The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-06
AMERICAN VICTORY
LARGELY GENTLE
Only a Few Hundred Saints
Pulled Top Lever in Tues
days Election.
CANVASS AND VOTE MAKE
INTERESTING COMPARISON
Quarrel Between Democrats
and Republicans Fea.
ture of Campaign.
BY MAC.

Vl2C-
careful study of the results Of last
tuesdays election makes it difficult for
one 10 accept the popular belief that sev-
eral thousand independent Mormons sup
ported the American nominees There
| is no question but that several hundred
did so. and this fact is not only sratify-
ing to The Americans. but IT prosagcs
great good for the future.
There are some eight hundred or a
| thousand Americans who were out of
the city and there are probably that
many who did not get 10 the polls, either
because ote esiokncss or indifference.
The American canvass. which was care
fully rechecked. showed that 1880 legal
! voters Of Salt Lake stated that they
would give thelr support 10 the Ameri-
mons who stated that they hld not de-
| ctded which way they would vote. There
wcre 2I2i voters on whom the canvaSscrs
could get no line as To whether thcy
there were l2.10a voters who admitted
that they were Mormous, grand total
| OF 81, ,5ii persons who were entitled to
! vote had all OF them been registered.
| Possibly 1000 were unregistered. either
| because OF the failure TO get their names
on the registration lists. or because their
| names had hcon omitted from the lists
| ny incompetent employees OF the county
| clerks office. who made copy OF the
|
| ton OF 1905 failed to write tn" word
| voted" after the names, and these, un-
| der the law. could not be transferred 10
the new registration lists.
| Mayor Bransford received l3.b3" votes.
or "a votes more than the number of
persons who announced to the American
| csnvasscrs tbat they would support the
| American ticket 1t may. therefore. be
assumed that. dcductlng the number OF
Americans who were out of the city or
| III or who did not 90 To the polls. perhaps
| 1000 Gentle Democrats, Gentle R"publi-
cans and independent Mormons voted lhe
| American ticket.
This number would have done likewise
had there been straiShtout fusion for
! all the city officers as well as for the
day that had the Democrats and Repnb-,
| llcallS effected Il fusion for mayor and
all along tho line, tho Americans would
not have been successful cannot sustain
! themselves in the iigh, OF the laeis-
Lake i"s' CITY i5.o9o Morio9n votes. as
| The number Of Gentle votes by The time
of the next general election viii doubt
4 leSsly increase from three 10 f'Ye thou-
sand. these having como TO salt Lake
! during this year aud therefore bcinS IN
| eligible ut TUESDAYS election
Great credit is due 10 the Aormons Who
asserted their Independence and voted
| for their own interests. 5S wcll as IN ~"
| interest OF the city. last Tuesday But
those who arc attempting 10 give al the
credit for the great American victory
! to the independent members OF the
| church draw heavily on the imagination
and do some reckless guessing.
After all its boasts OF influence in salt
| Lake City. tho Herald Republican must
feel greatly humiliatcd after it reflects on
| the fact that out OF 81. .Vun votes II could
! only persuade 600n TO support lis ticket;
| Tho fact of the matter is, the III Il did
so much lying during the campaiSn tiat
! aud those who voted for Murdoch would
probably have done so had there bGen
no, such newspaper % as me ,l,lro ",ga,,,e .,ra
| several thousands OF salt LaEc voters
! who will support anything called Rn-
! publican" whether it stands for republi-
| cnnispl or not OF course, the ReDubN-
can ticket did not stand FOR republican
| ism 1t was q political abortion win
Mormon missionary at its tail, mess OF
political porridgc In the middle: IL WAS
championed by copperhead Democrat
I ninrnnlpoops like Loofbourow, Jensen.
| Fussy Jimmie, Fred Price, George WI
| son, Jake Greenowald and hired buildo%-
| ers from tho sherin's office. Iher" was
| nothing Republican about it. IL was
nasty mess and the intelligent pollticlaus
Of The church Republican party stood M
! the background wasnlug tn'r Iau'S VI
the entire affair.
About ali that is heard since the elcc-
ton outside of American congratulations,
| is duarreline among memoers 9l ule
| federal ring and Ncphl l.. Morris's po-
litIcal priests Each charges the gther
with bad faith and each could make a
sood case against the other. II Is ut
cral fulhllmont Of the old saying tnat
when swindlers fall out honest men E"t
anvthing for party success excepting tn"t
lhSy are the bcncticiarlcs of thht success,
About the only, good That can come .,, on
the quarrel Is, there VIII be no inrth1t
attempt 10 fuse Democrats with RepublI,
cans The church. crowd ~ next ~ W year ,,%nI Tl,
bunch its vote. They VIII all be clthHT
H,IplDlic.iuE.
hardly dare an independent movement
against the Americans for the reason thtt
down. there ends Nparty allegiance nnd
thousands of Gentle Democrats ana h'-
publicans would join tic ranks ot 'nc
Thc Americans will win salt Lake
county a year hence, unless some SrleN-
Gus mistakes are made by the incoming
administration.
The best work the American chalrmen
can do during the winter months rs 10
gradually check the voting lists ol tost
Tursday and determine how many illegal
votes were cast by the saints from OUT.
side the city. This can 5c done WITHOUT
,onrh trouble And when the i9ctS sup
uorting cases ol Illegal registration and
voting are well at hand. the American
conmiitec should appear before ths
county attorney. swear To conlPs'i,'., az, ";,r ~
prosecute the country couslps ihto Tue
pcnitcpuary
One of the most Outrageous l|S g.!
,,,l,,,cd Inv rho SInoot organ during the
rampaIcu was TO the effect that TIE
American party committee had made col
lcctlons from the saloon men, ChalIllah
parnpr insists that so far as nc KNOWS
and he was In q position TO lmow-thot
not half dozen saloon men In the CITY
contributed To the American campaign
fn1J II collections were made the
funds were not turned over 10 the city
conmIttee. A number OF saloon men
opcniV opposed the American party. ana
some made an especial effort to elect
George Lawrence. although Lawrence was
active In advocating the election ot
Wallace reputcd To be the anti saloon
candidate Whether or not Lawrence
made any promises is not known, but