The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-04
ELECTION NIGHT.
YOUNG AMERICA THOROUGHLY On
GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
The victory in the State Was CeIe-
brated and the Defeat in the Ma
ton Mourned.

Young America, III Odll 1dhe, Gil
Unused last evening as though the
community had been celebrating a vic
tory instead of its inhabitants being
engaged in condoling with one another
over crushing defeat. 1t seemed as
though every youngster in the city had
turned out as by a common impulse to
raise Ned" and they were. joined by
some who were not SO young. and the
din they kept up from dark until well
nigh daylight was enough to wake the
| most lethargic slumberer in the sleepy
city of Ogden. 1t reminded one of the
great demonstration of 1890 which
marked the first Liberal victory in
Salt Lake The only thing lacking was
the big parade and the minor depreda-
tions that occurred at that time.
There was certainly nothing wanting
in noise.
The fun commenced as soon as it
began to get dark, when small parties
of young people made their appear
ance ON the streets with tin horns
and paraded up and down, blowing
them in the ears of wayfarerS and
cutting up all sorts of pranks. Grad
ually their number increased till by s
o'clock all the principal streets were
thronged with the noisy juveniles
Then at the various places where
the returns were received and displayed
on canvass by stereopticon, the grad
ually increased noise grew to tumult
that could hardly have been greater
had BRYAN been declared elected by
the first bulletin.
1t was a curious thing to see-society
girls and some who have not been
known to make their appearance in So
ciety, society young men and young
men who were very much the reverse
all mingling, footing their horns, ring
ing COW bells and doing anything else
they could think of to make a noise.
1t was a little incongruous, for it was
all under way long before there had
been any indication as to how things
were going, and therefore there was
nothing for anyone to celebrate. 1t
could only be explained, therefore, by
the fact that it was election time and
furnished an opportunity for breaking
loose which no other occasion gives an
opportunity for.
They certainly improved this oppor-
tunity, for the things that were done
were beyond description. Not that
anything was done that could strictly
be construed as disorderly, but it
seemed as though everyone knew
everyone else and Wed with one an
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the most mischievous thing or make
the most noise.
Up and down Main street they pa
raded, then down the side streets, and
then back, jostling one another and
apparently finding the acme of a good
time in it all. Though some of the
participants were little boisterous at
times, no one demurred for they We're
so good-natured that one was COM
PEELED TO join in the laugh. True,
some young fellows egotism got the
best of him once in a while and caused
him to overstep the bounds, when a
miX-up would result, but such occur
rences were rare and the police were
not called upon to make any arrests.
The chief interest of the night CEN
tered around the morning newspaper
Offices, where bulletins were thrown on
to canvas by steriopticon. There were
two other places where returns We're
pos-ed similarly, one at the Y. NJ. c..
A. rooms on Second South and an
other opposite the Knutsford on Third
South. These had good crowds at
times. but the greater number pre-
ferred the newspaper reports. In front
| Of both offices the crowd was very
large from the time it get fairly dark,