The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-01
WORKING FOR A ROW.

1t is apparent that the Liberals are deter
mined to bring trouble upon the city over
the coming election. There is not the
there is no reason why the election should
not pass off quietly; but it is evident the
party of plumber intends there shall be a
row if it is possible to make one. The other
day this dispatch was sent to the press by
the Liberal agent:
A sensation was created in this city to-day by
the discovery being made that the Mormons
have large number or private detectives from
some eastern agency here for the purpose Of
working in with the GentlleS with the hope Of
getting hold OF secret plans of the campaign TO
carry the city in the February election. The
campaign has been d spirited one so far and
feeling has run high. All manner of charges of
fraud have been p -eferred by boih sizes. 1t
is known that The Liberals have obtained
many OF the MormonS' secret plans of
coloniZing the city, aud by reason of u is
information upwards Of two hundred names are
either stricken from the registration list or will
be refused vote at the polls This informa
ton has been obtained by detectives in Mormon
camps and councils and the discovery to-day
shows that the other side has resorted to the
same tactics. Judge POWERS, chairman of the
Liberal party, says he does not fear the work OF
the detectives, as he has long since determined
that the best show for the GentlleS rested in
keeping their skirts clean and then absolute
shutting out all fraudulent votes offered by The
MormonS There can be little doubt that
trouble will result over this election, and hun
dreds of deputy marshaIs will be provided to
maintain the peace, and If these fail the GentileS
will have peace ii they have TO call on Folt
Douglas and fight for it. The time has come fer
the first time in the city of the SAINTS when the
Gentiles can walk the street and openly declare
their intention TO meet every offer OF force with
force and defy their old time enemies to do their
worst. Scarcely anything else IS talked OF than
lac ,-plac on arN
The conspiracy crops OUT very plainly in
this. MormC ms are to be denied the right
to vote, and if they shall insist on their
rights they are to be kept back by force,
the hope of the Liberal managers being the
precipitation of row, and through that
the invalidating of the election. 1t is OBJ
served that the correspondent assumes to
speak for the United States marshal, and
says hundreds of deputy marshals will be
sworn in. THE HERALD would suggest to
Marshal PARSONS the propriety OF pro-
ceeding with extreme caution in this mat
ter In the first place there is nothing in the
situation demanding tue presence o. an
extraordinary array of officials, and the
marshaling of a great force would have a
tendency to excite rather than allay danger
In the next place. the local authorities are
abundantly able to preserve order, and un-
til they fail to do this it is in no sense the
province of the United States marshal to
interfere. This is not Congressional
election; it is simply and purely local
affair and the marshal has no other author
ity IN the matter than the local peace OFF,
GERS. There must be no bulldozing, no