Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-05
A QUIET, COLD DAY.
Very Few Scenes of Excitement
Around the Polls Yesterday.
TIE POLICEMEN HAD LITTLE WORK
Except What They Chose to DO in the Way
of ElectlOnnering.
GOSSIP PICKED Up DURING THE DAY

Yesterday was the quietest, most peaceful
election dav for years.
After the noi>icst and most exciting cam
paign for many years, the most peculiar
feature Of election day in Pittsburg and
Allegheny was the universal and unusual
quiet that prevailed.
There wasn't a fight of any proportions
reported in either city. In several OF the
most closely contested wards on each side Of
the river there were hot words passed, but
there was generally an absence of the usual
challenging noticeable everywhere.
The weather was not such as to tempt
many to stand around the polls il they could
find anything else to do. 1t was cloudy
nearly all day, with leanings toward snow.
A searcher for news around the polling
places found the task even chillier than the
weather News wasn't to be had very
numerouslv. Here and there t-ife was to
be picked up, but the sum total was, after
all, disc0uraging.
Ante-mortem statements on elections, in
the absence of figures, are not always strictly
reliable. The most enterprising newsgath-
erer may SALLY forth and bring in a collec-
tion o! what be considers intellectual gems,
only to find by comparison with the solid
facts in the case that he was considerably off
his base, so far as his estimates were con-
cerned.
DECEPTIONS THAT MAKE CLOUDS.
That two and two make four is a PROPOSE
ton that has stood the test o. ages. That
Smith anG Jones will vote just exactly as
they say they Will is horse of another color.
The everyday citizen sees but dimly into these
anair~ II best. and his vision is more or less
CluUded owing to the tact of the deceptions Of
A DISPATCH reporter took a run through
several OF the East End wards yesterday anG,
IOt having gun with him, met many strange
things. In the Fourteenth ward, for instance,
Nr. W. A Magee was very active citizen, the
bulk Of his endeavOr being in the interest of
PattIson. He hustled from precinct to pre-
rInct, and at & clock it looked as If the eN-
Governor would quit that section of the city
with something like 500 majority. Among the
workers were Inspector WbltehouSe and sew
cral policemen and tiremen. and they were
OuisTOken FSIu>on men. The vote being
pulled was heavy and the efforts being put
forth were ariuUus. The DelamaIer workers
saw how things were going and early in the
game they threw up both hands and quit. No
disturbances of any kind were reported from
anv quarter.
Gentlemen who profess to know. claimed
Yesterday afternoon that Delamater would
carry the Nineteenth. Twentieth and Twenty
Tirst wards by 80 majority as a grand total
More enthusiastic DelamaJer workers claimed
even more than this In Hon. William Films
district, the second OF the Nineteenth ward,
Fireman John Dalzell was a leader in the
work. He was assisted by several fellow
workers and two or three policemen Mr..
Finn voted ticket No. l25 and 1t was straight
goods, from top to bottom. for Delamater and
the regular party nominees.
WORKING OFF THE SMooTH-BoRE
a smooth-bore was worked quite effectively
for Mr.. Finn, on the Democratic side, as
against nominee Clark for Senator from the
Forty-fourth district.
In the Twentieth ward Magistrate Hynd.
man. one OF Mayor GOurlev's appointees was
out tooth and toe nail for Pattison, and he did
some very effective work for the Democratic
ticket
Councilman Bob Macgunnigle was in it. ham.
mer and tOnCs. for Delamauer, in the Twenty.
first ward, and at last reports he was feeling
quite comfortable. They had some queer pro-
Ceedmgs in the first precinct of this ward,
where Jerry Gumbert was located. Nearly
every voter who came up TO the window was
challenged, and the consequent delays were
painful. The voter was nailed the outside
and after being dragged over the Goals by a
young man who graclOusly permitted him to
I'll out aud sign a certificate of residence
character, etc, he WAS ushered into another
room to take toss witt the members of the
board. Alr. John Dunn, who has lived for, Il
years near the Lincoln school house, where rhe
voting took place. and taxpayer. said that
he WAS challenged, and that the methods being
employed -here would knock out many 4 vote
as II would be impossible to get them all in.
An eN-hreman of this ward said that the
chief opposition 10 the ticket came from men
who are the city pay rolls. and he was very
rrrr Iu his utueraUCeS
The police ana fIremen of the East End as a
rule, were out IN force tor side or the
p' her. and the manner in which they were
H yIded excited great comment. Everywhere
q he best Of order prevailed. and. generally
fpeakIug, the election was quite tame.