St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-03

counting was intolerably slow in this
ward. 1t was about noon when the
judges of the First precinct completed
their work, and it was nearly 10 o'clock
last night. twenty-Seven hours after
the beginning, that the result III the
Second precinct was made known.
James Melady, the Democratic candi-
date in the Sixth ward, had good-sized
plurality over Bryant and Berlandi,
and Mr.. Bryant. who, it has been
claimed, was the syndicate" candidate,
was laid carefully away on the top
shelf, where he will make no more trou-
BILE for aldermanic candidates at least
for couple of years.
Of course Aid. Sanborn caught all the
silk stockings of the hill in tho Seventh
ward as he had no opposition except on
the cold water ticket. Henry Weber, of
the Eighth ward, was another Repub-
lican who had it easy. for he lives in a
ward where Republicans are thick and
the Democrats few. In the Ninth an
other Democrat. John Gehan,
was elected by full-grown
plurality. In the Tenth +. V. Pratt,
the Republican candidate came under
the wire ahead of the four or five others
who were in the race. and in the Elev-
enth ID. NJ. Sullivan, the Republican
candidate. of course had an easy and
safe time of it.
SO there are eleven men to six on the
Republican side of the council chamber.
The German societies voted pretty
sOlidly for the ticket Endorsed by their
representatives. Eight of the aldermen
are Germans, or of German descent.
a LIGHT VOTE.
The vote was light. The registration
had been tritle more than $4,000 and
about 5000 votes less than that were
the highest number for any candidate,
being 1871 p0lled for the associate
judgship. Whether this indicates that
party leaders We're more active on the
registration days than on election day,
or whether the voter thought he had
done his whole duty when he had put
his name on the list, does not appear on
the face of the returns. 1t is general
talk that that feature of the new law
which makes the hour of opening of the
polls, O'Clock, had something to do
with the light vote. Many, especially
OF the workingmen, had to be at work
before the opening of the polls, and
from the rush at the closing hours were
shut out from voting then.
The voters OF the city are on record as
favoring the issue of 100000 bonds
for the construction of the
bridge from Broadway to State street
The Sixth ward went solid for the
bonds, AMI so did the third. The
Eighth ward went heavily against
them. By mistaken idea on the part
of voters, many of those who favored
the bridge and intended to vote so,
were practically DISTINGUISHED on this
point. a separate ballot box was kept
for the vote on this question. 1t was
found on counting up some of the pre-
cincts that there were numerous votes
on the bond question in the principal
box, the voter having apparently folded
the slip inside the city ticket and the
judges did not notice them.
On the count all these ballots had to be
thrown out. 1t is estimated that the
majority in favor of bonds would have
been several hundred larger if these
mistakes had not occurred
Burgess and Nelson were elected JUS
tees and Olson and ReichoW constables.
James Sch0onmaker for associate Judge
of the municipal court had the largest
vote of any man whose name was used
in the election, his vote being 1913.
Here are the figures as the judges found
them:
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MaYOc. Com Mt roller. and Tren Su..nr