The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-13
THE HIT BIRD FLUTTERS.

| The Tribune tries to sneak out of &C
knowledging that Liberals made affidavits
that for the February election they were
registered outside of this city and while
living outside of the city. But it also
says:
| The men came to the Liberal headquarters
and admitted they had made such afidayits
they had made them when they were drunk.
| That settles it. Some of the men even
went to the Liberal headquarters and adj
mitted that they had made the affidavits.
The talk about their being drunk and offer
ing to swear that they were drunk when
they made the affldavits does not affect
the question. None of them offered
to swear that the affidavits were false or
that the men were not registered along the
Denver 81 Rio Grande railroad by Liberal
registrars. The point remains that the
Liberals sent registering trains over several
counties, entering the names of hundreds
| OF men to vote in this city, and many of the
men made af1idavits that they had con-
sented through ignorance to having their
names placed on the registration lists.
| The name of the conductor of the train
that carried the registrars on that infamous
| trip, and that of the engineer, with the
number OF the engine, the time of starting.
the names of some of the men registered at
the different stations, together with the
affidavits of number of them, were made
public through the columns of this
paper last winter. Not an item in this
whole black list has ever been denied, nor
can any of them be questioned.
On the other hand, when the Liberal
sheet is challenged to bring proofs of it's
charges against BoNFIELp and other
parties, it says:
Ihere was no occasion to make affidavits.
OF course not. 1t is easy to make asser-
tions, but facts must sustain man who
can prove his case, and this the Tribune
man cannot do
Here follows the apology for the regis
tration frauds, which both the commission
and the courts claimed to be without
authority to punish.
1t is true the registrars had control of the
registration. The law intended they should
have 1t was made for that purpose There
was nothing illegal about it, and there was mt
could make q clear record for himself.
Touching the last statement in the fore-
going, the periured Tribune scribe knows
well that several hundred PEOPLES party
names were stricken from the list the night
before election, when there was no possible
time left in which to make clear record. /.
and the men who were judges of what con-
stitutes "a clear record'' were the Liberal
candidates for election. They were the
registrars. Their election depended on
the number of unqualified Liberals tbev
registered and the number of qualified
Peoples voters they struck from the lists
and they did not hesitate to do both. The
registrar candidates had absolute control
of the registration and consequently of the
election. The Utah commission and the
courts also were powerless, so they said tn
control the registrars.
1t Is not true that the law was intended
to give the registrars absolute contol of tho
registration. 1t was the Liberal committee
that prevailed upon the Utah commission
to do that and then to make registrars If
Liberal aspirants for Office. This was
done, and for the first time in our history
the men who had and exercised absolute
authority as to who should vote and who
hould not, were candidates for election at