Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-10-14
PROVO LETTER.

dissatisfaction with both tickets, it is |
beginning to look as though the usual
Republican majority of the city would
aid the election of Republican mayor,
after eight years of Democracy in the
executives chair.
1t has already been more or less
mystery how a city that is normally
strongly Republican in state and ma
tional elections still elects a Demo-
cratic mayor The reason is entirely
local. There is a sectional fight be-
tween the east and west ends of the
city that is at the bottom of all the
trouble. 1t has been very pronounced
in the last three municipal elections,
when Republican candidates in the
east end for mayor have come west
of the mill race, the dividing line, with
a good majority, only to be defeated
by the west end, with usually a very
strong Republican majority.
This year the Republican convention
was the battle ground of the east and
west end forces, with the latter ar
rayed for a comparatively newcomer
in the city, J. H. Frisby, and he won
out in the convention with very de-
cided majority over w. e. Bassett, an
east end candidate.
There was some soreness at first
over the result, it being charged that
even Democrats in the west end were
active in the fight for Mr.. Frisby's
nomination, and that when ex-Mayor
Taylor was importuned by Democrats
to become candidate again for the
mayoralty, he answered that he could
not against the candidacy of ]. H.
Frisby; but there is no Indication of
an organized effort on the part of the
east-enders to retaliate.
Mayor Roylance is the candidate by
reclamation for reelection on the
Democratic ticket He lives in the
east end, but has been on all sides of
the question. The immediate fight in
his term of Office between the two
sides of the city has been over the pro-
posal to move the Union depot three
blocks west, and according to the rail
road people, Mayor Roylance first got
back of the proposed removal; but in
the council he said that he should
surely veto any franchise for that pur-
pose because the railroad people were
placing him in a false light. Both
sides are now doubling him, and he
may suffer at the hands of both ends,
and some in the middle.
Outside of the head of the ticket, 1t
does not appear that the east and west
ends cut much figure in either conven'
ton. Nominations in each convention
were by reclamation, except in two
cases, l. e., recorder and marchal in
the Democratic convention, when the
east and west ends locked horns, and
honors were even. The west end got
the recorder and the east end the mar
shall
There may be some scratching OF
the tickets other tnan the head, but
that will be because of family rela
lions. The Democrats have catered tc
a large Republican family in the nom
ination of recorder.
The church and anti-church fight
that is bothering the state capital does
not appear in the least to have entered
into the contests in this city. II there
are any sympathizers with the Amerl
can party of Salt Lake City, they have
not announced their sympathizes open
ly.
The ladies in Provo always take {
very lively interest in politics. The
Ladies' Republican club has already
got into the field with reception ant
DC in, IF