Show i For the DEMOCRAT tu THE LAT ELECTION A Few Facts and Figure lertaiii IT3K to the 15csult ou 13 011 < iay Lust To THE EDITOR If yon should happen to have a little spare space in your columns col-umns for an occasional rorreppondenr T shall be pleased to pay a few words relative rela-tive to the late election in this city To preface what I have to say I need hardly remind your readers that from the first inception of a movement on the part of a few young Democrats which looked to a final organization of the Democratic party in Salt Lakq andidtimately throughout the Territory the movement lf5s been met by a very persistent and determined opposition from two sources the Mormon Peoples party and the Salt Lake Tribune and its backer When one considers that one of the great objections urged bv the Tribune to tho Mormon theocracy is that it is practically a union of Church and State that there is a strong plank in the platform of the Democratic party opposing such union of Chut hand h-and State it would fcem hardly credible that the Tribune should from the start have joined with the Church organs in an effort to cripple the new organ of the Democracy and render of no avail its efforts to break down Church rule which I I forty years ago John Taylor denounced ae a monster But not only this the Teilune on the day preceding the election could find t no choice between the Democratic ticket which was nominated partly to oppose a union of Church and State and the Peoples Peo-ples ticket which the Tribvnr knows very well was instigated by the leaders l of a churchruling theocracy I there was no choice between these tickets why does the Tribune take such an active part in pretending to try to break up the Church ruleBut But after this digression t will now proceed ceed toward the point I had in view when I set out which is t look at and reason upon the result of Mondays election The Salt Lake Herald in its issue of Tuesday alluding to the election says i i Neither the Peoples party or the Dem I i ocrats or Liberals can boast much over the showing by Mondays election Referring Re-ferring to the registration lists it says There are between 6000 and 7000 persons per-sons in this city entitled to vote 3187 i of these voters cast ballots on Monday 2707 of them voted the church or Peoples ticket 335 the Democratic and 119 the I Republican ticket I The registered figures given by the regstered Herald are rather indefinite arid not having a list before me I will suppose that the registered voters number 6500 and as the votes cast are only 3187 it will appear that not onehalf of those entitled voted on Monday and of those yho did vote only 2737 voted the Church ticket jhisconiiection it may iiot be amiss InJ to remark to the gentlemen elfccted to offics on Monday that they do not represent a majority of the voters Like II Hayes the fraudulent President they were placed in office by a minority The Mormons claim as I have always I understood that those who art not i for arc against them I such be the j fact then of the 6500 voters in Sal Lake City only 2737 are fO the Church or Peoples ticket Seeing I See-ing that the church organs and the speakers speak-ers at all the wards did as usual urge I the voters to go to the polls and vote the Peoples ticket it is reasonable to suppose j sup-pose that all who could he drummed upi up-i to vote that ticket did so I the Mormon Mor-mon saying above is true the sentiments of the registered voters stand thus For the Peoples ticket 2737 Against the Peoples ticket 3763 Majority against the latter 1026 This showing seems to have given alarm to the Herald for in closing < < its tl I article it says Ve shall await with interest the returns re-turns from the Territory I no better showing can he made than has been done in this city it will suggest a lethargy on the part of the people that is i threatening threaten-ing I will thus be seen that the Herald which is an energetic oran or-an of the Peoples party has I fear of danger to the party for which it j so earnestly works and those fears are doubtless well grounded for if the same state of facts should be found to exist throughout the Territory it is evident that the people will begin to view the monster a union of Church and State of oligarchy in the hands an irresponsible ol garchy as dangerous to their liberties as John Taylor did in 1844 and that the time is not far distant when they will improve im-prove on the habit of refusing to t vote by going to the polls i and voting the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket Whatever interested parties outside oi the Democratic party may say or think i seems clear to me that although our vote is but small tIt prospect is i by no means discouraging While the Peoples Bosses could bring out only 2737 votes and the Tribune Bosses could muster only 119 in the city there is ample reason to hope that the people will ere long break loose from the I leadership of their Bosses and vote the And Mr Editor Democratic ticket now ifr let me say a word to yourself Never I mind the howling barking and snarling of the Xfir Herald Enquirer and the Tribune Tray Blanche Sweet Heart and Bulldogge would smother the i DEMOCRAT if they could but the life of Democracy is above and beyond their power to destroy Let them howl IDJ |