The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-08
DUE TO APATHY OF
AMERICAN PARTY
This the Cause of Defeat at
the School Election on
Wednesday.
AMERICAN VOTERS FAILED
TO TURN OUT TO POLLS
0rSOn ROmney Delivered Ad-
dress Urging Saints to Vote
for Hammond.

Mormons and Jack Mormons ex-
pressed much lubilation yesterday over
election, when the Mormon church won
a victory. An analysis of the returns
shows, however that the result was
entirely due to American apathy, and
that the American party would have
elected all of its candidates but two
had il pollcd o vote ns large ms that
which was polled at the county cleo
tion last month.
Taking the vote received by Frank
r. Christensen, American nominee last
month for county clerk, as a basis, and
it is shown that in the First ward the
American nominee for member of the
board of education received s2S less
than the Americans polled in Novem-
Der, and at that he was only beaten
by l3S votes.
In Second Ward,
In the Second ward the American
nominee Wednesday received lls6
votes less than Mr. Christensen re-
ceived, and was beaten by a plurality
of l59 Had the Americans who voted
in November, therefore, voted Wednes
day, they would have elected their
nominees in the First and Second
wards, and vast number Of American
party people were metaphorically kick
ing themselves yesterday for their fail
ure 10 vote.
In the Third ward, the stronghold Of
the Mormon priesthood and in the
Fourth ward, which is regarded as be
ing close proposition, the vote which
the Americans polled in November
would not have been enough To have
elected the American school nominees
Wednesday. but in the Fourth it would
have been almost enough. In the Fifth
ward there was no contest. for even
the Mormons concede that section of
the city to be overwhelmingly Ameri-
can.
Coming City Election,
Mormons and their Gentle allies were
boasting yesterday that they would
whip the American party in the next
they used in the school election, viz:
by nominating nonpartisan citi
zens ticket, and putting number of
Gentiles on it so as to delude GentiIes
into voting for It, In fact. il is pretty
generally conceded that the church will
not divide its forces in the next city
fight, but will mass its Democratic and
Republican parties under one banner
a bogus 'citizens - banner.
The Americans arc Just as confident
as they ever were that they will win
the next city fight In the county
election last month they had larger
plurality in the city than they had
when they won the city election a year
ago, and the only defeat they sustained
was in the school election defeat
brought about by the indifference and
apathy of the voters.
1t Will be at least three years before
any church Republicans or church Dem
ocrats can hope to connect with the
city payroll The American party will
have four holdover members of the
council after the next city election, and
will only need to elect four more To
retain its control of the council The
Fifth ward is certain to elect two
Americans, and the First and Second
will in all human probability elect
two each. Altogether, therefore. the
prospects for church political success in
Zion are not what could be called
bright
To Vote for Brother Hammond
In connection with the school cleo
tion, II is stated on reliable authority
that Orson Romney, son of Bishop
Romncy, delivered an address in the
Twentieth-ward meeting house last Sun
day night in which he told the Saints
present that they would be expected to
turn out Wednesday and vote for
"Brother' J. T. Hammond AS a mem
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