The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-20
THE TIGERS
TAIL TWISTED
A GLORIOUS VICTORY ACHIEVED
FOR THE CITIZENS.
BIG VOTE POLLED
The Council and School Board Will
Now Change Hands.
DEMOCRATS LOSE CONTROL
They Elect Two of the Five School Direc-
tors and But One Member of the
Borough Council.
THE RESULT IN DETAIL BY WARDS
All the Wards Except the First Re-
pudiateS the Democracy and Turn
Down Their Branches of Govern
ment-A Full and Official
Account of the Battle.
They Elect Two of the Five School Direc-
tors and But One Member of the
Borough Council.
THE RESULT IN DETAIL BY WARDS

The local De mocracy is in deep mourn
ing. Wherever house shelters a man
in the town who reioices in the boast II
am Democrat" in that house you will
find tear.stained faces and red, swollen
eyes. The local Tiger has just received a
fearful drubbing. There is not enough of
his tail left for him to draw under his
body and sneak away with. 1t has been
cut off close to the body and the stump is
represented by William Mcclure, Frank
Hanna and Patrick Conners, the only
Democrats who succeeded in escaping the
cyclone, The stump is practically a use.
it may be able to do will not have much
bearing on the local government for the
next year At least, unless some of the
Citizens elected yesterday turn traitor to
the party, and there does not appear to
be the remotest possibility of that, as all
the men elected to both the Borough
Council and School Board bear creden
tials endorsing them as being constituted
of entirely different material.
The election was clean sweep for the
Citizens party. Both the Borough Coun.
Gil and School Board have been wrested
from Democratic hands, that party having
failed to carry the necessary number of
wards to hold its majority. 1t elected a
Councilman in only one ward, the First,
and landed but two School Directors,
Frank Hanna in the First and Patrick
Conners in the Fourth. The latter got in
by the closest kind of a margin, his ma
iority over Henry L, Jones, the Citizens
candidate, being but eight.
The fight in the First ward was bitter
one and all the successful candidates were
elected by reduced maiorities This ward
was really the only sePt of dirty politics
during the day. Blackguardism pre-
vailed to an unlimited extent and street
| fights were numerous. Between five
and six D. m. there were, by actual count
four street encounters that threatened tC
3ulminate in very serious affairs, but
fortunately some people about the pol
had the good sense to restrain themselve!
and turn their attention TO quel.ing tn,
disturbances. One arrest was made dur
ing a fight after the poll closed. Patriol
Howe, Jr,, was the man arrested H
made bitter struggle against Office
Walaltis and Constable Gibliu and wa
landed under lock and key only after hi
clothing had been torn into shrewds. IL
is serving time in the lookup.
, The result in the Second ward was
surprise even to the most enthusiastic
Citizens party people. They had figured
that Magargle, Boehm and Price woul,
be elected by good majorities, but the.
did not dream the surplus would ruI
near the figures shown by the returns
f. E. Magargle, the Citizens caudi
date for the three-year term il
Council against p. j. Ferguson, re
ceived the highest vote in the ward, 2O9
but John p. Boehm, the Citizens candi
date for the one-year term in Council
against Col. j. X p. Scheihy, received tn
highest majority, 1i5, This majority
the highest given any candidate in tn
ward in five years. James b. Lessig' VIII
was then running for Chief Burgess tn
first time, received a majority of l49' Bu