Show r ii POLITICAL REMINISCENCES JI The First Opposition in UtahA Joke on the Church Party Speaking about politics in Utah JJ said an old pioneer to a DEMOCRAT reporter yesterday afternoon reminds me of the first ticket that was ever put in the field here in opposition to the Church Party That was twentytwo years ago and the people made a great deal of fun of us for trying to oppose the church ticket Wo polled sixLvotes The people voted about as solid then as they do now observed the DEMOCRAT a Why they voted the chur h ticket without even reading it and some of the opposition proved it Ill tell you how it was Le Grande Young had been nominated nomi-nated for police judge by the Church party and some of us thought it would be a fine joke to substitute the name of Bishop Woolley on the tibket in the place of Youngs We did so had several thousand tickets printed in that way and distributed at the polls Bishop Woolley himself did not know of the matter for I met him on the street the day before and asked him if he would serve as police judge if we elected him He replied laughingly that he would treating the matter as a joke Well the result of the scheme was that JJ when the ballots came to be counted the next day Bishop Woolley was about 700 votes ahead of the church candidate The outcome was as great a surprise Woolley who did not know he was being voted for as it was to the people peo-ple who did not know whom they were voting for and showed that they voted their tickets without reading them But you must have had assistance in distributing the tickets Yes we did Several members of the church party were let into the joke and helped us out by distributing the tickets at the polls That was about ten JJ years ago But everything is changed now and people vote more intelligently chimed the reporter They do do they inquired the pioneer with a sarcastic smile Mebbe they do but between you and I and this bullpup I believe the same joke could be as successfully perpetrated today as it was then JJ and the pioneer walked away to discuss Clevelands cabinet cabi-net with a street orner statesman |