St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-11
Gentiles Elect Their Candidate
for Mayor Of Salt
Lake City.
They Parade the Streets and
Shout Like Wild Men Over
the Victory.
Cannons Boom, Fireworks
Flash and the Vietors
Paint the Town.
Mormons Coneede Their De@
feat and Claim it Was the !
Result Of Fraud.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 1O.-Tho
municipal elections in this city, the re-
suit OF which is attracting the attention
OF the entire country. passed off quietly
to-day, contrary to the general expec.
tatlon. The city has been crowded for
days with special police, detectives
and deputy United States marshals
for the purpose of preventing Illegal
voting, which each party claimed the
other would resort to for the purpose of
carrying the day. 1t was anticipated
that an attempt to challenge and arrest
some of the voters would result in riot
and bloodshed. This, however, was
not realized, and though the exc
citement was intense, not half
of the business houses were
the thoroughfareS were jamme6 with
excited citizens, who realized that upon
the result of to-day's battle depended
the future of the Mormon church as a
political organization. The voting
passed off quietly as in some hamlet for
county justice. Only six arrests
were made for attempting to vote
illegally, and these were made without
demonstration from either side. Snow
began falling early this morning, aud
continued until noon, when the sun
came out, melting the snow and turning
the streets into
RIVERS OF sLUsH.
This did not deter the voters, many
Of whom waded through the mud to the
polling places, while hundreds Of
carriages ran between the precinct
headquarters and every part of the city,
conveying voters to and from them. By
noon 5000 votes had been cast, which,
by the poll books, showed that
about Is per cent of the peoples
(MormOnSl registered vote had been
cast. and about 80 per cent of the Liber.
ais (Gentiles). AT this hour it is esti-
mated that the returns at the latter's
headquarters gave them majority OF
207 votes, though up to Ii o'clock to-day
the Mormons had majority ranging
from 200 to 800. At O'Clock tits
estimated that the returns from
every ward in the city gave total vote
of 6,29S, divided as follows: Gentiles,
3,443: Mormons. 1855. At6 o'clock to-
night Chairman Powers claims that the
GENTLE majority will reach l 400. This,
however, is denied by Chairman
Richards, who says, II is impos-
victorious until the complete re-
turns have been counted. The Nor.
mons claim that fiim-fammers and
fraud have been the order of the day
with the Gentiles. and if they are victO-
riOuS it will have been by these meth
DDS. In this event the Mormons will
contest the election to the supreme
court of the United States. The polls
closed at o'clock. and the Liberal
leaders posted bulletin in the windows
of their headquarters claiming major
ity of 1,200. The news soon spread over
the city, and the Gentiles took possess
sion of the city. Flags were run up.
Every Gentle building in the city was
decorated with flags and lanterns, and
fireworks were sent up from hundreds
of the house tops, cannons doomed, and
bonhreS were seen upon every corner,
and
HUNDREDS OF MEN IN LINE
paraded the streets with drums and
torches, shouting like wild men over
their victory. No such scene was eVer
witnessed in Utah as can be seen in
Salt Lake tonight. The Mormons re-
main indoors and have nothing to say
on the result except that the cleo
ton was, carried by fraud, and
that they will surely contest it.
They admit their defeat. but claim that
the majority will not exceed 400.
Official returns will not be in until
late tonight. AT IL O'Clock the official
returns from every precinct in the city
but one give George NJ. Scott (Gentile),
for mayor, 1,240 votes: Spencer Claw
son (Mormon), 532. Returns from this
precinct will probably swell Scott's
majority to $50