, 1892-04-06
TACOMA is o. K.
PARKER PRESSED THE BUTTON
AND HUSON WAS ELECTED.

The Republicans WON the City GOV.
ernnent After a Hard Tough,
Battle ~ TheY Have the mayor
and q Majority of the Council.
HUsON's MAJORITY (Rep ........ 15t
B0GGs' MAJORITY (Rep. .......... Sc
sLAUGHTER's MAJORITY (Dem.) 186
AK1TsTRONG's MAJORITY (Rep. J. / 1,21C
TACOMA, April 6.-The democracy 81
Tacoma is mad this morning; very mad.
| At least such is the condition of the Steve
O'Brien and the Tacoma News wing of the
party. They fully expected yesterday to
elect Parker mayor and make a clean
sweep fall the other offices. There is one
wing Of the party that is wreathed in
smiles, and this wing is mocking at the ca
lamity that has oYertaken the other wing.
The old-time democrats who were snubbed
by the O'Brien men are doing the smiling
Only as late as Tuesday of last week John
Paul Judson, of this city, well-known
old time democrat and attorney went to
the rooms of the democratic city commit
tee, to ascertain some facts in regard to ap,
pointments which had been made for him
to speak during the campaign. The door
keeper refused to admit him into the inner
room Of the committee ON the ground that
he, Judson, was stranger, and
when the doorkeeper was prevailed
upon to admit him, neither O'Brien or
Secretary Palmer were in and Mr.. Judson
was compelled to introduce himself to the
members Of the committee. Not person
around the place was acquainted with Mr..
Judson, who is one of the best known
democrats in the city and state.
O'Brien is not citizen of the country
and yet he is leader of the democracy
here. Thousands of dollars were put up
on Parker and lost by the gamblers and sa
loon men, all of whom were whooping it
up all day yesterday for their candidate,
who, by the way, was one Of the speakers
at the Francis Murphy meetings.
When the democrats awoxe this morning
they were utterly surprised that the re-
turns from all the precincts announced
that the city controller and six councilmen
were the only ones elected by the demo-
Gratis. They had supposed that their party
had made clean sweep and had bet all
their loose change on the issue.
Slaughter was elected controller because
Heilig, the republican candidate, was little
known and was associated in the theater
business with w. d. Post, one of the most
unpopular men in Tacoma, and a demo-
crat. Five democrats are elected to the
city council as follows: Steinbach, Fon-
taine, Knoell, Abercrombie, McGouldrick
and Proctor, one independent, Berry. Nine
republicans were elected. The republicans.
have the whole city government except
comptroller.
The councilmen elected are: First ward
-Beals republican, Steinbach (denlocrat).
Second ward-Boardman and Lee (repub-
lcans. Third ward-G -Grattan and Snyder
(republieans). Fourth ward -Fontaine and
Knoell (demoerats). Fifth ward -McGold-
rick and Abercrombie {democrats3 Sixth
ward=Warner and Jdhette {repGblicans@
Seventh ward Berry independent repub-
ican }, Proctor (diemocr2att). Eighth ward
vote polled for mayor was 6,982 out Of a
total registration of 9,005, and 2,023 of
these failed to vote. The vote in October,
1890, at the previous municipal election
was 4,554, and the increase over the vote of
1890 is 2,428