The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26

scratching the rattle-pated old Pro-
oaress confesses that it is inexplic
able how the naRe found its
way on the list now in the possession OF
Recorder WELLS, and would like to convey
the intimation that there had been crook
edness in the matter
! we should say there had been crooked
ness, and the more the case is investigated
the more crookedness is developed. The
investigation has gone so far already as to
point to lrregularity on the part of other
than Mr.. WARNER and to relieve that gen.
tleman from the charge of wrong doing.
Nobody can be better pleased by this turn
OF affairs than THE HERALD, and nobody
Will like better than it the establishment
OF the fact that hewas sinned against rather
IMAM the sinner. 1t seems that no oath
can be found bearing the signature
OF the deceased, though the law REQUIRES
that such an oath be taken before man
can be registered, and that the oath he
preserved for future reference. In its
absence we are going to accept it that Mr..
WARNER did not take the oath, and that he
had too high regard for the truth and the
n
creaslng the vote of the party with which
ne was associated. The talk about his
residence here being sufficient to entitle
MIN to vote is all idle rot, as Mr.. WARNER
was too earnest and too active a Liberal to
refuse to register if he could have done so.
HeWould have taken the,oath and the paper
would now be forthcoming, if the law had
permitted him to swear We don't believe
that Mr.. WARNER ever took the oath. and
yet the belief that he did take it was nat
ural and justifable under the circum
stances, for there stands his name, plainly
written, not on a memorandum, not on a
ny leaf, but regularly in its proper place.
on the official list to which was attached
this certificate of genuineness:
hereby certify that the foregoing is a fttut ,,s
ana correct copy of the list of registered voters
IN the Second precinct, Salt Lake CITY, Utah. to
Inc 18th day of January, $780,
E. r. CLUTE,
Deputy Registration Officer
This is the list which the law comnels
the officer to file with the recorder; it is
tne "ofhclal llst,' and the only one which
the pubic can see and examine Now, it
being asserted by the registration officer
That Mr.. WARNER did not take the oath
and was not registered, how did the name |
get on the list? Is Mr.. CLUTE's certificate
worth anything? If it is, that official |
should make it valuable in this case. he
having certified that the list bearing Mr.
WARMERS name was ''true and correct
Now, it will hardly be claimed by anyone
mat names and residence addresses are
gong about town on the sly, hunting for
registration lists upon which to transcribe
nor will it be asserted that
these loose and lonely names are able TO ex-
actly initiate the handwriting of registra-
ton officers
truly is our blatherskite contemporary
right in suggesting that something wrong
las been going on, and if the organ of lust
and Liberalism were honest and upright it
would endeavor to unearth thecrookedness
md expose the guilty. If mistake, of
ms kind had been committed by a member
u the Peoples party, not only the Tribune,
'ut every member of the Liberal organiza-
Ion would have howled themselves hoarse
bout fraud" the entire Peoples party
would have been held responsible for an
ttempt to list persons not eligible to
and we are inclined to believe
special grand jury would have been i'm +
aneled to inquire into the matter. AS it
the Liberal press and the Liberal brawl- i
rs are explaining the error by calling if t
and the officials who sbonId t
re absolutely certain before they certify T
nat a list is correct, are passing the matter
yer as something of so little conseonanoo
hat they do not deem it worth while to
tempt an explanation. P
The end of this matter is not vet. b