Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-16
POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
Strange Enforcement Of the Australian
Ballot System.
WHAT SAY YOU, MR. TRIMMER !
That "Dealr Between a Few Republi.
cans aud Good Many
Liberals.

cans aud a Good Many
Liberals.
Not n few discoveries OF a most son.
sntiouil character have recently been
MAZE though as yet they have not
been given to the public, in regard to
the manifest and manifold frauds per.
pciraled by the operators OF the Liberal
machine. Though some OF these
ofiouses were committed a. early "a
lsDj aud every precAu,ion takon 10
prevent, exposure, yet thoy hte crimes
nevertheless aud are gradually being
unearthed. A. they will be published
contuncly only can be felt for those
who debatod their manhood, prosti.
tuted lholf patriotism and proved
their uniisucss 10 be entrusted with the
gifis aud pteroystives that pertain to
American citizenship.
Among other things alleged against
the Liberal party was that OF voting
Imported hubos, tlamps and Foreigners.
y this there never has been nor can
there be any question.
A NEwH representative Ia looking
! over the old poll anu registration DOOks
| tod CANT across a case thEt involves
/ the rOI VI ttiOn Hui taiety Of n goltlt-
mau whose right iD exercise the fran
chisc would 90 trtoly have been doubted
| by even the most wary, anu 10
/ h. NJ utrrly hOpru hat he may be- able
! o. place himself right before ms friends
aud tue pubic, tnp latter being the
most inlervs Of. That gentleman h
/ Luuu other than Fred Trimmer. Dur.
/ ing his rofilcuc. OF several yeats In
/ This ely Air. THINNER has always boeu
Al ardent aud svl'--nofiiciuE Liberal.
/ Many persons believed him 10 br an
| American hgiling from New EugauI.
| Others shook their heads aus said that
/ he was native Of East India, aud
/ that he had not taken out naturaiiza.
! ton papcu. $50 this ne It may TIE
] the official records chow that Mr..
! TrImmUt's name was voted in the
| Fourth precinct in the city eltc.
| ton on February lsih, 1897, nj pOll
| No. ., Rui0n 2. Welln, 1. NJ. Fisher
and Arthur Brown acting as iuIgos.
| opposite Mt. lrimmet'H name In MT.
Browne handwriting Is tie WORD
"votcu." The anne book gives Mr..
| lflmmCf's residence ~ that time M
"NU. ~ Flrst East street"
Agaiu ~ tbs county election Of last
year tho gentleMRuia name appears on
tho registration book. HIS residence
at that time Is given ~ tho Cullen
! hotel, secund precinct. 10 Is further
shown that hts name was voted al Pol
No. . at the Independent hall The
correctness Uf he record ia officially
certified 10 by tho thol county
Register, DR.. joel +. Allen.
Now comes tbs suspicious part Of
the whole proceeding. On Sept. -9.n
ut the present year Mr.. Trimmer took
out his citizenship PAPER. la tn,
Third dialriCt court and Ia this con.
ntctiou this question arises why was
nj. necessary n he was a citizen he.
tore aud n he Wbs not n citizen before
why did he voio3 IL II possible thai
be had original plpors anu lost then
uuu therefore nAd TO take out new
pnts2 II 10 Eu explanation 10 thai
etieot will be oneeTiully published In
thu DEsEHEr NEWS,
That there may bo no question arts,
az % taking out tho paper referred &,
COPY OF II ~ herewith reproduced
having been secured from the office d
Mr.. McMillau, clerk Of the Third die
lrlot court, TO-DAY;
CERTIFICATE or cuizENsHiP
United ssRtOa Of America,
Territory OF Utah.
he Il remembered, that on the ooh day
Of September IN tho year OF our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety
throo, Fred Trimmer, laio OF Australia,
Ia the Kingdom Of GroAI Britain, nj pro-
sent OF salt Lake county In tue Territory
aforesaid, appeared In the Third judicial
district court OF the United STATES, In and
for Utah Territory, and applied 10 IA,
said court 10 ba admitted 20 become Z
citizen OF the United States of America,
pursuant To the directions aud require
monts " tho several acts Of Congress Ia
relation thereto.
And the said Fred Trimmer having
thvTeupon produced 10 tho court suct
evidence, made such declaration aud r0
nuuciAliOn, aud taken such oath as ar,
by tho said acts required; theroupOn d
WAS ordered by the said court that tn,
said Fred Trimmer be admitted, aud o.,
was accordingly admitted by the sale
court 10 ba citizen Of the United States o
America.
In testimony whereof, the seal Of tn,
said court II hereunto atliNod, this 1871
day OF October, In tho year one thousant
oight hundred aud ninoly-three, In tn
wear Of our Independence tho one hun
dred and eighteenth.
[sEALl HENY q. MCMILLAN,
clerk.
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