Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-12
THE MORMON DEFEAT.
The Saints Resigned to Their
Fate.
POPULAR EXCITEMENT sUBsIDED
Comment of the Mormon Press-A
Statement by President
Woodruff.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
SALT LAKE Cry, Utah, February IL
Everything in Salt Lake is quiet today
business has resumed its normal conoi-
tion and were it not for the decorations
nson the houses Of Gentle citizens, there
wonld he no indications of the great po-
litical battle which ceased last night.
THE OFFICIAL RETURNS.
The official returns of yesterdays elec-
tion, received this morning, give George
N. Scott (Gentile), for Esyor, q major
ity of 800; Louis Hyams (Gentile), Re-
corder, $50; J. B. Walden. (Gsntile),
Treasurer, 659.; E. R. Clute, (Gen-
tile, Assessor, 466; J.. M. Young
(Gsntile), Marshal, 773. The remainder
of the Gentle ticket, including fifteen
Councilmen, is elected by q majority
ranging from 800 to 400. This gives
them control of the municipal Council
for the first time in the history OF the
city.
WHAT THE MoRMoNs' ORGAN SAYS.
Discussing Yesterdays contest, the
Herald, the organ of the PEOPLES party
and Mormon church, says: "The votes
have been cast and counted, and
the result announced. We are
heartily glad election day is gone,
and with the people generally, hope
never to see another such campaign.
Most sincerely do we hope that another
such election will never be- held in this
city, or any other in this Territory. On
for the Liberal ticket, and majority
familiar with the methods practiced by
that organization. We don't believe
there is an intelligent. honest man on
that the Liberals have any such mum Der
of legal voters as cast ballots for their
ticket Monday. We do believe there
rarely, if ever, was more crooked cleo
stion; certainly nothing like it ever
occurred heresbouts. We do be-
lieve that the People have the most
lawful voters, and that fair and square
showing would demonstrate this to the
satisfaction of everybody. Fraud, illegal
registering, disfranchisement of legal
Mormon voters and im-famming were
practiced by the Liberals openly and
without opposition, and by these neane
only have they carried the day. 1t was
uuquestionably crooked election. To
what extent the crookedness was carried
we do not pretend to cay, and the whole
truth never will be known. The
Liberals got majority of the votes
as they set out to do last sum-
mer, but now that the campaign is
ended, and the election over, unsatisfac
tory as the result is to the Peoples party
no member of that party must forget that
the citizens of Salt Lake more than ever
are interested in the welfare of this loved
city, and harder than ever must we pull
for the general good of the grand munich
pality. Yesterday g work may be annoy
ing, but is not discouraging. and is in no
sense disheartening. We must see to it
that Salt Lake does not suffer from it,
aud also that there shall be put on the
city nothing to check her growth or re-
tard her progress"
ANOTHER MORMON VAIL.
The Deseret News says editorially:
"The municipal election of this city was
carried by the Liberalists (Gentiles)
Yesterday by majority of 800. The
processes by which this result wac
reached are notorious. The successful
party, in whose hands under the Ed
munds law was the entire manipulation
of the election business, ran special
trains over the Rio Grande Western
railway and registered gangs of men clear
to the Colorado line, who had not the
qualifications of electors, being non-resi-
dents. After the lists wore made
up, fully one-half of the Peoples
registered voters were challenged by
citation to appear before the Registrar
and show cause why their names ehould
not be stricken off. The names OF those
who failed from any cause to appear
were removed from the lists. Others
who had been polygamists, but are not
now, wero treated similarly, in contra
vention of the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States. Yesterday
others who had never been notified,
found when they appeared at the polls
tuat their names had been arbitrarily
removed from the Registrar's list with
out even q challenge. At the voting
places all Liberals challenged for cause
were permitted TO swear their votes, while
in two of the precincts, at least, not one
of the challenged members of the Peo-
ple's party were permitted to do this. In
former elections the polls Of the Second
precinct, the largest in the city, were
established at the county court houee.
This time they were placed at the Cont.
mental hotel, which is conducted and
controlled by the business partner OF the
Liberal candidate for Mayor. 1t is un-
derstood that the change was made tc
facilitate Tiharal pereonating Had IL
not been for such dishonest methods the
Peoples party would have carried the city
by a majority of at least 500. There 10 0
large mass of evidence, largely in the
form of afidavite, which proves the
truth of the foregoing statements. The
Peoples committee have not yet deter
mined whether or not they will contest
the election in the courts. The great
majority of the People feel that they have
been shamefully robbed of their rights."
PRESIDENT wooDRUFF's STATEMENT.
President Woodruff, the head of the
Mormon church, today gave to the Asso-
ciated Press the only statement he has
ever made upon the political fight which
has just ended here. His interview. as
follows, can be understood az the feeling
of every Mormon in the Territory:
President Woodruff, I would like to
get your views as to the political cam
psigu here and the questions at issue" I"
''Well, cir. I consider this as some
thing more than mere question of what
men shall compose the city government,