The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-13


a phrase OF our morning contemporary,
without the adjectives. Is in one Of it's
FREQUENT iantrums we do not won
| der at its loss OF equilibrium. It has
been engaged lately in its old. dis
reputable work of abuse. Every Of
| fetal who is Democrat is exposed to
tits ISLANDERS. The Herald has called
! for the proofs Of its ealumnies. 1T re-
spends with epithets. The Herald 5 re-
marks have occupied from quar-
ter TO a third of COLI
umn- That the Tribune calls
''raving through a great deal Of space
and then it responds with about a
column and a quarter of rage which
proves rothing.
| OF course it is provoking to be
called upon for proofs Of serious
charges, when, there are none at hand,
! 1t is irritating to have ones evil sus-
pieions. proceeding from q disposition
to itnpute wilfui wrong when there are
no facts TO Justify the charge. held up
in their transparent Enthusiastically
land traced to their vindictive source.
We expected to see our contemporary
in one of its commissions. and the 1T
has come. that is all.
There are a. nnmber of discrepancies
in the election returns from several of
the counties and great many of the
precincts Where they are not of a
character to materially affect the re-
suit, no question has been raised as to
! their validity. In cases where the vote
is very close, they have been examined
and recounted, the errors exposed and
the result correctly given.
The consequence Of this will prob
ably be. that a few more Democrats
than it was at first supposed. will be
shown to have been elected delegates
to the constitutional convention 1t is
not likely that the change will be. suf-
ficient to give the control of the con-
vention to the Democrats But. even
if it did. that ought to make no diff
ference to the duty of the Utah Com
mission or any portion of that body.
Nor should it drive into fury any per
son or paper that desires the will of
the people" carried out as voiced
at the polls
Our rantankerous contemporary tells
a great deal of what it pretends to
believe is true, in reference to the en-
beavers at a recount of the Weber
county returns. That is no proof.
Nothing has been presented yet TO
form any excuse for the wholesale and
shameful assaults that paper has
made upon the Utah Commission, be-
cause it is now composed of men the
majority of whom will not jump as the
Tribune pulls the string
We again, cali attention to the fact
that it was the Republican members
Of the Commission who Instituted the
recount Of the sanpete county returns.
which forms the present bone of con-
tention. On November 23rd the mo
ton was made by Commissioner Sher-
man that the Chairman of the Com
mission be instructed to order in by
telegraph the ballot boxes from San
pete county. This was seconded by
Commissioner Tatlock and adopted
Chairman Letcher therefore tele-
graphed to each presiding election
judge in Sanpete county: Send by
express, properly sealed, all ballot
boxes and keys. Put keys in separate
package. Forward at once to j. R.
Letcher."
Before the Commission proceeded to
the recount, the advice of counsel was
had in reference to the mode of pro-
cedure. Two prominent attorneys of
each political party were consulted
and the canvass was made as they
decided to be proper. All the surmises
and suspicious and suggestive insinua-
tons about the matter count for moth
ing. If anybody is guilty of corrupt
and criminal conduct such as is limited
at, let the charge be made specific and
the culprit be prosecuted, whoever and
whatever he may be. But the covert
SANDERS which are sweetmeats to our
morning contemporary are disgusting
to fair-minded people and simply show
the taste of those who fabricate them |
The only opposition to the investiga-
ton designed to rectify evident mac
curacies, comes from Republican
sources. The courts have been ap-
pealed to. Let the decision be rendered
to law and justice. No can
didate ought to be deprived of his
rights because of errors in the election |
returns. No public officer should be
accused of wrong-doing without evil |
dence. Let no guilty man escape, and |
let no elected candidate be defrauded |
of his seat by either wilful or uninten-
tional mistakes.