Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-19
PUT TO A FINAL TEST.

ceiyed the annexed protest from the
Crew. WV +. Daley, one Of the
ssLiberal'' judges Of election:
NErHI. Juab County, Utah,
August S, 1890.
Utah Commission:
Dear Sirs-we beg leave, as judges
OF election, 10 call your attention to
the nominee FOR county surveyor in
Juab County, on the Peoples ticket,
Charles Price, who has been in poly
Eamy since '62, tho is not known now
10 be IN such state, has never received
amnesty from the President. nor had
barrier, 70 our knowledge, efTsctually
removed. Very truly.
W. y. p. DALEY,
Presiding Judge.
The Board Of Canvassers ruled
that they had no jurisdiction in the
matter. They have no power TO pass
upon the qualifications for Office. If
the "Rev.'' Judge Daley were
not blinded by "Liberal', zeal and
personal vanity he would, perhaps,
be able to see this point, and also
the fact that he has been quite as
assumptive and foolish as he wanted
the Board Of Canvassers 10 be.
This notion that the status Of a
polygamist can only be removed by 1
amnesty from the President, is the /
most transparent non sense. II a |
man is not now the husband Of |
more than one living wife, it re-
quires no presidential OF other edict /
10 announce or affirm the fact, and 4
ifhe maintains polygamous relations
with more than one woman he is a |
polygamist though the President |
should give him the fullest amnesty |
that could be issued. The pardon or /
amnesty which the President is au-
thorized 10 give under the Eimuuds I
act, has nothing whatever to do with 4
the status Of polygamist.
How can a man be a polygamist
when he has but one wife or no |
wife at all? The notion tina. a mon
Ogamist Is polygamist and that n
widower without a wife is a polyg- /
amist COMFORTS with other 'Liber- |
al vagaries and bears on its body
its own refuta,iOp. The very state
ment is a contradiction and an ab-
surdity.
This Is obvious on its face and has
been judicially decided in the Thiri
District Court OF this Territory. The
stupid idea, gravely echOeI by
Daley, Is a "Liberll'' invention
put forth As an excuse for cheating a
number u Peoples Party voters out
Of their right Of franchise. 1t sue
ceedei for the time and for the pur-
pose designed. and was one Of the
elements Of fraud Of which the
Peoples Party have complained.
And Row there is a good opplr-
tuuity to have this thing listed. 1t
ihe Rev W. y. Z. Daley is in
earnest, All is not merely trying Z,
get the B1lrI OF Canvas ers to Join
in the "Liberal'' scheai,- to defeat
the will Of the ljority Of the voters:
let legal action b. t.ken ayainst the
sentleman elected a Surveyor. and
let the matter be settled s.as con.
stTdC by the courts.''
The Supreme Court Of the Unit.d A.,
States in the Murphy caze. and the :
Third Distric. Court Of Utah in tb, ,
Bennett case, have already passed i
on this point. But these decisions \
are not sufi Glen. for the Utah d
Liberals, aud they prefer the q,
opinion Of a P-tty Registrar who c
dehed all law, PTecS lent and com i
mon sense, because it dovetafled
into their plot TO steal the election. a
How many times have these !
same "Liberals'' howled nj those
Mormons' who held that the Ed
munds law was being perverted. !
you must obey the laws ss con-
stTued ~ the courts,'' Convicted
men were told that their only
escape from punishment was 10
promise they would ''obey the law
as construed by the courts" And
when the meaning Of the law was :
shown TO have been perverted the
cry was, the law must be main .
tained ''as construed by the courts. ,,
Now why do not thess SCALED
Liberals follow their own rule
The courts have ruled that when a :
man has been 4 polygamist and has
severed his polyglmous reIat ions by
some eiIectual means, he is not any ;
longer a p0lyglmist and j. not
barred by the statute from :.
voting aui holding Office },
on the ground of polygamy. Yet !
these sticklers for the Jaw s.as coD-
struei 10y the courts defy the con-
struction Of the courts and the rules "
Of common sense, in order to effect a
their own nefarious ends. .
1t Is time that something was done !. :,
to make the rulings OF the courts on !
this point eilectual. And if the a
enemy will not test it 50 As to make o.
it an established and final couclu.
sion, 70 govern those extraordinary
anu mJestic officials, the deputy
registrars - petty appointees 10 a
petty Office for a petty period-as II
wei As common folk, then let the +,
Peoples Party take action, either r,
by prosecuting the bumptious defiers a,
II the law, or 10y a civil suit. or both y,
That law abiding citizens may have =,
their franchise and that the right Of 70
may be guarded against the
thieves who have robbed :, =,
many LEGAL vofers