The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-09
A GREAT VICTORY
Republicans Make a Clean Sweep
in the Town Elections.
LARGE GAINS EVERYWHERE.
THE WILSON BILL CONDEMNED

On Monday, i'll Portland Maine and
other cities elected Republican mayors,
and some of the Boards of Alderman are
solidly Republican for the first time in
years.
The town elections Tuesday iu the
State of New York add emphasis to the
popular uprising against the Wilson bill.
Industrial centers like Amsterdam and
Gloversville voted four to one for the
Republican candidates. In the former
the Republicans elect nearly their entire
ticket, while the Board of Supervisors of
Montgomery county stands twelve Re-
publicans to three Democrats. In
Gloversville The Republican gain on the
vote for mayor is 5000, and not single
Democratic Alderman is elected.
The change of sentiment in Duchess
county, whose Republican Senator was
stolen by the Democrats in 1892, is shown
by a Republican gain OF eight in the
Board of Supervisors, sixteen out of
twenty towns going Republican.
The Democratic stronghold or Niagara
Falls has turned completely over, and
Whitehall, EX. Congressman Burleigh's s
home, has gone Republican for the first
time III eight years. Wayne county S
Board of Supervisors is solidly Republi'
can. The town of Walcott, which only
once before in thirty-fOur years elected
a Republican Supervisor, has elected the
entire Republican ticket Everywhere
throughout the State large Republican
gains are shown.
The municipal election in Burlington
resulted in complete Republican vic.
tory. w, J. Van Patten was elected
mayor by 800 plurality. Rutland elects
the whole Republican ticket and its
mayor by 13O plurality.
Only in Troy, n. Y, was there sounds
OF discoi d and murder added to crime
against the franchise. On this point
the Boston Journal remarks: 'It is
taken quite as matter of course that
the victims of the murder0us attack in
the 18th ward of Troy should be Repuli-
cans and their rufiianly assallants Demo-
Gratis. Crimes against the suffrage are
few and far between on either side of
Mason and DiXon's line which are not
undertaken in the interests of the Demo
cracy." The following account of the
shooting is given by John r. Boland, a
prominent and respected citizen, well
known here and who is under arrest
having giving himself up. He say: 81
was at the polling place in my district all
the morning. During the morning word
came that the most flagrant outrages
were being enacted in the first and
second dictricts of the ward. Repeaters
were said to be operating in these dis.
tricts almost without molestatiun, and
when the Democratic heelers began to
arrive the respectable element was on
the alert to prevent fraud
"At noon Shea, John McGough, Jer-
~ Cleary and one or two others went ir-
to the polling place with repeater, and
a watcher followed them into the pol
ling place and made protest against the
fellows voting. McGough, Shea and
their followers forced the watcher and
crowd back. McGough drew revolver
and ordered the crowd to stand back.
Shea and Cleary did the same and all
three began firing. Robert Ross was
struck under the ear. He never uttered
a word after he was shot. He was
carried into residence near by, but ex,
pired before medical aid could be pro-
cured.
"Willitm Ross, seeing that his brother
had been prostrated by bullet, rushed
to his rescue. Before he could reach his
brothers side he, too, was shot in the
neck close to the head from behind and
fell to the ground.
"The trouble was originated and the
fight was caused by John McGough, who
is Democratic heeler, drawing his re-
volver and ordering the crowd to stand
back, and the firing by Shea and Cleary,
who joined McGough, The firing was
fast and furious for few moments, and
it is wonder that others were not in
jured. After the shooting McGough
went over toward North Fourth street
and disappeared through a gangway
leading to that street from the vacant lot
where the shooting took place. After
McGough disappeared through the gang
way, all trace of him was lost. l saw
McGongh empty his revolver into the
crowd, and believing that he had killed
my friend, Ross, followed him with
Others and endeavored to effect his cap
ture.'