The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-16
A BAD SHOWING.

fraud perperated by the Liberals at the
election on Monday. The party is one of
fraud, dishonesty and corruption. 1t
would rather win by fraud when it could
gain by honesty, for in the former case it
would feel in its proper element" and
that it was sharp ard cunning in politics
But great as were the frauds practiced by
the Liberals, an analysis of the returns by
the People will demonstrate TO the latter
that they have themselves to blame for
much of the bad showing that was made.
There was apathy everywhere, hundreds
OF voters not even going to the polls, and
this apathy, we regret to say, was confined
almsot entirely to the People, the Liberals
casting a reasonably high percentage of
of their ballots
Let US examine the ward returns. In
the First ward, last February, the People
cast 81 votes, and on Monday they cast
1874, a falling off of 243, or more than two
tifths of the total. On the other hand, the
Liberals, in February, cast 635 votes, and
53S on Monday, the decrease being less
February was IS, and on Monday, with 81
less votes, the majority was 20l. If the
People had east their February vote on
Monday they would have carried the ward
In the Second ward the falling off was
also great-from Gas to 466, 1t was in this
ward that the p. V. junction and Pratt's
siding contingents made themselves felt
last winter, and as these contingents are
now scattered over the country counting
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tramp industries, the Liberal vote in this
ward necessarily fell off, the decrease be-
ing 33l, the difference between 1,254 and
/ 923. The People could not have carried the
ward, and they seem TO have understood
this and concluded not to try very hard.
3 lnthe Third ward oDe-third of the PEG
Pies voters who were on hand last Febru-
airy failed to vote on Monday, the decrease
being from 7l6 to 4S1. In that ward the
Liberals went ahead of their February rec
ord, counting 367 votes against 35S at the
municipal election. OF course, the People
won, but the credit is not due to the stay
at-homes.
In the Fourth, also, there was deplor-
able falling off on the part of the People,
who cast ass votes in February and 344 on
Monday, while the Liberals gained sc
votes, having 341 at the school election as
against sos at the municipal contest 1t is
understood that the greatest Liberal frauds
Were perpetrated in the Fourth ward,
where it is alleged that many Peoples
names were stricken from the registration
list, and good many bummers and non
residents were run in at the polls to vote
in the names of absentees. However, it
voters whose names were on the list had
turned out they could have elected both
their candidates.
In the Fifth ward the People fell short
of their February vote 154, or more than
third of the total, while the Liberals,
having no occasion to put forth extraordin-
airy effort the ward being overwhelmingly
theirs, cast 726 ballots, as against 9SS in
February.
THE HERALD cannot but think that the
People lost the First ward through negli-
gence, and lost one candidate in the Fourth
ward from pure apathy. and believing this
we must suggest again that stay homes
never carry elections. Only the votes
which get into the boxes are counted, and
th only way TO get ballots in the boxes is
TO go to the polls on election day. We are
not going to grieve over what has passed
and cannot be recovered, but we are gong
to hope that in future elections the Peoples
voters will deem it worth while to at leas,
make an effort to win.