125 years ago today - Feb 10, 1890

... when talk of the policy to observe should the liberals carry the election. Shall we contest or concede it? Later Elders Lorenzo Snow, John W. Young, Abra[ha]m H. Cannon, Heber J. Grant & Franklin S. Richards came in. The decision was that if the majority was small say 600, the fraud should be denounced vigorously, but if the majority was very large, not fight the result beyond making a showing of the frauds perpetrated. The official count showed that all the Liberal ticket was elected. ...

[Source: First Presidency Office Journal, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]