The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-04
REPUBLICANS VICTORIOUS
TOWN IND CITY TICKETS WERE
 BOTH ELECTED YESTERDAY.

Many Protests Entered at the Several
 Wards-Court of Common Council Safely
 Republican-De Only Save An
 thony, Brethauer and Stoddard-Second
 Ward City eturns Incomplete.
 The city and town election yesterday was one of the most closely contested and exciting at the finish of any cleo
 ton held here in many years. Pro-
 tests were received from every ward in
 the city on the part of both the repub-
 lican and democratic counters at the
 several polling places, and were filed
 w. J. Mills, when the returns were
 turned in there.
 The protests were made by both par
 ties on the ground that the ballots
 were not in accordance with the law.
 On the face of the returns the republi-
 cans elect Town Agent Baldwin and Se-
 lectmen Stahl, Ludington and Beecher,
 while the democrats will again have to
 content themselves with a minority rep
 resentation for the coming year
 The democrats succeed in electing
 Francis G. Anthony tax collector, Fred erick H. Brethauer town clerk and Eze- kiel G. Stoddard city treasurer, while the republican candidate, Charles s. Mersick, was elected town treasurer, The republicans also elect three mem i, ( .l.- c 1.4,e,. ;A ity of the town constables It also looks as though Preston had beaten Carr for registrar by 13 votes.
 The Good Government club did not
 cut much of a figure in the result of the contests, though it's candidate for police commissioner, Joseph Porter, sue | ceeded in polling about 1000 votes, John | Clancey, dem., and Louis M. Ullman, rep, were, however, both elected by handsome majorities.
 In the Second ward there was more of contest over counting the votes than there was in polling them. At o'clock this morning the returns had not been made to the moderator of the | First ward and the indications were l that they would not be received during l the night, as at that hour the counters l in the ward were quietly sitting around l the supply house, each side refusing to l sign the returns on account of protests
 as to the legality of certain ballots John Trace, the moderator of the ward | threw out all the republican city bal | lots on the ground that they were ille- gal because they had on them no can didate for city collector of taxes and also because they contained the words "member of the board of public works | instead of commissioner of the board of public works" The counters there upon refused to sign the returns. At a ! late hour the republican and democrat ] ic registrars of voters were called tC l the supply house to settle the difficulty but their efforts were futile and neither side would give in.
 l The court of common council next | year will still be republican, the board l of aldermen standing 16 republicans tc l 8 democrats and the councilmen IS tc l IS. This is assuming that the republi- 1 can ward officers from the Second ward will be declared elected having receiv. I ed the majority of the votes cast in the ward. The political complexion of the | incoming court of common council in
 sures the election of republican as and measures.
 | The returns as given in the tables are | complete with the exception of the city l ticket from the Second ward, which is l still in doubt.