The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-16
CLAIMING THE EARTH
With the FullneSs Thereof
Thrown in.
Thereof
1T WILL BE A RED HOT FIGHT,
But the Liberals viii Only Get Little Over
Halt of What They Want-Some Facts
and Figures Of Passing Interest.

TIE political pot is beginning to siz2le
and bubble and boil as it never boiled be
fore
Liberals are canyassing the city with an
energy worthy of better cause, and even
in precincts long know to be strongholds OF
the Peoples party, their emissaries are to
be found pumping, cross-questioning,
wheedling and using every other means
Judge Powers ingenuity can suggest, to
swell the votes of the Liberal ranks.
The city is theirs beyond shadow of a
doubt next February, if you take their
word for it. So sure are they of this that
they have ceased figuring on the municipal
election altogether, and concentrated all
their bets and boasts on the
FORMIDABLE WORKING MINORITY
they will pile up in the legislature which is
! to graDple with Governor Thomas the
coming winter.
| Two years ago Liberals elected three
members of the House Of Representatives
and two councillors. They were as follows
In the eighth representative district,
which comprises all ToOele county, Tintic
precinct, ,Iuab county and Bingham, G. Z.
! Allen was elected over ID. d. HOutz by a
vote of 49, to 379.
In the twelfth representative district
which comprises the busy fifth precinct of
Salt Lake city, including Fort Douglas, E.
d. Hoge was elected over T. V. Williams
| by vote of 317 to 231.
In the seventh representative district,
comprising Summit county Except Henne-
fer, Peoa, Woodland and Kamas), Noun
taindell and Sugar House ward, d. Z. Nc
Laughlin was elected over John Boyden by
a vote of 7OT to 1856.
In the fourth council district, which
comprises representative district number
and the first precinct of Salt Lake City,
John M. Young was elected over Adam
Spiers by vote of 95l to 634.
In the fifth council district, which com
prises the second and fifth precincts Of Salt
Lake city, Thomas Marshall was elected
over John z. Winder by vote of 723 to 655.
The Liberals claim that these five seats
are as sure of being filed by members of
their party next winter rs that Box Elder,
Sanpete and Cache will go for the People.
Whether the same men will be re
turned is as yet a big unsettled
question. Mclaughlin at leaStis expected
to have a fight on his hands compared to
which the contest of the Kilkenny cats
was mere picnic. Peoples party men, on
the other hand, while not sanguine about
any of the others, claim that there is
sentative district, from the fact that
TOoele county's vote last year was not at
all what it should have been for the
People. and that the mines in
Bingham and some parts of Tooele county
are not employing the number of miners
they were doing two years ago.
The Liberals, however
DO NOT STOP
at the five seats named above. They point
to the vote in the Tenth representative
district two years ago, when John Clark
jPeOple) defeated G. S. Varian QiberaD,
435 to 39S, close majority of 81, and claim
that they can turn this majority the other
way and multiply itiby three. Whether or
not they are in the wrong, no one can deny
that this will be one of the hottest con
tested parts of the August battle ground.
Some of the more Sanguine Liberals
count the ninth representative district,
comprising the first precinct of Salt Lake
city, as also among their own. In this dis
trict two years ago w. W. Ritter was
elected over H. w. Lawrence by a vote of
299 to ISL.
Another district where they confidently
count on securing a MANN which, how
ever, they are as much ''ofT'' as their organ
council district comprising the eighth
and thirteenth representative dis
tricts, the latter of which in
cludes North Jordan, West Jordan,
South Jordan, HERMAN, Riverton, Bluff
dale, South Cottonwood, Union and Sandy
In this council district two years ago,
Richard Howe People defeated Harry
Haynes (LiberaI by vote of S57 to 591.
A representative district which
THE LIBERALS CLAIM,
and are warranted in claiming, is the
Fourth, comprising the city of Ogden. Two
years ago G.. G. Richards (People) defeated
E. A. Mcdaniel LiberaD by vote of sos
to PIG. Since that Ogden has gone Liberal
as decidedly the other way.
The Third council district, which includes
Ogden and the balance of Weber county,
will be another hot fighting place Two
years ago L. w. Shurtliff people, defeat
ed A r. Haywood LiberaD by vote of
$50 to 1872; but the heavy influx of
Liberal voters into Ogden since that time
is confidently expected by Judge Powers to
turn this council district over to his crew.
In all. the Liberals modestly claim that
they will seat eleven men, but it takes
something besides claims, as they may find,
to enscond a member firmly in his seat. In
the meantime, the Tribune is filling
up its dead space with calls for
conferences, conventions and eau
cuses. In yesterdays issue were the fol
lowing:
THE COUNTY CALL.
A county convention OF the Liberal party of
Salt Lake county is hereby called to meet at the
federal court room in Salt Lake city on the 9th
day of June, 1889, at O'Clock pm, for the pur-
pose of nominating a county selectman, one
county collector and one county superintendent
of schools. The different precincts will be en-
titled to representation as follows: First pre-
cinct, Salt Lake city, 4; Second, 6; Third, 3;
Fourth, 3; Fifth, 5; Big Cottonwood 9; Brighton,
/; Butler, 2; Draper 2; East Mill Creek .;
Farmers ward 9; Granger, 2; Granite, 3; Her
riman, Hunter, !, Little Cottonwood, /; Mill
Creek 9; Mountain Dell, !, North Jordan, 2;
North Point, / +; Riverton, /; Sandy, 8; Pleasant
Green, /: South Cottonwood, 3; Union. 9; West
Jordan, 9; Bingham, Z. By order of the Salt
Lake county Liberal committee.
H. S. McCALLUM, Chairman.
H S. LANEY. Secretary.
Headquarters County Liberal Committee
SALT LAKE CITY, June 13, 1889
THE FIRST PRECINCT.
A mass convention of the Liberal voters of
the first precinct Of Salt Lake city, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidate for the House of
Representatives, from said precinct and the
election OF four delegates to attend the Council
convention, and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come before the
convention will be held at the Ninth ward