Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-11-05 | Page 8 | Scenes in the City

Scenes in the City The day was as fine a one as could have been desired and was in marked contrast that on which the municipal election was held in February last The saloons were all closed or generally supposed to be although there were some dealers in the ardent who worked the side and backdoor racket for all that it was worth and reaped a golden harvest as a result while their more respectable re-spectable brethren in the same business complied strictly with the law There was but little excitement and had it not been for the few flags floating in the breeze little knots of men gathered at the various polling places tbo flitting hither and thither of the vehicles gathering up voters and the occasional strains of music heard in tho distance a stranger would not have known that anything out of the ordinary ordi-nary was in progress This was due douotless in a great measure to the fact that the Liberal candidate was defeated from the moment he was nominated A DEMOCRATIC KIRK Considerable interest was manifested as t just what action the Democrats would take in reference to the refusal of Good win to pledge himself not to take an active part in political affairs particularly in regard re-gard to the force bili of which he was known to be an ardent aavocate It was well known in certain circles that there had been a big rumpus in the club on the evening before when the question of vote or not to vote was discussed The wrangle was a most lively one and the results its it-s said were that the antiGoodwin men were downed by a small majority ohat they did not die However was evidenced by the fact that bright and early yesterday morning the following hand bill was industriously indus-triously distributed on the streets DEMOCRATS ArlTIONlJ 1