Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-11-13
BY A PLURALITY OF TEN VOTES
Is Lawrence M. Mcdonnell Reelected
Clerk and Recorder Of Gas.
cade County.
Gelsthorpe Wins the County Treas.
u%rership by a Majority of
FOrty-Eight.

If he had received just six Of the votes
cast for his strongest opponent a week
ago last Tuesday Joseph E. Huston, re-
publican candidate, would have been
elected clerk and recorder of Cascade
county; but his failure to receive those
few votes resulted in Lawrence McDon-
nelPs continuance in Office for the two
years after Jan. 4, 1897; and Arthur E.
Dickerman, republican candidate, would
have had another term in the county
treasurer's Office if 25 men had trans
ferred their votes from his opponent.
DR.. w. II. Gelsthorpe, fusion candidate,
to him.
The county board of canvassers OF
election returns met at 10 a. m. yester-
day morning and proceeded to canvass
the returns from the IL precincts which
had not yet been canvassed. For clerk
and recorder, Mcdonnell then had a
lead over Huston, including official and
unofficial returns, of 10 and Huston had
a lead over Martin, on the same returns,
OF %. G%elsthorpe, for treasurer, on the
same returns, had 81 majority over Die
herman, Davis Creek returns having not
yet been reported. The canvass pro.
ceeded rapidly and was concluded at 3
p. m. The vote for the several candl-
dates for clerk and recorder was found
to be exactly identical, in the precincts
from which returns we're canvassed
with the vote given in the un-
official returns published in The TRIBUNE
the day after the count. The same was
true of the vote on treasurer, but Davis
Creek, which had never been unoficially
reported, reduced Gelsthorpe's majority
to AZ. The msjorities for other candi-
dates are very large, George II. Stanton,
fusion candidate for representative,
heading the county ticket, with a vote
only Q less than that cast for Smith for
governor, and a majority of 1918 over
the vote OF bis strongest opponent. He
is closely followed by Miss Ina Craven,
fusion candidate for superintendent of
schools, who has a majority of SG4, while
the majoritiee for other candidates on
the fusion ticket range down to 10, but
in only two instances falling below 175.
Proctor, republican. for sheriff has a
majority of 459, and Athey, republican,
for clerk Of the district court won out
with 1919 votes to spare.
The table given below shows the COM
plete vote, by precincts, OF Cascade
county on president, congressman, state
and county officers.
The total vote OF the county, by pre-
cincte, was as follows:
First Ward 800, Second Ward 1876,
Third Ward $40, Fourth Ward 598, Bos-
ton and Montana Smelter 13l, Silver
Smelter 81, Boston and Great Falls Adj
dition Y, West Great Fails 23G, Ulm a.,
Sun River II, Mission Al, Hardy %,
Cascade 1913, Hound Creek a, Stickney
10, Millegan Is, Porter 81, Truly sc, Red
Butte IS, Field AZ. Sand Coulee 3GC,
Meisenbach Al, Evans 50, Logging
Creek 10, Monarch "a, Arlington S.,
lticeville %, West Belt 31l, East Belt
327. Willow Creek 30, Cora IL, Kibbey
IS, Mason Al, Davis Creek q, Geyser so,
Little Chicago 10; total, 1,l5S.
The total registration was l,tQ1.
The canvass showed that % per cent
of the voters OF the county are goldbugs.
This was the estimate made by The
TRIBUNE several weeks prior to the cleo.
ton. The canvass robbed Monarch pre-
cinct OF tho envlgble distinction which
it claimed, on the face Of the unofficial
returns, of being q of -four unanimous
silver precincts OF the county, it being
shown that II man at Monarch voted
for Mckinley, and hence the only unaui-
nous Bryan precincts are Silver Smelter,
Ulm, and Riceville, and the last was the
only one of the three which returned a
vote for a goldbug congressman. In
only two precincts-Boston and Mon
tana Smelter and Little Chicago did
Mckinley receive a majority, and in
those precincts a majority of the ballots
were virtually marked in Boston.
Sixteen votes, scattered through sew
eral precincts, were cast for the prohi-
bition electors, and ono voter, whose
heart, at least. Was all right, voted for
Charles S. Hartman for presidential
%elector.
Lees than 30 per cent OF the voters
voted on the proposed constitutional
amendment, but those who expressed
themselves did not do a thing to that
trap, the votes for the amendment be-
ing LOG and against it ,05l.
For Justices Of the peace Of Great Falls
township. the official votes are as follows,
p. II. Hughes 7Gl, w. B. Burleigh $50.
Joseph Kirschwing Cos, William II. Race
500. Hughes and Burleigh are elected.
For justices Of the peace of Truly
township, the vote stands: Selden Z.
Porter %, Willard M%illegan %, Tyree NJ.
Hubbard IS. The first two are elected.
In Cascade township, Alvin IIodson
had a snap, being elected one of the
justices of the peace, receiving just one
vote, and the other justice-elect is
Thomas Prewett, who received 81 votes,
there being no other candidate.
In Sand Coulee township, A. +. Mel
son was elected one Of the iuetices, re-
ceiving ia votes. For the second
place, r, S, Ball and John Gallagher
are tied with lGl each, and Mel Helsing
hes 1853.
For Justices of Bolt township, John
p. Fitzgerald and William MacQueen,
present incumbents, were not opposed
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