The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10
4 DOUBTFUL BLUFF.
Some Scraps of Talk Picked
Up in Ogden.
BOTH PARTIES ARE sANGUINE
Recommendations en- the Streets-Po oil
tics at Spanish FOrk-A SPlis
at Manti.

OGDEN, February Especial dis
patch to The HERALD.]-"The lowest
man on the Liberal ticket, said q man
of that party this morning, will not
get less than 100 maj ority in the NUM-
cipal election on Monday"
at takes strong talk to make bluff
good" added Peoples Party man, as
the former passed into the postoffice.
1.-The man who gets the smallest num-
Der of votes on the Liberal ticket will
get badly showed on" he continued.
Monday won't be long coming, and
this thing will be settled by Tuesday"
remarked another. Then you will see
whether the handful of Liberals will
turn the condition of municipal affairs
their way or not"
A Liberal whom your correspondent
talked to for some time upon the sub
iect said: IF we elect our ticket or
even a part oft, we shall co so by less
than seventy-fve votes. This is no
walk away, and while l am anxious to
see it go, yet l realizs that we have
not such bulge on the Peoples voters
it appear"
A Peoples Party man who was over
heard, expressed himself for his party
in about the same terms: There are
no votes to spare" he said candidly,
''but hard work will get US there, if We
buckle to it. The Liberals might as
well be watched closely; this is a criti
cal time with them, as with US, and q
victory now is very much desired by
the new party"
These are actual samples of the bits
of CONVEX sation one hears on the
streets, in the hotels and in
the mercantile houses. In fact,
there is little else to engage the at
tentien of people who are not directly
engaged in BUSH affairs. The quiet,
determined action of the people and
the Yankee.like persistency of claiming
everything in sight, is somewhat Of an
index to the situation. And this may
not be really true index to the silua-
ton here.
What the outcome will positively be,
is matter which no one can really tell,
even at this time. But as is so often
remarked on the street, Tuesday will
tell.
At any rate it will be a close fight.
Probably there has never been time
in the history of Ogden when more in
terest has been taken IN an election.
Indeed, there has scarcely been an cleo
ton when such great efforts have been
used to get every voter to the polls as
will be brought to bear On Monday.
The voting will all be done at the City
Hall, at four separate windows, one for
each precinct. This plan has been
adopted to prevent any attempts which
might otherwise be made at repeating.
AS there is a good deal of interest
taken in the outcome, so will there be
an increased interest during the voting
hours.
THE RATIFICATION MEETING.
Big ratification meetings were held
by both parties tonight. The streets
were crowded Immediately after dark
by people of both parties. from the City
Hall 10 Fourth Street on Main and from
Main to Young on Fourth Street. The
PEOPLES torchlight procession formed
at the City Hall and marched to the
Tabernacle, followed by great crowd
of men and women. The Liberals. start
ing from the Opera House, marched up
and down the street and then marche ed
back again. The Peoples procession,
headed by the Ogden Cornet Band, car
ried numerous banners, the chief of
which were picture representing Og-
den in 1S47; picture of the new City
Hall, entitled Work of 1888" and a
picture of the new depot, 1850 and
picture OF: Boyle, the Peoples candidate
for mayor, while the Liberals bore
a solitary banner inscribed "Short on
Music, but Long on Votes" which ex
planned the absence of any music save a
pair of snare drums and a bass accom-
paniment. Both Tabernacle aad Opera
House were filed with people of the
respective parties. AT the Tabernacle
addres .es were msde ySaenry H. Ro-
lapp, Professor T. B. Lewis, G. G. Rich
ards, f. ]. Cannon and others The
Liberals were assisted in speech-mak
ing by q Salt Lake contingent excur-
sion, which returned at midnight. The
streets are alive with men talking of
the coming election with as much iu-
terest as would be done in the east in
Presidential campaign. Cries of I'VE
are the People answered by "UE
with the Liberals" are heard on every
hand.