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Show TOE lUrsTELEGTIOK A Heavy Vote Charaoteriidd by Wide spread Scratching Loaves Eesult and Pn.phots io th Dark. THE TIMES BULLETIN AT UOOffi Thomas Woolsey Arreiud for Illegal Voting Captain Middlemis Bun ia for Fightiug- At 2:."0 o'clock 831 votes had been cast in the Third preoiact. Of those the liberals claimed 223. Colonel Tro-week Tro-week claims that the precinct will poll 200 republican votes. Kimball ami Divine are "running like wildlire in the Fourth." From 100 trj L'OOstraight republican votes are, claimed in that precinct. Alma Eldridge is running very strong in the seventh council dietrict, and it is believed he w ill be elected. Arthur Pratt has a dijpatch from Og den saying that division is a great sue-cess sue-cess tnd that republican prospects are bright. TUK VOTE A r 12 M. At 12 o'clock the vote was rapidly crawling up to no percent of the registration regis-tration dne the following figures arriving ar-riving at Thk 1 nuts bullutiu. ritisr riiEoiNiT 12 M. Vote pnlle.l Keglnterad l.s.d SECOND I RKCiNl'T 13 V. Votes polled IS'H Kejfisiered 3.14 thu d l'lirciMl lilu. Vi-tes polled " U luyUiere 1 1 J..4 KOl'HTH rilhOlMCT 12 M. Votaa polled s.l-0 KOKiMOied 1114 MFVII fUKCINCT Itf M. Votes palled 0 4 ltslBterod IV.'J Total rote at noon 4."!) KKilered lO.JTi THE LATEST RETURNS. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the following fol-lowing vote had been cast in the respective res-pective precincts: F'lrt Precinct 10"S Heeond " It :tfi .' Third " i Fourth " 7 4 Fifth " US Total vote at 3 o'clock Slav. Tha vote continues to How in in one steady volume and the republicans who hare stood by their stand have gathered gath-ered confidence at each hour. It looks now as of the race for col-lectorship col-lectorship "had settled down betwoen Kimball and Hardy with the edge in favor of the republican nominee who is drawing flattering support from both' the democrats aud liberals. Comparisons have advanced the Sn-l tei Bit ) of tho republican ticket in I every Instance and the vote and sup- port of it will be larger than the most-sanguine most-sanguine have predicted. HOW THE DAY TASEO. The result of today'! eleotion will not' be known with any reasonable degrca of certainty until the count has boen concluded. The vote is probably the heaviest that has ever been cast in tha city, and there has been such proliiio scratching that the prophet has given up tho tusk and left it to the ballot box. ABROAD BEFORE KUNK1SE. The voter was abroad before sunrisa and ward workers, strikers and solicitors solicit-ors were mustering their hosts long before be-fore the polls hail opened. At 10 o'clock the scene around the voting places was a striking one. There were special policemen, special deputy sheriffs and an extra battalion of deputy United States marshals, each of whom carried instructions to see that the lield was kept fair if they had to light for it. THE VOTIJIO WAS yL'IET. F'orttiDately there was no necessity for hostilities and save a few exceptions the struggle progressed harmoniously. The understanding among the generals was tacit that there should be no foul measures in the battle and while it requires re-quires an expert to determine just what a "foul measure" is in war there were none sufficiently pronounced at 10 o'clock to occasion any surious disturbances. disturb-ances. THE GIN MILLS WERE CLOSED. The gin nrlls, or a large percentage of their, were closed. The penalty fur smuggling and the vigilance vigi-lance of the , police was too much for them. Three hundred dollars dol-lars and three months made the risk too serious, and eveu the back door was cold and unresponsive. This, however, did not bailie the man with a great bottle, bot-tle, and at 2 o'clock the fact that the worm of the still had broken its fetters and ws? enjoying its old inlluence was easily detected. PROMPTLY ARRESTED. The very determined stand taken by the leaders against spuiious votes made the practice extremely hazardous. The "graveyard shift" had bttle chance to get in its work, while the repeater was kept under constant surveillance. The lirst iutimaticn that anything crooked was on tho tapis was exposed at 10:80 o'clock in the Fourth precinct, at which hour a semi-centouarian and anti-party liner came forward aud, attempting at-tempting to put in a vote, was promptly arrested and jostled off to police headquarters, head-quarters, where he was arraigned before be-fore Judge Geo on a charge of attempting attempt-ing to vote in a precinct of which he was not a resided. Hn crave hit na.ma as Thomas Wool- sy and was quickly recognized by the luminaries of the police department. Marshal Young himself having known him for forty years or more. LIVED HERE FOR FORTY TEARS. Woolsey who is 63 years of age stated that for forty years he had resided ia tbo settlements of this valley having spent the last fourteen in Zion. He states that he was registered originally in the Fourth precinct and having moved out of it recently was ignorant of the fact that his name was transferred. trans-ferred. He is said to have given conflicting stories, however, and to have admitted that for two years bs had not been a resident of the precinct. IT CAUSED A FLUTTER. The event was the occasion for qnita a flutter and inasmuch as it was a liberal lib-eral vote that hatl been nailed messengers messen-gers were sent in every direction for Judge Powers and the custodian of the campaign fund. Pending the arrival Accurate manner by which could ( be date rmined how the remaining voles were decided between t ho republican! i Kint democrat. 'Dim molt sanguine, i however, did not think the republicans had niort! than 173 votoii in all. Jt did rot lock as If much seratcluug wi be- i ing duuo. " j FiiU! ih I ri e art. j There wan very little excitement In j this precinct, lhe only excitrinenl thut '; roe to the surface of a quiet conti-sl up to 1J o'clock being tiio arrest of I nomas Wonlsey, particulars of which are found in auniiier part of this report, re-port, i i.ii nboi a! di um corps that h;u i been u.u I'llt'.us made its appcarau- about U o'clock mid hurting n t w ; coidaat rotes t tlii throng moved on it : coin""'. The precinct wm kers in-iiieil that tho Itt'er of the couiitiitfeenien's j agreement eonci rnieg iionrcvdeut" vnlo be obeyed, and Um result wan that theoecu pillion 01 the challenger was cur tiikd to a mere, shadow of wh it it has be-u in former years. At noon t;ie tally chc-Ht showed that 00 vote had , bean polled. of the relief parly the old Rcntleman i grabbed a paper, subsided in a chair I and was buried in its contents when ' Jim Cantlon, late sergeant of police, camo alona with lu titers end drum- j tuers and played, w'th mullled ellect, t the grave of at lea.-l one liberal vote that fell before the wailM of its own folly. The comm. line linaliy arrived, however, and Woolsty waa reb aned with in.tnictiiMis t j put iu appearance fvr hi examination tomorrow. Th Flr J'riinot. In this pficinct the voters began rolling In early and mny wero on the grounrl and lu Hue an hour beforo the poll opcued al 30. Only a few challenge were indulged In and these the same as in tun other precinct were serly ail on tho ground of non-r d-letice. d-letice. K. 15. Crite.U iw was ef.rly on the scene, of battle working i-.ralnusly lor the intcreiis of thu republicans. fikJ tireciiwald's powerful bass voice wa: heard above the din of th" com-Dined com-Dined forces of r puldicaiis, democrats ind liburrls. Hill Showcll, who holds i flagrant olllee uuder the lib-iral lib-iral government catue early with a bnlo of ballots All the o-hor libornli who hav been sucking the teat Bf the munieipailtT until they have wTed fat end rotund, were making ihm'ioeivpi a cencrHl ruisance every w'n.iti by tiir inristaiit nad bulldi'm .aete s. 'J'lieir faitlif.iin:..i U t!.e ctm.8 ft im nrhlch they derive a fat day's pay, wr.s conspictiou.s. 'The'e iss cne fl'ht. Jt was between two liberals. Odu of the rontestants was tho aforesaid I '11 Khowell and the other a man namud I.ntitte, whom Showell had caught in-ducin;; in-ducin;; liberal voters to ln.lttlge in the questionable practice of attaching democratic paster to their ballots. This eiiiiprriied Showell to such an extent thut he called Laliltu hard names, when that libernl-demcrratic pilinr of society proce.-d.:d to bit Willie Hiownll on the noo. Hoth of the eombalauts were arrasted and both almost Immediately gave bond, after which Showell be'an distributing his ballots again. At this poll at 3;110 o'clock 113S votes had been cast, out of which the liberals claim Mil, i he republicans and democrats demo-crats both had checkers but their system sys-tem was far from pet feet and was not entirely trustworthy; their claim at 2:30 was, that out of 1047 vote cast the liberals lib-erals hail 410, having the democrat and republicans together with 007. Of these the republicans claimed at leant 800. As the aKernoou wears on the republican re-publican voto is coming in faslor. aud while there is no hope of their winning tlieir total will surprise many of those who iu the morning had little hope. ran I'Vui i.oinoi. Voters com neneed arming on the ground early. Some came with prepared pre-pared ballots but lhe majority of tho lirst arnval received theif tieke'g from lie peddlers of the thro parlies. Tho pbetala were everywhere, coaxing, cn-joiiior cn-joiiior anil threatening. Tho vntimr pi,c le.ied sl.vly vci ucadilv and at i j :;J0 l:i 'w.i had leu a pol.ed. There wjb ery lUt'e challenging d.ne; the nest cf it I e ing ('oil's on the grounds of non residence In tbs wards or precincts. pre-cincts. It was noticeable that tho liberals lib-erals chailenjed every man on the shallowest prelense about whose vote there was the remotest doubt. At 3 o'clock tha voto is beginning to come in slower, a total of 1118 has been polled out of 11)00 registered. Of this total the libera: ciaim 000 The figures fig-ures taken bv tho democrats snd republicans re-publicans are unreliable but the Inrti-caiions Inrti-caiions hre that the latter will poll a heavier vote than they expeoted. Iiilua or Hi. (;ommllon. At 1 o'clock the following circular letter was issued by the Utah Commission Commis-sion and sent to the registrars and judge ot election in the dilTureut precincts: pre-cincts: To the judges of diction uwl registration registra-tion (itjiattl.i; Asliereiofore anuounced by the Commission, Com-mission, under the decision of Hon. C. Zna, chief justice of tho United States courts for Utah territory, delivered October 27, lUNii, in the case of W. P. Dennett,, the Utah commission was of the opinion that a person otherwise quaiiticd who tins heretofore been living in the poly gnmous relation and has dissolved that re ution In some effective manner is entitled en-titled so register and vote. The commission deaires again to call attention of election olhVer to lis circular of Aug. 1, 1?W which provides among other tilings that whonevor it appears that the name of a voter has been ctrieken off or omitted from the registry list without fault on the part of said voter, aud said voter is not disfranchised by any act of congress, con-gress, that tho name of sueh vole:-should vole:-should of right be reinstated by the deputy registrar on the registration books cf the proper precinct, and h be permitted to vole at the enseing elec-i lion S. (liH't iii v. Chairman. Abnat tbn fill nr PIi..-. There wis a woful lac't of orgunlz i tion among the republicans. At t'no democratic. headquarters thv thought tliey were In it mot em phaticallv. The tinhorn frateruily was most unaninioiM iu support of the liberal candidate. Tnero was not a ti.rht, senrcelv a ou i or harnh word tipnken in tne Fii.ii precinct pre-cinct up to 10 o'clock. Those who wore th loyal blue r publican badges were of the besi eminent em-inent gentlemen every onn of I' e n It became apparcut early iu ilm d iv that the republicans could ii-.! ' airaiust the potent forces of otj..ii turn and boo. I.e. i In their over z-'al for suci'-'s he :;; j erals challenged ne ti win) tiad b-e,.;j identilied with that party ever mh.v their residence here. The "Bastard" circular ha had lit!;e effect; It is denouii' ed bv the deeent member of ail patties as unworthy of any political campaign. The derfjpciats n ail an earnest effort ef-fort to rush their vote in early, lu the Fif'h procinet the ehainnao claimed his ticket was ahead ai 10 o'clock. S.oond Pr.nlaat. "Are these tickets straightf asked Dr. Fowler, as ho picked up a liberal slip from tho Walker house counter tha morning. "Y'es, sir, you can bet they are," replied re-plied Major 'Krb. "If they were not, they would not bo here." The doctor folded oue up and placing it in an envelope en-velope proceeded to the precinct and d'p(. sited il In the tin box painted red. As might bo supposed, Pat Lannoa lent his presence to the (Second pro cinct. lie had not been on lhe ground long belli re he and K. K. Wooiley, deiuoeratio uomiuee forsclecUnan.were engaged in a discussion. "1 beiiove," Baid Mr. Wi.oley, "Hist the people are in earnest for national party lines. The Tritium'. Is keeping up this squabble for personal reasons." As Pst retreated he remarked on the warmneKS of tne weather. Kev. J. B. Thrall, accompanied by a grip, appeared at the S. cmid pc-cmet about 10:-).") this morning. (Shaking hauii with a Timks man Kev. Mr. Thrall said: "I awobie about 3 o'clock this morning and afraid 1 would fail asicep ag.nu arose and prepared my breakfast aud set out for Park City. 1 had a great walk and got to Park in lime to catch the train for Salt Lake C tv." Kv. Thrall is summering at Kr'ghtou's, lie caiuo down especially to vot and he did. J. T. DoDnellan wr'des from Denver that ho is sorry he can not b iu Suit Lake to put in a liberal vote. Mr. Donneilau is attending to a mining deal wtiieh ia hanging lire. Ks. reporter Jackson is one of the active men st the second precinct. He started in to buli-duze a democratic tii ket peddler but left at short ord T. The liberals have a tent from which they ifsue their tickets. Is this tent in-dicaiive in-dicaiive that they will bo left in the ihniio? Ua a narrow stand tho democratic ticket lie. This is a resemblance of tho party platform. The stand upholding the republican books and tickets is bioad and open for inspection. This is indicative of lhe partv's platform. Said iS. K. lliliespio: "The liberals will win Salt Lake couuty by 250 plurality." plur-ality." "The republicans," said an old faithful, faith-ful, "have made a clean and dignified light, ir they had not I would not be here today handing out these tickets.,' "Thomas Jones," called the voice of a bewhiskcred man with a vote. "I don't see your name,'' responded Judge Addliman. "Here is Thomas Ji hues. !t may be possible that soino fe.low with a Scotch accent called off the names to the transcribing clerk and pronounced Jones as Johues." There was a commendable siaooth-icss siaooth-icss in the manner of voting in the 3econd pred ict, barri.ig a few hot ia iho cellar nrshaps. A 'ew challenges were ruvle on ac-oui.t of non reii-Jomitt. reii-Jomitt. Tii" I a'tiec hce.ver, got to ro'e a? tliey were recogaiv-ed by old resident. The principal disturbance at the second sec-ond precidct was between J.H. Middle-roiss Middle-roiss and W. II. Howe, deputy water-master. water-master. The parlies wore discussing the merits of the tickets and would have ended in a light but for the interference of bystanders. by-standers. One man struck at the other an-l hit the wrong fellow, Middlemiss' high hat falling in the struggle. A short time afierwoi iB MlddlemiBs was arrested arrest-ed at .he iustance of Judpe Towers aud sfterwards gave bonds. ' What Tto.y TU uk, E. B. Crilchlow-I think that whether wheth-er we win or not in this election thai the manner iu which the republican party has conducted this campaign is entirely creditable to it. On our part it lis" been clean, and devoid of any feature which will make us biuh ettner j uow or in the future. 1 am aware however that we need a better organ-j i.ation, with oue we can win for we are conscious and confident of tho ripht of our position. Judge Powers Oh, go away: my head is full of business and I am burn-up. burn-up. i am thinking that somebody ought to turn the hosa on me. Frank Dyer 1 think everybody ought to vote the democratic, ticket, Whether they will or not Is quits another thing. V-rr. Veit. I am not doing any t:iii,J.uf.. I am spending all of my litre waiting for the ballots to be counted. coun-ted. Joe Vv'alden You can put me np on record as thinking the entire dem-ocratio dem-ocratio county ticket will bo elected. CunTncatlo on Malu Ntr.et. A oter I denounce the author of that Uastard" dodger as a dirty scrub and anything but a man. Another voier (and a liberal) i'es, aud 1 denounce the Tritmue for Us refusal re-fusal to publish the denial of its authorship author-ship which was submitted to 11 by Frank H. Dyer and Governor West as even more despicable. It was unworthy un-worthy of a decent journal. It showed that paper to wish two honorable men to rest under a false imputation. From Weit Jordan. Gov. West received information from this pr.-cl net r.t 12 o'clock which said that of 113 votes polled the democrats had 68, liberals 10 and republicans 14. From Oytlen. A private message received this after- I noon said: The liberals are flooding; Ogden with circulars saying tho liberal party of this city do not believe in dis- j franchisement. j Third I'r -oinr. As in all of the other precincts the American citizen who desired to express ex-press his political predelection by his j tiailot was earlier at the polls than I lhe judges of election. Tho vote was , itcady and strong and it became ev-1 ident that one of the heaviest votes ever Dolled in the precinct would be cast. ! Everything proceeded quietly, there j ivere no rights and few, if any, heated ! iiscu'sious. The democrat had a ; Dooth where was served a lunch of ; ioffev, sandwiches uml doughnuts. : The rf publicans gave their voters I ioda anJ sandwiches. The most no-,al,le no-,al,le eveut of the morning was the lhallenge of General, Connor on tho rounds that he was registered in ! lhe First precinct. He was com- ! pelied to go and obtain a letter from the i Judge of that precinct, saying his j name had been eiaseit from the list i there before he was permitted to vote, j It all happened through the confusing ' his name with that of his son. At Vi-.iM) 1H5 votes had been polled, of ahich number the liberals claimed have 140. There was no Anoth.r Arr.it. M. D. Hoge was arrested at 3:33 for illegal voting in the Fourth precinct. , Mr. Hoge is a guard at the penitentiary. , Non-residence is the charge. |