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Show Valuable Scrapbooks Presented To S.U.P. Museum Newspaper clippings telling of a heated election in Salt Lake in 1890 are included, in half a dozen old family scrapboolts presented to Pioneer Village last week. Hiram C. Young, member of Sugar House Chapter, SUP, presented pre-sented the heirlooms to the National Na-tional Society, SUP, to be displayed dis-played at the Village. The scrapbooks, some of which date back to 1889, were compiled by Dr. Seymour Bicknell Young, son of Joseph Young, and nephew of Erigham Young. He was senior (Continued on Page 13) v ' '; 1 ' . - V-4 ,. , r - - . 1 j-- i f ' . vt t, . ' J , r f ' 1 ',' , i ,; CfJS f ! , AT.; r ' j ' 1 ! I.- J1 etM.s 1 r I f I 4 ' ' , j; ' j . v. . : L - .-: ''Jrt? - 4 I I Hiram Young Scrapbooks (Continued from Page 1) president of the First Quorum of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", for many years. One group of clippings from the Old Salt Lake Herald, the Deseret News and the Tribune, details election events of February, 1890. All the papers announced in boldface bold-face headlines that the Gentiles had finally broken the Mormon rule and had been elected to public office. Each side had hurled cries of "Fraud!" and printed statements state-ments from citizens that their names had been registered as voters without their knowledge. One group charged the other with bringing in railroad section hands from other towns to vote. Prior to the voting, each side threatened to appeal the election to the United States Supreme Court. Apparently all of the early day newspapers flung accusations liberally lib-erally in a manner which would cause suit for libel in 1956. The practice of using editorial comment com-ment in the news articles was common, and makes the 1956 straight news reports of electioneering election-eering seem quite pallid. The clippings from the Young scrapbook indicate that the 1890 election was .even more exciting and fraught with intrigue than the current campaign. I |