| Show A RIDICULOUS CLAIM One of the laughable things brought out by the municipal election campaign is the claim that the Liberals will elect the next Delegate to Congress That the talk is reckless and at random is evidenced by the fact that those who make it fix the election for August when it will not occur until November How idle is the claim will be seen by a casual glance at the facts and the situation At the last Delegate election fifteen months ago the Liberals were 0 united as never before on their candidate their nominee was the most pronounced and thoroughgoing of all Liberals and was heartily endorsed by every member of the party there was an active and earnest campaign the mining camps and the Liberal strongholds being drummed and stormed most vigorously and Salt Lake and Ogden being worked for all there was in them It was conceded by the knowing members of the party that the vote was very full in some districts reaching reach-ing very nearly the total registration The poles being closed and the votes canvassed can-vassed it transpired that there were just 3484 ballots for the popular Liberal nominee nomi-nee in all this vast and populous territory Nearly onefourth of these votes were cas tin I t-in a single mining camp And how was it with the People Their I nominee did not reach home from Washington Wash-ington where he had been for almost a year T until a few days before the election Nothing in a campaigning way was done before his arrival then there was no time for campaign cam-paign work hence little if any such work was attempted There was no organized canvass and the meetings were Ito I-to not more than half a dozen It may be I said that the chief campaign work consisted con-sisted of a brief address issued by the candidate can-didate from a sick bed a few days before the opening of the polls The consequence of the inaction was the calling out of only a small percentage of the party voters and yet the votes numbered 1012i Thll with W out a campaign almost without effort the Peoples candidate received over 74 percent per-cent of the total vote while the Liberals with all their work and mustering their strength in good style polled less than 26 per cent of the votes Since 1SSS it is conceded that the Liberals have increased but the increased is confined con-fined almost exclusively to Salt Lake and Ogden cities Elsewhere the party vote has not grown perceptibly In one mining camp there has been a slight increasd and in others there has occurred a falling off While the Liberal strength has increased in Salt Lake and Ogden the People have grown in every county from Cache on the north to Washington on the south and have increased proportionately with the Liberal growth in the cities named It is doubted that the Liberals with a popular candidate and after a thorough canvass will be able to poll 6000 votes in November Novem-ber whilenobodj of nobody intelligence will question ques-tion the ability of the People to give their nominee fully 15000 ballots However the Liberals would not le like themselves if they did not make themselves them-selves ridiculous by claiming things |
