The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-30
FOUL MEANS, NOT FAIR.

FOUL MEANS, NOT FAIR.
If the Liberals carry the election nex'
February it will be by fraud and crooked
ness. We make this assertion with en-
phasis The majority of the qualified voters
in the city acknowledge allegiance to the
Peoples party. By this we mean the men
who are taxpayers, VINO have resided the
requisite time in the territory and in the
precinct, and who can conScientiously take
the oath prescribed by the statute. We
believe an honest canvass will show the
People and Liberals stand in the ratio OF
three to five. What the election returns
will show cannot now be told; but unless
something can be done, unless some power
can be exerted to compel the operation of
the election machinery fairly, the canvass
of the votes cast will show fully three
Cor the Liberal ticket to two for
the Peoples. All this machinery is
under the control of the Liberal
party, and it is stating only the truth TO
say that everything which cunning, per
sonal and political hate and disregard of
the principle OF justice can do is being done
to prevent the People getting their rights
From the foremost official who has any
thing to do with the application of the
election law down to the meanest scrub
employed by the gang there is manifest and
outrageous uufairness; the deep seated
determination to get control by foul means
is apparent in all that is done, officials and
others realizing that by fairness they
cannot succeed in their unworthy efforts.
We have seen, and given undisputable evi-
del ce of the fact, that the leaders Of the
Liberal organization are engaged in the
work of cololiziDg in this city for the pur
pose of voting, men who have no better right
TO claim residence in Salt Lake than in San
Francisco or China These men come here
with letters and credentials from agents of
the party in different parts Of the country,
certifying to the local managers of the cam
paign that the colonizers will vote the
Liberal ticket on condition that they are
provided with work meantime. We have
seen the Liberal party open and maintain
for weeks an employment bureau.
through which intending voters were sup
piled with situations. We know that the
Liberal committees have taken into court
u1duy dllGuS anu plOCOANO lOL b44SLl bilSAl
citizenship papers. paying the expenses
from the campaign funds. 1t is openly
charged, and has never been denied, that
railway employees are being brought from
distant stations, registered and re
turned to their posts until election
day, when they are to be run il
to cast their votes. 1t Is known that
the Liberal managers have given it out il
the mining camps that they will pay the ex-
penses of miners TO come in and register
and vote, the expenses to include the wages
of the parties for the time lost from their
labor. 1t is known that parties who have
for years voted at elections in other coun
ties, who voted elsewhere as recently as
last August. and whose homes are in no
sense in Salt Lake, have come here at the
solicitation of the Liberal committee, and,
claiming a residence in this city, have had
their names placed on the registration list.
1t is an open secret that Ogden Liberals are
conspiring to lend generous assistance to
the party in this city in return for the aid
which Salt Lake Liberals gave them last
February. AS pointer indicating what is
being done by the committee in the north
we print this paragraph from the Ogden
Standard:
We have information that only day or two
ago a citizen Of Ogden was approached with the
friendly proposition TO 80 down to Salt Lake ano
live till after the election his rent paid 3 three
and-a-half-dollar- day bonus thrown in to make
the time pass pleasantly; all this for the cOnsid
Grafton OF Liberal vote at next election. This
party whip Who was doing the go-between &c!
affirmed that he was drawing stipulated sal
airy OF SEQ per month for digging up Just sucl
votes Another piece OF information he afforded
which will doubtless inter est those Jealous for
the cause is TO the effect thai the party treas.
ury held a fund OF $4,000 with which they in
tended 10 carry tho Salt Lake election.
The Same thing is being done at other
places, every city, town and railway sta
ton within easy reach Of Salt Lake having
its Liberal agents drumming up voters for
our February election.
But colonization is not the only means
employed to deprive the majority party Of
its rights Every registration officer in
the city is doing his utmost TO make it i'm
possible for the People to vote. The regis
trars are delaying their house to hous'
visits in Peoples districts, spending their
time almost exclusively among members OF
their own party. Day after day they
loiter around the Liberal blocks, manifestly
keeping out of the way OF the People, while
large districts are not visited. Then they
so time their visits to Peoples residences
as to get there when the men are away al
work Members Of the Peoples party
apply to the registrars at their offices, but
the officials decline TO list them at Other
places than the citizens own homes, Will
Liberals are registered anywhere and
any time they can be found-in the
saloons, at the hotels, on the streets
night or morning. So many People
men are being kept off the lis
by the partisan registrars that it vii
be impossible to list them all during tn
final week when those who have beef