The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-25
THE CONTEST CLOSING,
AND THE DIE TO Be CAST TO-DAY.
tn. nualeIp.l Election at HAnd-rh. Republican
Tickets Ia the Various Wlrds-sons Ofths
DirsrsiOus of the CanpaIsn-rhs
.f Second aud Fifth Wards

BY sunset this evening the question, Who
shall administer the city government for the
next two years will have been decided by
the votes OF the citizens. All the signs last
night gave encouragement to hope that the
result will be satisfactory to well disposed
people, having the prosperity and order Of
the community at heart Apparently the
better class OF citizens, men who do not al.
ways 20 10 the trouble Of casting vote In
local elections, are impressed with the need
OF their doing so now, aud exerdng their In
tlueuSe TO keep the conduct OF city affairs In
the hands OF competent and rightminded
men.
The Republican candidates for municipal
officers are:
Mayor, spaulding K. Wallace.
City Clerk, Frank Bowers.
City Sergeant, Thomas D. Bennett.
Wharf Master, Joseph Forsythe.
In the various wards, the Republicans have
nominated the following candidates for Coun.
Gil:
First ward-Flrst Branch, Robert G. Dali
zeIl; Second Branch, John G.. Haber6eld,
Joseph NJ. Hamilton, Charles J. Rawling,
Second ward-First Branch, Daniel G.
List, Jr.; Second Branch, DR.. s. L. Jepson, @.
| A. Wingerter, Victor Rosenberg.
Third Ward-First Branch. William h.
Haller: Second Branch, W. \. Peterson, j.
K Butts John Clator. [.
Fourth Ward-First Branch, James Nc
Adams; Second Branch, Major II. Joy, John
D. McFadden, John w. Armstrong.
Fifth Ward-(No Republican nominations
were made In this ward, but the following
| T. hHFu aeA
| ing OF Republicans, and stands as the regular
Republican ticket. First Branch, John g..
Hoffman, Jr; Second Branch, n. wilkinson,
w. A. Miliigan, George g. Roth.
Sixth Ward-First Branch, Thomas Rat.
cliff; Second Branch, Z. F. Darling, AID.
Work, A. NJ. Harkins, J. p. Heinleipe, s. NJ.
Hathaway.
Seventh Ward-First Branch, ". K. Don
aldson; Second Branch, Lewis Jones, VIII
liam Erskine, Samuel P. Hildreth.
Eighth Ward.-First Branch, Stephen Wa
terhouse, il. Second Branch, A. J. Schultz,
Otto Jaeger, Leonhart, Charles Eschstruth.
In the First, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth wards, the contest is merely q
straight party one, with little or no partisan
feeling enlisted, and the disposition Is ap:
parently to select the men who are believed
10 be the most competent and trustworthy.
In the Seventh ward, the gentlemen named
as Democratic candidates spondered the pre-.
vious election returns from that ward, and
quietly stepped down and out
The Walters party in the Second ward
does not seem to be stirring things up as en-
ergetically as the boss OF the rump conven-
ton which met at the Upper Market House
predicted II would. The movements OF
Walters since his defeat at the Republican
primaries have resulted In more good to the
Republican nominees than harm. The
humorous side OF his efforts TO establish .
great independent movement which would
disrupt both the old parties and allow him
TO stride into Council over the fragments,
has been all along most prominent, and his
following will not be formidable. On the
contrary, many citizens have been awakened
to the importance Of preventing such 0
movement from winning and the vote will
be larger than usual II indications are re.
liable.
In the Fifth ward, the fight between the
citizens ticket, endorsed by the Republican
yeters, and the straight Democratic ticket, Is
familiar to the public, having been made for
the main part In the newspapers. Mr.. Lar
kin Is circulating circulars opposing Mr..
Hoffman's election, and attempting to arouse
the prejudices OF the workingmen by reiter.
ating the exploded stories OF the latters hos.
tility 10 the knights Of Labor.
The canvassers OF the votes will not an.
nounoe the result from time 10 time during
the day, as Is done in the case OF general
elections, but owing to their work, the count
ing OF the ballots will be completed much
earlier than heretofore, and the result known
| before a late hour of the evening.