The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-25
PRATT In "A WALK
49, ~ -
IN NEARLY EVERY
PRECINCT.
WARM FIGHT ON HAUGEN.
HOLTEN A STRONG OPPONENT-NYE
TO BE NOMINATED FOR
COMPTROLLER.
3 as 7se
WARM FIGHT ON HAUGEN.
Pops and Silver Democrats Appor-
ton the County Ofices-Min-
neapOlfs Matters

The Republican city primaries were
held last night. Mayor Pratt carried
the city with the exception Of about
fifty delegates. w. G.. Nye will be
comptroller again, and for treasurer
there is a hot fight between the pres
ent incumbent, A. G. Hougan, and
!. Frank E. Holton, who is paying teller
in the Northwestern bank, and presi-
dent of the Tenth Ward Republican
club. He has been an active party
worker for several years and is well
thought of, but. has not the general
support of the business men.
In the Fourth precinct a novel way
of ascertaining- the sentiment of the
voters was used. The tickets, both
city and aldermanic, contained a list
of the candidates and below them the
names of the delegates. Each voter
was instructed to mark cross oppo-
site the name of the, candidate whom
he favored, and the delegation was in
structed to vote for the man receiving
the most votes. The sentiment was
overwhelmingly for Pratt. He received
116 votes to Is for Kelley. Hicks re-
ceived the sole support of his own pre-
cinct
Lie primaries III the S1Xtn WarQ
were we'll attended but the whole af-
fair was rather tame because there
was such unanimity of opinion
among the voters. In the mayoralty
contest Pratt practically carried the
whole ward. Kelley wa a delegate from
the Sixth district and in the Ninth
there are two sets of delegates, one
pledged to Kelley the other two to
Pratt. The Sixth ward voters
alderman. Every district IS solid
for him except the Third dis
trict, which sends a delegation
pledged to A. Tyren. The friends of
the latter supposed he had some fol-
lowing In the ward and were very
much surprised to see that Swanson
had stolen march in every district
However the latter seems very popu-
lar and his name was loudly cheered
when the result was announced in the
various districts.
In the Eighth ward it would be some
what difficult, using the primaries as
criterion, to tell just who is the favor
lite, either for mayor or for alderman
Out of the A delegates to the city con-
vention, Is are instructed for Pratt. IA
for Kelley. and for Grimshaw. This
leaves six scattering votes which will
probably be evenly divided between
Pratt and Kelley, giving the former q
votes and the latter H. The siv votes
Tor GrlmShaW are un1nstructed and
will do power of good either way.
AS near as could be figured out the
aldermanie candidates in the ward
could count on the following votes:
Powers, 10; Webster, IL; Hicks, 10;
Longbrake, 2. This leaves about 5
scattering votes thought to be favor
able to Hicks.
In the Twelfth ward primaries the
whole fight centered about the candi-
dates for alderman. The contest was
especially lively in the two upper dis
tricts, the First and Fifth where John
Healey and V. w. VOORHEES, ran a close
race, Healey winning in the First by
vote of 90 against So for Voorhees,
III the fifth the contest was SO close
that recount Of ballots was necessary
to ascertain the result, Healey winning
by margin OF three out of 123 votes
cast. In the Second, Third and Fourth
districts Alderman c. F. Dickinson had
everything his own way. In the second
and third he had about three votes
out of every four; while in his own dis
trict, the fourth, there were no oppo-
sition aldermanic tickets. Hence in
this mornings convention, Alderman
Dickinson should have nine votes to five
that were captured by John w Healey
Though the aldermanic contest over
Swallowed the mayoralty fight, the in
dications are that Mayor Pratt has
practically captured the ward.