The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-28

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= 1897 tMayorD ......-NOn-Partisan.. ll5 y
y 1873 Congress- Democratic III, 63l p
y 1899 (MayOr) .......Republican zee. oil y
= 1885 Gong SpL). Democratic - 40 =
= 1900 Cong, FalL).. Democratic 6t9 y
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y 1892 Congress- Republican .... 56S y
= 1905 CMayor) $500. Democratic .-.2Zl0 =
= 1904 tCongress) ....Republican ....2516' y
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n EPUBLICANS who are out gum
n shoeing over the city to make
mayor of Chief of Police Lynch
present just one argument to holster
up their cause They admit that
Richard P. Morris has been a good
mayor, They admit that under his
administration the city has improved
as never before. They cOncede also
that he has brought the water problem
10 point where it can be solved for
all time 10 come within the next two
years. They do not deny that he de
serves TO be reelected on his merits.
Nor do these Republican gum-shOe
politicians deny that the American"
party is anything more than the
Kearns faction of the Republican
party. They do not deny that this
crusade is the result of the plumbers
of the Republican party in city and
state. They do not deny that it is to
the best interest of the community 10
keep out of office the men who are
engineering the American" crusade.
They concede all this. but they talk
figures, morning, noon ANA night.
They hope to convince people that be
cause Roosevelt carried the city Billy
Lynch will also do so.
They Wallow in Figures.
Backers of the Lynch candidacy have
Roosevelt figures for breakfast, .iiuner
and supper. They devoUr them be
tween meals. Their pockets are full
of figures. They talk nothing else OII
the street corners. They slip into the
homes of the citizens and pour figures
into their helpless ears. They sing
figures, they whistle figures. they pray
figures, they dream figures. They aaye
figures on the brain and figures on the
lungs. All their hopes in this world
and the next are written in figures
And all these figures are based upon
the result of the last general election.
Ii is cruel TO arouse these drcdmerS
from their dream. but as they desire
figures it viii not be amiss to give
them d few.
Salt Lake is a Democratic city. This
is the proper basis upon which 10
CSAdDlAEA dll LdAL u4cllAOA w uLAttL
premise is worthy of consideration. The
history Of the past ten Years since
statehood proves this assertion beyond
the shadow of a doubt.
Tidal Wave For w. J. Bryan.
1t would be just as silly, just as IN
worthy of thoughtful men and women,
TO take the tidal wave vote for Viii
liam j. Bryan in 1886 and upon that
h. Ia Gals al
is a Democratic city as it is for
these nOiseless evangelists to go about
taking the tidal wave vote for Theo-
dOre Roosevelt last fall and upon that
vote try to establish the claim that
w. ]. Lynch is the choice of Salt Lake
for mayor this year.
Mark this point in the political his
tory of the city: In 1896 William J
Bryan swept Salt Lake City by a
plurality of 100. His vote was 1855
compared with d vote of 565 for Viii
liam Mckinley. Mr.. Bryan received &c
per cent of the votes out of each 100
votes cast for these two candidates.
Did that vote establish the Demo
Gratis in the permenent control Of the
city? ASK William II. Dale the Demo
crat who ran for mayor Just one year
later and who was defeated by John
Clark on a bipartisan ticket BY
piuI VI ltbs III Llit AdDtt EiNtiI
above the vote for congressman and
mayor is taken as being the nearest in
dication of the wishes Of the voters.
Tells the Story of the Years.
Republicans who are relying upon
the vote cast for Theodore Roosevelt
last fall as their only reliance for gel
ting into Office this year, should take
warning from the result in 1896 and
the radical reversal shown by the fig
uTes of the following year
The past ten years have demOnstrat-
ed one thing more clearly than all 9TH
ers in the politics OF Salt Lake City.
This is that the voters are essentially
independent. In the ten elections since
1896
Democrats have won five victories.
Republicans have won four victories.
-partisans have won one victory,
Even this showing is unfair to the
Democrats. Their combined pluralities
in the five elections in which they have
been victorious tOtaled 9,6l6, or an aV-
erage of 1928 for each election. \
The combined pluralities of the Re-
pubicans in the four elections in which
they were winners We're 4,64f, or an
average of l, 161 for each election.
In these calculations the abnormal
votes for William J. Bryan and TheO-
dore Roosevelt are eliminated. The
vote for congressman is taken in 1896
and 1904 years.
A little resume of the votes of the
last ten elections, all there have been
since statehood. viii be of interest. II
should prove profitable to the lightning
calculators who are slipping about
whispering 10 voters that w. J. Lynch
is already elected
Looking Back to 1896.
In 1896 William II. King defeated
Lafayette HolbTook, who was on the
straight Republican and Silver Repub-
lican tickets. i'm Salt Lake City by a
vote of 9.4S4 TO 5,14S, giving Judge King
a plurality of 1886. This was In the
race for congress, which represents the
real sentiments of the voters better
than any other test that can be applied,
except perhaps the choice of mayor
In the following year Democrats ex-
pected to sweep Salt Lake City. They
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