The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-08


the votes for the Sanpete delegates to
the constitutional ccnvenfion can be
determined. 1t was not to be expected
that the Judges VINO had certified to
the correctness of the returns would
make airy statements to the contrary.
Nor do We believe that they had any
doubts ON that matter. We have never
fratdrilated that there was anything
further In their clerical work than
some mistakes.
The expert (?t testimony about diff
fereut kinds OF ink ana the alleged diff
ferencss In the hand writing Of the
word ssvote5," give the first real ground
for suspicion that there has been some
thing wrong in the handling Of there
turns. OF course we are unable to
give any explanation Of those alleged
differences in the ink or the hand
writing. We have never seen them and
can pass no opinion on the subject.
They may be evidences Of fraud, they
may be proofs Of careiessness; that re-
mains to be seen.
Until the whole proceedings have been
completed, the fair and unexcited por-
ton of the public viii suspend judg-
ment, The partisan and biased will
shout louder the cry Of Fraud" and
endeavor TO incuipate persons against
whom they have an ahtipatf5E-
The Herald has REGARDED the proceed
;nws hefore the roa,r.t, as altogether IL
legal q, etta,er ~ the two attempts to
,,-az-s,,t t1,e reso,,nt ,f the ballots. The
right of the Commission to go to the
ballot boxes i'm order to determine the
yas,,i+s Nv, al sbs candidates Is mot af-
fer.ezu5 nv a,,t> tezfir,onv sd,sucpa and
sl,at was t,,e only question for the court
~ ,5a6;t5e
Bu+ since me Witnesses have been
a~a,,,s,aa and Sl,e evidence. has been
taxen. mo r.,,,dstson az affairs has Civ
en- inst yaa,Se foI, suspicion that wrong
has baen ione Than. however. has not
been established beyond question, and
we must wait until all the evidence is
in and all the explanations have been
made. before we shall be justified in
5ec5d5ng that ANYBODY is guilty of will
fnl wrong
sss,,,>. ~ HE witnesses we've very posi-
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lock we regdi1 % q ueiiA'st az ~ !
70 hasten upon an aliaioeeips aiis4i 'N'ss
susplcTon OF a rrlihs WHEEL - 70 seys
yet proved clearly mas Deeil coiiiliiiesSu
at all To say that the word voted,
which 1t is claimed was not written by
a Judge OF election. is like the writing
of George E. Blair, a clerk to the Utah
Commission. is very shameful, indeed
infamous. unless there are circum-
sytances (which Justify suspicion that he
has had assess no the returns and is like
Iv to have made the alleged interpola.-
sso,s
rrb, ron,e thing might he said of the
,,,,-;ta,r, ~ q b,,ndned man. It might
hn
~, Mr. sherman themselves. The fact
that 4hev would not write that word
fc,,. cor,,,ayison. when challenged in
co,,,.t 20 do 81 does not have a. good
look Particularly is that the case
z,,l,,s,, n Is in evidence that Mr.. Sher-
man with an accountant not employed
4,, +ba cson,n,ieeion had the returns in
their possession for two days.
We do NOT saw that either they or
Tatlock himself wrote the words or
nonkeyed with the tally sheets, but
there is as good. ave better ground for
suspecting them than there is for sus-
pecting Mr.. Blair. He had no access,
so far as is known, to the returns, and
they had. His reputation in the COM
munity is without a stain, and the en-
deavor to blacken it on the part OF
AIessrs. Zane and Tatlock is the dirti-
est kind of partisanshfp and pettifog-
ging.
The Herald desires. and has desired,
the fullest investigation of all the pro-
ceedings connected with the election.
If anybody has tempered with the re-
turns we hope the guilty person or
persons will be exposed and punished.
To attempt to pervert the Will of the
sovereign people as expressed through
the ballot, IS treason against them and
IS crime Tor Whlcn the law properly
IMPOSES heaVy penaIues' But SUCH en-
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