Omaha daily bee., 1891-03-04
THE NEWS IN TIE BLUFFS.
Echoes from the Election Thai shos Dis
satisfaction Among the Democrats,
GRINDING AwAY ON The BoARTz CASE.
\ Social Event Among the Hebrews -
A Man Arrested on Suspicion
Of pciug the MuCh-W dntcd
A. VI. Morris.

There was dissatisfaction BY the carload
in the city yesterday over the result Of the
election of Monday The dissatisfaction was
mostly with the democrats, for the rcpub
licaps had nos built their hopes very high,
and were therefore more easily suited than the
democrats, who had hoped toswcop the beard.
inc returns as Published yesterday were
complete as to the whole city with the cSccp-
tion of the ScCoad precinct OF the Sixth ward,
the returns Of which had not come in at the
hour OF going to press, The dem otrats hoped
that the returns from that precinct, when
they came in, would show "a sufficient gain for
them TO seat j. y Brown as alderman at
large. but when they came in at about >
O'Clock yesterday afternoon and showed n
total vote of 9, Of which . were democrats
and republicans, their disgust knew no
bounds.
Sometime during the dav someone con-
cciycd Of the idea of coulesting the election
IN the Third wari in which the vote for
ward alderman was Cor a time q tie between
Van Brunt and Nuunoudc, and which finally
resulted In the election of Van Brunt by the
throwing out Of two democratic votes which
had been evidently thrown into the box at
the same time. The action of the judges in
thus throwing out these two votes was CEN
Surod by some on the ground that upon
counting. the ballots in the box and the num-
Der OF voters as shown by the clerks record,
the two were found to be equal, and that the
votes could not have been in at the same
time The judges, however, deny the state.
ment that the two numbers conceded.
Another thing to which the democrats Oh.
1ect Is the throwing out of republican ballot
which had been PIT in with the name of
Gunnoudo written on it, and on which the
name of Van Bruut had not been cancelled.
The judges threw out this Totc, as they
thought the law directed. But GunnoUde's
friends claim that the fact that his name
was written on the ballot is suf-
hcent TO show that the voter
intended to vote for Gunroude,
and the vote should therefore have been
counted for him. How these claims will
but the democrats say If they can knock out
their opponents on these points they Will
succeed in seating Gunnoude by majority of
one, and it Is u thing worth working for Mr..
Gunnoude does not like to admit that he
would be willing to take the lead in move
of this kind, but it is easy to see that he
would have no objections to his friends doing
it for him if they should see fl it, A meeting
of democrats was held last night and it is un-
derstood that something will be done in this
line today.
Another thing which it is said is likely to
cause trouble is the fact that the poll books
and the ballot box were not brought in from
the Second precinct of the Sixth ward until
nearly twenty.four hours after the votes had
been counted precinct which only cast
nine votes seems like an insignificant thing
upon which to base u contest but 1t is
claimed that no one knows but there might
have been forty votes cast there, and the box
might have been "doctoredn by someone
after ii left the hands of the judges and be-
fore it came to the city CLERK.
On the other hand, it is claimed by some
Ihat the vote in the Second precinct of the
Sixth will never be counted in anyway,
from the fact that it is not known positively
that this is III Pottawattame county The
boundary line of the state at this point is yet
matter of uncertainty, and before the Ques-
tion is settled it promises to be a
source of trouble. Before the election there
We're about fifty voters registered. A dis
pute arose as to who were entitled to vote.
and the result of the dispute was that all but
about fifteen of these registered voters were
thrown out of the list as being outside the
boundary line. The voters who were treated
in this way were naturally some what in
dignant over what they considered an in
fringement of their rights and they threaten
to make things lively for the ones whom they
consider ponsi BILE for the occurrence.
Yesterday Prof. c. Yunkerman purchased
for his own use one of the uneXcelled Hard
man pianos. This makes the sixth piano he
has bought of the Mueller music company in
the course of his long experience as mu-
scian, and coincident Herewith he has each
time procured the best in the market until
today his home is graced with "Hardman
Royal The professor with his long eXperi-
ence knows which piano is the leader.