'candidates were placed on the ballot. "We submit," says the letter, "that j this Incident demonstrates the necessity neces-sity of sending stale officers to Super- Isede ihe local peace officers m cor-! tain sections of Carbon county .oi election day. to the end that no quail-! I fled elector he deni'd the right to! I vote, as well BS to assure a fair ana j honest count of the votes nasi It Is pointed .iii in the :tter that; the present sheriff of Carbon county Is the Democratic candidate lo succeed himself, and has the indorsement ofj the Republican orgainzatlon. It Is declared that, as a result, the "said u t iff. as head of the local peace I offlccin. may be tempted to connive at law violations to the detriment of popular government in this stale' In conclusion, the Farmer-Labor officials of-ficials aualli asked that llie novernor "direct the attorney general's office or .uch other deportment of the I . ' government as may properly be charged with thai duly under tiic law. to dispatch a sufficient number of state officers to properly supervise the elections in Carbon county on November No-vember t, 1910, so that the voters, frcf of Intimidating Influences, may be able to vote accr.rdin 'o the dJctatl of their respective consciences." I |