The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-07
RESULTS AWAITED
WITH INTEREST.
Public Menjn Washington Wait
ing for Election News.
OFFICIALS GOING HOME.
OFFICIALS GOING HOME.
The Movements in Utah Will be Closely
Watched.
The Report That Cleveland Would Not
Sign the Utah Admission Bill is
Bare-Faced Fake-Strong Friends
in Both Houses

| Washington, Nov. Especial. THE
approaching elections in a number Of
states tomorrow naturally cause greai
interest among the public men al
Washington, but owing to the extra
| lively few of the senators and repre-
sentatives of any of the parties have
had opportunities to take an active
part in the campaigns except those
who live in states close to the nations
capital and even those gentlemen have
been compelled to make hurried trips
The most important elections to oc-
cur will be those in New York, Ohio
Virginia, Massachusetts and Iowa
Their general Importance is due to the
fact that national issues will more
or less have an influence upon the re-
suits. In some of the other. states in
which elections occur the issues are
purely local and no matter how they
result, they will not affect matters
here
The prevailing impression is that
New York will go Democratic in spite
| of the attacks the MugwumpS and
some of the lawyers of the Empire
state are making upon Judge May
nard, the Democratic candidate for the
court of appeals. New York is natur-
ally Democratic, and besides there is
no fight between the Cleveland or Hill
factions.
In Virginia the Democrats will have
a walkover. Their only opponents are
the Populists, and the Republicans
have no ticket in the field. The latter
are, therefore, taking only a passing
interest in the fight. Many will vote
| for Colonel O'Ferrall, the Democratic
candidate for governor, and it is
| thought about 20 per cent. will refrain
from voting. The Populists have no
commanding leaders, they are short OF
cash. and there is nothing about their
campaign calculated to inspire enthus-
iasm, or to make serious inroads upon
the Democratic strength. The size of
the Democratic majority will depend
upon the stay at home vote in the
party. The state issues are important,
and that consideration ought to have a
tendency to bring out a pretty full
vote, but it must be admitted that
there are many disappointed Office
seekers in the Old Dominion, and pat
ronage in that commonwealth has al
ways proven a source Of weakness.
Then again the party is somewhat di-
vided on the currency question,
though the Democratic party managers
have kept state issues to the front and
have in a measure ignored the silver
question, realizing that they are di-
vided on that matter.
The local contest in Utah will be
watched here with much interest for
reason that it is the intention of the
leading Democrats in Congress to push
wit
the bill providing for the admission of
the territory into the union of states
The report recently circulated in Salt
Lake to the effect that President Cleye-
land was against the proposed state
hood was about as barefaced a. fake as
was ever gotten up. On the contrary
the president is very anxious that
Utah should be admitted, and most of
the prominent men of his administra-
ton take the same view This is par
ticularly true of Secretary Hoke Smith.
OF the interior department, and of
Secretary Morton of the agricultural
department. The Herald correspond
ent has had repeated conversations
with these gentlemen on the subject.
and they have manifested an interest
that proves they not only believe Utah
IS soon to be admitted, but they will
90 all IN their power to further the leg
1o1ollOl necessary.
The admission bill has strong
friends in the Senate and House and
there does not appear to be any
doubt that the bill will be passed as
soon as it can be taken up in the two
branches of Congress. Owing to the
absence of SO many of the members
OF the House Territories committetss
and the deadlock in the Senate on ac-
count Of the financial bill, the matter
mas been delayed longer than it other
wise would have been.
statehood is a question that in
wolves the welfare of the property of
Utah and the personal and nolificaI
interests of nine-tenths of the people
or the territory, and the election to
be held on the 9TH instant will be
watched with considerable anxiety.
That it would help Utah's interests in
Congress for the result to favor the
Democracy goes without saying, for
1T is only natural that the men in
power in Washington would be more
Pleased to have Democratic victory
that to have Boss Powers and his
Tuscaroras and their allies among the
nondescripts generally, succeed. It is
not thought they will win and the
administration people will be gratified
to hear that the Democrats have
scored a victory
So far as Utah is concerned in Iegis-
lation at Washington affecting sill
yer it is well to remember that the
demand for the unconditional repeal
OF the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law is nothing but the first
step in this financial legislation. The
fight will go on, and there are strong
friends of silver who will see that the
agitation is continued until silver has
its proper place as one of the money
metals of the country. Even Senator
voorhees, is committed to this policy
and there are others who are
through force of circumstances COM
PEELED at this juncture to stand with
the so-called enemies of silver opposed
to any permanent plan whereby silver
shall be demonetized and gold holders
put in a, position to keep the United
States on the single gold standard
Senator Hill of New York has prorlis-
ed also that he will do his utmost to
have the true bimetallic system put
into operation, and he had better keep
his word or else abandon all aspira-
tons toward reaching the presidency,
for if he sticks to the New York idea
solely he might as well not count on
support in more than a few localities
in the west and south.
No one has been more successful
than Mr. Rawlins, the Delegate from
Utah. in getting measures through
Congress since he has been here. IN
deed, his record in this respect is
ahead of most of the members. as very
few have had anything passed. and
not only was Mr.. Rawlins able to have
his important resolution passed and
signed restoring the personal property
etc, to the Church Of Jesus Christ of