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Show IFrom Oux Eitra ol Augiut i REFUTATIONS. Mt. Pleasant Comes Back on Honesty. Noniirei' Swen Neilson Denie the Auegution. That Has Made Promises to Anyone We have several times invited a fiee i discussion ol this question in our columns lhe coriespondeuce Iron) "Justice" ai-1 rived 111 hphraim, Wednesday eveniii" and tiie gentlemen liom Ml. Pleasant se nig Hit paper, sa d 11 was a great in-Jiist.ce in-Jiist.ce to them and llieir cause, to print it 111 the lust issue of the Rkgistkr he-lure he-lure election. In older not to be utjnst in tins matter, we offered to publish this Extra and issm: t day, so that the lelu-latioiis lelu-latioiis would leach our readeis helore the election came off Tilts . ffcr the gentlemen accepted and our present fcxtra is the lesult. Another thins; we would add. That the correspuudoiif'fustice"froni Moroni was not one ol the delegates to the County Cou-nty Seat Convention, asis Supposed by some for we cannot say. Ephraiii), Aug I, 1S90 Mr. Editor On read tig in vour last-issue last-issue anamcle headed'Moroui's'I lonesty we were stiuck with the utter disregard for trutii, and t lie malicious determinta-lion determinta-lion to cast itllection upon honoiable men who aie so lar the superior of the writer of the art icle in eveiy attribute of Manhood, that we deem a refutation of the statements contained therein necessary. necess-ary. We are accused of having the unblushing un-blushing audacity to concientiously ask for the votes of honest men. Is it disreputable, Mr Editor, to ask for the voles of honest men? Not one I fact is adduced to show that w e have j asked f.n anything but a lemoval of the j Cou ity Seat 1 the centre of population. We aie accused ol using iloweiy ai ;u-I meills to c iiivmce an intelligent pubbclo ! vole against tlie noblest pnuciple upon I which Hits movement was louu.lsd, tint j of justice to all" How much justice i has the wiiierof the article extended to the committee he chaiges are so ego-tistcal. ego-tistcal. That Mt. Pleasant is nearer the centre of population than Manti, 110 man can trm U ully deny. It is an ineontrovertable fact that U95 regisieied voters are compelled to travel! an average distance of 24 miles to the County Seat.while 2S4 travel an average distance of only 13 J miles. Suppose each voter made one tup to the County Seat as it is now located, those north would travel 6J73S miles, at the legal rate of io cts a mile would make a total JS273.60, While those south of Manti would travel but 756 at a cost of $752 6j, This makes a dttferance of 552 1 miles tiiat those in lhe north would, tiavel .-rv" iht s ;itih a.id the voters of ,the noiih pay tribute of S552.ro to the SOllUl. Now, il the Co. Seat was at Mt. Peasant, Peas-ant, for all tlie voters to make one trip Iheic they would travel 51 ,345 indes. while at its present location they must travel 70,255 m,ies a d.fi';rence ol 18,917 miles and a cjsj to the people of Ji.Syi, 70 for one single trjp. The average distance to Mt. Pleasant is 16 miles. While the average dislance to Manti is 19 miles. "Justice" claims if the County seat was placed at Mt. Pleisant, Faiiview would be within five miles and Maylield forty miles distance. Adesue to distoit the fact is here evident; as anybody knows that it is 011IV34 miles. If a line be drawn east and west through the centei of Spiing City aud Chester, there would be 944 registered voters north of tiie line and 920 south this plainly shows the center of population is north of the center of Spring City. Where, let us ask, would this modern Solomon who signs himself "Jusi ce," place the Co. seat if he desired to do Justice to all, ? Would he, as his article indicates, leave it at the outskirts of lhe County, and of population, and Subserve the lew at the expense of the manv? I hat removing the Co Seat to Mt. Pleasant, would be placing the south at t greater disadvantage than is now the case with the n rth is not true. Again we quote "Might is 1 ght even if puicuased by fraud.". Let Mr Just ce show in one particular where we have res rted t frajJ, or stand convicted as a faiiiher, Aain wcare characterized as unscrupulous, unscrup-ulous, because forsooth, we dare ask honest men to conscientiously cast their voles as in their judgement seemeth them best. "Do unto others as you wou!d be done by," says "JuMice," but he seems to have lost sight of this noble sentiment while dealing with this question. He accuses us of laying a ttap of trick-eiy trick-eiy and fraud. That this is an utter disregard dis-regard of the truth is evident to any fair in tided man. It is also evident that this cowardly titade was written for political capital, at a time when it was thought it would do most haim, and could not be answered till after the election, when the mischiel could not be remedied. Why did "Justice" "Jus-tice" wait until the last issue of the paper pa-per befoie election, to make this attack? Simply this; he thought he had lied the hau ls of his vicltm, and could safelv stab him in the back, lint through the courtesy court-esy of the "Register" people we are enabled en-abled to refute these slanders, aud show a disci imiitat'i g public the animus that actuated "justice." Youis Respectfully, C. V. S orensen, Swen Nielsen, Kerd Lricksen, W. D. Candland, Committee. |