The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-04
IN THE CITY.
A Quiet Day, with a Full Vote ani
Much Scratching.

n Quiet Day, with "a Full Vote and
Much Scratching.
Election day dawned in this city with
threatening weather and furries OF
snow.
The polls were opened everywhere
promptly at o'clock and during the
early hours, voting was very brisk, fol-
/ lowed by luis 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 voters seemed to appreciate greatly
! the relief from the heelers and ticket
peddlers, 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
nall uncr the election 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 a 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
the outset. The Republican committee
had secured every conveyance in town
that they could hire, and Democrats
We're 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 Z, 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 II 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 a 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,
that the Democrats would, in all prob
ability, have 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; Me-
Kinley, 153, with 916 scratched ballots.
These scratched ballots were practi-
cally all in favor of the Democratic
ticket.
On the preliminary count in the
Third municipal ward Chairman Lloyd
claimed it for the Democrats by 500,
IL 10 hAr@
Fourth municipal ward by 300.
Kings vote in the city was phenom-
email and very few scratched tickets
went into the box without an X I'D by
the Democratic candidates name
Scores of Independent Republicans
voted for him, and not a few McKin-
ley men also gave him their votes.
CHAIRMAN LLOYD'S ESTIMATE.
At midnight Chairman Lloyd of the
Democratic committee had received
sufficient returns to make a very close
estimate.
I'VE have elected every man on the
county ticket" he said. 1.-The lowest
plurality of any candidate will be 1900
and it win run from that to 1000. I
feel quite confident that every candi-
but if we lose candidate anywhere
it will be there. However, there is no
reason to think that the entire legis-
lative ticket is not elected
CHAIRMAN HOLMES GIVES UP.
At u o'clock Chairman Holmes of
the Republican county committee con-
ceded the election of the entire Demo-
cratic county ticket with one or two
exceptions. Even the Republican
judges were conceded to be defeated,
and Gus thought it looked very much
like q landslide