Show registration somebody Soni chody ought to bring a libel suit sult against ills face fare the S L herald lias has the following quite a breeze was created on tile street on monday over the report that ill in weber county the registrar had declined t to allow any women to register reister an ali investigation repealed the fact that one woman only lind been refused the privilege lege of registering esL fegi mid that under circumstances st gilces which gave it the appearance of being a p arted affair As near ai can cal i be ascertained registration gi had dragged ira el god itself slow ry fy along for a time with a crowd awaiting their turn men and wo men being rc registered Ls terea without lies ifancy if their comp competency elency was iwas reasonably bally established until the appearance of mr and mrs E A littlefield mr littlefield who is editor mitor and proprietor ed leril I LD of the ogden pilot was registered gist ered without question but when his wife applied the registrar refused to put her name nume on the I lists i S judge emerson was applied to for a writ of mandamus to compel the registrar to put her name on the list some delay having been caused in the proceedings aril and the matter getting bruited bruised about judge williams oi of Ogden appeared in court and when then the mat ter capo u up Ps stated ta ted that the question raised by the application at of mrs littlefield was one which interested many ladies besides tho the one immediately concerned and that as ai the tile subject was of a general character he 10 would like to be heard on it therefore ho he asked that the argument be defer deferred reil for a time to tais proposition judge emerson receded accede dand and the case was continued until wednesday in the ine meantime antime the registrar q proceeded with the work et of registration and put the name of ladies on under protest here there tho the matter rests it happened that judge suther and governor murray urray were bercin in ogden at the time of this tills queer iroc ceding and ancl out of the whole affair th the idea detailed below lias has commenced to prevail and was a it matter of common talk on monlay lay evening though it was without my any confirmed foundation the os sible object is to test the right of the registrar to refuse to place the name of a female citizen on the list while it is charged cli arged that the real oh ob act is to strike off the name of all voters not only in weber iut in all the other counties the woman whose vote waa was refused is if the ogden HERALD gets the right name the wife of a pronounced and decided gentile and the alleged plan ilan was to get a case hurriedly in to court to have the application for a mandamus weakly argued for and strongly argued argued av against dinst and then to have the tie mandamus reused used on the strength of thi refusal which etwas it was supposed would be e secured the registrar would feel eel justified in striking off from the the name of every every female voter and if any recourse could be lad bad it would bo be such as would involve the validity of the female suffrage act and might drag along and keep the result cf of the election ack back for an indefinite period ostensibly it was irm a test case but as a mattir matter of fact tho the purpose seemed to have been to secure a snap or unfair judgment and the presence of the governor and others hers and their alleged indirect participation in the af afra faira irs would indicate that the trickery proceeding was iTce receiving iving 11 the executive countenance the appearance however of judge williams in i court changed the as hect of a affairs irs there is little if any doubt that the peoples party I would be agreed to test cases if they j could be made fair and so arranged a to squarely test the legality of the provisions in controvert controversy cont rovers y but such an attempt as was hanife manifestly atly made in ogden on monday isoba is of a char acter that can hardly reflect with a marked de degree deree ree of credit er clr glory on any person concerned the w whole I affair may have bare been perfectly legitimate and straightforward but admitting that it be so it reminds ae one forcibly of a remark remail the famous once made about an appo I if that man ionta n rogue oge hc he ought to bring a libel suit ag against ainest his face |