| Show LAW IS VAUD the Supreme Court handed down an opinion yesterday goes into the details of the case and cited numerous authorities and cases to support its decision the ballots is all right special to THE salt lake city dec 21 at yesterday afternoon the state court banded down ita in thease th case ol 01 M L ritchie stately eta teLy board of validity of the ballot law passed asa under election ini last ww held it was the moat important election tion yet raised ia the elate bine the invalidity of the law meant that all election proceed inga under it would be TOLL bat the law ia food the supreme court af firmine ita validity A large number of citta in the opinion and the body of ft contains about word on the first point that the act 1 I the leel slature regulating 1 bad not beau properly passed for the reason that the minutes of the legislative bodies did not abow that ibey had beba by a yea and nay vote abo that the acts were because aliey didi not fully conform to the elate alon in regnal to the 1 of abo gralian secret ballot system onder which the election was held and that the tree ol 01 party emblems on abo ballote was illegal the court ald ahat the enrolled lulls bienek by abe president of both and the governor wae the beek evidence that they had been pio perl enacted that the ballot was the method providing for tracing ballots ine only applicable to tran dolent bat lots and that the use of party OD tb ballot was proper on alie point ot the australian ballot and ol 01 abe the court held that the tended to encourage the voting oi tickets andl abe ol 01 the independent voter which to that abe system bad its mente as ell aa and that kiela luro laving adopted it an having the will ot the people the court did not feel at liberty to override that will better of for contier bat this was the one the peopled peo representatives had chloeen cho een and bile it might ba improved iti aa boott alive 0 the the whole law was declared and abe writ asked by balge th board to declare the debott was denied chief justice zane rendered the opinion of the cobit Juet icee and miner concurred in the besolt ant justice bartch HI file a er parate opinion |