The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-06
The Election.

The county election in Weber was
equaled in intensity and hard work on all
sides only by the fierce struggle waged in
Salt Lake county, if your city papers are
the true mirror of events and doings on the
political field Still Weber can claim the
credit that there has been no such animos-
ity, no such personal vituperation and in
vective as has embittered so many people
In your district The fight has been made
mostly in glittering generalities, the Lib
eral speakers and writers having charged
the Peoples party management of the pub
lie trusts with misrule and unprogressive-
ness. while claiming for the Liberal admin
istratlon all the credit for the undoubted
material progress which Ogden City has
been enjoying of late, whereas the Peoples
party press, especially the STANDARD, retail
ated with attributing all of the lawlessness,
the saloon brawls, gambling and still worse
vices to that same administration. In this
both sides may have exaggerated in the
natural beat Of conflict. 1t was left to the
people to decide at the ballot
boxes whether those in the city and
in the country settlements intended
to extend the same style of Liberal rule
that has made for itself a record too much
lauded by its friends and too loudly depre
Gated by its adversaries, from the NUM-
cipal management to the manipulation of
the county affairs, which are no less i'm
portant and require sagacity, honesty and
pure motives.
The voting at the four precinct polls, all
close to the central business block, began
bright and early and in good earnest, to
that $50 a. m. about $50 votes had been
cast. To and from, came and went, the
citizens, afoot or in vehicles of all sorts,
both parties having active agents in the
field to let no Indifferent straggler escape
aan IL
posted, and still quiet but steady stream
of citizens continued to flow III and out of
the respective polling offices to exercise
their sovereign franchise. Both the Ogden
City Cornet band, for the People, and the
Liberal band, under Prof. Klaus, fellow
citizen of Mayor Kiesel, made good music
and kept up the interest, which indeed was
never threatening to flag in the least. 1t
was a struggle as for life and death to
either party, for either had much, though
not necessarily their very existence
at stake. Betting was INDUCED
in at the street corners, for the
place where such affairs are mostly taking
place, were strictly closed during the
hours of polling. Among the Liberals
John @. Tyler, their party's nominee for
recorder, was the favorite as in fact he is
personally popular among all classes of the
communiuy,i though the. postofice where
he served his "Cleveland' term ably and
1a1G0Iully, Is UI6 Only position we
remember him to have occupied during his
long sojourn in Ogden.
There were three tickets in the field
The two regular ones were as follows:
Peoples. RECORDER. Liberal
Dan ohm O. Tyler
SHERIFF..
u. II. beInap--- Jonn keck
CLERK.
Ed Higginbotham, JIG L. Hollingsworti
sELECTMAN.
Lyman Skeen- Frederick Fay
CORONER.
e. W. Larkin- Marshall Allan
ASSESSOR.
y. Montgomery edwin Di.
ATTORNEY.
II, H R. Rogers
COLLECTOR.
AlDern E. Coolidge
TREASURER.
John A. Boyle------......-------W. V. Helfrich
SURVEYOR.
Mosiah Hall R. w. Fares
Then there were the nominations for til,
justices and constables in the four pre-
cincts, for which fair candidates had beer
put up on both sides Of the fence around
which the fighting has gone on.
The Liberals disdained to make nomina
tions for the country precinct offices
which the Peoples party, being sure of
clean sweep in the rural districts did no
fail TO do.
Besides these three tickets one headed
"Independent'' was circulated but ap
parently little needed, as it was too curious
combination, comprising the names of al
%hn a 60,
offices and putting up the Liberal candi
dates for surveyor, coroner and selectman
1t was clumsy piece of business, doing n,
good to any one but Browning Bros, VIII