Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-06
THE ELECTION.
How THE VOTING WAS OAR
RIED ON
And Other Items Incident.


Immediately began. In the Firrt
ward the voting is done in the Engin-
GERS Office with f. p. Massey presid-
ing Judge. In the Second ward the
polls were, located in a vacant store
house under the New Lehman hotel
Geo. p. Coates judge. In the Third
ward the polls were in Dickey's old
store on south Fifth street, +. o.
Rodgers judge. In the Fourth ward
the voting place is in the Engine
house b. l.. Terrence Judge. In the
Fifth ward the polls are at the fire
~ tn The town is exceedingly
qr y ,inder the circumstances and no
riot have occurred.
ONE FIGHT
Is reported between two colored men
Tea Cake Johnnie. who is u staunch
democrat, and one Storms who has
been stumping the county in the in
terest of Col. E. A. Jones, Tea Cake
Johnnie came out first best. The
banks, the government offices, and
the saloons are all closed and BUSH
ness is almost entirely suspended,
although the merchants have their
doors open. All Waco mon who were
called away on business have re-
turned. The benign countenance Of
GOV. ROSS
was seen this morning. He came up
from Austin in order to vote the
democratic ticket. Senator Coke
called OH him this morning and the
two Waco statesmen spent some time
talking of the events which had
occurred during the many months
since last they met. Gov. Ross son
L. S. Ross Jr. came up also and will
cast his first vote for the democratic
party and tariff reform. Assistant
A Attorney General Richard Harrison
is also here to vote. He spoke last
night at Bruceville to large and
interested audience. There is great
deal of interest manifested to-day for
| DISTRICT JUDGE
and it appears that the union labor
men are nearly all voting for Rice.
The prohibitionists are voting in
discriminatory, and the colored vote
is about divided, but of the demo
cratic vote Dickinson is receiving
three out of every four and will carry
the CITY by handsome majority.
| THE HOT FIGHT
is in the Third and fourth wards. The
Second and First wards will poll very
large Mills majorities but there is a
strong fight in the two other wards on
the west side. In the third ward near.
" all the members of the union labor
party vote, and the vote of that ward
will show nearly the whole strength o.
the union labor party in this city. In
the city election in April Wheelan, who
was the labor candidate, received 200
votes out of more than 500 cast. and
every knight of labor voted for him
but ZONES cannot carry the knights OF
labor vote, for some Of Mills bes'
friends in the city belong to that or
der, and are doing all they can for him
The vote no doubt in this ward viii
be very close, but experienced ware
workers who have manipulated vote!
there for five years, say the ward vii
go for Mills.
THE BLACK WARD.
The fourth ward is the home of thu
colored man. Here is where hi
chuckles are located and where hi
secret political meetings are held
There is a large belt down Wac
creek dotted with small frame houses
, in which from ten to forty negroe
live. They held secret meeting
last night in the ward and swore t.
stand by Jones for congress, Harrison
for president, and the union labor can
dldates for county and state Offices
and to-day they are voting that wa
in solid phalanxes, although strag
4 gler here and there walks up an
votes tor Mills against the protest c
about hundred of his race, VIII
hang around the polls to prevent an
detection. At the last city electio
j. there were 1913 votes cast in the war
for Westbrook, the colored man VIII
8 ran for alderman, while the white car
didate, Forsgard, received 272.
y ZONES carries any ward i'll town h
will probably carry this.
A PIONEER.
An imposing scene was witnesse
. at the Second ward this morning whe
a buggy drove up with two men. On
!. was young man IN the full streng'
d of manhood while the head of til
e other was whitened by the snow {
many winters. The son, with the tel
derest care, helped his father, who
e almost blind, to get out the buggy an
:. 80 to the polls where they voted Il