The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
THE REGISTRATION LIST.

The registration for the municipal cleo
ton has closed. Those who have neglected
to register and those who have been missed
by the registrars cannot now get their
names on the list and therefore cannot
vote in February. OF course if name
has been w antonly and illegally stricken
off the courts may order it reinstated. 1t
is probable there are some such, and the
judicial authority will be appealed TO
to right the wrongs committed by partisan
officials. To what extent there have been
or will be erasures of the names of quail
fed voters cannot be told until the
alphabetical lists have been made out and
hung up in the respective wards, which
work must be done at least fifteen days be-
fore election day. After that individuals
will have an opportunity to inspect the lists
and learn if the registrars have stricken
their names off, and the former may also
lodge complaints against persons VINO are
believed to have been illegally registered.
This matter should be carefully looked
into. 1t is well known that the Liberals
have been engaged in colonizing work. For
a lime they ma ntained in this city an en-
ployment bureau, to which men from the
country who would promise to vote the
Liberal ticket were sent. The truth of this
is clearly established BY the letter from
Chairman WITBEcE, of Nephi, to Chairman
POWERS, of Salt Lake, which has been
standing in the editorial column of The
HERALD for some time past. How much of
this sort of thing has been done, only those
engaged in it can tell. 1t is also known
that last summer arrangements were made
to bring in from the mines, the Liberal
committee to pay the expenses and for the
time lost. men who would come here to reg
lister and vote. 1t is believed that many
miners and others who have no claim to
residence in Salt Lake have been thus
brought in and registered. The railroad
towns have also contributed to swell the
list of Liberal partisans, and an attempt
will be made to get in all these illegalVote
The same tactics were pursued by the
Liberals in Ogden at the last election,
men being brought from Wyoming,
Nevada, and Idaho to vote the
Ii beral ticket, and the polls being kept
open after the legal hour for closing in
OTuET W dCCOhluAOIciIC SLAO SOAOAALHSAo VIM
were on delayed train.
The People do not want an election which
they would have to win by fraud. They
do not desire that single member of their
party will even attempt to vote unless he
has a clear and legal right to do so. The
principle of majority rule is so firmly es-
tablished in the minds of the People that
they would cheerfully surrender control
of the municipality rather than hold on as
a minority by crookedness. At the same
time the People want all their rights, and
demand that they shall not be made to
suffer by reason of fraud and illegal voting
on the part of the opposition. No obIec-
ton will DE made to any known bona fde
Liberal citizen voting, but there should
be an earnest protest against permitting
any Liberal colonizer or any Liberal miner
brought here for the sole purpose ofvoting,
to exercise the privilege of voting in this
city. Formal notice should be given to
every resident of Park city, TO the men of
Bingham, to those of Ogden, of Nephl, and
of the railway towns that unless they ap-
pear and establish their right to vote before
the opening of the polls, their names will
be stricken from the list, and they will ap
pear on election day to no purpose. 1t was
a ''live'' and clean list that the People de-
manded at the commencement OF the re
gistration, and it was such list that was
contemplated in the instructions issued by
the commission last fall. Now that the
registration has closed, let US see to it that
the publication process be applied to the
list, so that when election day shall come
only those who satisfy the law will find
themselves able to vote.