Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-05
MAYOR SMITH.
A Great Victory for the Democ-
racy of Fort Worth.
A Campaign Conducted on Strictly Le-
ultimate Prineiples-A Hand
some Majority for Peter.
A Number of Felicitous Speeches Made BY Ad.
ulrsrs Of the Democratic Candidate.
Day OF Anxiety.

Observe the euphonY.
That's the way it will read for some
years to come.
A majority of SAT, gained without the
use of a dollar TO influence votes, the re-
suit of mans personal popularity and
the Hateful potency of his principles.
yesterdays victory is one Of which the
Democracy and the citizens generally
may be proud.
The vote polled was not heavy, lack
ing some 400 of the number cast in the
PendletOn-Broiles campaign. The
shortage, however, is mostly of Dem
ooratic votes, many of the most active
members of that party being at present
out Of the city, and many others, who
are OF home, refrsining from voting I'M
DER the belief that their ballots
were not necessary for success.
But Notwithstanding the complaoent
nonchalance of those who thought "there
was enough OF 'em there to elect Peter
Smith without me-, - there was consider
able perspirlng done by those who were
at the polls and watched the condition OF
the ballot.
In fact 1t was q close and exciting
election, and many of the old time party
managers of the city were stirred up to
high pitch of apprehension lest apathy
on the part of the best citizens would re-
suit in the defeat to the standard of
progress.
The Smith votes were somewhat back
ward in coming forward. During the
forenoon the Broiles men in the lowec
ard voted in squads, while in the up
per wards, the First and Second,
where Smiths greatest strength
was expected to come from the
haIIOfa hain0 danoSifaA in
dian file. At 2 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon only 375 ballots had been de-
posted in the First ward ballot box. In
the Pendleton- Broiles contest the voting
in the uptown wards had been mostly
done in the forenoon, and it looked yes
terday as though the friends of Peter
Smith were going to be deceived by as
surance.
eff you Democrats don It get out and
do something there 8 going to be seri-
GUS hitch in the programme, said Col.
r. NJ. Wyune, as with curly locks flying
to the breeze, he urged on the workers.
He explained after he was assured of
Peter Smith s victory, that he only SAID
that 'to stir the boys up little" but
it serves to show the status of affairs
during the afternoon.
OF course there were but few who I'M
u6TbLOO1 Tue COuUlIlOu VI lOChl pOAiLlCS
who did not coneede the victory to
Smith; yet there was anxiety lest the
majority might be so small as to leave
some hope in the breasts of the opposl-
tion that they would stand a better
chance in the future. It was the earnest
desire to make the result so positively
conclusive as to show that the Democ-
racy had regained its solid grip in Fort
Worth.
The Broiles men were hard at work.
They exerted themselves with vim and
energy worthy a better cause. And
they made an imposing show, too.
1t looked to the ardent Smith
men in the close wards as
though every Broiles vote counted ten.
In the First and Second wards of COURSE
everything bore the roseate hue of unde-
filed Democracy, and it seemed as
though the bird of victory would not be
able to find any other banner big
enough to perch on. So also in
the Sixth ward. But in the Third,
Gratis were inclined to rue the
beautiful principles of cleanliness
and economy, which the executive
committee had inaugurated, and to
wish that the Smith forces were
equipped with some of the substantial in
duoements which brought the Broiles
vote out SO easily. But the result shows
that the committee were perfectly sound
and justifable in the course they
outlined, and the greater triumph
is it to the candidate and the principles
and policy he represented that the vic
tory was made without the expenditure
of cent in corrupt channels, notwith-
standing the methods and tactics pursued
by the opposition.
DR.. Broiles and his friends perspirsd
freely, and spared no labor that would
gain them the victory they coveted.
They never allowed their ardOr
to flag till the last ballot
was in, and their sanguinensss held
out till the returns were made known to
the public.
Capt. Eph Daggett was seen about 8
'elock in the afternoon, and was asked
how much majority he thought Peter
Smith would get.
"Peter SMITH Why, sir, Broiles Is
going to get there by at least hundred
majority.
Capt. Dagget was mistaken, and the
following returns are published to show
what the actual result of the election
was:
Smith - -
SECOND WARD.
Smith ..'..''....-.. 10
THIRD WARD.