Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-04
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO
TIE FIRE.

cloth falsehood that the Peoples
Party in Tooele County, In 1878,
defraudei the Liberals" Of one
hundred aud fifty legal votes, has
been compelled to acknowledge that
no such thing occurred. The Glib
eral'' organ of Wednesday says 1t
was a ''misapprehension," and
tries to put the fault upon ga gentle
man from Tooeie." 1t is not this
time ga reliable old woman" or ga
truthful reperter." We do not be-
lieve any gentleman from Tooele"
or from any other place, told such a
tissue of irrational and groundless
lies as the Tribune writer repeated
again aud again, and assured his
readers that they were swell
known and s'facts of record" and
it was useless to deny them. They
were not given out as matters Of in
formation and belief, but rs such
established and recorded facts that
all who attempted to dispute them
were "Iiarsp aud s.scrubs- and
subjects of Tribune scorR and black
guardism-
There was No: and could not be
any truth in the story, because the
election machinery was all in the
hands Of sLiberals" at that time.
Andit is not at all likely that these
"Liberal' officials would deprive
their party OF a hundred and fifty
legal votes, when they hung on to
the offices which they had obtained
by fraud, and would not give them
up to their legally elected SUCCESSORS
until forced to DO So by mandate
from the Supreme Court of the Ter
ritory. Even the reckless and utter
~ unscrupulous writer of the false
hood must have been more than
usually dense when he penned,
again aud again, the stupid and
groundiess fabrication.
But now, driven into a corner, he
calls his trumpei-up nonsense and
mendaciiy .'misapprehension,"
aud proceeds, with his accustomed
meanness, to invent other falsehoods
as sort of standardization for his
blunder and of the frauds perpe-
trated by the "Liberals" recently.
BE now mikes out it was not the
"Liberals'' who were prevented
from voting, 1t was a number Of the
PEOPLES Party who were allowed to
vote Illegally and so the result was
the same.
Here is what he says:
ain 1873 F. N. Lyman was president
of the Tooe,e Stake and a candidate
for county recorder, and I believe a
member of the legislature. 1t was
proposed by the Liberal committee to
purge tina registry lists in all the pre-
cinc,s o. Illegal voters Of the Peoples
Party. Those lists were stuffed with
the names OF people who under the
law had no possible right TO vote; I'M
nsturalized men, women, young girls
"A regular hotch potch.
''Blanks were printed in the usual
form aud application made to one or
more OF the Justices of the Peace in
precinc,s where it was known q large
number OF names were registered,
male aud female, who were not en-
titled to vote The senior Justice
in Tooele precinct informed the
party offering to file the objec-
tons, that he had i'een in
structed by the President of the Stake
that had charge OF the campaign OF
the Peoples party, not 10 file any OBJ
jectisns unless the objector paid, as an
advance to cover the fees of the JUS
tice in the matter, the sum Of IS.
"The President of The Stake was
spoken to about it. and he said that an
oiilesr wasn't required to work with
out his fees were paid or secured, and
that he had instructed the Justices in
all the precincts constable in the
county to demand s. for each case,
and not TO file the objection without
getting the sum in advance.
''In consequence Of this. the whole
matter OF purging the lists was aban-
donei IN all tae precincts, and the
county was carried by votes improp-
erly on the lists, and which could not
be stricken of because of the money
demEnded Dy the Justices. In Grants
Vile, Tooele City, Erda, in Pine Can
yon, in fact all Of the big precincts in
the county, the senior justices were
Mormons.'
This is worse aud worse. He has
Jumped out of the frying pan iuto
the fire. The s'Liberals'' had been
in possession If the Colnty for four
years. How did these members Of
the Peoples Party who were not
legal voters get their names on the
registration list? Remember this
was the first year the registration
law went into force and the county
offices, with the exception of one
seiectman, were all held by
"Libcrals.o
The "Liberal'' Committee pro-
posed to have the lists "purged,"
did they? How could they do that
when that was the first registration
aud il was done under "Liberal,'
administration. How did these Gun.
nsturaiized men, women and young
girls' ges their names placed on the
list by "Liber.iln registrars, and
why were not some of them prose-
cuted for perjury, in taxing the
oath that they were citizens and
overtweGty-oBe years of age? There
is no- ward Of truth ia il. II there
is, ies u1nes 5e produced. The old
lists can be hal. AMI if any such
registration was done it was
''Libersl" officials who were respon-
sible for it.
The facts Of record'' are that the
Peoples Party had clear majority
o:fFom 26S TO 3sS legal votes, that the
County Court. in which there was
only one member of the Peoples
Party, knowing this refused to
count any returns except those from
ophir and Lake View precincts,
and so declared the "Liberal'' can
didates elected by maiorities of from
IS to . votes. The mstter was
taken Into the courts, was deci,ied
against The 81 ,ihsra,s,, l., the rh;,d