The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-07
MORRIS is SURE
OF BIG VICTORY
Tremendous Drift of Sentiment to the
Business Mayor.
REPUBLICAN, BOOM BURSTS
CITIZENS UP IN ARMS OVER CON.
TEMPTIRLE TRICKS.

A LII the city chairnen used different
II words. perhaps. but all Of them
were thinking Of Just before the
battle. mother" last night II was
agreed on all sides that the battle had
been fought and won-or lost-lOng be-
fore midnight. No voters will be
changed by anything that is said today.
The only thing left 10 be done is TO get
out the votes.
Nothing happened yesterday to
change the view of the careful observ-
er that a vote for Lynch is practically
a vote for Thompson. At american"
headquarters il was freely admitted
that Morris is the man that party has
to beat, and every effort will be used
against Morris and the Democratic
ticket today. Senator SmOot was in
town from Provo yesterday, pursuing
his policy of attempting TO persuade
voters that Lynch is the man TO beat
Thompson, but he failed to convince
anybody.
Smoot Helps Americans"
"Smoot doesn't know it," said one
American" but he is the best friend
our party has. All of us are hoping he
A,.n ze, as many votes for Lynch as
he possibly can, for the more votes he
gets for Lynch the. surer Thompson is
to win. Lynch cannot be elected.
Morris may be. AT any rate, Norris is
the only man who can beat Thompson"
The Smoot machine set afioat in their
desperation yesterday the most ridicu-
lous canards that We're ever heard in
a campaign. One of them was to the
effect that Mayor Morris had acknowl-
edged that he would be defeated, and
that consequently he was advising his
friends to vote for Lynch. Another
report, traced directly to the Smoot
machine. was TO the effect that The
Herald would this morning concede the
defeat of Norris and come 10 the sup
port of Thompson.
This in the face of the fact that the
most enthusiastic Democratic rally of
the campaign was held in the Third
precinct last night, in the face of the
fact that nothing but the most encour-
aging news was heard by the Demo-
Gratis yesterday, i'm the face of the fact
that a rapid change in the betting in
Dictated that the men who bet on cleo
tons to win were of the opinion that
Norris would win the fight today.
Mayor Morris Sure OF Success.
Mayor Morris last evening empha-
sized his belief in his election today.
From the beginning of the cam
paign," he said, Il have been conf
dent of reelection. That confidence
is now greater than ever before. A
desperate effort has been made dur
ing the past ten days to detach Den
ocratic votes and give them to Lynch.
This effort has been made jointly by
Americans and Republicans, both
of whom saw their only hope Of We
tory in such a wholesale detection.
The effort has failed. Chief Lynch,
in my opinion. has no more real
chance of election than the Socialist
candidate. though he may receive
few more votes"
THE election will be Democratic
on the entire city ticket and we will
carry n majority of the council.
1T will require a hard fight to
wrcst complete victory i'll all the
wards from the Americans who
are our real contenders, bat with
united front we can beat them. The
fight tonight Is between the Demo
Gratis and the Americans The Re
publicans arc fighting without hope
and Will finish third in the contest
Lynch Out of the Race.
The view OF Mayor Norris was the
view of all who have ke9t In touch
with the situation. Honest Republicans
conceded the fight 10 be between the
I baF1 T. ha 4
the latter, 10 man, laughed at the
notion that Lynch might be elected
mayor They had no hesitation i'm say
ing that if Morris were out Of the race
Thompson would be elected by a ire
mendous majority,
The only thing that is necessary, as /
has been said, is 70 set out the Demo
cratic votes. There are enough Of
them, and more than enough, TO smash
the Reed Smoot machine to fragments, |
to let the world know that no man, be
he senator or apostle. or both. can come
here from Provo and absolutely dictate !
the election of a ticket in Salt Lake !
City. Today there will 90 out a notice |
and a warning that no campaign based !
Oh falsehood and misrepresentation can |
win in this city and that the people will !
not reject a tried and trusted servant /!
at the dictation of a man who is not |
even a citizen of the municipality.
Will Make Clean Sweep.
At least four of the FIVE municipal |
wards are counted safely Democratic on /
the city ticket, and at least three are !
to return Democratic MEM |
berS of the council. Owing to the wide /
split i'm the Republican party and the |
fact that eighty per cent OF the "Ameri- |
can" strength is drawn from the Re |
publican ranks il is more than prob /
able that the Democratic ticket will |
sweep every ward In the city. With a 1
council that VIII aid him in his work. !
as a Democratic council will, Mayor /
Morris will see to it that Salt Lake City /
will make even more rapid progress !
during his second administration than |
turing his first
1t was estimated in some quarters
last night that about q 500 votes will
be cast today. OF this number II il /,
thought that not less than 5000 viii /
be cast for the Democratic ticket, $500 I
for the American" ticket, and 1000 for /
Lynch and 1000 for the Socialist can |
didates This is thought 10 be a fair |
The greatest possibility of |
il no he frtr. 1 oh