St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-04
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luIllS- BOIn the TeDuDI1CdnC dHuludlcS
for Congress are elected by good ma
jorities.
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Especial Dispatch to the Caledonian.1
One hundred and lightweight towns
give Page 1855, Brigham 5,841,
all others 1862; majority for Page,
1882 The same towns gave Dill
lingham in 1883 39,S61, Shurtleff
15,4S3, all others l 1OS; majority for
Dillingham;, %, 27O. The total num-
Der of democrats elected in towns
heard from is A., a gain of &c for the
democrats over 1883. In the second
district sc towns give Grout IA, 1 90,
Shurtleff 652S, scattering 5; major
ity for Grout, 1867.
The Day in ST. JOhnsbury.
Tuesday was a beautiful day and
the voting began early in the morn
ing and lasted until the ballot was
turned There was little demonstra-
ton and no excitement until after the
representative ballot box was turned.
Aside from a split Justice ticket in
which w E. Peck was substituted
for E. E. Sargent there was nothing
but the straight republican, demo-
cratic and prohibition tickets. The
third party had no county ticket.
The split justice ticket was "called
in early III the day and only few
votes for w. E. Peck for Justice were
cast.
An analysis of the towns vote
shows that I'll votes were cast
against 1883 in 1883 and SO3 in
1886. This is about half the towns
entire vote. In 1888 st. Johnsbury
cast 1913 republican, 253 democratic
and 81 prohibition votes. But in
1886 the vote stood, republican 5S1,
democratic 14S, prohibition "A. TAX
ing the average republican vote for
this town as STA it will be noticed
that Gov. Page fell % votes behind
the ticket, Judge w. p Smith 81 and
Harry Blodgett IS. Calling 1875 the
regular democratic vote, Mr.. Brig
ham gained votes from the other
side, A. B. Thomas 3 The old board
of justices was reelected but the
name of David Trull was scratched
somewhat
The interest conferred wholly in the
representative vote and there has
not been such a contest since 1880.
w. E. Peck was nominated at the
democratic caucus Saturday evening
and the republican candidates were
L. d. Hazen, Frank Walker and Dan
iel Carpenter. The first ballot
showed that the four candidates
were very evenly divided. The box
was turned at 8 O'Clock with the fol-
lowing result:
Whole number of votes, 7S9
Necessary for choice, 395
Peck, 90
Hazen, 2O3
Walker, 2O2
Carpenter, ia
Cries of walker" filled the hall
and an attempt was made to get up
a stampede for him on the next bal
lot. 1t was pretty generally under
stood that the Carpenter men would
turn in for Walker and such proved
to be the case as by the second bal
lot Walker gained 60 votes while
Carpenter lost 163 and the others
proportionately. An attempt was
made to introduce w P. Stafford as
a dark horse and he received 10
votes. The vote:
Whole number of votes, 636
Necessary for choice, 319
Walker, 263
Peck, 1877
HaZen, 145
Carpenter, 81
Stafford, 10
The Walker men took fresh en-
enlargement and the contest Law be
tween w. E Peck and Mr.. Walker
with every prospect for the latter's
election on the next ballot Amid
the confusion Daniel Carpenter with
drew his name The third ballot
was taken with the following result:
Whole number of votes, $40
Necessary for choice, 900
Walker, 2SS
Peck, 179
Hazen, 81
Stafford, II
H. c. Ide, 1
There was great shout of victory,