The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo

DEFEATED.
The Mormons Badly Left and the Gentiles Victorious.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 11.—The municipal election in this city passed off quietly yesterday contrary to general expectations, as the city had been crowded for days with special police, detectives and United States Marshals for the purpose of preventing illegal voting, to which each party claims the other would resort for the purpose of carrying the day, and it was anticipated that an attempt to challenge and arrest some of the voters would result in riot and bloodshed. This, however, was not realized, though the excitement was intense. Half of the business houses were closed. Bands paraded the streets and the thoroughfares were crowded with excited citizens who realized that upon the result of to-day's battle depended the future of the Mormon church as a political organization.
The voting passed off quietly as in some hamlet for a country justice. Only six arrests were made for attempting to vote illegally and these were without any demonstration from either side. Chairman Richards said it was impossible to say which side was victorious until the complete returns should be counted.
The Mormons claim that fraud has been the order of the day with the Gentiles, and if they are victorious it will have been by these methods, and in this event they will contest the election to the supreme court of the United States.

The polls closed at 6 o'clock and the liberal leaders posted a bulletin in the windows of the headquarters claiming a majority of 1200. The news soon spread over the city and the Gentiles took possession. Flags were run up and every Gentile building in the city was decorated. Fireworks were sent up from hundreds of housetops, cannons boomed and bonfires were seen upon every corner and hundreds of men in line paraded the streets with drums and torches, shouting like wild men over their victory.
The Mormons remain indoors and have nothing to say on the result except that the election was carried by fraud and that they will early contest it. They admit their defeat, but claim the majority will not exceed 400.