The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

proofs OF us errors are evidence OF Its
accuracy.
Some Of the country sheets which.
being Republican, echo the receptions
Of their leader, have copied its libels
and repeated the charges against the
Commission. Will they now have the
fairness to give the other side of the
case, as presented by the only parties
who can give fully the facts, or will
they allow the lies to take their course
and still claim to be fair and to pub
lish the news?
Now as to the merits of the case. If
there is, as charged by the Tribune.
conspiracy to steal the convention,
who are the thieves, Or who are the
persons intending to steal the conven-
ton? Previous to the election there
was a thunderous outcry about the
registration. It all went off in noise
and smoke. Then there was an UNI
earthly rumble about somebody going
to steal the election 1t turned out to
be nothing but foul fatuiency. New
some one wants to steal the conven-
ton. according to the same authority;
it is just of the same nature as the
other disturbances.
We will admit a possible exception
in the case Of one precinct of Ogden
City. There are some things about
that which need explana ton, to say
the least, and the very suspicious
which attach to it is cause for opening
the ballot boxes and making recount.
If anything fraudulent has been done
in that instance, let the guilty parties
be prosecuted, whether they be Demo-
Gratis. Republicans or Populists
If there has been any wrong doing
in reference to the canvass, there has
been nothing that can in any way, SO
far. justly reflect upon the Commits
sion. Sending for the ballot boxes was
right. If not. the blame rests. with the
Republican members of that body who
proposed and seconded the resolution
to send for them, equally at least with
the Democratic members. Yet it is
the latter who are stignatized by the
Tribune while it 1auds the men who
proposed what that paper condemns.
Was the so-called intended steal ac-
complished by the Democratic judges
of election? Why should they commit
fraud to give Republicans the majority
of votes? There are numerous dis
crepancies in the returns from many
parts of the territory. They appear on
the face Of the returns. That is the
reason why the recount is necessary
in cases where the totals of votes for
the respective party candidates are SO
close. Who made the errors that GER
tainly exist? The canvassers in the
precincts, certainly. Was that fraud?
Not likely; it was simply error.
1t must be remembered that there
was a double set Of votes to canvass
in every precinct. The work in the
smaller precincts appears to have been
done correctly. In the larger precincts
it took very much longer than usual,
and all the canvassers and witnesses
became weary long before the count
was completed No one who is fair
and rational accuses the judges of
election in Sanpete with fraud. Some
are to be found in the
They are mistakes. not crimes.
Why should there be so desperate an
effort to stop fair investigation? Why
run to the courts for mandamuses to
prevent the only test that can be made
of the validity of the count? Why
these frantic and shameful charges
against the Commission for the dis
charge Of a bounden duty? Why are
the Democratic Commissioners singled
out for attack, when the Republican
Commissioners were first to propose
the proceedings which are being so
rashly denounced?
The concern which has been in the
habit for years Of debating the course
Of leading officials, and has threa tened
with its lash those who repudiated it's
dictation. finds itself powerless in the
former respect and is now trying
abuse by way of intimidation. 1t will
not work. The lash has lost it's sting.
The leading strings are cut, for good
and all. And the froth and fury ex-
hibited by the foiled would-be masters
Of the territory are valued at their
worth. Let the recount
go on, whatever may be said, and let
US know who were really elected by
the votes Of the majority, delegates to
me convention to frame the constitu-
lon OF the State Of Utah!