The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-08

in the state last night closed a more
or less exciting campaign, and this
morning the voters began registering
their will at the polls. These are the
first state elections since the present
national administration was inaugur-
ated. and the first since the great sill
yer fight in Congress. There has not
been sufficient time since the end OF
chat fight to develop its effect on the
country at large politically, and states
men are watching for results today
with unusual interest, with view II
possible of securing indications of the
political trend. They do not hope Tor
more than that, because it is not be-
lieved the conditions existing IN the
campaigns just closed are such as to
bring national political questions
largely into play, except in a few
states and possibly in a minor degree
in some others.
In Ohio, for instance. the fight par
takes largely of a national character
Mckinley, the apostle of protection,
being pitted against Neal who wrote
the free trade plank of the platform
on which Cleveland was elected to the
presidency. In Iowa the same queS-
ton forms an element in the situation
along with silver and prohibition and
/ a decided victory for the ever popular
Governor Boies would no doubt be
taken as an endorsement of the Demo-
/ cratic policy as to tariff, while the
election of Jackson would be hailed as
! a victory for protection. PopuliStS in
the south and west are building great
hopes on the results of the silver fight,
and it remains to be seen whether
these hopes are well founded. 1t also
/ remains to be seen when the votes are
counted what course silver men in the
silver states have taken.
The weather is clear, cool and brac-
ing. The indications are that a very
heavy vote viii be polled. The interest
centers in the candidacy of Judge JOS
| eph Gary. who presided at the trial OF
/ the Haymarket anarchists, for re-elec-
/ ton. he being bitterly fought by the
anarchists. There are run1OrS afiOat
this morning that they will make a
demonstration some time during the
day. Police are on the lookout fol-
such a move and a, general feeling OF
nervous expectancy prevails at the
police stations This local fight takes
an added interest from the. fact that
Governor Altgeld has taken a personal
hand in the effort to defeat Judge
Gary. The morning ballot is unusu-
ally heavy, laboring men are particu-
larly prominent in the early lines al
the polls. They seem to be voting in
dependently, regardless of the resO-
lutions of the labor party opposing
Gary.
There was let-up in the voting il
the afternoon, and probably only al
average vote will be cast.
Democrats have undoubtedly car
ried the city by a majority that thu
Republican vote in the county canno
overcome. The indications at
O'Clock are that Gary, Republican
candidate for superior judge, on whom
Governor Altgeld made the fight, i
beaten. although he runs far aheat
of his ticket
The elections today were holly con
tested, and the Republicans seemed t
! have, at a late hour tonight, the bes
of it.
The. Times. the senior Democratic
paper, comedies the election of the en-
: tire Republican judicial ticket, with
one possible exception, and claims n
: more than five of the county commits
sioners, inside the city. Outside tn
city. of. course, is Republican. TIL
| judicial ticket: heretofore. has beel
: on a non-partisan basis, but this yea
. the Democrats broke away and nomi
mated ticket of their own, and the Re
: lpubIicans seem to have elected ever
: judicial. candidate. The great fight ha
: been over the election of Judge Gary
/ who presided at the trial of the an
/ archists At the time Governor Alt
r geld pardened the anarchists, he mad
$ a severe attack upon Gary, and tn
: fight has been the latter against tn
! state machine, with the result tina
2 Gary seems not only to have pole
: the full Republican strength, but [
s have pulled on the Democratic vote a
well. The general result shows decisiv
d Republican gains over the presider
t tial election of a year ago.