Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-08
THE ELECTION TODAY.

The DEMOCRAT will reach many of it.
readers this evening in advance of the
designated hour for closing the polls, but
the circumstances under which the elec
ton is held are such that we feel no hest
fancy in announcing at this hour that the
Church ticket has been elected in its
entirety, by the usual large majority
What figure the "reform" ticket has cut
in this farce, we are not advised, but it is
not necessary to wait for any official or
semi-ofiicial returns to announce that the
straight-out Saints have carried the day
and elected to office every man and thing
whose name appears on the ticket which
President John Taylor, in his underground
retreat, so kindly consented to make up,
and, through the medium of the recent
convention, forward for ''this people" to
vote.
The ticket elected is an average one
as Mormon tickets go-with one excep-
ton; but as to that exception, it is safe
to say that in any other community in
Amekca where the citizens might be
cognlzant of the nominees true charac-
ter, as developed within the past three
months, his name tackled on to any ticket
would have sufficed to damn the whole
outfit. 1t was an insult to all the decent
element OF society here, Mormon and
Gentle alike, to name that individual for
the responsible Office of City Marshal,
and we doubt not that many who, at the
direction of their politico
leaders, gave him their suffrages, did so
only after Gr@co-Roman wrestling bout
with the scruples which must have risen
within them at the bare thought of en-
dorsing, or appearing to endorse, such a
man for Office.
Of course, the press of the Peoples
party will point to the result of to-day's
election as complete "refutation" of all
that has been urged against the fitness
for office of Solomon or others of the
nominees, and the argument will be ad-
vanced that the people know them to be
good men and true, and for that reason
voted them into Office The answer will
be that the fact of Solomon's election, or
the election of any other man on the |
ticket, considered as an endorsement of |
character or ability, counts for nothing, |
for it is everywhere in Utah apparent |
that the members of the Peoples party,
and the Mormon Church-the two or |
carnations are really one and insepar-
able-when they vote at an election vote
only as they are instructed, and even
though they may have personal knowi-
edge of nominees unftness for Office.
they know that, to retain their Church
standing, they must sacrifice their own
feelings and take the medicine as di-
rected.
Ii the services rendered to this COM
munity by the City Marshal-elect were of
such nature as to entitle him to any
reward at all, then We submit that he has
not been sufficiently rewarded. As an
additional and fitting memento of his SER
vices, we suggest that the incoming CITY
Council appropriate out of the public
funds sufficient money to purchase an
elegant assortment of knot-holes, which
BY the deft fingers of Mrs. Fields or
Fanny Davenport could be woven into
magnificent chaplet, on which might be
Inscribed the words, cam I knot-hole-ier
han thou" Present this to the gentle
nan. He will then have something to /;
land down to posterity, and the measure
# his reward will be full.