The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-08

i'm this case, IT. was certainly deep
laid scheme, and does The Journal
suppose that the person or persons
with nerve and ability to accomplish
this thing would do the thing in such
an imperfect and bungling way as to
defeat the cause they were hoping to
make successful? The ballot pack
ages were sealed with ordinary wax
and without any special seal. The
sealed packages could have been OPEN
ed, the ballots marked and the pack
age resealed without leaving a trace
of the action. To have remarked any
OF the ballots i'm the broken packages
would have been worse than fool
hardy. The deception would have
been discovered at once.
The journal says "the ballots.
which were the actual expression Of
the peoples will were rejected by the
Supreme Court. THE REPUBLICAN
contends that the will of the people
is carried out by the decision, and
that instead Of being a surprise as the
Journal states, the decision was such
as was expected by the greater mum.
Der of people who followed the evil
dencc at the trial. A review Of the
case leads to this;
The official returns from 81 districts.
a total Of ll2 election Judges, u of
whom were Democrats and 81 Repub-
leans show that Farrell, Democrat,
had received but 3O6O votes to Lar
sens 3O66, a majority of u for the lat
ter. Evidence at the trial proved
that the ballot packages had not been
kept in such Il way as to preclude all
possibility of doubt that the packages
could have been handled and tam
pered with. Before these ballots i'm
said districts were ordered counted,
the plaintifi placed the witness Far
rell on the stand, and he testified sub
stantially that the ballots were re-
ceivcd by him from the election
Judges: that they were left lying for
several days on Il bench i'm the inner
room of the Clerks Office until the Of
fetal count of the 10th of November,
after which they were placed i'm a
telephone room or closet in the outer
office: that said telephone. room had
no lock or key: that the seals on some
of the packages were broken: that one
was not sealed at all or were the bal
lots placed inside the envelope: that
many persons were in and ont of the
telephone room and office. that the
janitor of the building had key to
the room in which the closet was
situated:
Now this may not be enough to
prove to the journal that sufficient
care had not been exercised i'm
keeping the ballots, but in similar
case in Illinois that of Jeter VS.. Hadly, !
the Supreme Court held that though |.
the ballots had been kept in the vault
at all times. the very fact that the |
court house and clerks Office did not
have special locks making it improb-
able that other keys might open same,
and because Others than the clerk !
knew the combination to the safe.
was proof that sufficient care had not
been bestowed.
In view of the fact that the Dem
ocrats had every advantage at the
last election, being in power at the
time and appointing election judges
In whom il placed reliance: for the
reason that ii had two of every three
Judges favorable to its own candidate,
md to whom they would most GER
tainly have given the benefit of a
ioubt, which was their rightful pri-
'ilegc; for the reason that on the re-
cunt Mr.. Anderson, republican,
yained in votes instead of losing as
lid Larsen for this and "A hundred
'eaSons that might be mentioned,
even tenths Of the people of this
'ounty believe and always will believe
hat Mr.. Farrell was licked fair and
quare and should have been willing