The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-11
THE ELECTION.

Well, the votes have been cast and
counted, and the result is announced else
where in our columns. We are heartily
glad that election day has 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 in any other
in this fair territory.
On their face the returns show a ma
1or1ty for the Liberal ticket, and majority
that will astonish all who are not familiar
with the methods practiced by that
organization. We don't believe there is an
intelligent, honest man in this community
who thinks for moment that the Liberals
have any such number of legal voters as
cast ballots for the ticket on Monday We
do believe there was rarely, if ever, a more
crooked election. Certainly nothing like
it has ever occurred hereabouts. We do
believe, as we have thought and asserted
so many times during this campaign, that
the People have the most lawful voters
and that fair and square showing would
demonstrate this to the satisfaction of ev-.
erybody. 1t has been demonstrated to our
fide citizens; it has been shown in the
parades and campaign demonstrations
when the People fairly overwhelmed the
opposition in the matter of numbers: it is
proven by the tax lists and the records
showing the ownership of houses. How
ever, maiorities no not always control.
The fact is, the Liberals, encouraged by
the last August vote and inspired by de-
sire to Doom the town IL the popular ac-
ceptance OF the term, set out to get the
city offices, and having done so, proceeded
to work to that end according to an
deliberately conceived plan of operation
The registration of Liberal voters was to
be incr aSed by the listing of the names
of every man who could be counted upon to
vote for the ticket. We have told from day
to day how this was worked, even to the
running of train over the Rio Grande
Western and taking the names of hundreds
who were placed Oh the registration list
The Peoples voters were to be avoided and
hampered, as was done to the great annoy
auce and defeat Of many during the weeks
OF registration. Then objections were in.
terposet TO hundreds of Peoples men,
many Of whom were arbitrarily stricken
from the list when it was too late to have
them reinstated through legal process. The
election officers went 50 far as to strike
OF many names of Peoples voters
without going through the formality of cit
ing them to appear and establish their
right to exercise the franchise Men ap-
peared at the polls yesteri lay morning,
ready to vote, to find that red mark had
been drawn over their names on the list
and their right to vote thus taken away. |
AS illustrating TO what extent the scheme
OF charging the Liberal registration was
carried, it may be said that in one precinct
nearly fifteen hundred names were added
to the August list, and the registration off, |
Ger failed to designate sthe residences, as
directed by the Utah commission, of q
great many of the owners of those
names This failure precluded the possi-
bility Of definitely locating the gentlemen. |
and as they could ne Their be identified nor
found, as a matter of course the People /
could not cite them to show upon what
they based their claim to vote In passing il /
may be said that while the registration list |
of the precinct was increased by fifteen
hundred names, the records show that less |
than hundred transfers of real estate !
have been MADE in the precinct since
August. This would indicate that the
fifteen hundred are carpet-baggers in the
fullest sense of the term. 1t is even alleged
that during the voting on Monday Liberal
names were added to the list.
1t was unquestionably crooked cleo
ton. To what extent the crookedness
was carried we do not pretend to say, and
the whole truth will never be known. The
Liberals got the majority Of the votes, as
they set out to do last summer.
But now that the campaign has ended
and the election is over, unsatisfactory as
the result is to the Peoples party no mem
Der Of that party must forget that he is
citizen of Salt Lake. More than ever
are we interested in the welfare of the
loved city, and harder than ever must we
pull for the general good of the grand
municipality. There must be no sulking
in tents, but hearty coming to the front
and doing with a will of everything that
will tend TO Keep Salt Lake moving
steadily, safely and grandly on the road to
greatness. We are all here to stay, and we
all love the beautiful city quite as much as
before the election, and great deal more
than the great majority of those who voted
the Liberal ticket. Yesterdays work may
be annoying, but it is not discouraging and
is in no sense disheartening. We must see
to it that Salt Lake does not suffer from
it, and also see to it that there shall be put
upon the city nothing to check her growth
or retard her progress
The Liberals carried three municipal ;