The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-11
Cache County Democrats Are Ex-
planning Their Defeat.
A BIG STAY-AT-H0ME VOTE
DEMOCRATS COULD HAVE WON
BY 1000 MAJORITY.
County Chairman Is Criticised, and
Ecslesiastic Leaders Are Charged
With Working Against Roberts
Candidates Elected In Rich,
Box Elder and Other Counties.
lsnecial Correspondence.l

Logan, Nov. 10--The partial deTeat
of the Democracy of this county is the
subject of much comment. Your cor
respondent this morning interviewed
several prominent Democrats and also
the Republican chairman. Hon. Joseph
Ndonson said, in reply to a question as
to the cause Of the defeat;
1T is due TO two things; frst the
interference Of prominent eccleslastlcs
in the campaign against Roberts, sec
ond, the miserable work OF the county
chairman, who made no sincere effort
10 elect the ticket. In Lewiston 10
voters, mostly Democrats, stayed at
home because they had been urged to
vote against Roberts, and rather than
do that they refused to vote at all. In
Charleston. [ was warned Two weeks
ago that Bishop Vaughan OF WellsVllle
had traded the Il votes controlled by
him TO Richard Godfrey Of Charleston,
the Republican candidate for assessor,
receiving in return Al votes for Howell,
the Republican candidate for state SEN
ator. The whole campaign was miser-
ably conducted from beginning to END
and none of the people who wanted TO
bolt the ticket after the convention
voted it except J. NJ. Blair and George
c. Rlgby. Roberts majority ought %
have been at least 1900"
S. w Hendricks, Democratic treas
urer-elect, said that he felt his party
defeat as keeniy as though he had
gone down with it, but that he at
tributed his election solely to the cam
paign that his opponent had put UP,
and not to any work the Democratic
committee had done for him.
A. T. Farr, jr., said: We were de
feated by a combination of defeated
d1f nd WI
have sought and failed to obtain Of
flee because their Democracy was
doubted. 1 was elected by Republican
votes; the returns show that every
vote nay opponent lars. Hendricksen
lost I gained.
1.-The Roberts boilers were the main
cause of our defeat. They did not sup
port the ticket, though they desired
people TO understand they would. Rob
erts' majority ought to have exceeded
1900, and would have done so but fol-
the influence eXerted by Salt Lake
ecclesiastics," This was the reply OF
S. A Langton.
The Republican chairman, j. c.
Knowles, admitted that he was sur
prised by the result of the election
here, and frankly admitted that their
victory was due more to Democratic
aid than their own work, although they
worked hard. IN my opinion you1
people put up a poor campaign, as ]
encountered no systematic work any
where except in Richmond, Millville
and Hyrum.'
Chairman Mathews made the follow
ing statement in writing: THE result
of the election IL Cache county was
not warranted by the canvass Of the
various precincts, as made to me. Our
vote, as shown in the canvass, would
have given the Democratic party oui
old-time majority if our voters had
stood by their political convictions. The
vote cast was 1900 under the registra-
ton, and the apathy in the party made
it impossible to get these out, rs pei
cent of whom were Democrats. Cache
county is certainly Democratic and !
do not hesitate to say that the election
two years from now viii confirm this
statement"
The Republicans hold a big jollifica-
ton meeting this evening. A lunch
viii be served in headquarters and {
general good time will be had.