The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-07
ELEVEN THOUSAND VOTE
Enormous CroVis Participate In TIE
School Election
THE A. P. AS THE vIcToRs
som People Voted Several Times
and Sons Voted Several Bal
. il lots at One Time-An
Exciting Day.

BUTTE, April 6.-The A. r. AS. were
the people In Butte to-day. They did not
do thing but elect c. r. Hawley and c.
B. Hoskins for school trustees by ma
jority of more than thousand over the
citizens candidates. Mrs. Jennie n.
Moore and T. M. Ford. They had the
votes and they got them in early aud late
and this is how the play came up:
The polling places were at the High
school building and long before the polls
opened at 8 o'clock this morning the Haw-
ley and Hoskins supporters, male and
female, wereio the ground in swarms.
Committees from the secret political
society, with large blue ribbons
on their coats aud dresses, stamped with
the word "Committee" were there with
arms full of tickets with the names of
their candidates thereon. They were on
hand to work and II was to their credit TO
say that they worked blamed well. Oh,
they did not do thingi The women
seemed to be the most earnest workers
and few of them grew SO earnest during
the day that the police had to part some
of them. From the opening of the polls
until noon the A. p. AS had nearly every
thing their own way and then the Moore
Ford ticket began to pull up. BY o'clock
it had made such n showing of strength
that the A. p. AS were considerably less
confident than they were earlier in The
many of them voted once If not
twice or three times again.
but be that as it may they certainly had
the vote oil right when the ballots were
counted. ALI day long both sides had car
riages out and brought men and women
in from all parts of the district, the Haw-
lev-Hoskins supporters bringing into
requsition express wagons, buses and
hay racks. They were remarkably we'll
organized and had such men as the only
American Caldwell, j. b. Knight, Editor
g. L. Campbell, DIR. Calder and "Setia-
tor" Jones. AS an example of the
methods some used in voting, the
case of one woman might be recited. She
stepped up to one of the ladies' windows,
gave her name and said she was an A. p.
A. and thea handed in her ballot. II was
rather bulky and the clerk opened it and
fou nd that there were four of them She
was asked how about il and she explained
that she had three children and stated
that she wanted to vote for them.
Another method is shown by the fact
that an A. T.. A. committee called upon
Librarian Davies and informed HIM that
none of his assistants must work for Mrs.
Moore and Mr.. Ford or they would be
'sfiredn when Thompson is mayor.
On the whole the election Was q most
orderly one, though there was more inter-
est manifested than in any school election
ever held in Butte before. The Butte d
Boston and Boston * Montana mines
were shut down to give their employees an
opportunity to vote for Hawley and Hos
kins, and the streets were crowded with
people all day. ~
When the polls closed at o'clock there
had been 1883 votes cast, nearly half of
which were cast by women. The total
was q little larger than the above figures.
but many were thrown out because they
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There was very little scratching, as the
| following vote will show: