The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-11

ment. It was because that concern
could not nanipulate and direct them
as it did the naajorfty Of their prede-
cessors. Every member Of that body
from It's Inception who would not
dance wihen the Tribune pulled the
string was abused. naisrapres ed,
lampooned and held UP to seorn.
To say II was not a partisan body
until now. IS direct unqualified, iEnpu-
dent faIsehood, It was a Liberal beard
nearly all the time, When the diyi-
sion took place on party lines it was
still anti Democratic. II shoe-stringed
this territory shamefulIy, in the inter-
est of first the Liberal faction and 'il-i
tinaately Of the Republican party
It is a partisan body now to this ex-
tent: Three members are Democrats,
two are Republicans. If the present
President had been a Republican the
majority would have been the other
way If the Democrats on the board
would but submit to Tribune dictaHon
never make a move until that concern
was consulted, and do generally any
thing like their Republican predeces-
sors IN that respect, there would be no
finer or more honorable gentlemen in
the nation than AEessrs, Letcher Nor
rell and THATCHER Their offense is
their independence.
Now as to their action in the pres
lent case. They proceeded as they be-
lieved right and as they were advised
by eminent counsel, and as they con-
sidered they were required to do
Thy law When the Sanpste re-
turns were examined ana found
TO Contain discrepancies there was
no suggestion, apparently no
suspicion, that those Discrepancies or
any OF them were. manufactures for a
purpose. The Republican members did
| not intimate such a thing. The ma
! jority of the Commission, we are thor
oughly persuaded. knew nothing Of
them in that light until the testimony
was introduced in court.
Just as soon as the evidenee appear
ed to thenl conclustve-tE1at Mrons mad
been done. they determined that no adj
vantage SHOULD be taken Of that
wrong, whether it would help the DEM
locratic panty --or not They Mastered
| to announce that determination as
lsoon as it was formed, That does not
in any way affect the question as to
their right to go TO the ballot boxes.
They make. no surrender of the real
issue that is before the court. Any
statement that they do is a pafpaible
falsahood. The discrepancies which
joccas:oned resort to the ballot boxes
appearing to be fraudulent, the Com
mission viii act as though they do net
exist, that is all.
| Te US that is proof sufficient that
they do not wish 20 take any partisan
advantage 1t has not been shown that
the ballots have been tampered with
Eventually those ballot boxes would be
gone into but for this action of the
Commission. either by taking the re
count as it has been made or through
! a contest in court, in either of which
cases, according to what has been de
veloped in the recount, three Demo
crafts instead of three Republicans
would be returned from Sanpete. Now
the conditions are reversed.
| We express the sentiment of this
! Democratic party of Utah in saying
that we would rather there should he
no Democrats alt all in the Constitu-
tional Convention than that one should
gain a seat there by fraud. We believe
that is the feeling OF the ma orfty OF
| the Commission. And we maintain that
in all the controversy over this attain
there has not been the most tnf1nitessi.
NAL atom Of substantial evidence to
the contrary.