The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10


The election of Tuesday last WAS the most
quiet of any general election held for years
Throughout the whole county harmony was
preserved between the contending parties in
remarkable degree, and the absence Of
crowds at the polling places, caused the day
; to seem as one Of an aldermanie election.
Betting at the polling places was the ex>ep-
ton rather than the rule, and was in this
city confined mainly to the fifth precinct,
and to one or two precincts at Strestor, and
1out one at La Sale.
v Although the full quota of workers, sever
4 al for each side, and here and there one for
! some particular candidate, their presence
but served to relieve the barrenness Of the
! surrounding scenery, as they served merely
as automatons, not one in fifty voting other
!. than vest pocket ticket. Indeed, the preva
4 lance of the ballot in the vest pocket was
astonishing and rather bored the ever per-
T, sistent ticket shower. But his mission, if a
\ faultless one in the distribution of ballots,
was productive Of good in the examination
\ of tickets and the cautioning of voters against
fraud in the matter of electors and candidates
and much good work was accomplished.
Although on the last day Of registry the
registered voters of the town Of Ottawa ap-
peared nearly to reach twenty five hundred
Lit WAS evident by the noon hour that the
actual vote showed that over hundred un~
I registered voters having already been sworn
in, that many of those who had been placed
upon the poll books were either dead or had
removed from the city, and that the vote by
any possible chance could not exceed twenty
two hundred.
By o'clock in the afternoon over half Of
the county had voted and it was soon seen
that full vote was to be polled and but few
! left at home, and at seven O'Clock, when the
polls closed, the vote cast in the township of
Ottawa proved to be 2,O6s, gain of nearly
200 votes over 1884, with a democratic ma
.jq,rity of 278 for the head of the ticket, while
ssfGeo. W. W. Blake had secured majority of
over 500. Indeed Blake was a mascot and
his great run ahead Of his ticket in this
county is the topic Of all tongues.
On Wednesday morning, when the returns
began arriving, it was SOON discovered that
the county had gone democratic by nearly
400 plurality, carrying the eutire county
ticket to victory with scarcely a scratch,
but the afternoon returns told different
tale, and it soon developed that Burkart
had been slashed in Mendoza and in this
city in terrible manner, insuring the
election of Arnold by from l25 to lao plur.
ality while slashing in this city, and in Wal
lace appears to have beaten Barrett by
about six votes. The Pumping Of Trench's
friends at La Sale also proved fatal to
Browne. whose friends pumped also, but
not so heavily as those Of Trenchs.
The total vote of the county as cast is just
what the FREE TRADER said it would be, over
II 600, or in figures 17,O75. On national,
state, congregational and representative
tickets the vote is:
NATIONAL.
Cleveland, dem ........... ......... $50
Harrison, rep. ......".. o'o94
Fiske, prohib. .................. Dos
Streeter, labor. ................. lOo
x Cleveland's plurality. 5000. III