Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-06-01
THE CORPORATION ELECTION.
TIE COUNCIL REPUBLICAN Z TO 8.
SOME FAR-sEEING DEMOCRATIC POLL
TICIANs.

1900 IO~eANN WV bAOb
day the political ducks were out in
force and worked the harder for the
line spring showers. 1t was a right
lively day,-men hurrying along the
streets and hacks running as if a great
social event of the season were trans
piring. 1t was corporation election
day, each ward electing one council
man,
The Democrats had regular party
nominations in all the wards, with
good organization, weekly meetings
and every leader of the party from
the highest to the lowest put in theil
best ticks. With the Republicans il
was a go-as-you-please race, and that
they were not caught mapping is due
more to the exertions of tho candi
dates and their friends than to party
support. With proper organization
and half the campaign work the Dem.
ocrats expended, the Republicans
could just as well have carried the five
wards as the three.
1t seems, however, the Democratic
leaders were looking ahead and laying
their plans to capture the Council bag
andbaggage next year;they wouldthen
have done what the Republicans re-
fused to do,--made a clean sweep of
city appointments and put some new
party material to the front. The
friends of the parties interested work.
ed this part of the campaign very
quietly and captured some good Re-
publican votes thereby; for Deputy
Sheriff Hollis has Republican fol.
lowing of considerable strength, and
if he should have been promoted to
Sergeant Hollis his friends would
have looked upon the stolen march as
quite stroke of political policy and
party success.
In the First Ward, which is Demo.
cratic, Mr.. j. w. Martin and his
friends got in some good work for
they had strong man to defeat in
Mr.. Morgan Martin. 1t proves Mr..
John w. Martins popularity to be on
the increase, and he is just learning
how to manage things in politics.
That he will make an excellent Coun-
Gilman seems to be the general i'm
preston, and worthy successor to
his illustrious but defeated namesake.
The Second Ward toed its usual
straight chalk line and gave Mr.. l.. C.
Gerling handsome majority over
Mr.. Harvey Cushwa, one of the best
men the Democrats seem to have in
the ward. Mr.. Gerling will renew
his efforts to do the best in his power
to sustain the confidence placed in
him.
The Third Ward must have longed
for its first love again and sends a
Democrat once more to Council in the
person of Mr.. u. 7. Grove, who has
long been in business here, and has
experience and ability sufficient to
give the Third Ward all the Council
representation it wants.
The centre Of the fight was evident
ly the Fourth ward, which gave the
Democrats more worry than all the
rest. Their best men were kept on
the run, the party leaders and back
ers had urgent business along the
railroad and with the railroaders, and
the professional politicians had many
"calls on the hill ,"-even the Demo-
cratic editors and proprietors," Dor
one of them at least,-t Higgins of
the party in Berkeley had busy
time gathering the news among his
Irish friends whom ne never knew be-
fore, all to "save Wellinger," and
all to no purpose.
The day is past when the average
Irish-American of intelligence can
be "sent for" aud made TO climb the
political pole like a party monkey,
and then after that little act have no
further use for him until the next
political play.
The new Fourth Ward Councilman,
Mr.. Joseph L. Ahern, is young man
of prudence, good judgment, and high
standing, and will be credit to the
Council and to his Ward. His cleo
ton against such opposition is an en-
enlargement to young men who, like
Mr.. d. II. Dodd, make special efforts
TO rise by the faithful discharge of
every duty, and it shows that such
merits can not always be overcome
by party majorities.
The Fifth Ward, strong Republi-
can Ward, did badly, and we hope by
another election the leaders of that
ward will pull together with better
will. Mr.. Schill, the Democratic
Councilman elect, has chance to do
some good work for the citizens of
that ward, and make himself a more
popular man yet by two years good
work.
The Corporation election of 1889
proves two things most conclusively;
that is,-MartinSburg is Republican
by fair working majority under
good management and hard political
work. And it shows in the second
place that the people will rather sup
port new men than those who repeat
edly try to get into the Council. We
hope success and satisfaction will at
tend the labors of the new Council,
and the best way to attain this is to
work for the good of the taxpayers in
general and for no one or any set in
particular.
The popular blood purifier, Hood Is
Sarsaparilla, is haying a tremendous
sale this season. Nearly everybody takes
it. Try it yourself.
The Merchants Carnival will be held
in Central Opera House on the even
ings of June Goth and 21st instead OF
18th, as has been announced. Each
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