The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-04

The Herald at the nOur OF gong 10
press with tf,is edition. has received
complete official returns from SO pre-
cincts, and unofficial and partial re-
turns from practically ali precincts in
the county. They indicate that the ma
jorities for the Democratic candidates
will range from $500 to 5000.
The official returns from these sc
precincts give Bryan 6,791; Mckinley,
946; King. F.013; Holbrook, 2.647.
The polls were opened everywhere
promptly a. Z O'Clock and during the
early hours, voting was very brisk, fol-
lowed by lulls just before noon and
later in the afternoon, with rushes dur
ing the noon hour and about D. m.
The Australian ballot system, tried for
the first time here, worked perfectly.
The vot arS seemed to appreciate greatly
the rel ref from the heelerS and ticket
peddleYs. and the general familiarity
with the system was little less than
remarkable, considering the circum-
stances. 1t showed that the voters
generally had given the new plan con-
siderable study, and very few had to
calI ucec TIC eIcctiGa officers fer as
Sistance in preparing their ballots, not
withstanding the fact that scratching
was INDUCED in TO an extent never be-
fore heard of here.
Challenges were few and far between.
In a great many precincts not single
vote was disputed. There was no loud
talk about the polls and no conflicts.
The people went about their business
quietly, and in only one instance was
there a genuine election row. Strange
ly enough, that was between two wo-
men in the old Second municipal ward.
The Democrats found themselves
severely handicapped in this city from
OIItcat The Rpn11hIicaO oO11oTniftpa
had secured every conveyance in town
that they could hire, and Democrats
were unable to bring their voters to the
polls in carriages. They did not need
any such inducement to get them TO
vote however, and turned out grandly
AS an evidence of this it may be stated
that in precinct T. every registered
Democrat voted, in precinct 10 all but
three voted, in precinct "a not one was
missed, in precinct SO all but two voted,
in precinct Il every Democrat except
one cast his ballot for Bryan and
Sewall, and so it went all over the city.
The Republicans, with their army of
workers, with carriages, succeeded in
bringing out very full vote. too, and
it was estimated early in the evening
that 80 per cent of the registered vote
in the city had been polled.
The reports of the checkers of both
parties showed, when the polls closed,
ability, have a majority in this coun-
ty on the state and legislative tickets.
The Democratic ticket soon got to
work and on unofficial returns Chair
man Lloyd claimed that ten precincts
had given the Democrats 1884 votes
the Independent Republicans, 571; Nc
Kinley, 153. with 916 scratched ballots.
These scratched ballots were rracti-
cally all in favor of the Democratic
ticket.
When the Democrats of Salt Lake
county closed their magnificent cam
paign on Monday night, they conf
IDENTIFY expected that success would
crown their efforts, but no one dreamed
that the whole Democratic ticket would
be elected by such tremendous ma
joritY as the people have given it.
IMMENSE GAINS.
The first unofficial returns indicated
immense gains, and as the definite fig
ures commenced to come in, still
greater increase was shown.
REPUBLICANS SURRENDER.
At midnight, Chairman Lloyd claimed
the election of the county and legis-
lative ticket by. from 1,500 to 1000 ma
Jority for each candidate, while Chair
man Holmes at the same hour con-
coded that the Republicans had lost
all along the line.
NOTHING SAVED FROM THE
WRECK.
Some few still hoped that personal
popularity might pull one or two Re
publicans through, but their hopes
were speedily dissipated. The hand
of Geddes" disappeared forever from
official life, under an avalanche of
votes, while Spencer and Crismon went
down in the general wreck. The voters
seemed to be inspired with making a
clean sweep, and they cast no anchors
to the windward. Holbrook, after all
the eloquence that has been expended
In his behalf in Salt Lake county. and
for whom a special effort was made
made a surprisingly weak showing.
while King came up magnificentlv
everywhere.
Norrell and Cherry, the Democratic
candidates for district judges, received
immense nlajorities, which will be aug
mented by the votes Of the other coun-
ties, Summit and Tooele, comprising
the Third district