The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-23
THE FACTS IN THE CASE.

Herald it throws mud, calls the edi-
tor liar, and makes number of as
sertions that show that our vulgar
neighbor is in bad state of mind.
This is over the bill passed by the
Republicans in the last legislature
which we criticised as "ill-advised and
imperfect" The Republican organ de-
clares that this editor never read the
bill in his life. We will not respond
in our opponents pot-house language
but simply say we have read the bill
and have a copy of it at hand for ref
erence, and we repeat that all we have
said about it is true. We here insert
the Governors veto and his reasons
for it:
Hon. Albion 3. Emery, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Salt Lake
City, Utah:
Sir:-I herewith return, without ap-
proval-an act entitled IAN act to
restore the control of elections to the
respective county courts of Utah.
deeming it an ill-advised attempt to re-
wise and alter congressional legislation.
qualified a certain class IF persons from
voting. These disqualificati7ns can
only be removed o. Congress, and this
act cannot lake effect unless approved
by Congress. in he enabling AT for
the admission of titan, which has al
ready passed the House OF Representa-
tives and is now pending in the Senate,
with promise of early consideration,
Congress recognizes the changed con-
ditions existing III the territory ard, in
effect, removes the disqualified has i'm
posed by the Edmunds acT. I DO not
think it wise, after favorable action
by one branch of Congress upon this
important subject, to submit the pres
ent bill and thus afford dn opportunity,
if not an invitation for the reconSidera-
ton of what has already been done to-
wards restoring the franchise to per-
sons now disqualified, besides causing
delay and perhaps impsril the enabling
act. 1t could not hasten the desired
conSumma ton, and might retard state
hood. While it is desirable TO place
the control of elections in the hands
of the people, it is certainly more desir-
able to remove from a large class Of
our citizens the disqualifications that
are now not only unnecessary but I'M
just, and we cannot afford to jeopardize
our chances of getting the greater boon
in the hope of obtaining the lesser,
which viii swiftly follow the enabling
act. Besides, we are assured that the
present system will be administered
during its future brief existence by
bona fide citizens of our territory.
1 am, sir, very respectfully,
CALEB w. WEST,
Governor.
Now take a glance at a specimen Of
our neighbours inconsistency and self
contradiction, which are very common.
First it declares that the vetoed bill
simply relegated the election duties
back to the same officials as performed
them under the law of 1878. Then it
says the editor of The Herald is a liar
for saying that the Tribune opposed
the same provisions time and time
again and praised Republican Gov
ernors for vetoing them. Next it tries
to condone its course in doing the very
thing The Herald charged upon it, by
saying it was appropriate to keep the
Utah Commission, to make sure that
no polygamists should be registered or
permitted to vote.
Just see how these three assertions
iunlble Also note the fact that under
the provisions of the bills-which were
vetoed with the Tribune appreciation
designed TO turn back the duties in
election matters to the county officers,
there was nothing whatever which
opened the way for polygamists to be
registrars, or election judges. OF to
vote or hold office of any kind. Yet
the Tribune fought every effort to end
the Commission and to turn back cleo
ton duties to the county officers.
If our vituperative neighbor disputes
the simple truth still more, we will
have 10 turn the record upon it again.
We can do it, and prove beyond the
possibility of a doubt that what it
berated Governor West for doing, and
what it praised in the only Republican
legislature. it utterly and vehemently
condemned in the Peoples party Iegis-
latures. There was, however, this diff
ference in the work of the former Iegis-
lures and the last, in seeking to
change the conduct of elections in this
territory: The work of the former was
well done and complete; the work of
the latter was ill-advised and incom-
plete. When the former bills were
passed Congress had virtually invited
their passage; when the latter was
passed Congress had made a special
l revision requiring the special action
of Congress in relation to the matter
We are very much of the opinion
that in accusing The Herald of I'M
familiarity with the Republican miser-
able makeshift, the Tribune has been
trying To foist its own fault upon
others. for it is evidently ignorant of
what it is talking about We would not
intimate that its perversion of the
truth is wilful for that would be getting
down to its own level. The habit OF
charging the Democrats with the evil
doings of the Republicans has certainly
grown upon our neighbor, hence its
virulent but impotent assault upon
The Herald
ASSERTION VS.. LOGIC.