Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-01-31
10 NEED TO LEAVE THE CITY.

LAST night at Liberal meeting,
E. R. CIute, registrar Of the Second
precinct rewarded for swelling the
registration list with illegal voters
by having his name placed on the
ticket of his party for sssssof and
collector, exhibited the most brazen
efrrontery. He said he registered
27aO voters in the Second precinct
,cia.out going out Of SdH Lake, and
Of the 27sO only 700 belonged to the
Peoples Party.
Now, the total registration OF the
Second precinct, including both par
ties, was about 100 at the election
Of last August. Thus the Liberal
registration has been tremendously
increased. T.. r. Cmte who
has been clearly found guilty of
placing the names Of Illegal voters
on the list, procIaims that he did
this work without leaving Salt Lake
City. We believe this latter part of
his statement 70 be true, for the
most crooked meR will sometimes
tell the truth. He cannot truth
fully deny, however, that skifmish-
ers, who supply the names Of resi-
dents along the line Of the Rio
Grand Western Railway, render tie
absence Of the registrar from the
city entirely unnecessary.
A 'Liberal" with a capacIous
mouth, and chunks Of gold in his
teeth, gave the HiOdiIs operdRdi away
long before Clute practically de-
clared it. So did the Salt Lake
Tribune IN its committal defense Of
the Second precinct registrar after
il had been discovered that he had
registered the late Z, F. Warner, a
"Liberal" not entitled to rrte. 1t
said this:
under the discipline Of the cam
paign. there were Liberals appointed
in every precinct to see that all names
OF possible voters should be 90, before
the registrars. Men handed in these
names, and the tables of the registrars
were covered with them"
Now, if under the discipline Of
the campaign" ''Liberalsn covered
the tables Of the registrars with the
names of possible voters, what neces-
sity was there for Clute to leave
Salt Lake City to swell the registra-
ton of his precinct to "Liberal'' pro-
portions which it is utterly impossi-
bic to reach by any method but
corrupt one?
Hence the need OF changing the
Second precinct polline-place from
a public building like the Court
House to the private premises of
James Glendenning, business part
ner Of George NJ. Scott, the
''Liberal' candidate for Mayor.
The Continental Hotel is a
convenient place in which to enter
tain personators and for the general
corrupt manipulation of an election.
As Col. Page has given no reasons
for the polls being established there,
the public is left to form its own
inference. We believe it has done
so. We defy the other side to fur
nish an adequate reason, and de
nounce the change as not in the in
terest of fair election.
On this point the nti-"Mormon',
organ of this morning says;
The News charges that the Second
precinct polling place was changed to
the Continental Hotel because it is
owned by partner Of Geo. NJ. Scott.
1t has always been understood that
the Continental Hotel is owned by the
estate Of Hooper & Eldredge."
If that is not begging the question
then We never came in contact with
anything that did. 1t does not con-
trovert the fact that Mr.. Scott's
partner conducts, controls and
operates the Continental Hotel, but
substantially admits it. Then why
was the polling-place Of the Second
precinct removed to that private es-
Enlistment from a public building?