The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
WAS 4 SPLENDID VICTORY,
and the people are coIgratulating
themselves upon the result
First Ward.

The battle in the First ward between
Critchlow, the regular nominee. and
Symons, the rump candidate, ragged
fiercely all day, and was very. close,
Critchlow being elected by a majority
OF - over his opponent, in a vote Of APP
proXimately 2,275.
1t was d straight Gentle and Mormon
fight for the most part, and the feeling
at times was very intense. 1t remind
ed one Of the OLD Liberal days, when
that element and the Peoples party
came together. There was much bad
blood, although no one came to blows
with his fellow.
Bishop Warburton and his counsellors
were active in the fight, and the teach
ers took a hand TO the great delight of
Symons, who would have Jared i'll had
il not been for this condition. John
Charles Bowen, one of the teachers in
the eastern part OF the precinct will
doubtless lose his ''yob." John Charles
Bowen came down to the polls early
and began peddling the regular tickets.
He was most shamefully abused. Every
vile epithet which could be applied to
him was applied The purity of his
birth was questioned, and the integrity
Of his mother asSailed, by those who
should have refrained from such con-
duct If their desires to appear as good
Christians are sincere. But John
Charles Bowen got back at all his ira
ducerS by rcmarking, as he understood
it, the church was not III politics, and
he had right TO vote for whom he
pleased. He was informed that "Critch-
low could not set him through the
temple" and replied that he wasn't
working to get through the temple at
that time, but was engaged in electing
school board. He stayed at his post
all day, and was the means of securing
several votes for his candidates.
The women We're in evidence from
the time the polls opened until they
closed. They stood patiently in line,
waiting for their turn to vote The
board of education ought to have had
more polling places, and if there is any
one TO blame because several votes
we're shut out, it is the members who
had charge of the duty Of providing
places who should take the odium
Gentle women were strictly in evil
dence, and they just about stood off the
Mormon ladies. 1t was q nip and tuck
fight. AT 4 o'clock the friends of Sy
mons We're jubilant, because they be-
lieved they had the election won. Al
Echlund and a few others who were
boosting for Critchlow encouraged this
belief by wearing long faces, and when
Symons and his friends let go a little
they started out wagons and got in a
fresh lot of voters with their wagons.
Wagons, by the way, were generally
used. There were at least 20 convey
ances engaged. Lou Johnson wandered
over from the Second ward with a
heavy express overcoat and took charge
of one himself. He rustled the last
vote to poll 2, and put in good day
When the count of the votes was be-
gun, it was very easy to tell which were
Symon's votes and which were
not. Those for Symons were all
sealed I'D, and looked as if
they had been carried over night. The
straight ticket was new, fresh and
clean looking.
There were three polling places, extra
No. having been opened in the after
noon. The following is the vote of the
precinct by polls: