The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
Fourth Precinct.


The Fourth precinct underwent the
strongest contest in its history yester-
day. but when the polls closed at sun
set the Democratic colors were flying.
The usual crowd was gathered around
when the polls opened and the usual
hustle and excitement followed. The
Democrats entered into the fray with
vim ac5 showed their greatest
strength during the forenoon, having
reaped in at that hour a. majority of
70. From then on, however, the VOTE
began to ductuate and a slight but
steady increase began to pour in for
the Republicans.
At in the afternoon the total vote
cast amounted to S53 and majority
of 25 was claimed by the Democrats.
An hour later the vote had been
swelled TO 1000 and Democrats felt
confident of %. majority over both
the other tickets. The Republicans con-
-ceded a plurality for the other side,
but still held that the margin was
very close.
Scratching was done on an elephan-
tine scale and Jack May suffered more
from this than anyone else on the
municipal slate. This was demon
strated about o'clock. when the
chairmen of the First and Second pre-
cincts sent for supply of George D.
Piper stickers. Chairman Rognon
made the claim that Glendinning
would lead the ticket by several hun
dred majority, though he was still con-
fident that May would pull full quota
of Republican strength
A mean political trick was resorted
to by the precinct committee in order
to defeat Robert Patrick, the Demo-
cratic candidate for councilman. They
had distributed several hundred hand
bills. in which Hadley johnson is
quoted as denouncing Mr. Patrick for
his action in the Dry Bench water mat
ter. As soon as Mr.. Johnson saw this
he voluntarily wrote out a reply fully
generating Patrick and saying he
had done more for the Dry Bench than
any other one man. The under
handed ruse of the committee was re-
ferred to with contempt by even the
Republicans and apparently did not
take any votes from the ex-counciI-
man.
The upper part of the house was
owned all day ~ women of both no
litical faiths, who served hot coffee
and sandwiches to their political
brethren. The Republican ladies' had
the north end of the house, while the
elIesHHieHt counter OF the Dem0cra tic
ladies occupied the other end of the
gallery. Several of the most promi
nent women leaders of the city were
among the fair hostesses
AS the afternoon waned the excite
ment of the crowd began to increase.
A number of the prominent candidates
for municipal honors hung about the
tents of the two parties waiting any-
iously for official news The Denhalter
band was brought out by the Repub-
licans and the followers of the g. o. y.
howled for the party that was being
slowly covered up under flood Of
Democratic ballots. A few minutes
later Held's band arrived. bearing the
inscription, Democratic Gains Eyerv
where. This is Democratic Year"
and then there was still more cheers
and applause.
The voting closed at Ass and the TO-
tai vote was declared to be ] Dos
There was Immediately a rush for The
two wigwams, where estimates We're
given out by the Raders. Walter Jen-
nings gave out as a conservative es-
innate the following figures: Demo
cratic vote, 54S; Republican vote. 535.
Populist vote, Is. Chairman Roenon
refused to give out detailed estimate
but claimed Republican victory on a
very close majority.