Show THE ELECTION both parties are polling their full strength to days election his has aroused more interest inte iest among the people than any that has been held in this territory in one county and five districts for the L legislature e g the relative strength of the parties is nearly equal while in all the others the peoples party are largely in the majority in the close districts today to day a very heavy vote in ia beins being polled up to 3 p m the apropo proportion r tion of registered voters that teat have cast their ballots being far ahead of any previous election in the five precincts of this city both p parties artes are developing their full strength tr en th there are three tickets in the field g e 1 T F peoples eo ples liberal and american the two latter belong to the same party and are identical the only difference being in the word noted in salt lake county the ellb liberals are running michael gibbons for selectman hugh D for treasurer john W greenman for collector ana J F Mili millspaugh lor to au superintendent er in of district schools with with the exception of capt greenman the candidates are comparatively unknown in the various precincts of this city both parties have committees who are working hard for the success of their respective tickets the system of 0 working seems to be pretty thorough thought in the fifth precinct the peoples party men do not appear to be as well up in their business as their opponents there is very litt leif any scratching being done on either side both parties voting solid and straight the lines are very closely drawn the mormons cormons Mor mons voting for the peoples candidates while all others without exception sustain their opponents at the first precinct at 1 pm votes in all had been polled the ballots on the constitution will be counted by the judges there everything is proceeding quietly at inthe in the first precinct votes had bad been cast the number registered gist ered is at the polling place in the second precinct the county court house the scene was one of life interest and animation all day both parties were working hard bard each had from twenty to twenty five men with or without conveyances hunting up voters and bringing them to the polls prominent amons among the workers for the liberal ticket were A H kelly the book binder and C H parsons the book seller at two mr varian ask edithe election judges if they would be governed by a statement from the signal officer as to the hour of sunset when the law requires the polls to be closed he stated that almanacs differed the judges answered in the affirmative in the third precinct the peoples party had an easy walkover walk over up to half past one the voting was as heavy as when the ladies exercised the right of franchise which fact shows how earnest the voters of the peoples party in that precinct are in the effort to prolong good government up to the hour named had bad been cast and of these lesef that ten per cent and a number who had bad watched the polls thought not more than five or six per cent were liberal everything had been quiet about the polling places the sixteenth ward school hou seand only a few persons could be seen in the vicinity when a reporter visited it the vote of the precinct however will be very full at the twentieth ward schoolhouse where the fourth precinct election is ia being held there is considerable activity and in all ail is a peaceable le the people largely arg el ay p predominate redo ate in n that district and a are e out I 1 in force orce they have made sure the success of their candidates from that section the fifth precinct voters cast their ballots at the city hall during the day both tickets have been going lively the only trickery indulged in up to 3 8 p m w was on the part of a well known liberal who took a number of peoples tickets and inserted the name of thomas marshall in place of john HW RW iader hader for councilor and distributed them about how many were cast before the deception was noticed is unknown there were several instances during the day where discussion grew pretty warm over challenges to soldiers who had registered one of these was in the case of a man named handy who had enlisted in about 30 80 days after his discharge he refused to be sworn and answer the questions of the judges so his vote was refused some of the soldiers who were challenged were permitted to vote at 8 p m the number of votes in two this precinct hal had reached |