Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-06
A Few Remarks As To the Way
the Citizens Voted In the
Several Wards.
Digest of the Returns, Showing
Where straights Were Voted,
and Where Not.
Various Items of Local News Gath
cred In and About the
Capital City.
Aftermath,

- OAS ASNSV ~ w uA6oE
majority. The election was a landslide
in favor of the non-partisans. The ma
jority wal the largest in years, and those
who have worked fo7 the success of the
ticket have good reason to ieel satisfied.
The total vote was a quite large one,
owing to the eagerness with which both
sides worked to get every voter out, and
the fneness Of the weather, which was
favorable to a general exercise of the
right of suffrage. In all, 507 votes were
cast, as against 464 last year, an increase
of 43.
There was not as much scratching of
tickets yesterday, as is often the case. In
the First ward, it was practlced to the
greatest extent. Leslie and Hutchinson
were tied for the mayoralty IN this ward,
81 to 80. Morris ran 2 votes ahead of
Holman, 80 to 80, showing that on some
tickets Homan was scratched off and no
name substituted. In the cases of alder
mon, however, there was considerable
scratching of tickets, and in some cases
only n alderman was voted for. Lar
son and Nicholson secured the same
number of votes, rs, while B%raithwaite
had 80, and Mcbride ran ahead of his
colleague and the ticket, getting sc. Two
straight non-partisan tickets were voted
in this ward, but bearing the names of
the second ward aldermanic candidates.
The intent Of the voters was no doubt to
vote for Larson and Nicholson, but the
tickets could not be counted for them.
Another ballot, a nun-partisan one, was
found, bearing the name of Hutchinson
but with that of Leslie not scratched out,
and the ballot was not counted for
either OF the candidates for the mayor
atty.
In the Second ward, there was a fair
amount Of scratching done, also. Here,
Leslie ran ahead of the ticket, with
Morris a close second. The aldermanic
vote was ar odd one, DePuy and Reade
running hand and hand, each receiving
88, while Reed ran eleven votes behind
MCGOWAN. In the third ward, the lines
were nicely drawn. In the votes for the
office of mayor, treasurer and justice,
there was only a difference of one.
Morris, in his own ward, ran on ahead of
Leslie, who ran even with Boyle at IS,
and just one ahead of Mcdonald, who
had 81. Scott Mclean ran ahead of the
ticket, securing SO votes.
The Fourth ward was another where
straight tickets were in favor. The sev-
eral candidates ran hand in hand, the
lowest number for any candidate on the
n%on.partisan ticket being 81, and the
highest "a.
The personnel of the city government
for the coming year will be as follows:
MayOr-A. n. Leslie.
Treasurer. E. Morris.
~Jusrice-John Boyle.
Clerk-E. b. Barrett.
Aldermen, First Ward-Wm. Braith-
waite, j. H. Mcbride.
Aldermen, Second Ward-H. L.. Reade,
w. O. DePuy.
Aldermen, Third Ward-J.D D. Mcdonald,
d. c. Mclean.
Aldermen, Fourth Ward-E. e. Patter-
son, E. S.Allen.
Commissioners OF Conciliation-John
Maassen, John Lyons, M. Glineberg, A.
Cressy.
In the Third ward, two straight non
partisan tickets were thrown out, and in
the Fourth ward one, there being that
number too many ballots in the boxes,
and the non-partisan tickets were the
ones drawn out-but as the result is, the
non-partisans could have spared more,
in each Of the wards, and are not kick
ing aboutit
The TRIBUNE said, a couple of years
ago-when it was agin' Mr.. Patterson
and when Mr.. Patterson was agin' the
TR1BUNE-that he was one of the best
single handed workers in the city-and
It has not had cause to change its
opinion. Mi. Patterson is an earnest
worker, 9 shrewd ward politician, and a
vote-getter-as the opposition will nj
doubt admit gracefully.
There didn't seem to be as much
double crossing as usual.
The TRIBUNE doesn't claim it's extra
had any bearing on the result, but it is
OF the opinion that the other one had
just a little.
April.
The first month Of spring was named
April by the Romans because, as one of
them expressed it, comma aperit"-it
opens all things. It is in this month
that nature Tin the temperate zone).
awakens from her winter slumber, throws
off the icy letters that have bound her,
and testiies her joy ut meeting the re-
turning sun, by sending forth leaves and
buds, promise of flowers and fruits to
come. And along with the rousing of
nature, man, too, shakes off the torpor
of winter, comes forth from his hlberna-
ton by the coal stove OF the steam radi-