Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-11
THE new CITY FATHERS,
Who They Are, Where They Were
Eaised, and What They
Have Done.
mbe New Chattle Mortgage Law
Jamestown Asylum Board
Sunday Sermons.
Jamestown Wants to be the See
City for North Dakota
Minor Notes.
After the Election.

After the Election.
The election Saturday was, in many
,espects, model one. There was not
anonoh heat in the contest to bring out
a fnll vote by 200. The mud-throwing
and i'll feeling which have frequently at
tended other elections, we're conspicuous
only in their absence. The contests In
every instance were friendly. There was
no opposition to Mr.. Fuller for mayor,
and he came under the wire winner
without either worry or hard work. He
nut in the day working up couple OF
horse trades.
The only really interesting fight of the
election was over the city treasuryship.
Both candidates are popular citizens
and each recognized that in the other
he had ''foeman worthy of his steel.'
The candidacy of Mr.. Sheridan was not
declared until late day, but neverthe-
less he made spirited canvass and kept
his opponent on the jump until the last
vote was cast and the polls were closed.
Some time in the future his plucky can
yass of Saturday will be remembered to
his advantage. The successful candidate
Mr.. Webster, is one Of the most popular
and deserving young men in the county,
and any one who, in an election, runs
within hailing distance of him has made
creditable showing.
Geo. G. Eager, who was candidate for
police magistrate, did about all the CAM
paigning that was done for that place
and it was not much. Judge Hamilton
has had the office during the past two
years and the people were well satisfied
with him and his conduct OF the office.
The judge was not one OF tire anxious
candidates. He was put on the winning
ticket without any solicitation on his
mart and it was noticeable that he stud
iously avoided lingering near the polls
on election day. The people voiced their
appreciation of his conduct of the office
by reelecting him by a largely increased
majority.
The allermanic contests were more IN
the nature of friendly voting contests at
church fairs where the friends of the
candidates do all the rustling. In the
First and Second wards there was no one
who was not satisfied with Alfred Steel
and p. M. Garrigan, the candidates res
pectively for those wards. The usually
rapid race of election day bore for them
none of the heated similarity which
warmed up many of their predecessors.
In the third ward the only Tom Dris-
coll was again voted into the council.
Tom was away in Montana but his part
ner Tom Barrett and his other friends IN
the ward looked we'll to his interests and
his votes. His opponent was John NC
Gipnis, who represented the third ward
in the first council under the city govern
ment.
Over in the Fourth ward the election
presented peculiar aspect: The rival
! candidates, s. r. Graves and }. L. Eager,
are warm personal friends. Neither OF
them worked very hard, lost much sleep,
or spent much money, and it ls safe to
assert that no matter how the election
had resulted the defeated candidate
would have solaced himself with tho
thought that If he was defeated, his
friend was victorious. The best of feeling
prevailed between them during the en-,
tire day, and each went to the polls, and
dropped in a ballot bearing the others
name. The result in this ward was big
surprise to a great many who thought
the we'll known popularity of Mr..
Graves would overbalance any work
which the other side might do. The vo-
ters of the Fourth ward have this satls-
faction: They we're sure to have good
alderman whichever way the election re-
suited