Omaha daily bee., 1886-09-18
A CHILLY DAY FOR CHURCH.
Howe's Doodle" Fails to Garry the Repub-
lican Primary Elections.
SOME HOT PRELIMINARY WORK.
The Delegates TO To-Day's Convention
The Vote by Wnrds-The Out
side Prccincts-Other
Local News.
Fcrninst Howe.


The Importance of the result the selec.
ton of delegates to today's county con.
vention, who will name eight legislators,
county attorney and commissioner and
figure in the nomination of a governor
United States senator and congress.
man, made the election one of general
interest and developed the strength of the
various candidates for the posltiosn
named The bittercst fight developed
upon the congressional selection Church
Howe, the Nemaha trickster, had his
&orces well marshalled and supplied with
Doodle, tilched from his granger con-
stituency, with which to capture the
Douglas delegation, his only hope in Sc
curing the coveted nomination. Every
method that thirst for spoils could de-
wise or Doodle manipulate was employed
by Howe's menias to carry the primaries
in the different wards, but with only
partial and to him dismal success.
BY his old time methods a small
majority was polled in his favor in the
third ward, while he was most effectively
sat upon in the first, second, fourth and
fifth with a neutral delegation from tho
sixth. This gives Il n majority of anti
Howe delegates in the city and the
reports received from the outside pre-
cincts indicate that Mr.. Connell will have
the endorsement of the convention by n
good working majority. The following
is the report and result of the election
by wards: . . d. ...
FIRST WARD. .,.r 81
There was but one list in the First
ward, 800 votes being cast for the straight
ticket. The delegates and alternales are:
Delegates-Chas. G. Thrane, A. j. Hob
bin, w, Wolishensky, Josiah Kent, Ed
O'Sullivan, Isaac S. Hascall, Chqs.
Schroth, w. A. Kelley: Alternates-John
Bosicky, VIM. Doll. Chas. Hanlev, VIM.
I. Kelly, A. A. Webster, V. l.. Vodicka.
THE SECOND WARD.
The heaviest voting and the hardest
fghng of the day was done in the
Second ward. The workers began to as.
semble soon after noon, and when the
polls opened at 3 O'Clock in the rear of
Himrod's place, at the corner of
Thirteenth and jackson, half a
thousand voters were on the ground
time the voting window was opened
until time was called at Z O'Clock
Church's doodle was visible in liberal
quantities. making the contest a close
one. The gang had it their way until
the 6 o. clock whistle blew and the work
lngmen of the ward hurried to the polls
and turned the vote in favor of the honest,
rls Morrison, Morris Sullivan, Mike
Leahy and John III. Butler headed the
opposition and worked for all they were
worth. Buffers opposition was
partly q personal fight against
Lee and Kaspar, both mem
bers of. the city council who voted
in favor of retiring him from the position
of chief eagineer of the fire department.
There were $40 votes cast. OF these 4e6
fn, h,At l.nt Ind hyY Il
for the Butler and II scattering The,
delegates and their alternates therefore
are: Delegates--Frank Kaspar, w. j.
Connell, G. Specht Geo M. OBrien, &.
Andreen, Nj. Lee. +. II. Mcconnell, j..
Duggan. Alterrates--Geo Kiral, Frank
Hanlon, George Fitchett, j. B. Piper,
Peter Hendricksen, M. III. Bliss, A. e.
1roup, John Honza. 81.
THIRD WARD.
In the third ward the fight was perhaps
hotter than in any other ward. When
the polls opened at 5 O'Clock there was a
large concourse of men ready to deposit
their tickets. From that time on to z
o'clock, the hour of closing; theIc was a
steady stream of voters. For time it
seemed us though Church Howe's ticket
would have walkaway. Towards the
last, however, the antl-Church Howe
ticket loomed up, and though when the
polls closed, the opponents of that ticket
were confidently predicting its defeat by
two to one, the majority against it proved
to be only one of twenty-nine. 4
Though the crowd in this ward was a
mixed one, composed of almost of every
class represented in the city, it was in the
main an orderly one. -Four or five po
licemen We're constantly on hand to see
that there We're no outbreaks of any char
acter. 1t was in this ward that Howe's
money, coppcred on the. sly by
u few shekclS from the democratic
pocket, circulated the most freely
Votes were bought openly and in the
most shameful manner. Some went for
a drink of whisky, some for 20 cents,
some for so cents, and others higher.
ing business until long after the polls
closed.
Pat Ford and his gang of strikers were
on hand in full force, and lent an aiding
hand to the Howe men. Democrats
were rushed in to deposit the Howe bal
lots, but in nearly every instance they
were challenged and driven away from
the polls.
Homan, w. B. Payton, G. h. Groves, j.
A. Knight, j. S. Cooley, j. G. Hubbard,
w f. Schmidt, Robert Sexauer The
closeness of the contest will be apprc-
ciated when ii is stated that out of the
40 votes cast the majority for the Howe
ticket was only %. ..-
FOURTH WARD.
In this ward the anti-Church Howe
ticket had walk away from the start.
The men on the opposition realized this
and there was no contest 70 speak of
There were 374 votes poled. OF this
number 104 We're cast for the so-called
McGucken ticket, and PIG for the ticket
headed by w. A. RedIck, Fifty-four
split and scratched tickets We're not
counted. The delegates elected were rs
follows; w. A. Redlck, w. f. GuHley,
Fred w. Gray, VIM. L. f5echel, E. Rose.
water, A, b. Smith, r. C. Duncan, L. w.
Blackburn, with Gustav Anderson. G. L.
Henry Pundt, L. X. Sudbor-
ough, Geo, Tzschuck, johnson N. A.
Kuhn, as alternates.
FIFTH WARD,
There was but one ticket IN the Fifth
ward, Two hundred and siXty-two votes
were polled without scratch. The dele
gates and alternates chosen are: Dele
M. Counsman, Charles
Cheney, John Clark, g. F. Miller, John
Wallace, Geo. Allen, Henry Dunn, j. w.
Alternates-Henry Bolln,
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