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Show TELLTALE FIGURES OF TUESDAY POINT TO GREAT AMERICAN VICTORY Church Tricksters and the Registration With colors flying, gloriously triumphant and flred with enthusiasm of the kind that Only hard, cold, telltale figures Inspire, the Americans are off in the city election race off first and away in the lead on the first lap of the fight that is to give Salt Lake a city government of Americans. Better than thirty-eight hundred votes for Mayor Bransford and his council candidates is the story told hy Tuesday's registration out of a total of about 4700 voters registered. Tlie Americans swept the town and the great- est registration was recorded in the history of the city for the first day's registering for a city election. It was done In spite of score upon score of dirty -icks practiced hy church registration j agents the different districts. It was an American registration from the hour the polls opened in the morning till 9 o'clock at night, and If the church politicians sought to show their strength they failed dismally. No one believes they did, however. Theirs is a waiting game and they played to their hand Tuesday. Not a rig, not an automobile nor a district worker Of either church party showed up In a single district to got out the supporters of Profit Smith's tickets. The Americans raked the districts with fine-toothed combs and the tally shows the result. There are many to register on Oct. 29, but the registration Tuesday broke all records for the first day's registration reg-istration the city has ever known. & & The church politicians played their dirty tricks to the limit. The workers that turned out were brazen in their methods and stooped to anything to gain their ends. First they tried the "transfer" "trans-fer" bluff, and made it stick in half a dozen districts. dis-tricts. An American voter in the Twenty-second precinct came up to register. She had lived in the state a little less than a year the year would be completed several days before election day. The registration agent of the Twenty-second refused re-fused to register her. Sixty days a resident of the city, four months in the county and a year in the state on or before election day is the law that states the qualification a voter must possess to vote the American ticket hero. The law says nothing about transfers being made out and shown when voters move from one district to another. an-other. The woman who tried to register In the Twenty-second district was turned down because "she couldn't show a transfer from the district she lived in last year." They played the game oven more strenuously A in the Thirty-first, where a relative of Fussy Jimmy's officiated at the registration table. Voters wore refused the right to register on every pretext Imaginable, and throe times during the day and once, during the evening the odorous tricks came so thick and fast that the American party leaders officially notified County Clerk El-dredgo El-dredgo that they would stand such tactics no longer. Other districts reported trouble along the same lines. In spite of It all, the American registration swamped the clerks. The tricksters were unquestionably sent out and told to go the limit and keep out of jail. & & The church politicians are already getting In their colonization graft. Positive information was received at the American party headquarters yesterday tliat by Nov. 1 eight citizens of Price, Utah, will be called here by the church and told to stay antl "get to work." The names of the eight have been furnished the party men and in all probability if the trick of two years ago is tried, they'll travel the road to the city Jail. From Summit and Draper come similar reports. There is positive information on hand from two other places, north of Salt Lake, to the effect that the church has ordered in about twenty men from each place and they are to arrive eaiiy In the coming month. Chairman Darmer and his assistants are now busy checking up the registration sheets with the canvass made by the Americans. These canvass can-vass sheets show every voter In the city and the tally Is being made to deteot attempted irregularities irregu-larities in the registration of- Smootites and Morris Mor-ris men. t Fusion is nursing its wounds and preparing for another session with the church party leaders. The latter are floundering hopelessly in the ml re of doubt and losing valuable time, while their canvassers And out which way the wind blows. The game of the church men came to light Thursday, when It was definitely learned that the canvassers of both the Democrats and Smoot people peo-ple are making a tour of every district In an effort to find out the vote-pulling power of Morris and Plummor. The Democrats ask simply tho number of voters In each house of a district for Morris and the Mormons ask the vote for Plummor Plum-mor at oaoh place. When the results of tho canvass can-vass are made known tho relative strength ot If Morris and Plummer will be fairly shown up for the benefit of the party lenders. "Whichever pulls the strongest in tlia canvass gets the church vote. To date the party leaders of either gang don't know where they stand, and this accounts for the lack of activity on their part registration day, j Tuesday. I Chairman Doviho of the Smoot Republican's and Chairman Snow of the church Democrats have held almost dally conferences all week long : and once the returns are in from the canvass being made, the word will go out as to Lhe way the church vote will bo swung on Nov. 6th. i? & J There Is no question as to fusion in the First I ward. The ticket will go up with Hodgson for the long term and Murdoch for the short term. ' It is stated on good authority that the resigna tion of H. L. Penrose Is now in the hands of the steering committee of the First and that the I fracas Is ended the ticket to be put up as Jt stands. In the Second there is plenty of trouble. When Currle found that Hodgson, a Democrat, had drawn the long term in tho First h demanded the long term in the Second. This meant the ousting of George Burbldgo an utlor impossibility, impossibil-ity, accoi-dlng to Burbidgo's friends-nnd they 1 threaten to make trouble a-plenty if it is at tempted. If it wont through it would look like Burbldgo and Davy In the second a thing that would never do, according to tho party leaders. The fight in the Second will depend somewhat on the outcome of the canvass being made on Plum mer and Morris b tho church disciples. It is reported re-ported that J. M. Hays, long term Republican in tho Fifth, has resigned. Tho rumor is strenu-j strenu-j . ously denied, but It is believed that there I a cry for fusion in this ward from tho party leaders and that someone's head wljl have to come off. Thoso who know claim that the canvass or 1 mayor among tho Democrats and Smoot sup- ! porters looks like a walkaway for Plummer, and If such is the case, Plummer will draw the entire church vote In the city and as many from out of town as can be gotten past the challengers on I election day by the brethren. t t t I If ever a party organization jumped Into the limelight of efficiency and thoroughness it was Tuesday. Chairman Darmer has perfected his machine to the highest point of activity and accomplishment, ac-complishment, and the work wont with a rush and thoroughness that speaks volumes for what is coming on Oct. 20 and Nov. 5. From Chairman Dnrmer to the block captains there is to be no let-up. The town is American Wild. Men aro coming from long trips to vote their tickets. Scores of Amerlonns who aro going to California for the winter are staying for the chance to take a good swipe single-handed at the Profit on Brlgham street. It is the duty of every American who has not registered to do so Oct. 20. In the meantime Salt Lake Is slowly working toward the vortex of the greatest political fight in its history a fight that is won already and a fight that spells n licking for the disgruntled ones that will prove the best they over received. |