The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-06

and the territory When we came to can
yass Salt Lake county, we struck Bingham
camp, across on the west side of Salt Lake
county, in Bingham canon.
Let me state that the registration lists of
this territory are in this fix: They have
have not been revised for years. They run
right along like an unbroken stream; and
when man dies his name is not stricken
off; If he moves away his name is not
taken off, and there are hundreds and
thousands of names upon that list Of men
VINO are dead or have moved away from
the territory; for there are, as gentlemen
know, in all of these western states,
travelling gentry commonly known as
tramps, and that is where these colonizers
come from, that my young friend was try
ing to tell you about who stuff the ballot
boxes.
Mr.. Richards-The bill presented to the
governor two years ago was intended to
correct this by providing for reregistra-
ton.
MIR. judd was going to say that the
bill provided for new registration so as to
get at the actual people who lived there.
The governor vetoed that. That is a small
thing, however, for he yetoes verifying
that does not happen to suit him.
Senator Davis-Does not the law under
the Federal act of 1882 provide for purging
the registration list!
Mr.. Judd-Yes sir.
Senator Davis-Dou you mean to say
that it has not been done?
Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir; it has not been
done.
Senator Jones--And yet you say that
that friend of yours on the commission is
an honest man!
Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir. Now let me settle
that question once for all.
| will ha lod TO ou
it DONE
MIR. Judd-They are all honest and hon
orable men, but they do not live there.
They DO not know our people. They are
not responsible to our people, and they
have to take what somebody tells them,
and they are apt to listen to those they
most favor.
Senator Jones-F'or these reasons they
deliberately violate their oaths of Office
constantly!
Mr.. judd do not say that.
Senator Jones-I do not see how you
AVOID 1t when they disregard the law, as
you say they do.
MIR. Judd-The statement is mine, the
conclusion yours.
Senator Jones-If your statement is cor
rect the conclusion follows.
Senator Faulkner-They need not neces-
sarily be bad officers They act conscien-
tiously in these matters, yet they act
enormously.
Mr.. Judd-Let me ask the Senator from
Arkansas a question. Suppose man from
Tennessee, another from Alabama, another
from Kentucky, another from Georgia, and
another from North Carolina were sem
annually to Arkansas, about two weeks be-
fore the election, TO appoint your election
officers, to hold your elections, and ther
packed up and went back until the next
election comes, what do you think would bt
the result.
Senator Jones-I could not say VIVA
would be the result
Mr.. Judd-No, you could not and no mar
can.
Senator Jones-That is not parallel t;
the Utah commission!
Mr. Judd-Yes, sir; they do not stay
there. They never come there until al
election occurs.
Senator Jones-Do they only get Their
two weeks before an election!
Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir; and sometimes the,
do not get there that early.
Senator Jones-And they leave i'm
mediately after.
Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir; they leave sometime
7 while the votes are being counted, and
SOME DO NOT Go AT ALL.
Now, those are the facts; but Z
get back to my instance. When w
struck Bingham camp charge that som
Is or 20 or 30 men, at one precinct in Blng
, ham, had voted on names of dead men o
men who had gone away. There cam
, another charge that in Cottonwood precinC
the registration officers on the morning c
q the election struck enough legal voters O.
the list to change the result of the electio
,, and to have given Ferguson majority of {
> if they had not been struck off, but to leav
, Allen with majority of if they wer
I stricken off.
+ Senator Davis-Seven to s?
Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir; z to s, only as tn
D result will prove here, L will show it wa
: worse than to z.
/ Coming back to that, however, 1 said I
: Mr.. Brown, the attorney for the contes
! ant, Ferguson, that "this canvassing boar
! has no authority to hold any election, an
we can not count any votes that wer
a not actually cast" The contest wer
f TO the court. The result was, as
4 will show you from the findings of fact i
+ the case By Judge Miner, the supren
Judge, who gave the opinion that Judl
4 Anderson, one Of the present judges, WI
is now in the city, found that in the Bin
, ham precinct what was charged was tru
4 and knocked off all the illegal votes th
Q Allen had there, SO as to bring his maioril
over Ferguson down to sever. Then the
came to the fourteen who had been arb
trariy stricken off at Cottonwood precinC
r The case went from the district into I'll
a supreme court, and here is what the cou
says:
f In this case it appears that each of these
o teen electors had their names properly enrolle
d that they we're legal voters and entitled to Vo
n at this election; that the deputy register, wit
out any authority OF law whatever, enron
!. ously and Illegally ordered their names strck,
/ from the lists OF qualified electors on the NOR
}, ing # the election; that each of them went al
% rendered vote for the contestant, with an al
l. davit of their qualifications as legal voter
n They were refused becaui their names h
been Illegally and erroneously stricken from d
list of voters by order of the deputy reeistt
q This illegal act if it was SUCH upon the part
q the registration officers, cannot be iustif
q on any pretext whatever.
IS And yet the court go on and, in the
). opinion, say, "but we'ihave no power
I right it. because we cannot count the yo
10 that has been cast" and that elected m;
i to the county clerks Office in Salt La
IS city, with a salary of $4,000 year
y seven votes, when Ferguson, his opponeu
d was honestly elected by majority of Gig
votes. He now holds that Office; and
undertake to say that if that same commit
sion ran your elections you would have d
10 same results in Arkansas, and you
n Georgia, and you in Idaho.
lie Senator Davis-Did the court there d
d cline to hold that election void!
le Mr.. Judd-Yes, sir. Here is the cas-
sr There is not any doubt about it. The Sc
y ators can read it for themselves.