The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-10
DEAL NOT SQUARE
/ IN CACHE COUNTY
Democrats Charge Result
There to Work Done by
High EcCleSiaStS.
PARTY MAY BE DISBANDED
PROMINENT MEMBERS VOICE.
THEIR RESENTMENT.
PARTY MAY BE DISBANDED
(special to me Herald.l


Logan. Nov. Snow that Democrats,
here have had the opportunity OF study
ing the election returns from the diff
ferent precincts. and of comparing re-
suits therein with ante-eiection efforts
and predictions. the conclusion has BEEN
pretty generally reached that il will be;
but folly 20 place another Democraticl
ticket in the field here until the present.
methods Of political warfare. as adopt
ed by the Republican party are abol-
ished
For days before the election il was
apparent to most of the Democratic
candidates that they would be defeats
ed. despite the fact that. on the sur
face. all indications pointed to a tri-
umphant victory for them.
The Democratic ticket in Cache this
year was generally conceded TO be the
strongest one ever placed in the field
since the division on party lines It's
candidates were able, popular men and
women, and they had all the better Of
the local issues. 1t is not exaggera-
ton TO say that hundreds of RepubIi-
cans voted for some of them, a fact.
that was clearly shown by at least one
third Of the ballots being scratched
One candidate on the Democrats
ticket said he was sure that not less
than 800 Republicans had quietly
hopelessly beaten, when everything on
top indicated his election by at least
500 majority.
Many Instances of Influence"
When the news began to leak out
that undue influences were at work
against the Democratic nominees, the
party managers lost heart and hope and
when the returns came in everything
verified their ante-electiOn fears
Scores of instances of the most glar-
ing use of illegitimate political methods
poured into headquarters. Only a few
days after the nomination of the DEM
ocrdtic ticket a we'll known ecclesiast
of high authority in this county. and a
Republican. met one of the Democrat
ic legislative nominees and he put this
question to him:
Il want to know whether or not YOU
endorse the Democratic state plat
form?''
II don't know that it's any of your
business" was the retCrt @but i'm order
to ease your mind III tell you that do
endorse It, every word of it."
But my dear brother. haven't you
a spark of Mormonism Ieft?' asked the
ecCleSiaSt
Il don't see that Mormonism has any
thing to do with it,
well. let me tell you it has that
platform is nOn-MOI mon and the
church, let me tell you does not pro-
pose to lie down in this matter You'll
be sorry for your endorsement of our
enemies
Another instance: H. Bullen. jr.. the
Republican candidate for state senator,
through unwiSe action antagOnized
many members of the Utah CONNER
clal Travellers association when thew
held their reunion here, and many OF
the drummers vowed to take fall out
Of RnIlan II he
offered. This became known I'm Salt
Lake City, and one of the best known
drummers of this state who is now
here. is authority for the assertion that
prominent members of the church went
to many houses in Salt Lake and in
sisted that their travelling men be kept
out of Cache just before election. and
many men were kept out
Scores of such incidents might be re-
lated As result of this sort of work,
Democrats feel that il would he farcicaI
10 go on putting up tickets as targets
for ecclesiastical sharp-shooters. This
opinion seems to be well nigh universal
among the leaders of the party here.
What the Leaders Say.
County Chairman Hyrum fIaybalr
said TO-DAY; I am done with it for
good. do not think / shall attend
another Democratic convention in this
band the party. until there is radical
change in political methods"
City Chairman Wesley Jacques said3
we were defeated. I think. not he
cause we were Democrats. speaking in
a national sense. but because some
placed US in the light of being opposed
TO the church. ] do not care to engage
In politics further until our ReDubIi-
can friends can see their way clear to
use only legitimate political methods
j. NJ. Blair, member of the executive
committee, said: This settles me. I
have had enough of that kind of polit-
zeal strife and am done. absolutely
done, with politics here until reform
comes"
Ex-State Senator Joseph Monson
said: 1T will be nothing less than far
cical for US TO go on i'm this way. so I
say let's have an assurance, complete
and satisfactory. of a square deal. or
quit. This is not the time for talk. but
rather for quiet, conservative yet deter
mined action"
These opinions of some of the most
prominent Democrats here express in a
general way the opinion of all. and
while there will be no radical action.
TO unwise pickering or quarreling
with any one. il is certain that the
Cache county Democracy Will not long
er tolerate political methods so obnox-
iOuS to American citizenship.
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