| Show STD BI rOlf u W Fownts I In San Francisco Francis-co presumably enjoying the JlOOOO I reward paid for the nery of the government rf this city Into tlie bands eta clique who for certain reasons were willing to pay that sum for Ibe services rendered by a single man in aid of that project In an interview with him which np pears in tiiesaniranciscoixrwiicic tbe SI 1 0000 is referred tots a present pres-ent The fS which medical students stu-dents piy a body snatcher for a subject to be dissected I a present of a similar sr More than one analogy might be drawn between these two presents or rather the transactions they represent repre-sent Powers describe tho tnodu O rarm Lay which n ho alleges the Liberals won the city election here I b f doing be sayst And risht here I desire correct i an impression that has gone abroad that we were successful becacra of the fact that many Morons were disfranchised disfran-chised by the Edmunds Ian We won because we had the most people on our sde I have at hand a card giving the figures of our canvass a it I flood on December ls The total number of name then reported was 5 Straight Gentile 1S27 Straight Mormon 43T2 doubtful tn This Includes every man then reported as above 21 years of a I Includes the disfranchised polygamUts and it shows thatgiving them the 419 doubtful doubt-ful votes there is a Gentile majority overall Salt Lake City i no longer Mormon It in an American Moron I Amercn city I The Gentiles own more than onehalf hee real estate in value fullvono half I the houses do more than Onehalf the business pay mote than onobalf the taxes aDd compose more than one i half the population Siatcbood is not expected to be given east once but w care c-are taking lung slide In that direction ton Figures cant 10 but men who put them forward frequently do The statement that there Is a Gentile Gen-tile majority of male adult residents in this city giving 11 doubtful names to the ° Mormons rises like a Mount JTibo the ld among conspicuous conspicu-ous Inexactitudes which have been created like a mountain chain along the lines of the late content by tho Liberal leaders and managers man-agers The ordinary monumental le of a political campaign in the eist bo I remembered I as a gravestone grave-stone to a mountain when compared com-pared to some of the statement promulgated by Liberals In regard re-gard to tho recent election In this eityBut But Power memory failed him when he undertook to recount to the i tftrontcie reporter the manner In which the Liberal secured a victory vic-tory The yeoman service rendered by the doughty David Webb In having the names of Peoples Party voters stricken from the lit the rulings cf the mighty registrars who exercised supreme authority to which the highest court In the land was required to bow and even the registration car and contingents of voters from P V Junction Pratts Siding Castle Gate Grand Junction I Junc-tion CoL ce were all unmention tone by Powers Yet all these elements of Liberal success are matters of notoriety here and no account of the election could be even approximately complete or truthful which omitted mention of them By way of closing Powers rc maiked In August we expect to carry the county witthands down nnd obtain control of the county government and we have more than a fighting chnncc of carrying the Territory next Xo ember em-ber and of electlnga Gentile delegate 1 to Congress We are going to make a strong fight and we propose to win I When the first emotions of astonishment as-tonishment subside which thi boast of intended capture of this county and Territory by the Liberals Liber-als inevitably occasions the question ques-tion recurs Why not I the I minority can win a city why not 1 countyT Likewise a Territory 1 the Liberals can muster a population popu-lation of 40000 acalnst a Pmnl K i Party population of 100000 in i the whole Territory why should not the former elect the next Delegate to Congress Such questions will be asked by unsophisticated irsotw who are unfamiliar with Liberal tactics But the history of the contest con-test lately waged in this city shows how easy I L to create a Liberal majority when the courts registrars and all the machinery of elections Ire completely sulject to the manipulation i manip-ulation of men to whom success will bring ten thousand dollar presents |
