Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-04-11
BY THREE VOTES. BLOOM DEFEATS WHITE
 FOR CITY CLERK.
Required the Official Count of the Election Commits
 sioners to Decide.
Messrs Fred Fox. j. NJ. Goza, Chas. Wei and J. B. Johnson Elected Alder men.-A Close and Exciting
 Contest

The battle uf the ballots iu the municipal contest is oyer, hut that contest will long be remembered and talked of as the most exciting that ever occurred in the history of the city. The battle ragged the flercest between the friends of the two candl- dates for the office of City Clerk.
 4 great deal of feeling was created in this election. Charges were made ] that Mir. White was an A. P A., or at least was endorsed by that body, and although these charges were bitterly denied by Mr. White, the Catholics, and their friends would not believe the denial, and number of them fought him bitterly from the opening to the closing of the polls.
 The scene on the streets, around the court house, when the ballots were closed last night, was one of great excitement, for hundreds of people had assembled there to hear 1 the result.
 It was nearly o'clock when the returns began to come in. Those from the Fourth Ward arrived first and these were soon followed by those from the Third Ward. When it was found that Blooms majority ill these two wards only gave him a majority of 8, his friends grew very faint-hearted and gave up the cleo | tiOn as lost. for at that time, Bloom and W hite were running neck and neck in the First Ward and White was over sixty votes ahead in the Second Ward.
 About 10 o'clock the counts in the First and Second Wards were com pleted and the total from all the wards of the city showed that Bloom had defeated White by ten votes. When the announcement was made public a mighty shout went up from the crowd of Bloom adherents who were standing about the court house. and they shook hands and hugged each other as if their candidate had been cleo ted to an office that paid him thousands of dollars per annum.
 The despondency of the friends of Mir. White was as great as the joy of the Bloom forces, for they were mysteied at the result, and could only account for the defeat from the fact that many who had professed themselves as being friends of White proved traitors to him and supported Bloom after making pledges to White and his friends.
 The alliance said to have been formed between the Bloom forces and the saloon men and negroes for the purpose of electing Ferd Havis member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward, failed to effect it's purpose, for Havis was defeated by his opponent, Capt J B. Johnson, ny a majority of 299 votes. The vote received by Havis shows that many white men voted for him.
 Mr. Sol Miller, for the past two years a member of the Council from the First Ward, was defeated for that position by Mir. Fred Fox by majoritvs sf 3l5.
 After the result of the election be- tween the candidates for Clerk had been announced, Mir. White gave mo- tice that he would ask a recount of the ballots, and today the Commis- sioners are making that count.
 It is said that about thirty bal lots with crosses opposite the name of one of the candidates for Clerk were thrown out and counted for neither party. Many contend that cross opposite name indicates that the name is crossed out and that the ballot is a lgeal one.
 The following is the result of the election by wards.
 FIRST WARD.
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