The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-07
MORMON CHURCH
CONTROLS SCHOOLS
Six Members of Board of Educa-
tiOn Will Be Mormon
Elders.
AMERICANS FAILED TO
TURN OUT WEDNESDAY,
The Hierarch'S Representatives
We're at Work and Mormon
Vote Was Gotten Out.

The nonpartisan school ticket,
backed by the Mormon church, won in
sll four wards of the city yesterday
where there was a contest. Tho re-
suit of the election means that Of the
ten members of Salt Lake s Board of
Education for the next two years. six
pf them will be Mormon elders. In the
Fifth ward there was no contest,
Judge II. p. Henderson, who is an
bvowed American party man, receiving
every vote cast. He wSs named on
both tickets, the "non- partisan nam
Ing him because they knew they could
not defeat him.
Following are the names of the candi-
dates elected in the four wards where
there was n contest. and the majorities
Nhey received:
First Ward-Byron Cummings 1873
Second Ward-M j. Checsman, l59
Third Ward-Wlllam Newman, 606.
Fourth Ward-J. T. Hammond, 40.
Gentle Apathy the Cause.
The result OF the election is generally
attributed 10 Gentle apathy and to
Mormon activity, Every Mormon
bishop In Salt Lake, and practically
every block teacher. were at work for
the non-partisan ticket, The Nor
mon vote got out, and the Gentle vote
absolute majority in the First and Sec
ond wards, which the Mormon ticket
carried yesterday. and the Fourth ward
is close The Fifth ward is so strongly
American that the church did not dare
risk a contest there.
Never in recent years has the ac
tivity of Mormon ecclcsiasts at the
polls been more marked and openly
displayed than lt was yesterday. The
bishops made no secret of the fact
that they were voting their adherents
like sheep, and in every case they in
spected the ballots of the Mormons be-
fore they were cast TO be sure that
no mistake was made, AS n rule the
election passed off quietly in every
district. but the work of the Mormon
leaders was exceedingly effective.
Ballot Box Is Stuffed.
In the Eleventh district II was dis
covered after the polls were closed that
more votes had been cast than the
registration sheet called for. That
there was a deal of stuffing done there
can be no question, and although Cum
mings claims majority of about
twenty votes, there NAV pc a contest
of the vote in the district
why don't YOU put the polling
place in the middle Of fve.acre
Dlcughed feld?' asked j. c. c. Clan.
get TO the rear shack where the polling
place for the Twentieth and Twenty
first districts was located 1t was a
pertinent query. That location was un-
questionably selected so as to dis
courage as many voters as possible
from appearing at the polls, and every
Encouragement of the kind was sure
advantage TO the church candidates.
How the Boaro Is Composed.
Following is a list of the members
Of the school board, newly elected and
hod-overs. for the next two years:
First war6-C. S. Martin. Mormon
elder and bishop counsellor, Byron
Cummings, Jack Mormon.
Second ward-Albert G. Giauaue,
Mormon bishop; NJ. J. Cheesman, Gen
tile elected by the church.
Third wayd-Oscar w. Moyle. Nor
mon elder; William Newman, Mormon
elder and bishops counsellor.
Fourth ward-Mathonihah Thomas
and j. T. Hammond, both Mormon
elders.
Fifth wsrd-Joseph Oberndorfer and
Judge H, P. Henderson, both Ameri-
cans.