The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-05
THEY'VE ALL VOTED
The School Election Brought Out the
Great Falls Ladies.
OH, BUT THEY LOOKED WISE
But Some OF 1hem Took Every
Ballot hat Was Offered and
Wanted to Put All the Little
Paper Things Into the Box.

Great Falls. April 4.-The election OF
four school trustees to-day awakened
a phenomenal interest and has been one
OF the most holly contested battles for
several years. Ever since the nomina-
ton good hard work has been put in on
both sides with the advantage in favor
or the A. p. A. ticket. backed, at IL was
by being fully organized and equipped
for fight on their usual secret meth
DDS. An unusually large vote has been
the result.
Early this morning the supporters of
the different candidates were in the
held and the two tickets were thrown
broadcast through the city by their
partizans. Some of the most earnest.
persistent canvassers and advocates
have been women and the interest they
have taken i'm the preliminary work
ana voting has shown them to be poll
ticians of no mean order. Before
O'Clock this morning the leaders had
their skirmishers in line around the APP
proaches to the old school house.
where the voting took place and
crowd of rs to 100 patroled the side
walks until the polls closed A dozen
ticket passers saw that no one voting
missed chance of seeing both tickets.
with new arrivals the crowd kept split
ting up into small gruups, each earn
estly discussing the phases of the sit
uation. Everything considered, IL was
a good-natured and orderly crowd.
While all were deeply in earnest as to
the result of the election. vet the typi-
cal and irresistible humor croppIng ont
and unlimited "joshlng" seemed the or
der OF the day Only one drunken per-
son was seen about the polls and he
had jolly. generous drunk and insist
ed that all OF the candidates on both
tickets should be elected and so settle
the unpleasantness
Inc women exercised their prerora-
tive like old timers, fixing IN their Iit-
tie schemes with shrewdness, segregat
ing into groups and holding whispered
colloquies exactly as did their lords
and masters. Many of them came To
the polls with their minds fully made
up now to vote and carried in their
nanus tightly folded ballot on
these the destinations of the ticket
passers had no effect whatever. 1T was 4
rove labor lost" with the addition of
a frost. Chimmie Fadden would call a.
being "trun down" an "de marble
heart The scorn, which some of the
women of strong and determined minds
lashed from their eyes when the other
-ichet was thrust into their hands was
and whiting. 1t created a
new atmosphere for those veteran noli-
-lcians who rustled in the old DAYS. an
anguish too deep for words and TOO
strong for utterance.
IL was an amusing and interestino
sight to see the ward bosses and their
lencnmen assume a veneer of excessive
'oIltehess and urbanity when Il .hapl 4
'ened, as IL sometimes did. that a woL
nan was In doubt. Great Falls never
rad SO many McAllisters and Chester |
ieIus before. When woman came nm |
'rePareu, as sometimes they did. thew |
Vomanlike, took everything in sight IN |
no way OF ballots, but only a few were
ahuiu enough to acknowledge that
hey mad In the excitement of voting
ut the wrong ticket in the box =
The livery men had a harvest. Voters
we're delivered by the bus and exnress I
'agon load all day long and scouts
ere out all over town hustling in de-
nquents When bus load of women
'ere dropped on the sidewalk tbe,,
ere frequently told to take no Other
ailots and were jealousy guarded
ON .he seductions of the pushers on
ne other side. ''
During the morning tho
cket received a big lead hut n vs.
~ down to great extent in the go
noon by the vote of the shelter ana
illroad men. The polls were promntlv
osed at O'Clock and the counting
gun Inc result was announced AZ
80 p. M, as follows:
Iotal number of votes cast. $50
naries n; Repath, three years, I.S34:
- nooplhs, three years, 955: O. S.
arden, two years. 9f4; Il. J. Roorman
20 years, 92S; ]. w. Frizzell. three =
airs go; c. o. Jarl, two wears 900.
:. l. HICKORY. two years, COG
me result Is a sweeping CRUSHING
ISdt TOT the A. +. A, who have nut
run thelr utmost efforts to cantnre -
{ school board of this district
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