Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-07
SCHOOL ELECTION IS QUIET,
r,,n Au Indications the Storm
starters WI Die Easy This
Evening"
FIGHT IS CENTEREO IN FIFTH,
us,,, Two Non. Mormon Candidates
Are Running For
Office,

pesplto the great prediction furry
IN certain quarters from all indications
me American party dies easy today
Election morning broke quiet and
,s,eofn and peaceful and quiet was
~. casting Of ballots. There was ~
A.. n excitement or tense interest any
where except in the Fifth precinct
whore the American party is concen'
eating IN an effort to elect Joseph
obsrn5orfer over Dr. G. i. Pfoutz. AS
h,b are non."Mormons" 1t is doubtful
how the cry Of ecclesiastical domination
wln affect the vote. The denlzens Of
commercial street, and the divers
adjacent alleys had not been brought
n,t By the hceers up to noon, to cast
,belr ballots for the purity OF the
school, and the elimination Of ecclesi-
os,lcal influence in the board Of edu-
cation II auy American party ma
,oriv Is rolled up It will be in this pre-
,rol AZ noon today $50 votes had been
,.st Precinct Chairman G.. a. Sheets,
n the American party, was on mana
early this morning at the Thirteenth
ward schoohouse, where the business
district OF the precinct casts It's vote
with a small army of "outside check-
.r.o and number Of carriages to send
after the delinquent ones.
IN me Second precinct Redman, the
American party candidate, was not III
,te running with Giauquei non-paftls-
M. Precinct Chairman Fred lrlce
stated at noon that the non'pa ttlsall
vote was coming ln steadily ana was
pllng uD a good safe lead.
IN me Third precinct reports up 70
roon Indicate that Moyle has Dis
tad. although the bulk OF the votes are
MT IN set. and heavy ballot rs looked
ior between noon and closing time
Voting I'm the Fourth was quiet Az
hs Eighteenth ward sch0olhouse'
where half the precinct votes, l5Q pal
lots had been cast By noon Nearly
an OF these were for Thomas and Ed
wards. II now looks as II these two
candidates would poll an overwhelming
majority
FRAUD IN THE SECOND.
Indicative OF the methods employed
On the interest OF the American candl-
date In the Second precinct some as
tnctly novel discoveries were made In
Districts H. 10 and IA, %. % and "a
this morning and promptly reported
By E. b. Jenkins and Jesse Fox to
Chairman Fred Price of the Nom
partsans an that precinct, According
to the report some ingenious indl-
ldual caused 10 be sent to the various
polling places boxes Of innocent APP
psarIng envelopes. Upon inNestlga-
ton II was found that each envelope
contained a ballot for Redman print
ed on onion skin paper. The sup
position on the part Of Chairman Price
was that Il was the intention TO use
these envelopes so that the fraudulent
contents would be overlooked IN case
The envelope already contained a vote
Tor Redman but on the other hand IL
a GlauQue ballot were In the envelope
Rwolld be discovered" by the Amerl-
can judges and the vote Indignantly
thrown out, thus deprlying GiauQue Of
tally Mr. Price ordered the en-
yelopes destroyed, which was promptly
done,
AZ $3.50 p. m. 1900 votes had been
'ast ll the second precinct and the
outlook was that when the polls closed
mlman would be showed under on the
eass OF 10 per cent in favor Of
GIauQuc.
Reports from other precincts indi-
,aIeq That the Non-Par,isans We're in
g cafe lead.