The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-15
W0FIFTY-SEVEN
Democrats Garry Butte
in Great Shape.
WALTON wins EASILY
Butte Records Its Verdict on the Tun-
mel Precinct Fraud.
1T is A CLEAN SWEEP
Democrats Score a Splendid Vic
tory and Celebrate the Re-
suit Right Royal Q
style.
1T IS A CLEAN SWEEP

BY the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, April 14.-The city of Butte is il
Illuminated tonight, flags are flying, bon-
fires are blazing, jubilant crowds are
thronging the streets. The city has been
indicated. The tunnel precinct fraud
committed last fall was wiped ont in the
blood of the republican candidates to-day.
Not a republican is to be seen in the
streets tonight. The ''grand old party
has been whipped as il was never
whipped in Butte before. The mag
niicent victory achieved iy the demo-
Gratis was he grandest, the most
decisive in the city's history. The COM
~pleteness of the triumph may be tol by
recording the fact that In the most doubt
full city, politically, in Montana a demo-
cratic mayor was elected by 257 majority,
and that six out of seven democratic al
dermen were elected. On the entire re-
publican ticket. the only man elected was
the candidate for alderman from the Sec
ond ward. He squeezed through with the
narrow margin of a majority of four, i'm
the strongest republican ware of
the city. Furthermore the election
Of the republican in this ward
may be contested for, by the ballots as
cast, the democratic candidate had a ma
jority of 3. Seven democratic votes were
thrown out because the voters had
scratched out the name of the republican
candidate instead of placing a cross OPP
posite the democrats name. In several
wards. the intention OF the voter being
evident, such ballots were counted. But
they were thrown out in the Second ward,
where the majority of the judges were
republican, and the result changed accord
ingly prevented the democrats of Butte
from making a clean sweep. Day dawned
bright and the sun shone steady all day
on the Just democrats and the unjust re-
p%ublicans. The workers on both sides
were up early and at the polls. The vot-
ing was TO begin Mt 3 o'clock but an hour
before that time men were ready TO vote
and impatiently awaiting the opening of
the polls. There was n delay, owing to
the lateness with which the boxes and
official ballots were got around TO
some of the wards. City Attorney
Corbett and City Clerk raw counted
ballots for the various polling places from
midnight until nearly morning. The de-
lay was occasioned by the fact that there
was not enough messengers on hand To
take the ballots to all the wards by 3
o'clock. The delay wal of short duration
however. After the first rush the voting
was light during lief forenoon, and in most
OF the wards not one-third of the ballots
had been cast by noon. IL seemed as
though every democrat in the city was
working. II Is true hat the republicans
had managed to engage more
hacks than the democrats, but the
latter made up for activity. Carriages,
draped with canvas bearing the names OF
candidates, flew about the city In all di-
rections, bringing in tardy voters. The
voting being by the Australian system, IL
was impossible To tell how any voted. n
frequently voters would be waited on by
carriages from either party. The republic
cans worked prodigiously. They did all
that a party could do To escape de-
feat. but the defeat was inevi-
table. Thoroughly organized, they made
a good fight, but the democratic
cause was popular aud right and the
ticket commanded the vote Of all republic
AM of independent minds. Up To loon
there was not a challenge or an objection
made at the polling places. But at noon
the trouble began, although II was Of not
so pronounced a character as to influence
the result. Up 10 noon all who had regis
tered were allowed TO vote, whether they
had been i'm the state six months or a
year, but at noon City Clerk Graves sent
around oaths OF a different character from
the registry oaths to be takenb by any who
should be challenged. Pho new oath diff
fered in requiring a years residence in
Montana instead Of six months and read
as follows:
~ do solemnly swear or affirm that l am a
citizen OF the United states ,or have declared my
intention h. become such citizen prior to the
adoption ~ the constitution of the state Of Mon.
tana under the existing laws thereof that I am
over she AZ. Of twent, one years; that ! have
actually and not consirIrti,ely been a bona hde