The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-22

cans won. That is simply false. The
same rule was adopted in every case
and The two Republican Commissioners
joined with the three Democratic Com
nlissioners in accepting the returns.
discrepa and all, where the figures
showed without doubt that those dis
crepancies would not affect the result,
so az. to deprive any candidate of mis-
rights. That Is according to law There
was positively no difference in that.
whether it was a, Republican or a
Democratic precinct or county.
Next We are told. in answer to the
undeniable fact that 1t was the Republi-
can members who first called for the
ballot boxes, that this was merely for
safe keeping Indeed? Will the Tri-
bune explain by what law ard by what
right the Commission could demand
those ballot boxes for any purpose. ex-
cept to make a recount If necessary as
thes Ia " provides2 If they had no right
tor touch a ballot box, as the tribune
has declared, what business had the
Republican Commissioners to call for
them?
Then it says: Prominent Demo-
Gratis were securing the precincts where
Republican majorities were small. .
This has reference to Sanpete. Hold
on a minute. What were prominent
Republicans doing there first, and i'm
medfately after It was proclaimed that
the najoritiesf were small? Better not
be too suspicious. The prominent Re-
publican .scourers" were somewhat
ahead, that Is ALL We have uttered no
insinuatlons about fraud yet When
we do say anything in that direction,
1t will be direct and unmistakab.e We
have not done with this matter by any
means, and it is certain that Democrats
did not pnrposely count in Republicans
who We're not elected.
Next it is stated that we have I'M
directly charged the Democratic judges
in the Third precinct with dishonesty,
because we say the count was wrong.
That is, simply wilful falsehood on the
part of our contemporary. We have
charged no wilful dishonesty to any
body but simply showed there were mis-
takes. But If there was anything
crooked it certainly was not done by the
Democratic judges, for the plain reason
that it was done in the interest of the
Republican candidates
Then follows this, 1.-THE box has been
standing in the Commission rooms with
a simple lock on the door for more
than a month The Tribune knows
better. It says that to deceive the
public and keep up the roar which it is
melting. The facts have been told re.
peatedly, and in it's rage against them
that paper is directly striking the truth
in the face.
1t says there were two color Blind
Democratic judges at the pol. where
the miscount took place. Not so. One
of them might have been color blind:
probably unable to distinguish one color
from another. The mistake occurred
as we have explained. Not as our irri-
tated contemporary says, by anybody
swearing that red ballots were blue
but by counting one pile of so Demo-
cratic ballots for the Republican can
didates and throwing them back into
the. box before the miscount could be
rectified. If that was done Wilfully, it
is certain it was not the dishonesty
of the Democratic judge. The author
of suspicion in this case can form his
own deductions.
Next: THAT certain of the ballot
boxes have been tempered with is as
Main h inc to o,,I,l
deny it, except in the one Ogden case
now pending. Tell us which box has
been tempered with and give the
proofs of it. The Herald is ready to
aid in the prosecution of any one, no
matter what his politics, who has been
guilty Of such crime. AS to the
Sanpete county boxes it says: The
boxes either before they left the coun-
" or after they reached the rooms
having been tempered with" etc. We
challenge the proof. We do not believe
they were tempered with in either
place. There is no evidence that they
were. 1t is only the "deviltry' of ma
tgnant party suspicion that asserts it.
Then with a number of disgraceful
epithets hurled at The Herald, which
Ire nothing but puffs of foul gas, it
says The Herald asks the people mot
o judge the Commission by a. descrip-
don of what they are doing That
S one more absolute and Intentional
'alsehood. We have repeatedly asked
he public to do that very thing. We
lain that the majority have acted in
accordance with the law. We deny
hey have done anything wrong. We
all for The proof to the contrary. We
'eceive none but instead a lot of shame |
ul insinUations and dirty suspicious
Without the slightest shadow of a |
shade of evidence to support them. |
And we ask the public to judge them
~ what they have done instead of by |
he Tribune's cowardly and indirect |
Finally, it comes to the conclusion |
hat it is of no use trying TO carry |
m an argument with The Herald. We |
or once agree with our vituperative |
contemporary, and can see why it is |
n such a rage and filings so many vile
'pithets. 1t is because it has no argu-
nents to offer.
And even at this late date it has
lot learned that caorse and vile terms
re evidence of temper rather than a
light cause, and that if The Herald
vas ten times as bad as the Tribune
wants to make out. that does not
rove that a ballot box has been tam
'ered with, nor that the Utah Com.
mission is wrong, or that any Republic
an who, by mistake or fraud. was
ounted in should not be counted out
Then it is clear that he only received
minority of the votes cast.
Our contemporary RACES through