The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-21
THE ELECTION RETURNS.


from this county has been completed.
Burr for sheriff and RUMEL for recorder
are elected by safe majorities, the former
having 200 and the latter 13 majority over
the Liberal candidates for these offices. A
dastardly and contemplate attempt is be-
ing made to count RUMEL out, because GER
tain votes were cast for j. d. RUNEL
instead Of for J. II. RuMEL, JR. We do not
think this Liberal trick will succeed. Not
that the Liberals will not steal this
Office If they can; the Liberal leaders are
Just the men for that sort of work: but
there is a limit Though most people here
abouts may doubt it, beyond which the
Liberal leaders will hesitate to so. j. b.
TORONTO and J: E. GALIGHER for treasurer
each receive ), 40 votes, making tie.
- ALl.EN has, by the returns, Is votes more
than FERGUSON. There were 10 votes I'M
lawfully excluded in the South Cotton
wood precinct and a complaint was made
against over twenty Illegal votes cast for
ALLEN in Bingham. If cognizance were
taken of these plain frauds, FERGUSON
would get the office.
What will be done, however, in going
behind the returns in these cases remains
to be seen.
The majorities for the Liberal candi-
dates for the Office of selectman, assessor,
attorney, coroner and surveyor, range
from IS to III.
1t is understood that TORONTO will not
draw cuts with GALIGHER for the Office, as
the proof of single illegal vote for the
will criya fhn oaio
Pro- this time is abundant and TORONTO
should certainly secure the Office. Nor will
il bedificult for FERGUSON to beat ALLEN,
provided, of course, that the courts will
give a fair decision. In Bingham, for in
stance, at poll 3, twenty-nine more votes
were cast than there are residents in the
district, and all these were for the Liberal
ticket. If we now add that the fraudulent
registration would easily make a difference
of from two hundred to three hundred
votes, it can readily be seen to what extent
the Liberals are indebted, for their partial
success, to the absolute control they have
of the election machinery.
1t thus appears that not a Liberal candi-
date would have been elected had there
been fair registration of the voters of the
county. We have before commented upon
the farcicial and fraudulent registration
methods, and it may be unnecessary to dc
so again at this time We think, however,
that the Peoples party and the Independ-
ent Workingmen's party are to be congrat-
ulated upon securing the two best and most
important Offices, with strong probability
of two others. More than this, it is quite
likely that contest will be made in the
courts in regard to the offices to which the
Liberal candidates appear, on the face OF
the returns, to be elected.
The Liberal leaders had no idea of losing
the election or any part of it. That they
have lost the two most important Offices
and perhaps others, has been surprise and
disappointment to them. They did not
anticipate any such result, and are nettleo
and mortified at the unexpected turn the
balloting took.
The fact that the registration frauds have
apparently given them some of the offices
can be endured with patience for the pres
ent, as the time will come when the fraud:
will cease or their perpetrators be pun
ished.
1t is matter OF considerable regret
however, that probably not half of thoss
whose ballots were refused at the polls
made atfidayits to the effect that they were
fully qualified and returned to the polls
again offering their ballots accompanied by
these affidavits. There were enough whose
ballots were refused to have unseated eyer,
Liberal candidate that will probably now
be declared elected. We know it is a seri.
Gus hardship Oh the average voter to be
compelled to spend almost the entire day in
seeking to have his vote received after bi,
name has been arbitrarily or surreptitiousl,
removed from the list by the registration
officer. But it is necessary, through tn,
partisan unfairness Of the registration off
GERS, to do this. Let every voter remem
Der that his vote or his affidavit may turf
the scale in favor of the candidates of hi.
party, and is worth any reasonable effor
on his part to secure. Good government
and above all, government by the people
should not be ieopardized by any negligence,
on the part of the voters, though tie dut,
of the hour may be laborious and evel
costly.