The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-07

OF them could be seen working at tbs
polls. Yet the A. r. A. candidate was
elected by a majority of only 81.
The popdlists did not fare as well as
the democrats. While there were elect.
ed four out of the five democratic can
didates, the populists elected only one
out of four. John Byrne received the
support of both democrats and popu-
lists in the First ward and received a
handsome majority. The only other
real hard fight made for a populist was
in the Fifth ward. where Thomas A.
Walsh was beaten because they who
would doubtless have. voted for him
were not registered.
The republicans had eight candidates
In the field and elected three. Two of
these three elected pulled through be-
cause no tight was made against them.
| In the Fourth and Seventh wards the
election of the republican candidates
was conceded and no hight was made,
just as the administration forces made
no strong effort to carry the First and
Third wards. The Fifth ward was the
only ward of the city where the ad-
minlstration can claim a victory-a
vindication.
To the general observer IL seemed
like quiet election. II appeared quiet
in the business part of the city. The
saloons were all closed. there was lit
tie stir on the streets. In the First,
Third, Fourth and Seventh wards there
was very little activity. The two first
mentioned wards were conceded to the
opposition and the latter two were
conceded to the administration
The battle-ground of the day was In
the Second. Fifth, Sixth and Eighth
wards. Never before in a municipal
election in Butte was the ground con-
tested more fiercely than in those
VI In he a
the Cornish-Americans and the "irreg-
ular" republicans were very much in
evidence, and they worked hand and
glove with the democrats. Tom Bryant
was the democratic candidate and T.
T. Baker the republican. For perhaps
the first time i'm the history of Butte
the English-Americans and the Irish
Americans were working side by side
for the same man. shouting together
ana fraternizing as though there had
never been any hard feelings between
them. The Cornish remembered that
after working hard for the A p. A.
ticket year ago. not a man of their
nationality had been appointed to Of
flee. They had their knife out for the
administration and cut deep. The
feeling in the ward was intense-the
American A. p. AS resenting the
spectacle of the Cornishmen working
shoulder to shoulder with the horrid
Irish papists.
Pete Gilligan. when the fight was
thiclest, remarked that there was an
important geographical change in the
Second ward.
What is that?" asked Professor
Firch.
THE bridging over of st. Georges
channel" replied Gilligan.
By o'clock the republicans had
given up the fight, yet it was not by
any means a walkover for Bryant. The
majority of 46 for Bryant was not
sweeping, but 1t was comfortable. An
other hard fight of the day was i'm the
Fifth ward, and there the administra-
tion forces gained their only real vic
tory. Thomas A. Walsh, populist and
present incumbent. made hard fight
against r. x. Leggat, the republican
but lost. There were plenty
of votes in the ward to elect Walsh.
but they were not registered, and Leg
gat got in by 81 majority
Probably the hardest battle of the
day was that which waged all day long
In the Sixth ward. The A p A. 8 had
there undertaken the contract of elect
Ing NJ. M. Vivion, the present alder
man, who was elected two years ago
as democrat and who ran yesterday
as a republican. Mr.. Vivion had been
personally popular in the ward, and in
1894, when he ran as a democrat can
1idate, he was elected by a majority
Or so over the republican candidate.
But he was evidently not 50 popular
Yesterday as he was two years ago. or
Else he found II harder to run as a re-
publican than as a democrat. Mr..
Vdvion had plenty of men working
heart and soul for him, for the A. p
As had guaranteed him a reelection
IN account of various services he had
'endered the organization while alder
nan. The Hauswirth band spent much
If its time in this ward drumming up
r. A. voters by playing patriotic
tirs, but 1t did not do much good.
mere would have been little doubt OF
he people of the ward electing a man
Who would represent the Sixth ward
ather than a man who would repre-
ent the three C.'s. but for the fact
hat there was a third candidate in
he Held In the person OF Frank
stephens, populist. All votes for Mr..
stephens were bound to help Vivion.
tut fortunately Stephens did not get
'ery many and Davey, who ran like a
creased pig. had a majority over both.
But the Eighth ward.
What fall was there. my Canadian
Knowlton repudiated by the A. p.
rs.
Knowlton denounced by Palmer ana
is c. c. c. ring
knowlton. against whom all the
orces of the ring were at work that
ould be spared from the Second and
ixth wards. Knowlton. too gained
reat and glorious victory.
III the voters OF the Sixth ward de-
Jared at the polls yesterday that
IAN to represent them in the council ,
lust stick to his own ward and not try
D put through gerrymandering meas ,
res in the Third ward. II the voters OF
ne sixth ward established the fact
hat an alderman must have opinions
his own and not be an echo OF the
!. c. C.; so did the voters Of the
Eighth ward yesterday demonstrate
hat man can be an alderman and
TIL be man; that an election as an ,
herman does not rob a man Of his
dependence; that the people expect
man to vote for their interests and
OF for the interests Of the ring which
present runs the A. p. A. and the
spuhHcan marty