Telegram-herald., 1886-09-07
SCHOOL ELECTION.
The Bitterest Fight Ever Made
in the Valley City.
MANY LADIES DEPOSIT IHElRBlIl0TS.
Rely and libbts Defeated Blair
Gets There bf Large Majority
Ulrich. Mo6rioe ard Ransom
Pull Through gh-The Result.

The school elections yesterday we're fhe
most exciting ever held in ths oiiy the in-
Ieresl manifested la many Of lhs wards l.e-
ing fully as great a. in ihe spring elections.
A large number of ladies t0ok advantage of
their right Of franchise and crowded their
way Go tie ballot boxes. without apparently
needing the fumes 81 bad cigars or TIE slop
from the tobacco chewens. The great heIis
~ere made in First. Thifa Fourth nnh
and Sixth, Seventh and Eishth wards and
the vote p0ilei was ia every case larger
than any ever before oAst al school olec-
lion
First Ward There we're tWo can
didates IA the field Edgar T. Mlls
and John A SehWArL The former
secured a lead on tle Holland vote aud
held tie lines sufiy coming under The
wire al easy winner The vote Resulted a.
follows 4. J. Mills, -. John A schNArz
So total vote, 344 Mills maiorlfY l-1
There were bat ave ladies voted The in-
spectOrs bad some difficulty in making The
ballots tally with the poll-hsI bui POI ID
their way finally, CLOSED The the boa aud
adjourned without publicly announcing
the vote
second ward-But little interest was
manifested, The people apparently being
satisfied With the record made by J Edward
Earle who received al 0f the eighIy-nine
votes cast
Third Ward-Th vote here resulted IN a
victory for the present incumbent be ~
celying fully two-thirds 0f the lIH woes
cast by The ladies The result was ~ fol-
lows. James Fox. 4i8 p a nargeanl 2zs
total Ga. FoEs majority ls6.
Fourth Wari-Ihe contest was the most
spirited IN the history of the ward Car
riages We're run ln al parts of the ward
from the time that The polls opened until
the close and the friends u The candidates
worked as they never worked before The
result was that ,s35 votes were cast nearly.
II not guile half Of which were cast bv
women. In the upper precinct james Blair
received 5b5 votes Fred - Clark 30. Wm.
NJ. Hathaway J. BLAIR s.majorty 5i3. ln
the lower precinct, Blair. 2ll Clark. So
Clark majority s. Biairs majority "a the
ward 275
Fifth Wari-There were three candidates
Josiah Ii Tibbits John BarroN ~ and James
r Mcbride The vote was close one and
the great Greenhack labor orator met a
| Waterloo. Twelve .adies deposited their
ballots. The vote resulted a. follows.
! + Mcbride Ia J H. Tbbifs. lSl. John
| Burrows, l2s blank. r total 405. SIC.
Bride received a plurality 81 Is votes
| Sixth Ward-Ihere were two iudepeud -
/ ent candidates in The teld against ID D.
| Ransom. the regular nominee. There were
335 votes cast. thirty OF them by ladies
| Mr.. Ransom was elected by q plurality of
ten. The vote resulted a. follows ID p
Ransom, lSo, Jacob h. smits. ID. Albert
! StOnehOuse. IS.
Seventh Wsrd-Four candidates ln the
field, Geo. B Reilly, the Trustee whose
term expired. being badly showed ander.
| There were fflV ladies cast their na Inf.
| The vote resulted as follows Louis pfin7
l69, Geo. b. Reilly. -. Lorenzo ID Field. 80.
| Elisha .. stevens. ~ total sac pnuz /.
plurality. So
Eighth Wsrd-1he contest here was an
unusually close one and nearly three
hundred ladies deposited their hal ofs. Fuur
hacks and many carriages were kept rln-
ming all day and both candidates got oui
every voter possible. The result was as
follows. Madison J Dlrich. AZ. Edmond
J. Shinkman. fal. total vote. ass llnch e
| majority, 8.