Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-25
City and Town.

The BfenniaI Contest for the Su- premncy-The Democratic Ward Pri-
 maries-The MayOralty and Other l Posts Of Honor and EmOIument-What l Was Done Last Night. The Democratic primaries for the choice of delegates to the conventions to nominate
 town and city officers were held last night.
 The contests in some of the wards were close
 and exciting. After the battle there was
 great eagerness to find out the result. The l battle waxed as hot over the Registrarship as | over any other position, and the returns
 seem to indicate that O'Keefe, the present incumbent, is ahead, over Gilhuly, the op- posing candidate, who developed much
 strength The overshadowing question of the Mayoralty nomination is involved in doubt, and the race is substantially between ex-Mayor Lewis and Judge Robertson, with the odds in favor of Lewis, and some enthu- siastically name him as the winner in the contest Joel A. Sperry has some of the del egates; so also has George M. Grant, of Chat field & Grant Shuster and Graves have each considerable strength for the Town Clerk
 ship, and the same is true of Kimberly and Asher for Auditor Piggott has considerable
 of delegation for the City Clerkship and
 Reynolds for Town Agent seems to have a
 clear track.
 | First Ward.
 In the First ward the voting was at 315
 Chapel street, and the fight seemed to be over
 the registrar The ''patent feathers" ia
 vored John B. Robertson for Mayor and
 O'Keefe, the present incumbent, for regis
 trar In this ward William H. Law, jr.,
 acted as moderator. The following delegates
 were elected:
 City-Jonathan Ingersoll, Jacob Mann, An drew L. Kidston, William H. Law, jr. 1 Town-Edmund A. Ender, William J. Mills, John I. Goodrich, George J. Hitler. l Justices of the Peace-Edmund Zacher,
 James Barker Charles F. Bollman, T. c. In gersoll
 Board of Relief-Charles w. Foster. James H. Mansfield, John Waterman, James Barker.
 l Ward Committee-William H. Law, jr., Daniel L. Carpenter, George E. Nettleton. l Ward Nominating Committee-Benjamin Beecher, Sidney E. Clark, Louis B. Ryder, Jeremiah Breene Charles s. Shaw, Benjamin l Levi, Charles J. Ender, Nathaniel F. Chapin, Otto Heintz, Judson Terrell, E. Gilbert Aus ! tin, Louis Asher, John R. Rembert George Petrie, Frank l.. Paige.
 Primary Committeeman George E. Kim | berly.
 l Second Ward. In the Second ward the principal fight
 was between O'Keefe and Gilhuly for Regis
 trar. The following ticket was elected,
 which would appear to be in favor of Asher for Auditor, Brennan for Town Clerk, O'Keefe
 for Registrar and equally divided between Robertson and Lewis for Mayor. 1 The ticket elected was as follows l City-Orange M Pickett, Harvey B. Dor man, William Granfeld, John Korn, John l Reidy.
 l Town-Eli Mix, John J. Brennan, James E. Kelley, Robert W. O'Connell, Benedict F.. Ess.
 Board of Relief-Frederick H. Brethauer, Orrin Schofeld, Patrick Murphy, John S.. l Fitzgerald, Edward Herrity. Justices of the Peace-Joel A. Hubbard, l Wm. Flaherty, Charles Scott, Charles Han
 son, John J. Howard.
 Third Ward. The primary in the Third ward was held at
 g Oak street Larry Eagan was the moder- ator. The fight in this ward seemed to cen- ! ter on the registrar, where David Gilhuly was the favorite, with OKeefe second choice Both tickets had James Reynolds at the head
 for Town Agent, and for the Mayoralty it was hard to tell whether the ticket elected l favored Lewis, Robertson or Sperry. When | the polls closed and the counters were select l ed, Dan Colwe1 mounted a table and pro- tested against the vote being counted, on the ground that there had not been fair vote. ! MT. Colwen was booted at until he succumbed, and he then insisted that the check list
 should tally with the votes cast, but, ,notwith- standing his numerous objections in the in- ' oG 4Ia a.lal l The result showed that the Dan Gilhu1y ticket was successful, receiving 418 votes to ! the O'Keefe ticket receiving 1855. Following 1 is the successful ticket: .-7 a,st- ! City-Peter McHugh, William Higgins, Hugh Moran, Frank Herman, Michael Do ] herty, Michael F. Brennan, Lawrence Eagan, l Daniel Carroll Frank Farrell | Town-John Curran, James Cavanagh, | Frank McHugh, Thomas McKiernan William Roach, Robert Hofinger, Thomas Ward, | Thomas Ellis, Thomas Degnan. l Board of Relief-Daniel Kerns, Daniel 1 Flynn, Daniel Kennedy, Michael Lennon, David ODonnell, George Quinn, Maurice J. Reilly, James Carroll, Patrick Mcdonald. Justices of the Peace-Bernard Shanley, Frank N. Shanley, Thomas O'Connell, John ! Herman, Francis Mclaughlin, Henry F. Cur | ran, Patrick J. Faughan, Michael McGovern, Richard Coffee.
 Fourth Ward. In the Fourth ward Captain John C1ancey presided. The voting was spirited, and at 8 o'clock when the polls were closed there was considerable excitement. The contest in this ward was between the old and young Demo- crats. Both sides favored Joel Sperry for Mayor and James Reynolds for Town Agent, but the great fight appeared to be on who should be general registrar and chairman of the ward committee. The result of the count showed that the young Democrats were de- feated by a vote of 173 to 155. This means Shannon for Registrar, and in case of an emergency Billy will instruct his friends to cast their votes for O'Keefe. The following delegates were elected:
 Town-William F. Shannon, James N States, Adam Miller, James Mccormick, Frank Hermance, Edward R. Bunnell, James J. Kennedy.
 City-Win H. Fulton, John Clancy, Henry Ellers, Patrick McDermott, George Ives, Thomas Powers, ST., Daniel Sullivan.
 Board of Relief-Nicholas Countryman, James C.. DonnellY, Thomas H. Fulton, jr., Edward Nugent, Henry M. Thomas, Fred Muntz, John Smith.
 Fifth Ward
 The Fifth ward voting place was at John Moran's saloon, corner of East and Wooster streets, polls open from to 8. Two tickets were run, regular ticket" distinguished as Kimberly ticket" for Charles Kimber- ly for Auditor Both were for Lewis for Mayor. There was some extra activity at about half-past 7, caused by an alleged stuff fng of the box with few votes. The dele gates on the successful ticket were as fol- lows:
 City Convention-Daniel s. Glenny, Chas. VoIkman C. T. Driscon, Isaac Strouse, Geo. H. Lowe.
 Town-Captain Richard Peck, Michael Ryan, Thomas Brinley, Michael McGovern, Jacob Mailhouse.
 Board of Relief-James P. Barker Malachi Collins, Charles L. Pfuderer, Thomas Shan ley, Charles R. Sperry.
 Justices of the Peace-C Charles W. Bradley, Frederick Morris, William E. Ray, Dr. J. W. Sweet, Daniel Gum.
 Ward Nominating Committee George A. Stevens, George F. Holcomb, Charles Diet terlen, Dennis McCheane Henry l.. Clark, John Miller, James Goodwin, Thomas Smith,