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Show both nonresidents. Both were legal voters aud continuing to Judge Powers' Pow-ers' office tiled suit against the fusiou judges against whom they demand judgment in the BUM of $;I000. Charles Cameron, an old liberal resident pi the Fifth preeintt reported that after swearing in his vote in compliance with the di mauds of the fusion judges, it had been throw n out. and vioh nco threatened in the event that he pressed his elaltns. Some Other Man Voted It. Charle6 Berry reported that bll name had been voted in the Fifth precinet. George S. Bell and .loo Waters came up from the second sec-ond tho former reporting that lie had made two unsuccessful efforts to deposit a liberal I THE ELECTION, press of the Great Struggrle Between the Liberals and Mormons for Mastery iu Zion. "Democrat" and "Republican" Judges Arbitrarily Sustaining Most Groundless Challenges. jSION SHOWS ITS HAND. Being Slaughtered and the Church Democracy Sallying to the Support of Church Candidates, lE BULLETIN UP TO DATE Mfirm&nrl (itr'.'iMsH Knocked out In the Fourth Outraged Klertors Appeal I tu the Court.?-The ISiUtle as I It Now Stands. in a row. He was finally recog. nized and deposited hla hallo At this hour the liberal rota is rallying rp at a most gratifying rate while the niormoc are moving church and everything belong, ing to the church that they may accomplish, their ends. Their strength has been pretty nearly polled. The only thing left now ia fraud and intimidation. Every liberal should Insist upon his vote and see that it is depot-ited. depot-ited. Order No. 3. Chairman Powers has issued the following announcement concerning the hour of closing the polls: Heaimi'arter? Libeiui, Committee, 3 r. jt. The situation is far more favorable to the liberals. lib-erals. The time for rlosinE the poll- h been extended to p. in. In the Fifth preemct the liberals are polling their votes In great shape. The Second precinct is safe for a good liberal majority. The obstructive luetics are still helns; continued in the Fourth precinct, and men who are houest voters are being rule I out in the most arbitrary manner; the mot flagrant frauds are being per-petrrted. per-petrrted. The liber.ib tlml thut their names sra leing TO tad to- tlie score by those of theopposi-tlon. theopposi-tlon. At this hour the city is safely liberal, and if renewed efforts are put forth by our voters, not ithstauding the outrageous efforts nf the opposition op-position the result will be such as to gratify all, ID the First precinct the judges have declared thai they have no law but their own sweet will. In spite of this we have every reason to believe that the Hessians will he overcome. O. . im, chairman. ballot hut had been denied w ithout explanation. explana-tion. Mr. Waters was similarly treated. A core of others were registered at headquarters headquar-ters the struggle in the meantime becoming more bitter and the liberals in the meantime making heavy draughts upon their rank and file who must rally to the polls or sustain a largely reduced majority in the city, if not s r. ".- losses in the council. At noon Secretary l.ippmaun arrived from the scene of hostilities in the Fourth precinct pre-cinct and reported that liberal votes were still being slaughtered there. Head fie Riot Act. Voter Sullivan was the first liberal to read I the riot act in forcible terms to "Judge'' I Wells aud to emphasize with a little muscu lar tissue. "You are not entitled to vote!" shrieked Wells. "Pass ou." "What's your challenge';'' demanded the elector. "You are not a resident go on now." "I not," was Sullivan's rejoinder, closely followed by his right hand that lauded with resounding emphasis on the hull-dozer's physiognomy. The fatty form of Arthur Pratt rolled up like an escaped tumor from a ward hospital and he brought his cane don u on the disfranchised dis-franchised elector's shoulders. A riot was Imminent American Ameri-can patriotism was about to assort as-sort itself when an ollicer stepped iu and the discordant elements were escorted across the line where they were released. Quiet was restored. The 11 O'clock Knlletln. Joseph Lipmax, secretary. First I're.luct. The polls in this precinct opened ou time anil about fifty voters were on hand. Ono change in judge was made, the name of W. A. Houston being substituted for that of .1. M. Hamilton who was absent. During the forenoon the voting proceeded quietly at polls 1 and J, but is not so at poll a. At tho last named were two judges, Messrs. McAI. lisler and Pettit, who Insisted upon their right to chall"nge voters and they did it in wholesale style. At 10 o'clock there was a line of men fifty yards in length waiting to deposit their ballots bal-lots who were delayed by the challenging of the judges. Jake ircencw aid was ou hand protesting against the many unwarranted challenges made but his protests went almost al-most wholly unheeded, in calling the attention at-tention of the judges to the instructions of the Utah commission, Mr. Pettit made fhe He following bulletins are posted at lib-erfljheadquarters lib-erfljheadquarters : At 11 O'clock. J Total Liberal Mormon FlH Precinct 889 M SeBut Precinct J060 fi&i MS Precinct lilti 195 I'-'l FoBJth Precinct !'-'.' 181 I : ifl Freciuct :ro a 94 J. 2KB 1320 8 JpnUBii majority, 14. ) i At .'i O'clock. M Total. Liberal. Mormon Fir precinct 1071 B15 5M (second precinct 1M.M1 lij.'s h2o Third precinct m 285 13 Fourth precinct 5M 250 2SH Fifth precinct lbti'J 70'.).'. 369 4024 241 8489 Liberal majorityis. The struggle opened with fiercer zeal than lias ever take i place at the ballot box in Salt Lake. A1, every precinct the fighting organization- of the liberal party were perfect. per-fect. Notsow.th the enemies. They had neglected much the preliminary work and where there was n heeler or a striker or a challenger lacking in their ranks the democratic dem-ocratic or n publican judges themselves them-selves betrayed ,, disposition to till it. Louisiana in-liouls 1 "i I" manifest (TWlves duriug the first round in the ntrc. aud when everything else failed iidatine measures were resorted to. The X Was that bad feeling began to brew m and without the po lie. An Appeal to Law. Mb'clock ' began to develop that the At 11 o'clock the lirst bulletin was potted at liberal headquarters and showed the follow fol-low iug vote: Total. Liberal. Mormon First Precinct 527 '-SO 288 Second Precinct KXiO 525 525 Third Precinct Mil 195 421 Fourth Precinct Ml 125 137 Filth Precinc t 333 W 94 27KS 1820 1 m Mormon majority at this hour, 10:30 o'clock, o'-clock, 148. Lett lielng Slaughtered, The flardo house tipped its hand and showed its colors shortly after noon when it become known, as a positive fact, that Wells, renuhliean. mormon candidate for broad statement that they were running tho election and that the commission had nothing to do with II, and tho sentiment was echoed by many of the church brethren in the crowd. Various frivolous objections were made by the judges such as mistakes of registrars in initials or in the spelling of surnames and error in street numbers appearing after the liauies of voters. In one instance a vote was rejected after the voter had taken the prescribed oath. The commission was waited upon by a number of eoraplainauts in protest against the artion of the judges. They decided that It wus sufficient for a voter to secure the personal identification of the reg- rifovmci: em... .m.l :.i.-nmu-r. publican Amber- l.n ' i" ' '" "en:v,-e e iwral and to sustain auy aud all chal-that chal-that appeared with the faintest evi-of evi-of validity. aiat hour the frauds became so evident appeal was made to the United commissioner for redress. 1-In the hr t pre. inet .: 11 i- t ported thnt . J). ?!.-( 'a I-!..-:, r ait 1 U 11. Pel tit, the . j1- ..'.ajpuhllf :.f .judgea had re-(P'ppfr-erlen'iYi.liil were chalienginit I ; A mtfa Thomas Walker, a liberal ,67 years of Hrf. ii'i'ii eil at headquarters and reported thtl Jb: name had i n voted by some dem- OCi i er ri puibliian at the opening of the pol i fcK'iltcson W. Baysinger reported from the Pel Id precinct thai he had been robbed of sia4pod liberal vote by some man who had' en smuggled iu over his name. Tin .o facts were submitted to the commis-sione commis-sione 'wli" sent word hack that the development develop-ment of fraud on the part of any judge would lead to peremptory dismissal. mayor had transposed positions with Lett, the deinocratie-mormon eaudidate for the same office and that under a timely "manifestation' "mani-festation' from the church and the heads of the church the latter was being slaughtered that Wells, a lineal deseendent, might at least assert the remaining power of polygamy. It was also charged that this order was issued with the approval of the ultra mor. rrion-deraocrats and thi.t with the mormon- republicans It bad been agreed that the' election elec-tion of either was a tacit endorsement of tho Faulkner . Caine bill for home rule. This arrangement was especially apparent in the Third ward where it was openly charged that the church par ishioners were dealing in bad faith aud sacrificing sacri-ficing tho mormon democrats in favor of church devotiou. Until the leaders were consulted and forced to admit that this had been a compact between them iu favor of home rule there was a fierce growl but the "democrats" who rallied around Lett believing that "division on party lines" was j ill cere istrar who who registered him, but it remains to be seen whether Messrs. Pettit and McAllister will heed that requirement. It was naturally a matter of common comment com-ment that opposition desire to defeat tho liberals in this precinct by crowding out a large portion of the liberal vote. At noon there was a line of nearly one hundred meu before the third poll awaiting their turn to vote or receive challenges from election judges, Pettit and MeCallister. Th ether two polls were practically clear of ,, work. Xo arrests had been t eportcdi The judges arc: Poll 1 William .1. Lynch, E. B. Critchlow aud .T. W. Houston. Poll 3 Harrison Spiers, W. F. Shcltonand Fergus Coalter. Poll 3 M. I). Taylor, James McAllistel and P. H. Pettit. The hour of 8 at the polls found 138 men In line at the 3d poll, where Pettit and McAllister Mc-Allister are challenging so extensively. This poll is lettered from P to Z. The 1st poll lettered A to ii was clear of men in line oud there were less than twenty men in linn High Handed Proceedings. Tron the Fourth came a report that the mormon republican and mormon democratic judges were slaughtering and throwing out liberal votes in job 'lots. At pol I in tills precinct the mormon Vorabine was represented by ('haiiesllieksoiiaudW.il. By wat r. Poll :5 i showing the ezar-like hand of Arthur ,TVn with R. S. Brown as his mormon mor-mon li u a.ant. Challenges were being ar-bitraril ar-bitraril st taincd. Tue liberal judge was being r nivlessly suppressed and set aside withou si lerence whatever to the merits of his tOU. Finally, and after vote upon vote ha vi.ien arbitrarily and fraudulently set asid i revolt came and the voters de-tenuiui de-tenuiui ,",!,'' secure from the courts what they ha mi ien denied at the polls, j A Action for Damages, A till of them started for Judge Pow. er's of T'.nd setting up their grievances, actiunlj-' the collection of damages dam-ages brought by B. F. Hill, L. V lh)'.'?' H- Eldred and E. Davoy ajft'ni ui. Hiekson and W. H. Bywater of I T H WuKjd by John Noonau and Jphn i H ' 'ast Arthur Brown aud R. a. 'I 'nHoWradges at poll each demanding I sum of 13000. HT''plaiut sets up that they were i. ' land legally registered, that tut HI b.,.1 li.rp I-ieen vrttora f the Hack in the Fourth. In the meantime Harry f urran took cog. nltance of the assault made upon Voter Sullivan Sul-livan by Arthur Pratt, and the latter was arrested and taken before Commissioner Com-missioner Grecdman on a complaint charging him with assault with a deadly weapon' Pratt was taken before the. commissioner and held to answer in tho sum of I'JOO. He gavo bond and was released. AFTER 2 O'CLOCK. At this hour a messenger arrived from the Fourth precinct and announced that the democratic-mormon and republican-niormon representatives on the board of judges had detected the ahsoluto, if not the fatal stupidity stupid-ity of tlieir high handed policy of the nioru-ing nioru-ing and had decided to alter it so as to admit the legal voters who had been refused upon this information a bulletin was hoisted and read as follows; Fourth Precinct Attention! "Those rejected this morning should again apply to vote. Word has been received that the judges have abandoned their high-handed proceedings. Offer your vote agaiu." These tidings were received with rousing rous-ing demonstrations and interpreted as the first plea of guilty to the steady flow of complaints that had poured in from the precinct during the morning. at that, one, the, 2d. It was a subject of universal comment by liberal voters around the polls, the extraordinary extra-ordinary amount of challenging being done by the. judges nt poll ,1, and it was a common remark among them that tha dilatory methods were resorted to to defeat the liberals In that precinct or cut down their majority thero to a minimum figure. Many legal votes have been lost there through want of time to reach poll 3 and through the arbitrary action of the judges In deciding that they were not qualified. At the hour above named It was estimated that it would reijuire two hours for all of tho men then in liue and many more voters were arriving while soino were leaving through impatience in waitiug upon the unusually slow methods prevailing. It is thought that the democrats will lead the republicans nearly or quite two to ono in the vote of this precinct and the liberals express themselves as confident that they will have a larger vote than hoth combined there, notwithstanding the drawbacks re. ferred to. fiecond Precinct. The scene at the Second precinct this morning was an auiuiated one. Deputy sheriffs, deputy United States marshals, po-liccmen, po-liccmen, ticket distributors, workers for three parties, challengers, a string of voters and crowds of curious spectators added va. r"i t irtug the time required by law r" ' B, . ) l-jvii been unlawfully denied I Wht "franchise. ' "Wji each of the ballots tendered by k'cr H'Ts and refused by the democratic and ha H cm judges is a certificate which reads Tt W i ike ' i t v, Feb. S. This ballot was ii'1 I precinct, Salt LalfO City, 1'tah, It' 1S( and refused by I I ef election. jroi I :; o'clock Intense feeling and the Si Bter rivalry had developed over the ss IU , mormon combine in erery pre. ' '" Jji i omplaints e.e pouring Into r i jar,i:rs ud luc follow'nS admonition MP Order No. t. TP JBLniji ABTrns Citt LineRAt, Cxmtz, ) n c i Wf Campaign. February, II".!'.', V U Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 8, UN, ) At the same hour it became known that the bishop had driven direct from a conference at the Gardo hauso where he was authorized to state to the "parish-loners" "parish-loners" of the Fourth precinct that it was the de-ire of the heads of the church that they cast their remaining strength for Ileber M. Wells, the republican nominee for mayor. This caused fierce in-dignution in-dignution among those who had stood loyally loy-ally to Lett, the demoernticraortnon candidate candi-date for mayor USd woile there was a disposition ou their part to bolt and cast their few remaining votes for Judge i Bnskiu they yielded to the advice of their leaders. The result is that Lett is being mercilessly slaughtered and the "lineal de scendent" of the "faith" strppiug into his place on the ticket. Bulletin No. 3. At o:00 o'clock the following bulletin was posted at liberal headquarters: Tn.nl I ,..,-,! V. . , riety to the scene. The voting went ou quietly hut there were many challenges. A big part of tbeso were the result of the misspelling of name and after a lot of "chew ing the rug" the ballot was allowed to drop iu the box. Sometimes, however, I didn'l go ami tho would-be voter hurried' off to get things lixetl up. There were up to 10 o'clock one or two challenges ou the score of non-residence. The judges iu the second precinct are aa follows: Poll i T. D. Lewis, G. H. Blsckburu and H. Kelley. Poll- S. P. Armstrong,.!. L Green aud John K. Bullon. Polio D. Van Burkirk, X. L. Morris aud C. M. Hamilton. Poll 4-c. H Martin, R. 9. Kimball and J. W. Skinner. Poll 5 W. C. Burton, Thomas Hill and I). W. Gamble. id,, liberal voter should ronow hie efforts for Icon.-' rsl cause. The most flagrant frauds are i v. iroetrated. The names of liberal are be. r . d by the opposition. Liberals sod old res-inn res-inn jo being challenged and the most frivolous se , ated. These challenges are arbitrairlly ' at' . pi. There is ample ptoofof -i cons r ft -let the entire city aiiionj democratic and n .an judges of Mexican lze the city. Report ,,l t . pi: rters. W shall heVy "j romhlned oihk" ition, bat thelawleea coi :si fof the hesshm- should oerre every man ,,, .., , that Salt i r j-. is not Bteh d the r.cht! f O, W, POWBB8, Chairman. Jos. U jrMAN, Secretary. !Like showers In April, t ni.inntime Chairman Powers bad or-a or-a staff of Clerks at liberal head. emd :r:ive Ins Unctions to keep re-the re-the minutest fraud or complaint. U like showers in April, i McCarthy and Frederick Miller re-ii, re-ii, on the Fourth precinct that they jcii arbitrarily refused on a chui-ileuii chui-ileuii ' twitinK up that, tliey wore : First precinct 1H7) MS (H Second precinct 1350 TKi MB Thlrf precinct 285 613 Fourth precinct IS3 250 286 Fifth precinct 1089 TOO 858 4ffiM 24s4 2131) I At this junction Chairman Powers aain i announced that there was an opportunltv ! yet for rejected liberal to get in their rot in the Fourth and another bite" wagon load of the electors who bad been disfranchised tool; their departure for the locality. At the same time it was reported that the mormon democrat-republican opposition had finally been outwitted by the use of democratic or republican badgee on the breast of the voter vo-ter and that this ruse had over.eomo tne objections ob-jections launched by Arthur brown and his myrmidons. Nefarious Taeties. The same nefmiotis tactics were being re-sorted re-sorted to in tho Third ward at this hour and ,cHorU to truwd out a igjjal voter resulted Eight Totes were cast out on account ot "polygamy," The Tilled Precinct. The voting in the Third precinct is being held In the Sixteenth ward schoolhouse, corner of Fourth West and Second North. Everything is quiet. Oat of a total of 1000 registered thero had been some 700 vote cast at 1 p. m. The judges are as follows: Foil 1 T. J. Euerille. K. U Hawkins aud Win. Spry. Foil ii R. L, Conely, J. L. Ncbeker and J, L. llayward. ,T. W, Robinson was arrested for trying to vote when his residence Is in Draper, lie had lived hero for some eight years, hut had taken his family and moved away about a , year ago. Some six months ago he returned aud is working for the Kio Grande Waster, but his family is still at Draper. He was taken to the city bail, but was let go as soon, as these facts were known. juav is said to tic ruuniw; itbead-ol tn J Vull election returns will be uuuoiFU'Bii the People' Theater tonight ticket, the demoefati arc said to ho scratching scratch-ing their man. Fourth I'reclnct. The scene around the polls was an exciting excit-ing one. Challenges galore were reported. From sixty to seventy liberal voters were refused before IS o'clock and the strain was becoming intense. The judges carried ou affairs with a htirh hand and It looks as though there would he trouble before night. The judges are: Poll 1 C. B. Hyson, W. U. Hywater and Henry T. Ball. Poll d Arthur lirown, R. S. Wells and T. M. Fisher. The liberal party was prepared for the challenge in the Fourth precinct, and had pasters tiled. The following is one that n reporter saw there, and was pasted on the outside of the envelope holding the ballot: Thin ballot was offered hy Jsmes ('. Devannv at one, in Dm Fourth precinct. Salt Lake City, Utah, on Feb. Mil, 1892, and refused by I has. s. lis and W. H. Hywater. iSigi eli Hknrv I, Hell. Witness: F. Tiummkii. John Gorman, who has lived here sonic Bi years, was charged with trying lo sell his Tote, and was arrested, Arthur Brown milking milk-ing the charge. James K. lohlio'who has lived in Salt I.uke oil and on for some eight years and at one time owued property in the (Twentieth ward, was refused his vote, lie says the reasuii is that he worked for Billy Ryan, and that he was going to vote the liberal ticket. That settled it. Mike Ryan, w ho went up to vote, was refused re-fused and created a little scene. He offered to swear to his residence, hut he w as bustled out of the way for the next one in line. There has been from M to 40 votes in line at each polling place all morning. There are between 1900 to 1400 votes registered in this precinct, and I hero will have to be rapid work done to get all the votes in, as there v ill have to be more than n vote caslo in each polling place every minute to get the full vote In. Arthur I'ratt was arrested at I 'J o'clock for Knocking down a man who wanted to light because his vote was refused. At 1 o'clock there was fortv nr tlftv men ond are in the business part of tho city, and they uaturully attracted many who came not merely for the privilege of voting but as onlookers, and scores who had voted remained re-mained in the vicinity to witness the contest. con-test. Ticket venders were as thick as bees, and the street in front was a scene of life through the constant going and coming of vehicles of the three parties. The liberals were much better represented by teams than was tho opposition. The judges are : Roll 1 F. N. Shelly, T. V. Williams and E. E. 8heppard. Roll '2 K. B. Piatt, E. C. O. Farnsworth and H. ('. Reiat. Poll u J. R. Winder, jr.. J, J. Bryan and V. B. Dolliver. At this precinct there had been nearly one hundred challenges made up to ISiWp, m. With very few exceptions the challenged men got in their ballots. There was apparently no obstruction tactics tac-tics pursued in this precinct as in the First, and there was comparatively little inconvenience incon-venience experienced by a scramble to reach the polls. Shortly after high noon Joe Ueoguan was arrested for intimidating a voter. It was merely loud talking and a little bluff that caused the urrest, and it isn't probable that anything will come from it. Several hy-stunders hy-stunders offered to go on Mr. tleoghan's bond, and he was at large in a few moments ution his recognizance. At '2 o'clock there was the same scene of activity abOttt the polls that there had been during the for' noon. The republicans had just followed the democrats up with a band wagon and were entertaining the large multitude mul-titude with music. Since the noon hour challenging bad dwindled down matcrialy, there having but few of them since 12 o'clock. No arrests have been made since the one previously reported. Some liberals claim that they will carry this precinct by a vote of more than two to one over the combined opposition, and as. sert that they will carry the banner away from the Second as the strongest liberal precinct in the city. At MS tho Fifth precinct polls presented the same scene of animation that had pre vailed there since earlv in tho day. Votin was progressing at a lively rate, without, however, much challenging or crowding iu effort to reach the polls. The opposition was working hard, but the, men of neither of the two factions were making claim of carrying the precinct. The liberals claimed that they had their vote well in hand and that their strength would be very much larger than that of both of their opponents together. There had been no disturbances in the way of lighting or riotous conduct since the. noon hour; pence officers were on hand u,uitc sufficient suf-ficient In number to keep order. in line. At poll 1 410 votes had been cast and 1M0 at poll About ninety lilieral Totes bad up to that hour been thrown out and the excitement was running high. Pater Meyer, a shoemaker, who has lived in the city some two years and w hose residence resi-dence is .M5 Sixth street, was refused. He wa- ready and willing to swear to his residence resi-dence and to how long lie had been In the precinct. He. was asked but two questions: one was, if he had voted before. Ho said no. He had his dinner bucket in his hand and he was asked, whether he wa going to work. After these pertinent questions his vole was refused John Miller, a brick setter, who hai lived in Salt Lake for the last two years, was refused. re-fused. He bad moved iu the Fourth precinct pre-cinct on December 'Jllth and was a qualified voter. (.'. T. Doyle and tieo. Mcrleon, who had been refii-ed It) the morning, tried it again this afternoon and got their vote in, one of them wearing a democratic badge, is sup- posed to be the cause of the change of heart Of the judges. Fifth J'reelnct. The three polls in this precinct were opened with sonic thirty voters In attendance. attend-ance. The judges being all present there were no vacancies to till. By I o'clock there were two hundred or more men at the polls and iu proximity but there was no especial rush to get iu balluts, and the voting vot-ing proceeded quietly. Challeuees were not numerous, and the conimison was not burdened bur-dened wiih complaints from this district as from the lirst. The polls of the Oftn like those of the sec- The iterate Vote. The following figures are found In the records at the uthce of the secretary of the territory as the official returns since the February election, 1S90, and are posted as a guide for those w ho arc today "speculating" ou the liberal majority, KKRfKARV VOTB 1SP0, Liberal SM0 People's i!TM Liberal Majority 768 AlOl'ST AOTB lHflO. Liberal 8MH People's MH ; Liberal Majority lotr, aceerr fan ihul Literal 3S01 "Democrat" gri Ktipuhlicau. Lilieral Plurality lorn l.iln-ral .Majority 714 |