The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
LOGAN.
TUESDAY, March 8.
LOGAN LOST.
The Republicans Carry 1t by
" Majority.
And Because of the Temporary Advantage
They Have Gained They Go
Wild and Celebrate.

LOGAN, March 7.-ISpecial telegram to
THE HERALD. Sable gloom envelops the
Democracy of Logan tonight, and the
party of Edmunds, Harrison, Blaine and
Wiley Brown is screaming with enthu-
siasm in the Reese opera house and over
flowing into the street below. The city is
Republican by vote of 400 to 1923, ma
jority of II, based on the count for mayor.
The vote in August was 315-Democratic.
Oil; Republican, no.
The result is the most astounding thing
to the Democrats that Utah politics ever
beheld. Up to Saturday night all the an
ticipations, predictions and bets had been
one way. The Republicans could have
won ST. 900 if they had had the money to
take the wagers offered. Saturday night
closed the campaign with meeting of
1000 enthusiastic Democrats in the opera
house. The Republicans could not muster
more than 300 at their meeting. The Dem
ocrats had close house to house canvas,
made twice, once before and once after the
ticket was named. Both times they had
pledges enough to show that they were in
the majority by at least 20. They were
certain of victory on the figures, so when
to-nights result was announced their an
noyance and stupefaction can be
imagined.
Out OF the many charges and counter
charges with which the air is
filled, it is impossible to gain
clear and definite idea of the
causes that led up to the defeat 1t would
be useless to deny that the leading Demo-
Gratis feel badly, very badly. George W.
Thatcher, Aaron Farr, R. w. Sloan, Elias
Kimball, Prof. Paul, Charles Hart, John
Carlisle and others with whom talked say
they would feel the defeat less if they felt
that they had been beaten in square fight.
The influences at work against them were
numerous and powerful. c. G. Goodwin,
the malodorous registrar and the United
States commissioner, the standing griev-
ance of so many years, Is now as rantank-
erous Republican as he was once bitter
| Liberal. He has done the usual work of
Utah registrars. How he put two car
loads of freshly naturalized Republicans
on his rolls and shut up his shop to keep
out thirty or forty naturalized Democrats,
is matter of history.
This same registrar, who has run down
more polygamists in his time than any
other commissioner outside OF Salt Lake
has allowed some fifteen Republican polyg-
amists to register on taking the oath that
they were not now in unlawful cohabita-
ton. he informed your representative
that he was upheld in this by a ruling OF
Judge Zane. The Democrats claim, too.
that he registered every roll pupil in the
agricultural college and the B. Y. academy
(most of them live outside of Logan who
was old enough to vote and who promised
to vote the Republican ticket, but that he
manifested no interest in those who were
Gratis summed it up with the following
written in his own hand:
''The election developed the remarkable
fact that large numbers of voters who
were known to be Democrats and who had
reaffrmed their allegiance to the party
only day or two before, voted the
Republican ticket"
What caused this remarkable change is
puzzle to every one. 1t occurred in every
ward. No open campaign was made b,
the Republicans of a nature that would be
" COuNoIG any NOl0ES. Int
Democratic campaign was an open ant
vigorous one. The meetings were well at
tended and enthusiastic but were offset b,
some kind of a still hunt on the part of tn,
7 Republicans. Gibbs, Nibley, Stayner
Cannon, Ben Rich and others were con
spicuous visitors and workers in the cam
paign.
Not vestige of Liberal was to be seen
G. G. Goodwin states that of the eight,
gentiles once voting here, seventy-elgh
! now vote the Republican ticket, and the,
/ had nearly all gone over before the las
2 August election, SO that they do not tigur
in the Republican increase of 100 votes
1 The net result is that all the general ticke
q is Republican, the council eight Republi
o cans and two Democrats.
i First Precinct.
= Dem Rep.
FOR MAYOR.
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