Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-22
LOCAL ELECTIONS.
REFORM IN PHILADELPHIA.
THE GAS TRUST STHANDSOMELY BEATEN.
"Sta,eSEan" Gilbert Badly Beaten by
O'Rourke, but the squire Comes Up
Smiling-Lex Cay, Page. Town
send and smith Elected.

O.Rourke, but the squire Comes Up
smiIing-Lex Cay, Page. Town
send and smith Elected.
Philadelphia Press.
The Gas Trust has been driven from its
last stronghold, the select council cham
Der, and the people. following the Cltl-
Zens' Committee of One Hundred in their
gallant onslaught on the ringSters, have
achieved a grand and decisive victory. A
few brisands remain to poster the cohorts
of reform, but the peoples representatives
can now present 70 their opponents solid
and immoyabie phalanx, ever ready to do
battle for the right McMullin has been
re elected by a small majority and Thorn
ton is made select councilman from tho
Thirtieth ward, but with these exceptions
! the people have swep: everything before
them and in many of the ccuEcilinanlc
contests the results attained were most
surprising.
The influence that the citizens Commit
tee has exercised in the canvass is we'll
shown by the returns for police magis.
trate. Brown, the regular Republican
! nominee, is elected by Il majority that is
| very small because the One Hundred hon
| ored his opponent with their Endorsement.
although agreeing to made no special
effort in his behalf. But iu the whirl
wind that swept through the city yester-
day, and that sought to uproot every
thing not stamped with the recognized
brand of reform Mr. Brown suffered al
though he was not defeated.
The vote cast was surprisingly light, and
this too, indicates the power of the Citi-
zcns' organization, for the pouring rain
was more likely to keep it: adheEents
indoors or away from tue polls than
dampen the artor Of those who scott at
municipal reform. - IN February, 1881,
when. Mayor King ,Eas elected, the total
vote was 150,G43. but yesterday there
were but 11j, 103 votes cast fer police
magistrates.
Coucils will bc rsvnlutionized by yester
days tornado. Blair, Reyburn Mullen,
Gilbert aud Martin-faniiar names in the
select clambcr-will be heard no more
after April next in the hall Of the higher
municipal legislature and in the common
branch Allen and Young of the First ;
Lowenstein, Of the Eleventh =; Bousall, of
the Fourteenth Faunce and Allen, of the
Eighteenth Grc1Or, Of the Twentieth
Edwards, Of tho Twenty second ; Webster
and Shallc,oss. of the Twenty third and
Beaver and Winpenny, of the Twenty
ninth, will soon cease to figure as popular
animated despite the rain.
Tho Philadelphia Election.
Ledger.
\ grand sood work was done yesterday
by the independent voters who supported
the nominees Of the Citizens Committees
ond the Committee Of One Hundred. 1t
was very bad weather for the bosses
Counc;lmcn were voted for il twenty
seven wards, and Of rlicm the candidates OF
the Reformcrs were successful in twenty,
and carried one half to twO-thirds of their
ticket in four others. The bosses carried
but three out Of the entire twenty seven
OF the twelve select council vacancies to be
filed, tho candidates endorsed by the Com
rnit:cc of Ono Hundred were successful
in eight the bosses were beaten in two
others, and tho sole trophies they have
left are McMuliin in the Fourth and
Thornton III the Thirticth OF all the
obeuicut servant: Of the Gas bosses in
select council who were up for reelection,
,IcAIullin alone got through. There were
forty-tEo common councl:nen to be
elected, and thirty sir Of these arc carried
by the citizens who acted in co operatio.
with the Committee of One Hundred The
storm of the 21st of February, 1882, will
be remembered rs very severe on the gas
bosses and all their allies. Gilbert, Mar
tin, Blair, Mulln and Miles go out OF
select Council. and Smith of the Twenty
eighth, and Matthews OF the Eleventh.
stay in. and with these are Gross, Town
send. Woo!verton, Banes. Milton ant
Whittakcr-six good men and true. A
power of better blood is thus infused into
select council. Every member Of common
council now in Office, OF who has been who
stood up for tho public welfare, and was {;
candidate yesterday, was reelected, and il
is specially gratifying to see among these
every one of the common counci!mcr
against whom the bosses showed tLeir bit
tcrcst venom Lex, Clay, Henry. Page
Dallas Hall, John L. Grim, Strickland and
Nandcrslicc, and with these are twenty
nine others, staun:ii friends of Reform
among the present members and the new
men. This is Il splendid vindication lol
the men who did their duty in defiance o.
E the bosses, and = grand accession O.
strength to the cause Of the people. There
was 4 heavy shower yesterday, and light
ming and thunder, with Il bright rainbow
at t:!c close.