Show A PLURALITY IS NOT THE SAME AS A MAJORITY the demerec news brings out a point relative to the salt lako election which many people are apt to overlook when they discuss tho subject 0 a three cornered election under the caption some facts and fig the news say s now that the excitement over the city election Is cooling down and it Is possible perhaps for people to use reason without that extreme bias that strong partisanship gives to many minds we would like to present a fact or two for general consideration there were three tickets in the field according to published returns one 0 them polled votes the next on the list and the third and least 1985 what does this prove that the ticket supported by the largest number of votes represents the majority 0 the citizens not at all add together the democratic and republican votes and the sum will be deduct from that the total of the american vote and you haw a balance of in excess of that vote thus it will be seen that pie largo majority of the voting citizens of salt lake had no affiliation with the faction that obtained a plurality in the contest so far as the political situation is concerned we mention thee for the benefit 0 people who do not take pains to investigate matters but run away frequently on incorrect notions and are led by assertions which have no foundation in truth in addition to the large number ot voting citizens who did not follow the crowd that gained a plurality 0 only over the democratic vote quite a number of people stayed away from the polls and did not cast a ballot for either party in the contest thus it will be seen that iho control of tho city is not in the hands of abo majority 0 the people but of a minority which slipped into power through the gap between the other two parties to the conflict |