The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-07
HOW BATTLE WAS FOUGHT.
Heavy Voting Everywhere and but Little
Disturbance Reported.

Heavy Voting Everywhere and but Little
Disturbance Reported.
No more earnest battle was ever
fought in this county than that which
came to a close at o'clock last even
ing. The weather was sharp and cold
making lettering about polling places
anything but agreeable. AS a conse-
quence very little excitement was man
ifested in the great majority of election
districts, but this did not indicate
apathy on the part of the citizens, as
the heavy vote polled everywhere
shows.
Voting was done generally in very
business like way. The voter came to
the polling place, deposited his ballot
and then proceeded to attend to usual
business.
Every district in the county was man
ned by active workers of the different
parties, who did their best to roll up
big majorities for their favorites. OC-
casionally these workers became over
Jealous and then trouble ensued. No
disturbances of a very serious nature,
however, We're reported during the day.
A Big Morning Vote.
In the Eighth, Sixteenth, Ninth and
Seventeenth wards of this city bigger
vote was polled during the early hours
Of the day than was ever known at a
previous election. The total vote cast
was also exceptionally large.
on the West Side the vote also came
out early, but on the South Side the
Seventh ward and in some of the North
End districts the bulk of the vote was
polled after O'Clock in the afternoon.
At Republican headquarters the most
encouraging reports We're received all
| day of the progress of the battle.
| Everywhere throughout the county Re
publicans had rallied nobly to the sup
port of the men who had been 50 gross
ly reviled by the local organ of the
Democratic party. The campaign of
abuse had also had an opposite effect
| from that contemplated for many life
| long Democrats, who love fair play and
| justice, recorded their votes against the
| candidates in whose interests the mud
singing campaign was waged.
Slashing Democratic Candidates.
The officials at Democratic headquar-
ters were kept on the anxious seat all
day by the reports of trouble that were
waited in from all parts of the county
Here one candidate was being knitted
and there another. The old factional
| fights of the Democratic leaders had
broken out among their followers and
the campaign managers were in despair
| At Old Forge and Lackawanna Kelly
and Fahey were being slaughtered, II
was said, while reports from Olyphant
| told similar story about these candi.
dates, who seemed particularly marked
out for the vengeance of discontented
| Dmocrats.
In other places Smith was the objec.
tionable candidate and in others Schadt
and Koehler suffered. 1t seemed as the
day waned as If the carefully arranged
plan of battle was falling apart every.
where and trusted lieutenants were
turned loose in all directions to try anC
close up the gaps in the ranks
Of Democracy, When the O'Clock
bell announced that the voting was ovel
the Democratic leaders were devoutlS
thankful.
But Few Disturbances.
When the city polling places hat
closed at O'Clock it was the opinion OF
the police that fewer fights and disturb
| ho1
vious state and county election day
At intervals reports were received a.
police headquarters that fights were II
progress and that extra policemen were
needed in certain districts but in eacf
case it was found that the rumors were
exaggerated and that good order pre-
vailed generally.
The most troublesome wards to tn,
police were the Seventh, Elevnth
Twelfth and Twentieth. In the Seventh
ward, Third district, dispute arose IL
the booth at $50 o'clock and the in
terror was not cleared so that tardN
voters could not enter until half houI
later. Intense excitement and hare
words prevailed, and in the confusion
several unauthorized persons got in
side. The trouble was oocasioned b,
challenges and only few votes wer,
polled between $50 and Z o'clock il
consequence
In the Third district of the Eleventh
ward drunken crowd created consider
able excitement all the afternoon anC
the same state of affairs existed in tn,
several districts of the Twelfth. Blows
were exchanged and many quarrels oc
Cured, but no arrests were made an(