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Show THE OFFICIALBALLOT CONTROVERSY Ballinger-Stevenson Buncii Attempt to Make Much Out of the Refusal of City Recorder Lauber to Insert the Name of Their So-Called Citizens Party Ticket Above the Names of Candidates. Thta mny appear to some of the people of Price thnt Mr. Limber Lim-ber was attempting to put something over these people, and we wish to correct any statements that theae people attempt to make. In the first place it will be noted that the court, when called upon to conatrue the election laws of 1011, took the matter under advisement from 10 o'clock in the morning until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and in his decision stated that he had to consider both the old law and the new, together with Section 839 of the Revised Statutes, 1907, in order to arrive at what the legislature meant when it passed the 1911 law, and for the benefit of those unfamiliar un-familiar with the statutes wc herewith quote that part of Section 825 relating to the placing of candidates in the field by filing a certificate of nomination signed by fifty or moro resident voters of the city. CIIAPTEK 12C MUNICIPAL ELECTION. "An act to amend Sections 817, 818, 821, 821x, 830, 831, 831, 892 and 913 Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907. and Section 822, as nmended by Chapter 14, Laws of Utah, 1909." After providing tho manner in which nominations may be made by a number of voters signing a certificate of nomination, it says: "Each voter signing n. certificate slmll add to his signature, his placo of residence, resi-dence, and shall before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgements, acknowl-edgements, acknowledge his signature and take oath that ho is a voter within and for tho political division for which nomination is made, and has truly stated his residence. Such certificate shall also contain a statement by the voter that the name or names of tho person or persons nominated in the certificate will not be printed upon tho official ballot or upon any party ticket as the nominees of any political party or voters, and that tho name ov names of the persons nominated in tho certificate will not be printed upon the official ballot under the name or devico adopted in tho certificate." If tho law does not mean what it says and it takes a court well versed in the law some time to tell what It means does it not strike you that Mr. Lauber, not being a lawyer, had a right, after consulting the city attorney in the matter, to refuse to do something some-thing tho law said plainly ho could not do? Mr. Lauber not caring to trust his own judgment In this matter, mat-ter, as soon as tho certificate was filed consulted tho city attorney, who advised him that he was right and that under that section he could not do otherwise, nnd after taking the position he did was glad to bo relieved of the responsibility and have tho court say what the law meant. Wo believe that Lauber was right in his position, notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that these people will and are now trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. These people feel that they are slipping and are grasping nt a straw or anytlilng else In sight that might change n vote in their favoif |