Show CAPITAL correspondence puerile protests the ticket trick the T polygamy pretext cor gor ernoes G gumption ion hell ride hy our correspondent HERALD theae never liever was a more striking embi exhibition biti n of the adage that dying men catch at st straws rais than the two so called protests of tho the DEFEATED CANDIDATE made yesterday against the canvassing of the votes cast for hon HOT john T caine and the issuance of a certificate by the commission in the first of these papers ono one of the reasons set forth lor for not canvassing said votes ia is that the unusual eizo size and shape of the peoples ticket marked the envelope so as to cause the ballot to bo be other than a secret ballot what statesmanlike sapi encel As though thelia eral ticket must be taken and followed as the regulation size sizo and shape because forsooth they HAD A TICKET SO SMALL that it could be secreted inside the envelope distributed by the kindhearted kind hearted without being observed the people who had no such little game are to be di dis s franchised for making their ticket of a decent size why the peoples candidate complain of the extreme c littleness of the liberal ticket and protest a air their votes being counted zia on the same lame principle mr caine would have good ground for a protest t t against the canvass of f the e van zile votes their ballots not being uniform and crea creating Ving it a mark did you ever hear bear SUCH TWADDLE on this planos protesting if the liberals should conclude ll 11 next election to have a ticket the size eize of the salt lake tribune the peoples party must at once go and make asses of themselves the lame same way wa v or bo liable to a protest from th learned candidate of the big ticket persuasion for lack of uniformity the conceit of these four or five persons who constitute the liberal lights in this city is really amusing they might as well have hav protested because tho successful candidate was too tall too abort short or too leanor too stout or that he be difre differed red in soma sonto of these important respects from front his liadi liberal ral rival of gripsack prope propensities 81 ties and then the accusation of john T caine being ineligible is ANOTHER ER ABSURD THING but above all any one who would i accuse him bini of being a polygamist roust must want to perpetrate a joke on the country I know the judge was a humorist before but lie certainly assumes that role in the N were vere born brn yesterday the last iasi being brought t in into to the world under tender nursing and professional skill of grandmother mcbride McBri dc in this marvelous production ro the protesting is s done lecause because the judge elthe claim claimed the GOVERNOR THE ONLY PERSON qualified to issue the certificate of c election lection he ought to have said the only person qualified to sec lee that votes for P T van zile were more moro than 23 for john T gaine caine and to issue a certificate in accordance with this phenomenal but gubernatorial method of counting the fact is this protest business has stamped the whole liberal movement with weakness in the language of the poet it is T T GALLIC GALLIO |