The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-24
REGISTER THIS WEEK.

During this week every member of the
PEOPLES party who entertains the slightest
doubt that his name is properly on the
registration list, should visit the head
quarters of the registration officers, and
satisfy himself. In order to vote at the
February election your name must now be
listed. No one outside the inner circle Of
the Liberal party and the registrars them
selves can know of all the ''monkeying''
with the lists that has been done lately.
It has been developed from time to time
that good deal of what might almost be
designated as crookedness has been prac-
ticed. Names of Peoples party men have
been stricken off without cause; other
names have been mis- spelled, and it is be-
lieved this has been done for a purpose.
the object being to deny the right to vote to
the men when they shall present them
selves at the polls, on the ground that they
are not the parties whose names appear
on the list In some instances per-
sons have been notified that their
names will be stricken off If they
fail to appear and show cause why
this should not be done, but in other cases
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unless they attend to the matter now they
will go to the voting place in February to
learn that they are not registered, and
hence cannot vote.
Members of the people must always
bear in mind certain things. They must
never for moment forget that they are
placed at a disadvantage in this contest.
They are opposed by party the most I'M
scrupulous ever organized for political
work The leaders of the party will hest
tate at nothing which stands in the way of
their success. For months past they have
almost openly and with an impudence that
is disgusting, been engaged in bringing in
strangers to vote: they have maintained
an employment bureau in this city to pro
vide temporary work for men from far and
near towns who will promise to vote the
Liberal ticket; they are well supplied with
money with which to pay the expenses of
miners and others who can be induced to
come here and vote, and everything, legiti-
mate or otherwise that can be done to defeat
the People and deprive them of their rights,
is being done. The People must also always
know that the election machinery is
entirely in the hands, and under the control
of their political, religious and personal
enemies. In no other country and at nc
other time, were such pains taken to have
election laws administered by such rank
partisans and in the interest Of one party
as here and now. From the highest official
down to the man who has least to do with
the election laws all are active agents of
the Liberal party, and too many of them
are wildly, desperately fanatical in their
hatred of the Peoples party. The latter
can look for, can hope for nothing which
the law does not make it dangerous for the
opposition to deny. There will be nothing
like fairness; such a thing as equity or
Justice is unknown to the Liberal man
ayers and their willing tools at present in
official positions. What the people get will
be only that which the Liberals and the
officials cannot deprive them of.
Hence we say it behooves every mem
Der Of the Peoples party to neglect moth
ing, to fail in nothing. The People have
the majority Of bona fde citizens entitled to
vote, and every one of these should see
that he obtains his rights or is
deprived of them by open and
unblushing fraul J and transparent
disregard of the law. Give the partisan
officials now in control of the election law
no excuse for cheating any man of his bal
lot. Make it impossible for the Liberals
to win the election by other means than a
fragrant and demonstrable disregard Of the
statutes. This can be done if every Peo-
pies party man will do his duty to himself
and the community by seeing TO it that his
name is on the registration list, or that it
is kept off by fraud.