The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
HOW THEY SQUEAL.
The Barefaced Effrontery of the
Morning Chestnut.
THE NAME ON A CERTIFIED LIST
And all the Wriggling in the World VIII
not Rub it Off, or Blot Out
a Fraud.

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The editorial in Friday mornings HER
AID in relation TO the registration of
ernest f. Warner, now deceased, created
considerable stir and inquiry in Liberal
quarters. AS was expected, the Tribune
yesterday morning took up the gauntlet in
behalf OF its friend Mr.. Clute, and in at
tempting to defend him had the bare faced
ehrontery to declare that the name of
Ernest F. Warner sis not on the register
OF either district" and that young War.
ner was asked to register but s'his answer
was that ne was not a citizen, that it had
oeen out lew weeks since he arrived from
Colorado" 1t also boldly states
IN ITS headlines: And it Was All False
MOOD" and then it raves aud walls and
gnasnes us teeth, attempting, by turning
the sympathles OF the community towards
the dead, to divert attention from the
crookedness of the living
Again IHE HERALD declares that the
name OF Ernest f. Warner is on the regis
tratlon list of the Second precinct
IF ANYONE is IN DOUBT
go to the city hall and read and believe. In
the WIS on that list the following are the
last six names with their residences:
Woodbury., Thomas H. ir., 252 Sixth
South.
Workman, Oliver G., 517, West Temple
Worthen, Charles H, 256, Seventh
South.
Wood, Herman R 253, West Temple.
Warner, Ernest f. ,ss621 S. West Temple.
Wilkinson, Joseph, 70 W., Second South.
The following certificate appears at the
end of the registration book:
CERTIFICATE.
1 hereby certify that the foregoing is a fuII.
true and correct copy of the list of Registered
voters in Second precinct, Salt Lake CITY. Salt
Lake county, Utah, to the 18th day of january,
1890. f. r CIrrTr
Deputy registration officer
This was filed with Recorder Wells in
accordance with the following order of the
Utah commission:
Upon the completion of the lists the resistra
ton officer shall prepare triplcate lists in al
phabetical order for each precinct. containin1
the names of all registered voters one of which
lists shall be filed in the office of the citv re-
corder en- or before the second Monday in Jan
uary, 1890, which which will be the 18th day of
SAID month, one list to be posted up in each pre-
clnct at least fifteen days before the dav of
election Goth February, $780, at or near the
place OF election, and the other lists transmitted
by him to the presiding judge OF election of the
several precincts for use at the polls: and the
oaths or affirmations of the registered voters
Immediately after the day of election, shall be
delivered to the clerk of the probate court of
Salt Lake county.
so 1t Will be seen this is an official list.
just as much so as the one kept on file with
the registrar
True, the name does not appear upon the
latter list, but what does that show? Sim
ply that there is something exceedingly off
color on
THE CITY HALL LIST.
1t will be noticed Ernest F. Warner is the
last name but one in the VS.. The other
four names Immediately preceding it are
all upon the list found in Colonel Pages
office, and in the order given above. but
following them, instead of Ernest F. War
ner, is Isaac Woolf and then come FORTY
six others in the VS.
How is that! In one place but two names
following Herman r. Wood and in another
forty and some of these 1.-TWO, at least),
on one and not on the other list at all. and
still they are both official lists and certified
to by Mr. Clute in manner and form as
above shown. In fact, they are in his own
handwriting. 1t would be presumed that
the names should be found in the same
order and precisely similar in every way
upon both lists. Bvt such is not the case.
How came this discrepancy! Mr. Clute
could not be found by THE HERALD man
yesterday who went out to hunt him down
and
COLONEL PAGE SAID
he could not account for the mistakes. He
hrd no more to do with the making out of
the lists than THE HERALD man
had with the work of the
compositor. Perhaps the following
explanation or apology, or what you may
call 1t, OF the tribune yesterday is about the
best that can be given
How the name got on that CITY hall list nore,
1Strat1on officer knows for certainty The ONLY
explanation given is as follows: Owing to the
immense amount of work to be DONE the short
Time In which to do it, and the delay occasioned
by the Lords anointed in preferring baseless
charges against the registrars before the Utah
commission the pre- cinct lists could not be veri-
fed before midnight of January 49, Colonel PAGE
was inclined to allow circumstances to comnel
delaying filing the books until verification with
the original lists and the oaths; but, thinking
advantage of this might be taken by the ''Peo-
pies party to raise a howl decided to file
them as required by law, and notified Recorder
Wells at the time that the lists were I'M
checked and unverihed, and that there were
names that might have no right there and at
the same time said the verified lists would be
handed to the judges. These latter will not be
completed until just before election Nothing
was said further, and Mr.. Wells received the
DOCKS. And how Mr.. Warmers name got on the
list Is further explained in this way: In making
up transfers from precinct to precinct
memorandum names were made on slips
of paper and laid on the table before the regis
trars Now some oficious person who thought
Mr.. Warner ought to be looked after to see if he
was registered, left his name on the table when
the lists were being made up, and it was mis-
taken by Mr.. Clute for transfer in the hurry
and thus it got on-not the list from which vot-
ers are checked off as they vote, but on an I'M
checked and unverified list furnished the re-
corder to comply with the law.
What immense amount of work had the
officer to do that he couldn't perform his
duty as he had sworn he would do and as
he certified he had done? The registration
closed December 2S, 1889, and this list was
not required to be filed, and was not in
fact filed till January ID, 1890 Thus the
officer had more than two weeks in which
to copy these lists-ample time, wasn't it?
To the Tribune scribe who wrote the
above, that the list furnished the recorder
was unchecked and unverified,'' we sim
ply say, put on your glasses and read