Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-09
THE BLACK FLAG.
TIE STAR OF EMPIRE WILL N0W
SLOPE WEST.

Republican Primaries Last Night Hell
in All the wards-A Light vose Cast
New Candidate sprung for Mayor
The Vote for the Flag and the sea,
Tickets.
The Republican primaries for the election
of delegates to the City Republican Con.
yention called for next Saturday at Rem
shaw's Hall we're held last night. It was
generally understood that the contest, Il
any, would be confined to securing dele.
gates pledged to the choice OF one Of the
two candidates Who have SO far declared
themselves for Police Magistrate, namely,
w. l. Lippincott and Captain Wyman.
But It leaked out after the close oil the
polls that the delegates on the tickets had
decided views beyond that Office, and that
upon ths victory OF either depended the
choice for Mayor and City Treasurer
40 well. There was O black flag
ticket and a star ticket in every ward but
the First, and in the other six wards the
scratching WA quite free. The flag ticket,
it is o declared, meant the choice OF
Judge Hamilton for Mayor, Cannon for
Treasurer and Judge Lippincott for Police
Magistrate. On the lace OF the returns.
the flag ticket carried five OF the wards,
but it wa scratched very freely in some,
notably the Fourth and Seventh, 80 that.
although there is little doubt it's delegates
received a majority oil the votes cast, it had
q close call.
In the First Ward. at Bray's store on
Main street, opposite The p~ostofice, the
flag ticket received twenty votes and no
other ticket was polled. This was n very
light vote as the ward has at least four
times that number OF Re, ,ublicans.
In the Second Ward, the polling was done
at the Sheriff's office and a pretty full vote
was cast. The black flag ticket receive
fifty votes and the star ticket forty-seven.
In the Third Ward. at County Attorney
De Wits office, tweDty-three votes were
cast, OF which the star ticket got seven and |
the balance vent for the black flag, though |
slightly disfgured with scratching.
In the Fourth Ward. Pinkham's store
was the place and here the black flag again
downed it's competitor, receiving thirty-six |
votes to thirty cast for the star OF empire.
In this case the scratching of the flag ticket
was numerous.
In the Fifth Ward at Bowen's hotel, the
star was triumphant, receiving forty-fve
votes to one solitary flaglet.
IN Tue OtApu Waru, at h1fDyE store Oh L
Park street, the black flag was unanimous
Iy triumphant receiving all Of twenty-seven
votes.
In the Seventh Ward, at G.. s.. Lewis feed
store on Lower Main street, there were
brty-seven votes cast of which the star re-
ceived twenty-five and twenty-five were
cast for the banner. The star tickets were
all straight but two, while the other were
all scratched but three. A gentleman pres
emit at the polls said there ought to have
been at least a hundred votes cast here,
which shows that the Republicans OF the
and last wards were equally indiffer-
mt to results.
At Republican headquarters there was
much profeesed ignorance as to the mean
NC OF the two tickets, the Chairman OF the
republican Central Committee declaring
hat his name was placed ON a Fourth
Ward ticket without consulting him, and
he had no idea who was who. good
many Of the candidates in several of the
were on both tickets.
The interiection OF Judge Hamilton into !
he contest for Mayor will be a surprise to
nost people, as his name has not been 1
mentioned. But the names hitherto meH- 4
Toned as eligible for nomination have q
,een Withdrawn by their owners in an une. I
manner, and the Inference is that
he Judge has been selected by the bosses r
o unite the factions OF the party upon in ,
he hope OF p~lacating the discordant ele- !
lents. I