, 1890-02-12
MORMON VIEWS.
Regret the Result, but are not
Discouraged.
Undecided as to Contesting
Mondays Election.
President Woodruff of the Nor
mon Church Interviewed
After the Election.

SALT LAKE. Utah, Feb. 1l.-Oficial
returns OF yesterdays election received
this morning give George NJ Scott, (gen-
tile) for mayor. a majority OF 500, Louis
Hyams, tgentile) for recorder. 500 and
j. Is. Walden, (gentile) for treasurer, $50,
E. R. Clute, (eentile) for assessor, 466,
j. M. Young, (gentile) for marshal, 773.
The remainder of the gentle ticket, in
GLIDING fifteen councilmen, are elected by
majorities ranging from 300 to 400. This
gives them control OF the municipal coun
Gil for the first time in the history of the
city. Discussing yesterdays contest, the
Herald, the organ of the Peoples party
and Mormon church, saws:
The vote has been cast and counted
and the result announced. We are
heartily glad election day has gone and
with the people generally hope we will
never see another such a campaign. Most
sincerely do we hope that another such an
election will never be h1ld in this city or
in any other in this territory.
On their face the returns show a ma
iority TOR the Liberal ticket, and a major
lty that will astonish all who are not fam
liar with the methods practiced by that
organization We don't believe there Is
an intelligent, honest man in the COM
munity who thinks for a momen that the
Liberals have any such a number of legal
voters as cast ballots for the ticket Mon
day. We do believe there was rarely, if
ever, a more crooked election; certainly
nothing like 1t ever occurred h~ereabouts.
We do believe that the people have the
most lawful voters, and that a lair and
square showing would demonstrate illegal
registration, dlsfranchlsement of legal
Mormon voters and film Tanning were
practiced bv the Liberals openly and with
out opposition, and by these means only
have they carried the day.
1T was unquestionably a crooked cleo
ton, to what extent crookedness was car
ried on we do not pretend to say and the
whole truth will never be known. The
Liberals got a majority of the votes as
they set out TO do last summer, but now
that the campaign is ended and the elec.
ton over, unsatisfactory as the result is
TO the Peoples party, no member of that
party must forget that he is a citizen OF
Salt Lake. More than ever are we in
terested IN the welfare of our loved city
and harder than ever must We pull for
the general good of the grand municipal
ity. Yesterdays work may be annoying
but 1t Is not dlscouraging and is in no
sense dishesrtening. We must see to il
That Salt Lake does not suffer from 1t and
also see to 1t that there shall be put upon
the city nothing to check progress"
Everything in Salt Lake is quiet to day,
business resumed Its normal condition aud
were 1t not for the decorations upon the
hnnqpl nf uanttIa rtttunaa H.,
dlcations OF the great political battle
which closed last night.
The DeSeret NetCS saws editorially: THE
municipal election OF this city was carried
by the Liberals (gentiles) yesterday by a
majority of 500. The processes by which
this result was reached are notorious.
The successful party. in whose hands,
under the Edmunds law, was the entire
manlt ulation Of the election business ran
special trains over the Rio Grande rail
way and registered gangs of men clear to
the Colorado line who had not the quail
hcations of electors. being ION residents.
Alter the lists were made up fully one
half OF the Peoples registered voters were
challenged by citation to appear before
the registrars and show cause why their
names should not be stricken off
The names of those who failed from
any cause to appear were removed from
the lists and others who had been polyga.
mlsts, but are not now, were treated sim
llarly In controvertiOn OF the d%ecisionsIot
the United States supreme court. Yester-
day Others who had never been notified
found when they appeared at the polls
that their names had been arbitrarily re
moved from the registers lists without
even a challenge at voting places and all
Liberals challenged for cause were per.
United to swear in their votes, while in
W precincts at least not one challenged
member of the Peoples party was per
mitted to do this.
In former elections the polls of the
second precinct, the largest in the city
were established at the county court
house, this time they we're placed at the
Continental hotel, which is conducted and
controlled by the business partner of the
Liberal candidate for mayo 1t is under
stood that the change was made to facili-
tate Liberal personating. Had it not been
Tor SUCH dishonest methods the Peoples
party would have carried the city by a
majority of at least 500. There is a large
mass of evidence, largely in the form of
afidavits which prove the foregoing state,
ment. The peoples committee have no,
determined whether or not they will con
test the election in the courts. The great
majority of the people feel that they have
been shamefully robbed of their rights