The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-05
Chairman Darmer's Claim.

Chairman Darmer Of the =
, American city committee de-
: clined 10 go into statistics. He =
, said that the closing Of the cam E
> paign brought nothing but en- ,
= couragement TO him and his peo- =
> pie. His belief was that Mr.. y
= Thompson and the entire "Ameri- =
y can" ticket would be elected, to- =
y gether with "a council that VIII
= carry out the plans he (ThOmp- =
y SOM has in hand for the better y
y ment Of conditions in the city
= Mr.. Darmer was not prepared TO =
= state what these plans are. In =
= conclusion the chairman said the =
y Americans" had made a clean .
= fight and he thought il would =
= prove a winning fight,
+f%%%@*<~*&*&+*%*44%%%**<E
+ VERY Democrat who visited the
haunts where political discussions
are engaged in went home last
night feeling confident that Richard P.
Morris and the Democratic ticket win
be elected next Tuesday. Every citi-
zen of American" proclivities went
home satisfied that the contest is be-
tween Morris and Thompson.
If we could only by some hook or
Crook hold the Mormon Republicans in
siEe for Lynch" said one American"
the election of Thompson and the
American" ticket would be made an
assured certainty"
This was the sentiment generally ex-
pressed around American headquart
ers, IL was voiced by ". j. HallOTan,
a we'll known member OF the ''Ameri-
can" party. Mr. Hailoran expressed the
belief that If Norris could be beaten
The American" ticket would win out.
He had no hesitation IN saying that in
his judgment either Mayor Morris or
cir. Thompson would win
The sentiment was reelected i'm the
betting. Early i'm the day it was pos
Sible 20 secure Wagers, by giving odds,
that Lynch would carry the third pre-,
cnct. No bets of this character were
posted ON the boards during the after.
noon, and il was generally conceded
that the man who believed that Morris
would not have a big plurality in the
third was not at all well posted on the
situation. Mr.. Morris has been before
the voters of the third several times
aud they have never hesitated 10 eX-
press their belief ian him by large major
ities.
Lynch OUT Of Fight,
l.a1t isia,nt ID was predicted that GA
Monday there would be no betting az
on except on the proposition that Nor
lis beats Thompson or Thompson beats
Morris. As Il possibility Lynch is fad
ing away. Had the election been held
Friday, said the politicians. lynch
might possibly have received enough
votes To defeat Norris and elect
Thompson. Now he is not regarded az
factor in the campaign. The Lynch
bubble has hUrsted.
The Republicans worked desperately
yesterday TO overcome the tide that had
set in against them. They hesitated at
nothing 10 accomplish their purpose.
one of their stories was 10 the effect
that the Democratic headquarters
WOULD be closed tomorrow. IL having
fbeen conceded there that Lynch would
Ne elected, Another report, traced 90
Republican sources. was that the
church desired the election OF lynch,
and that Instructions TO this effect
would be given out at meetings TO be
held tonight.
The Republicans baked at no story,
however absurd, that held out a hope
of deludiug voters. Senator SmoOt,
Notwithstanding the fact that there is
hot campaign on i'm his home town Of
Provo, deserted his Republican friends
there again aud spent the entire day
IN salt Lake. Much Of his time here
was spent i'm Republican city head
quarters, where he held frequent con-
ferences with Chairman Hansen, In