The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-11
MORE RETURNS ARE IN
They Increase the Majority of
Ashton to 564.
STATEMENT BY LLOYD
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN Elk
PLAINS DEFEAT OF MoFFAT.

Additional returns received yester-
day from districts that had not yet re-
ported the result of Mondays election
for county superintendent Of schools
swell the majority for Brigham ".
Ashton the Republican candidate. TO
564 over David w Mofat. the Demo-
cratic candidate. Herman is now the
only district that has not reported The
totals to date show that Ashton has re-
ceived I. 446 votes and Moffat $50.
In addition TO the returns published
in yesterdays Herald, the following
districts reported yesterday: Mill
Creeks thirty-ninth district, % for
Ashton. Is for Moffat; Riverton. So for
Ashton and u for MOffat; North Point,
s for Ashton and nothing for Moffat;
Mountain Deb, for Ashton and 10 for
Moffat.
North Point elected without opposi-
ton Ira A. Reid for district trustee for
the term of three years. In Mountain
Dell John E. Ekman was chosen trus-
tee for the. three-year term and George
A C,mstead for the two-year term in
which there was vacancy.
Lloyd Explains Defeat.
Ben T. Lloyd, chairman of the Dem
ocratic committee, in speaking of the
result Of the county election, said:
Il knew that the nOn-partisan talk
would end with the count of the votes.
Now We hear nothing but great Re-
publican victory If it teaches the
Democrats not to fall into Republican
traps so easily in the future this defeat
viii prove blessing.
The Republicans took advantage Of
the fact that Mr.. Van Colt had been
in Office two and a half terms and of
the Democratic sentiment against
third term. They worked to put the
Democrats in a hole, too, on the non
partisan racket. If the Democrats had
joined with them they were ready TO
say, you have had this Office for ten
years; it is time to let us in If the
Democrats refused to walk into this
trap, and the Republican leaders knew
they would. they would go to the people
with the plea that the Democrats were
using the schools as a political ma
chine. They used this effectively, as
the returns will show, and the Demo-
Gratis swallowed the bait, bob. line and
sinker. The thing that l regret most
is that our Democrats never see
through these schemes till after the
trap is sprung.
Yell of Republicans.
The Republicans are now yelling
through their organ and on the street
corners that they have fired the first
gun of the campaign of 1900 and that
they have carried the county back into
the Republican column. Post mOrtems
on elections are not pleasant to the fell
lows who get whipped, but they are
sometimes useful In this case the
Democrats were not off with their
sheep, as the Republicans We're at the
time of the special election, but it
seems that some of them were at home
taking care of their honey.
Many Democrats supported Mr.. Van
Colt in the convention and concluded
that they could show their loyalty to
him best by voting against Mr.. Moffat
at the polls.
But the principal reason for Mr.
Ashton's election is found in the fact
that the voters had sympathy for him.
He has been after this Office for the last
ten years; and they knew that if he
was liberal in his campaign contribu-
tons all these years that il viii take
the salary of the office to square him;
and that then Mr.. Moffat or some other
good Democrat will be ready to take
his place"