The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-06

ishing and fixtur.ng of the room. Com
mitteeman Martin p. Flynn presided
over the single tally sheet that was
visible. They had made no arrange
ments to receive returns. and as a
consequence their returns were very
meagre.
Secretary John J. Gaffney was the
only man who seemed to take any
great amount of interest In the re-
suit. Early in THE night he hied him.
self to the central police station, and, as
the ballot boxes were brought In by
the election officers, he took down the
figures and made hits computations
received at headquarters We're those
brought in by the faithful on the elec-
tion boards.
About 1 O'Clock the headquarters
were deserted save by ex-Sheriff
Falhey, ]. J. O'Boyle, NJ. p. Flynn, At
torney G. c. Donavan. Martin ]. Cad
den, Attorney M. ]. McAndrew, Coun-
Gilman Morgan Sweeney, School Con-
troller James O'Boy4e and Editor r.
]. BeaG1,ish, of the Free Press. The
Republican clean sweep was becoming
painfully apparent about this time. In
terest in THE county election was sud-
denly lost sight Of and conversation
turned to a more pleasant topic, the
Tammany victory In New York. AT
in Tilted chairs talking about the two
great features Of the day, the light
vote all around and John c. MoI,an's
rashness In voting the straight Pro-
h.bttfon ticket in the Twelfth ward
Shortly before midnight ex-Sherlff
Fahey said:
"tt Is quite apparent that We are
beaten, and l ann not surprised. What
does surprise me Is that we got out
as many votes as we did without hav-
Ing a niclele to run THE campaign We
were handicapped and that's all there
was to it,
During the entire evening not a
single Democratic candidate put In an
appearance at the headquarters, and
no one thereabouts seemed to know
where they were. Chairman O'Neill
was In Carbondade all day, and did not
como down during the night, Bartl's
majOrDty in the Pioneer Crty being a
message which any good Carbondale
Democrat would excuse himself from
conveying.
AT the Ward Polling Places.
There was less excitement about the
central city than in any recent cleo
t.cn. In fact the day was decidedly
dull, All the saloons, of course, were
tightly closed. and nothing was sold
but drink. 1t is "a fact, however, there
was but little drinking and not a single
disturbance was reported.
The voting was light. but not so ex-
tracrd.narly light, as In other places.
1t wouGd have been even lighter but for
the ward workers, who dragged out
many lagg,ards between 5 and o'clock.
In the First district OF the Eighth
ward the voting was light. Usually
THIS district polls from 2SO to 300 votes,
but yesterday 1T did not reach 200.
There was more cutting in, the CEN
tral city than possibly any other local
Sty. Ali the local candidates have
many personal friends in these dis
tracts, and the returns show that
friendship In many cases was held par
armcunIt to Iarty fealty. The tendency
in the judgeship contest was to favor
Judges Willard and Smith, and show
Judge Rice tlat we are a neighborly
scc,t of people.
The day was dull on the West Side.
Little interest WAS manifested in the
poll, though the number of votes cast
is not extremely small. This fact Is
due TO the ward hustlers." In the
FIFTEENTH ward an unusually large vote
was cast UP to p. m. Only in the
Fourteenth and Fourth wards was
there mulh excitement The West
Side went Republican, as usual. The
delightful weather assisting In the
work OF getting out the vote.
The vote was the lightest In the his
tory of politics on the South Side. In
districts where upward of 400 votes are
usually polled, not more than half that
number came out yesterday, but the dis
tricts where the largest number re-
mained at home were those which DEM
ocratic majorities count up. The
Twelfth and Twentieth wards were
particularly noticeable in the number
that failed to come out and cast their
votes. The only disturbance reported
was at the polls in the First district Of
the Nineteenth ward.