Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-06
"a RAY OF PURE sUNLIGHr.-

"a RAY OF PURE SUNLIGHT
The chief organ OF fraud aud
political corruption squirms and
froths over the exposures Of the I'M
paralleled viliainy perpetrated by its
party managers Of the campaign.
Every attemptit makes to break the
force Of stubborn facts only serves to
show more clearly the hideous dis
honesty Of the tricksters who, by
"ways that are dark, - are seeking
TO rob the people Of their rights.
That constituencies journal fairly
bubbles and boils over this morning
in one Of the most clumsy, bungled
and idiotie attempts at defense ever
penned outside of an insane asylum.
1t appears under the following fam
beau headlines:
a RAY OF PURE SUNLIGHT.
Startling Exposures Concerning Bon
fields Mormon Detectives.
Jim Ray, the Thief and Ex-Convict.
Touching Letter from sanpete-
Mother Afraid Her Boy Will be
Arrestei-Efforts to Obtain False
Afidayits."
We take from the statement that
appears under the chief and sub
captions, this remarkable cray of
pure sunlighE'
''Some OF the most interesting devel-
opments were those connected with
the so-called registration train. alleged
70 have gone down the Denver & Rio
Grande road to register voters. The
Liberal committee has run no trains.u
Thus it is virtually admitted that
trains were run down the Dem
yer and Rio Grande Western Rail-
way TO register gangs Of men to vote
the "Liberal'' ticket. The defense
put up is ''the 'Liberal' committee
ran no Trains" Then the Liberal,
committee feels it necessary to de-
fend itself against the charge. be-
cluse 1t has been proved beyond the
possibility Of being controverted,
that not only is the "Liberal,, ad-
mission about the trains being run
correct, but that hundreds Of men
who have no legal right to vote, not
Being residents OF this CITY. and
doubtless the bulk of them nom
citizens, were registered by parties
on that train. Their names are on
the lists, and 4 hundred Of them
have already been published.
The position is this: The Glib
erai'' committee repudiate the train |
business. They claim that they ran |
no trains. They try to relieve 1
themselves OF the transaction.
Logically they ought also To repudi- |
ate those who perpetrated the frauds.
If they did, who would they ex-
communicate from their party? As
a matter Of course the registrars
The registration, including that OF
the gangs Of workmen on the line of
the r G. w, who had not the
qualifications Of electors, was all in
the hands Of those officers. We are
pleased to note that the acemmit.
tee are sufficiently ashamed Of
the railway registration scheme
because it has been uncovered
to repudiate it so far as
they are concerned. How the sec.
rotary Of the committee can share
this sentiment Of injured innocence /
from any standpoint, however. is {
1ne Of those things that '.no fellow {
IAN find out.a =
Now, as has been shown. the lille. @
al railroad Wholesale registration t
vas done by the registrars. Four S
ut Of the five OF those officers are
n the "Liberal'' ticket, one of them n
or the office Of recorder and another D
or assessor and collector. II this
hameful railroad business is of sucb ;,
character as to be thrown Off by Ia
be committee" why not apply a
lis slOushing process to whoeveron e,
he "Liberal'' ticket was guilty of d
he gigantic political crime? VI
The following is another extract ~
ON the same article: ~
The Peoples party, through its or- 70
ms. have been demanding tina, tie No
LIBERALS deny some Of the charges con- m
ined in their stink-pot bomb shells
ne denial that the Liberal Commit,ee
ade yesterday was one that was =
ore effective than mere words. II I'll
insisted in prompt action; nearly 10, M
mes were published in the Heroy5 an
being Illegally registered. and its
dge Powers promptly filed chal- sta
igeS against every one. and every re,
IN viii have to appear. The Liberal tai
and the Liberal Party w
We had nothing to do with the fin
ongfui registration Of any man and r..
doing all in its power to purge the mn
lists. ,iiu
The nature of this swean;,, a.,
llas is intensely farcical. The trr
Of a hundred Of the o.
ny hundreds Of names Illegally s
fraudulently placed upon the all
istration lists is in the form of ~ ;
llenges to the owners of the nov
nes TO appear before the parties are
D placed them on the lists 10 .lec
W cause why they should no, the
stricken of. The true basis fou,
he challenge is, oc ought to be- oil
the names were illegally regis Gers
d. The registrars under such a the
iense are therefore made the SEW
'es of the legality Of their own min
This is kugeI Asa denial of outr
charges of fraud it is simply up tice
Gus, and worthy of the pyro- pear
Meal genius who has manipu- nam