The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-01
THE PROSPECTIVE MAJORITY.

THE HERALD thinks that Mr.. CANES
majority next Tuesday should be fully five
thousand and believes it will reach that
figure. Two years ago his majority was
6,643. Since then there has been a con-
siderable increase of Liberal voters, the
Liberals having increased much faster than
the People. But we apprehend that when
the votes shall be counted it will be found
that the Liberal growth has been confined
almost exclusively to two counties-Sai
Lake and Weber. Summit, the Liberal
stronghold, will poll few more votes than it
did in 1888, and the two parties will have
about the same percentages Of the ballots as
they did then. There has been some Liberal
increase in Utah county and little along
the line of the Rio Grande Western, but
here in Salt Lake and in Ogden are where
the party must get all their important
gains. We shall confess disappointment if
those gains shall amount to enough to cut
Mr. CANES majority down below 5000, in
which event the Peoples nominee will have
very nearly two votes for every one cast
for the enemy.
II certain indications and hints mean any
thing MIR. ,CAINE's majority viii be even
greater than the amount here stated. A
good many Liberals are not pleased with
their party's candidate. The Democrats
don't like his Republicanism, which is of
the radical kind that hates Democrats al
most as much as it does Mormons. Then
Mr.. GOODWIN is the outspoken champion Of
acknowledgements, doctrine which is not
approved by honest Democrats or decent
Republicans. Men who are not blind fan
atics cannot endorse the proposition that
good citizens, born in the territory. who
have broken no law and against whom no
charge of wrong doing has ever been
made, should be DISTINGUISHED and made
aliens in the land of their birth because
some OF their relatives or friends, wears
ago, broke law and were punished for it..
MIR. GOODWIN has for years advocated this
vicious and un-American proposition, and
in doing so has offended not a few fair.
minded members of his party, several hun
dred of whom have within a year sigded a
protest to Congress against the passage of
the disfranchisement bills which he faith
erso and urges the enactment of. Mr.
OOODNlN las diSU OueuQGQ good
many property owning Gentiles of this
city by his hearty approval of the reckless
ness, extravaganza and incompetency OF
the present municipal government. Heen,
dorses the outrageous taxation which has
been imposed, when the owners of rs per
cent. of the property have protested
against the extortion. 1t so happens that
quite as many Gentiles as Mormons have
opposed the oppressive taxes, and almost
as many of the former as the latter deer
down in their hearts are sorrowing over
the fact that this city, largely through the
efforts of the Liberal candidate for Con
gress, is for two years at the mercy of as
reckless and incompetent gang of men az
were ever placed in control of municipal
corporation. Whether or not these Gentle
protestants against wholesale disfranchise
ment on account of belief and these Gentle
taxpayers who have realized when it is tor
late that Liberal government is not SO de
sirable as they once thought it would be