noon
It rained on Election Day , a cold November drizzle that elated the Democrats . `` A rainy day always brings a Democratic victory , '' said Amos , gloomily , voicing the general superstition . The day was a legal holiday and even the saloons were closed . Yet Lake City was full of drunken men by noon . Every hack , surrey and hotel bus in town was busy in the pay of one faction or the other hauling voters to the booths . The Capitol square was deserted but groups of men , some of them very drunk and some of them very sober , were to be found throughout the business section of the city , bitterly debating the reservation question . There were a great number of Indians in town that day , big dark fellows in muddy moccasins and faded mackinaws who stood about watching the machinations of the whites without audible comments .