The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-10-01

Computations made by Harden
Bennion, secretary Of state. and n.
d. Roberts, deputy, from data on file
in the office indicate that the total
vote Of Utah in the 1916 election was
l42,43l. With this as n basis BEN
Mon last Saturday decided to have
printed two hundred thousand copies
of the proposed constitutional amend
ments, together with arguments as to
why each should be passed. The cir
culars on which these are printed will
be sent by mail TO every registered
voter in the state. The work of mail
ing must be done by the county clerks
IN the respective counties, and the law
provides that the secretary of state
shall furnish each clerk with one and
a fifth times rs many circulars as
there are registered voters in his
county Bennion made the assump-
ton that when allowance is made for
the number of eligible voters who did
not vote four years ago, and for the In.
crease In population. the requirements
will be two hundred thousand pamph.
let's.
Data Il Prepared.
Data with which 10 answer all sorts
Of oft repeated questions concerning
elections may be obtained from the
tables below, which is made up from
the figures compiled by Roberts. In
the case Of each county the figures
first given show the total vote OF
1916. The second figures indicate the
number Of pamphlets TO be sent TO
each county:
beaver. 2te9. 5000. Box Elder. 5sss.
$500. Cache. gtt6. $1,000: Carbon.
sgob. $500; Daggctt. ii6. 900. Davis.
3Ib2. 5000; Duchosne. 1855. 33oO.
5000: Grand. 6f6. 1000. Iron. coca.
$500. Juab. gGtg. $500. Kane. Gts.
1000. Willard. atSb. 400. Morgan.
abi. 1900; piutc. Gti. 1000: Rich. 7Ts.
1000; Salt Lake. ts.StG, 5000: San
Juan, 66a, 1000: Sanpctc. sass. $500:
sevier, ass, 5000. Summit. gs2t,
1000; Tooelc. 275s. 800: Umtnh.
22Go. 5000. Utah. 1854. 10000.
Wasateh, iii2, 800; waahington.
l3.2if, 10000, Total vote Of 1915,
1881. Total number OF pamphlets.
i9S.i00.
Bcnnion has chosen to use the Gg.
ures for the 1916 vote as his basis In
the absence Of any official infouna
ton a. to the actual number Of reyis-
tered voters The 1918 vote being IN
an off year, so far as the prcsi.
Dental election was concerned, did
not bring out anything like rs large a
vote, the total for the state being
around ninety thousand. 10 is prob.
able that the absence of a large num-
Der of residents in military service
cut the vote materially that year. No
arguments against any Of the propos-
ed constitutional amendments will be
sent out, because none was filed with
Bennion, as required under the law.
Expense Bntailed.
The law requiring this method OF
informing the voters about proposed
constitutional amendments entails a
large expense ON the state and the
counties. II is estimated that, in adj
dition 10 the two cents postage, the
cost of addressing and mailing will
amount az least Ia enough Ia make the
cost five cents per registered voter
in each county. Outside of the state =
expenses of printing and mailing the
circulars "a the county clerks the
counties themselves will have an ag-
gregate expense ON this basis of
$1,000.
The law was passed in 1917 because
the vote on constitutional amend
ments previously had been vcy light
and some OF the legislators we,e of
the opinion that the votes did not
realize the importance 10 themsel, es
of the questions placed before them.
II was decided 10 take this means of
informing every voter as to the merits
of the questions raised by the propos-
ed amendments.