The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-06
ARE THE CITIZENS sERFs2

ARE THE CITIZENS SERFS?
In the late school election in this city,
there appeared on the morning of election
at poll 2, in the Fourth precinct, an I'M
known man claiming to be judge of cleo
Ton de was finally installed as presiding
judge Ill place of United States Commits
sloner GREENMAN, who had been appointed
Tor that pol. Suspicious actions of this
man in depositing the ballots in the box
caused considerable comment on the day of
election, and one man reported the fact to
several Prominent Liberals.
The presiding judge, ALLEN by name,
was finally arrested, charged with having
substituted about fifteen Liberal ballots
Tor that number of Peoples party ballots
that had been handed to him.
"A discrepancy between the number of
Peoples party men who had voted and the
number OF votes cast at that poll for the
Peoples nominees, caused suspicion,
winch deepened into certainty of some
thing wrong when r. w. YoUNG seut to
each supposed Peoples voter in the pre-
cinct and asked:
Have you any objections to stating
which way you voted at the school cleo
ton.
FL not, did you vote the Peoples ticl1ets
3-Are you w Hing to go into court and
swear that you voted the Peoples ticker.
The answers given to these questions, as
also the evidence afterwards given in court.
showed that l43 men had voted the PEOPLES
ticket at poll 2 in the Fourth precinct.
while the returns showed only 12S votes
for the Peoples ticket. No one but the
presiding judge, ALLEN, representing
GREENMAN, had handled the ballot-box. He
had placed the ballots in the box, had taken
Them out again and had counted them.
Witnesses testified that ALLEN held a
bunch of tickets in one hand and received
the ticket presented by the voter with the
other; but some of them could not tell
whether their ballots had been deposited in
the box or not, owing to the peculiar
motions made by ALLEN.
But ALIENS preliminary examination
was held before GREENMAN, the man whom
he had represented at the poll as presiding
judge GREENMAN decided that ALLEN
should not be held to await the action of
the grand jury, because, to use bis own
words,
citizen who stands by and sees or notices
anything savoring of fraud or irregularity in
the conduct of an election and does not imme-
diately call attention to the fact is not desery-
ing of the elective franchise, and his after as
sertlon in relation to such facts should be
viewed with suspicion.
so much for the men who saw or thought
they saw, fraud at the polls; they should
be disfranchised for not reporting their
suspicious day earlier than they did, saws
the commissioner; though, as matter of
fact, some called attention to the suspected
crime there and then.
But what should be done with the man
who was suspected of committing the Of
Tense. He should go free says the com.
missioner, and no one shall question his
right to the elective fran chise More than
that. he should bring an action for damages
against the man who prosecuted him: and
this the defendant has actually done, while
his party tries to condone and apologize for
the accumulated effontery of the man, who
testified in court that he did not remember
the aliases he was known by in Colorado
before he recently came here
1.-THE threat is thus made plain to every
man, that whoever accuses Liberal of
fraud at the polls is liable to an action for
damages.
Commissioner GREENNAN found fault
with the witnesses who had not immedi
ately reported their suspicious and had
ALLEN placed under arrest at once. It is
well for them that they did not do so. They
each might have had an action for dam
ages to meet
People must shut their eyes hereafter
when they go to the polls to vote. For if
they see anything savoring of fraud and do
not immediately report 1t, says Com
missioner GREElMAN, they are un
worthy OF the elective franchise
land it should therefore be taken
from them. If they are con-
WINGED that there has been fraud, and i'm
mediately take steps to correct it. as
GREENMAN suggests they should, they be-
come liable to an action for damages. They
are liable, too, before jury composed of
rank Liberals; they will be tried by their
enemies. No Mormon can, by any posi-
bility sit on one OF these juries. And the
Liberal plotters will not hesitate to use
their control of juries against any non
Mormon that ventures to expose their
crimes.
everybody can now see the position of
the so-called NLiberal party. A TYRANNY
more despicable and criminal than any-
thing OF the kind in America awaits the
submissive followers of the Liberal ring.
unless they assert their independence.
We think day of reckoning for the
Liberal leaders is not far off; the voters
are waking up to sense of their humilia-
ton.
THE BARRUNDIN AFFAIR.