The daily sentinel., 1912-10-05
500 PEOPLE ARE
D|SFRAhCH|SED
BY ByCOMM|SS|ONERS
DwyeE and Thompson Will Not
Attend TO Duties, and a New
District Cannot Be Formed
for Election This Year.
THE VOTERS ARE UP IN ARMS

= Refusing TO meet as board .
Z. of county commissioners In this y
Z, city today in order to authorize :
= the formation of a new voting y
q precinct in Glade park, Thomas V
y Dwyer and George ". Thomp- =
g son, republican members OF the y
g board. have prevented 600 or =
4. more residents and voters of y
g. the Glade park community from =
= expressing their suffrages at the e
q polls In November. Only by n 3
g long and arduous trip to the q
es Orchard Mesa polls can these q
- people vote at the fall election. =
$4,000 = q 6, g g g
The vain efforts of Glade park peo-
Pile to secure new voting precinct
date back several months. Last spring
the question was brought up and the
republican members of the board
evaded a direct action and several
weeks ago they decided that mas
much as a new voting machine. cost
Ing $4,000, had TO be purchased, the
county could not AFFORD it and the
request was denied. This was a
bitter blow to the pioneering and
progressive residents of Glade park,
but they took it as philosophically as
possible.
The decision of the state supreme
court reversing Judge Riddle on the
Initiative and referendum amend-
ments. made the voting machines i'm
possible in Mesa county. Thirty
two Questions are to be voted on this
fall by the ruling of the court and
those expensive. white elephant vot-
ing devices have room for but 20.
The machines. obviously. cannot be
used.
Day before yesterday Mr.. Dwyer
was informed of the desire of the
Glade park people to have action ta-
ken on their voting precincts at
once. He is working on a reservoir
scheme private projects miles
from Collbran. He had no time to
get down here and attend to his
business as chairman of the board.
He did not come He refused. say
ing that If Monday, the regular meet
ing day. would not suffice, then the
voting precinct in Glade park would
60 by the board.
FOR TODAY is THE LAST DAY
UPON WHICH THE COMMISSION
ERS CAN LEGALLY TAKE THIS
ACTION.
ANo ittloDs vi
BILE, can be taken Monday for the
board must authorize the new voting
precinct at least 80 days before the
next succeeding election.
Dwyer is at Collbran. George
Thompson is at Bingham, Utah,
where he is said to be employed by
tne Utah Copper company, against
which a strike has been called by
union miners. He will not be here.
Albert Bessire. the democratic men,
ber of the board, was ready to come
today and act favorably on the new
precinct. He never opposed it and
always favored it since the first re-
quest was made for II. He agreed
with the other members that the eN-
penditure of 1000 for new voting
machine would be ill-adyised. AS a
matter OF fact Mr.. Bessire Away did
oppose the purchase OF voting ma
chimes. But since the new machines
are not to be used, there is no earth
ly reason why residents of Glade
park should have to ride for 20 miles
to vote at Orchard Mesa when brief
and inexpensive board session would
grant them the boon which they so
greatly desire.
There never was charge that the
population was not sufficient to justi-
fly the new precinct. There never has
been any valid excuse offered since
II became known that the voting ma
chimes would be as valueless as junk
at this election.
But-and here is the erux of the
whole matter-the republican cam.
paign managers in this county WANT
THOSE VOTING MACHINES USEE
ANYHOW.
They want to Illegally invoke the
old outlawed devices, prevent as fal
as possible the scratching of tickets
for democratic candidates and de
stroy the right of the voters to vote
on the various questions which vii
be placed here and there on the ma
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