The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-08
EXCITEMENT IN THE FOURTH.
Smooth Work For the Eleventh Hour
Candidate.

The fight in the Fourth was both
surprising and exciting. The surprise
consisted in II. G. McMillen becoming
a candidate at the last moment, in
emulation of the methods of Mr.. Sy-
mons end his friends in the First Joe
Lippnlan was McAIillen's manager, and
the consequence was that his campaign
was run with a good deal more ability
and adroitneSS than was shown by the
Symons people in the First. In fact,
had it not been for little item that
appeared in The Herald of yesterday,
stating that a secret meeting of NAL
contents had been held, and that Mr..
McMillen had been selected as their
candidate, the friends of the regular
nominee would have been taken en-
tirely by surprise, and Mr.. McMillen,
his supporters say, would have been
elected.
It was nearly o'clock in the after
noon before the candidacy of McMiIlen
came into evidence The plan was to
let Young believe there was no fight
against him, and very few voters came
out. Then. at or 4 o'clock, Li29man
started out 13 carriages, and hustled in
the voters.
AS soon as this ingenious plot was
seen to be a fact by Mr. Youngs
friends, an effort was made to thwart
it H. G. Whitney, NJ. S. Woolley and
j. .. Eldredge were foremost in work.
ing for the regular nominee. Judge
Powers was on the ground for q time
and denounced the methods of the
Lippman crowd as scurrilous. The
judge urged all his friends to stand
by Mr.. Young and veted for him him
self
That the Lippman forces were well
organized developed about o'clock,
when carriage-load after carriage-load
rolled up to the door, the greater part
Of the NeAIillen voters being residents
of Popperton and the district surround
ing.
One of the sensational incidents of the
day occurred when Lippman put a
ticket into the hand of a female voter,
who doubtless thought there was but
one candidate, and started to cast the
vote. A Young adherent promptly took
the ticket from her and substituted that
of<the duly chosen nominee. She voted
the latter, much to the discontinue of
Lippman, whose wrath led to an eX
change of words, but nothing more.
Mr.. Lippman was approached for a
statement of his case, that is his rea-
son for running Mr.. McMillen at the
eleventh hour, and replied that it was
because they" had not acted in good
faith either in the First or Second pre-
cincts. Asked as to what was meant
by they" he replied, the Mormons, of
course. This is the same old Mormon
fight. That's why we're doing it and
tell 'em 1 said so, too
A number of parties in this precinct,
whose names were not on the registra-
ton books, made futile attempts to
vote. One of these, an old lady who
lives near the hall, insisted on finding
1.-The man who takes AIcNIillen tickets"
and a male resident who had presum-
ably been away from the city, declared
the registrar had taken advantage of
his absence and crossed his name from
the roll, whereupon he was given the
horse laugh.
The Young supporters got out and
hustled, too. but there being only one
polling place, people We're kept waiting
and voters were lined out into the
street. About 6 o'clock it became ap-
parent that those waiting to vote were
mostly Young supporters, and it was
freely charged that there was unneces-
sary delay in the voting purposely
brought about to prevent Young's cleo
ton and when the polls closed at 7
o'clock 300 or 400 people, mostly Young
voters, were shut out.