St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-07
HENNEPIN FOR BEN.
A Landslide Toward the
Hoosier Statesman in
Minneapolis.
He Sweeps the City in Al
most Every Ward and
Precinct.
Babb Proves Too Much for
Winston for Mayor Of
the City.
All the Democrats, Except
Swensen, Showed Under
in the County.

To use the expression of prominent
Democrat, minneapolis politics has
| gone TO the devil.'' At 3 a. m. the city
was practically complete on the presi-
dental count. and Harrison carried
every ward but the First and Third by
majorities ranging from 100 to
| 500. Snider has exceeded Harri-
sons vote in every precinct, and
will have Il much larger majority.
| Wilson has run far ahead of his ticket
in every precinct of Minneapolis, but
whether he will clear the county re-
mains to be seen. The city ticket has
not yet been counted in one-third of
the precincts, but, while Winston runs
| CALAMITY ahead, there is no pros
| pect OF his having pulled through.
Holbrook and Buxton are both
showed under, and the council will
surely be Republican. 1t seemed to
have been general and unaccountable
| landslide, and wards heretofore sOlidly
Democratic have cut loose from their
moorings and given Republican major
! tiles. No one attempts to account for
the change. 1t is simply unaccountable,
| unless it be that presidential election
has caused the change. Compared with
the vote of two years ago the Demo-
Gratis have gained, but it was the uni
versal opinion that the changes
| of 1856 and 1887 had become
p erpetual. The county ticket
| has shared the general fate SO far as
known, though Eye for sheriff was so
badly scratched that SwenSon may pull
through. 1t is impossible to give ma
iorities at this hour, but the missing
precincts are momentarily expected.
The election in Minneapolis was as
| quiet, though exciting, as any ever held
in her history. and passed off without a
single unpleasant incident. The weather
was magnificent, and not for a moment
was the sun obscured from daylight I'M
| til darkness. The result was that an
! extremely heavy vote was pOlled for a
| total, but it is estimated that not more
| than 70 per cent of the registered vote
was cast. This showed very plainly
| that the registration duplicated many
names, caused by the general precinct
| changes. There was still furthe'
shortage of the vote. resultant from the
| inability, in certain precincts to take in
the heavy vote. The First, Third and
! Sixth. wards suffered from this, and the
Democrats are large losers thereby.
When the polls closed there was abso
! lutely nothing by which the re-
suit could be guaged, and both
parties claimed the city. 1t
1t was proclaimed by the Democrats
that Wilson and Winston were running
| largely ahead of their respective tick
1@, 4 tnit lot fD..
| them were in demand. 1t was also evil
dent that Rice for congress was being
cut for Snider very heavily, and the
friends of the latter made the widest
| kind of claims early in the day. Cutting
seemed the order of the day, and pos
| ters and stickerS were never used to
half the extent before. The county
ticket in special seemed to suffer, one
as bad as the other. There was one
| fact that stood out in bold relief, and
that that was the city election
dwarfed and overshadowed everything.
! The hacks were all for the city candi-
dates, and most of the work at the polls
was to the same end, much to the dis
gust of many candidates on either side.
1t is gratifying. however, that not
single disturbance was reported, and not
an element of disorder visible
during the time of casting
the ballots. Special patrolmen were
OH duty everywhere. but they were
never called upon. There was earnest
work. but no clash, and in this respect
the election was noteworthy. Various
| charges were heard, but they could not
be sustained. Democratic ballots were
missing from certain precincts when
| the polls opened, and it was charged
that the Republicans had stolen them.
but no one had any proof of it what
ever. The polls closed quietly at Z
gan promptly. tits evident, even at
this early hour, that many OF the judges
and clerks are slow and unfamiliar with
the work, and it will be far into to-day
before the return is completed.
NOTED ABOUT TOWN.
The First ward, which in years gone
by has made record tor herself, was
the quetest ward in the city yesterday,
not an angry word being heard at any
of the precincts during voting hours.
Every one was good-natured and nearly
every man had his pockets full of
''pasters'' of all kinds. Trading was
carried on to a great extent, and in
some cases the Republicans cut two of
their own men for vote for Repub
lican alderman. The ladies were out
4
the polls and dropped in their
ballots like little men" With few
exceptions they voted against Dono-
van for superintendent of schools, and
! Eva Mcdonald for school director. Eye
for sheriff was cut by the Republicans
all over the ward. There was a num-
Der of Prohibition ticket peddlers out in
all the precincts, but the few persons
who voted the ticket used several DEM
ocratic and Republican pastors. At
number of the precincts the voting was
very slow. This was especially true in
the Third precinct. where some 100
voters were shut out. AT some of the
precincts the judges and clerks were
aggrayating to a remarkable degree,
still no one became angry.
The Ninth ward was also quiet all
day, no trouble occurring at any pre-
einct. Voting went on slowly all over
the ward, and it is generally supposed
that in the neighborhoOd of 800 voters
were prevented from voting on account
OF the polls closing at o'clock. There
was considerable cutting going on at all
the precincts, and large amount of
trading was done. The anti-Catholic
movement did not cut any figure here
or in the First ward, and any intima-
ton of it was greeted with a laugh.
There were two or three patrolmen,
regular or special. at each precinct, but
not once during the day were their
services needed.
THE SIXTH WARD.
In the Sixth ward. where it was feared
that the anti-Catholic controversy was
going to occasion bitter feeling, hardly
a cross word was spoken. Aid. Gleason
lays his defeat for denomination to
the introduction of religion into pol
itics, and it was rumored that his
friends intended to resort to
extreme measures to defeat James
Smith, his successful opponent,
who was charged with being member
of the so-called anti-Catholic society.
The faaliOp. hatyaeD the adherentS Of