The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-18

candidates for the legislature, was
staggering around headquarters Tues
day evening offering to bet $50 that the
Fifth precinct would give a larger Re
publican majority this year than the
| Third precinct would give Democratic.
! When some of the tigers from the Third
heard of this they chased Hewlett into
the Republican headquarters and de-
manded a showdown Hewlett took
the precaution to consult Eichnor on
the proposition before putting up his
money. Dennis must have told him to
soak his head or something to that eff
feet, because he has not been seen on
the streets since.
Political Notes.
The Republican women of the Fortieth
district will have social at the home
of Mrs. John AXton, 473 Seventh street, on
Friday afternoon of this week.
The executive committee of the Work
ingmen'S Democratic club will hold a
special meeting of Importance at their
Headquarters at 8 o'clock tonight.
At the Republican meeting in the the
atre next Monday evening Governor
Wells will preside and George Suther-
land will deliver brief speech. The even
ing VIII be given up almost wholly to
Thomas Fitch
The committees of Democratic ladies
for the great ball and bazaar TO be given
next week met at state headquarters yes
terday afternoon and put the wheels in
motion for what they purpose to make
the social event of the entire campaign.
Mrs. Joseph NJ Cohen will go to Logan
this morning and will spend the balance
of the week in Cache county organizing
woman's clubs. Mrs. Cohen has been
very successful in this work and has had
cordial receptions wherever she has gone.
Speaking about bets. here is one: The
Democratic workers of the Third precinct
are Offering to bet that the Republicans
VIII not carry a single district in the pre-
clnct, although they are claiming four
IhuS lar the Democrats have been IN
able to get any bets
There will be a Democratic rally in the
WllfOrd school house, at the corner OF
Fourteenth South and the extension of
Eleventh East, this evening, at which
Henry Lawrence and Charles Crane will
by the Ladies QCartette and everybody is
invited TO be present.
Two of the best Republican workers in
the city these days are Captain Middle
miss and Detective Franks. The i'm
preston is out that one of these states
men is under pay from the Republican
state committee and the other from the
city committee. The exact nature of
their work has not yet been given out to
the public, but ii is understood to be o.
the very finest and most delicate nature
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster. who has been
campaigning for the Republicans of the
west for some time past, addressed a
meeting of women in the Ladies club
house in this city yesterday afternoon
There was good crowd present and in
addition to the speech there were some
enjoyable songs by some of the sweet
singers of the city. 1t is understood that
Mrs Foster will continue campaigning in
this state until election day.
Tuesday evening before the registra ton
offices closed a Republican hack whirled
up to one of the registrars offices in the
wit .,
Pacific hotel The men were carefully
registered, while the Republican workers
happen to shut them out. When the deed
was done one of the men said quite
pleasantly: There are three or four
other Bryan men over at the hotel If you
VIII go after them
The announcement is given out by the
Social Democrats that Eugene V Debs
Will rot visit Salt Lake during the pres
ent campaign, as was advertised some
1Ine ago. All the GATES made for Mr..
Cancelled because of the great demand
Tor him in the east, especially in Penn
SylVania- A number of the leaders among
the Social Democrats of this city will go
to Murray this evening to hold a mass
meeting and organize a section at that
place
G. B. Blakely is in receipt of a letter
from his old friend Eliot Danforth the
great New York Democrat, in which he
says that the Democrats of the Empire
state are united this year; that Greater
New York will give Bryan a very large
majority and that the Democrats mn the
state are working with a vim and vigor
that they have not shown in recent years
this letter, as Mr.. Danforth is a very
conservative man.
The Republican state committee has
arranged for the following meetings in the
state for Friday evening next: j. A
Anderson and James Devine will speak at
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land; Governor Wells, George Sutherland
and G. e. Allen at Deseret: A Il, Thomas
at Rockville and Toqueryille; f. D. Me-
Gurrin at Hoytsville; Thomas Fitch at
Ogden; James T. Hammond and George
NJ Cannon at Circleville; George a
Smith and Andrew Jensen at Fayette:
Judge Botkin at Mercur: ex-Senator
Brown at Morgan: W. c. Van Horne ar
Salem, and H. s. Tanner in Cache county.
Here is a bet that is said to have baen
made in this city in the past few DAYS:
A Democrat offered to bet SO each on
i've states that went for Mckinley in
1886 going for Bryan this year and ac-
cepted the same kind of a proposition
from the Republican as to five STATES that
ley this year. The Democrat named In
diana New York. Kentucky MarYland
Mckinley before, but which would 90 for
Bryan this year. The Republican named
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota VVovrn-
ing and Washington as the Bryan states
that Mckinley would carry this year
The Republican sports were out in force
yesterday offering to bet on the election
OF majority of the county and IesisIa
i've tickets in this county In connection
with this the report got into Circulation
that Republican candidate in this county
We're offering to sacrifice anything on their
ticket in exchange Tor a vote for Them
selves They were more anxious to trade
of the state ticket than anything else
and some of them, it was stated were
even offering vote for Bryan for a vote
for some county or legislative candidate