The San Francisco call., 1896-12-12
OFFICIAL COUNT
IS COMPLETED
Results Of the Election as
Declared by the Com
missioners.
No Charges of Any Importance
Discovered by the Canvass
Just Finished.
The Charter Was Defeated by Over
Two Thous and Votes-The
Successful Candidates.

The official count of the ballots cast at
the late election has been completed, and
the Election Commissioners held meet
ing yesterday N morning and made formal
declaration of the result.
The official figures show that there were
no important changes from the unofficial
count, and that the candidates who were
origin ally announced as winners will take
the offices.
In few cases clerical errors made by
clerks changed the totals slightly, but the
differences were not great enough to make
any change in the general result.
The count for Mayor showed that James
D. Phelan beat his nearest competitor
Charles L. Taylor-by over 5000 votes, the
votes for the five candidates being as fol-
lows:
James D. Phelan, 29,O66 Charles l. Taylor,
20, 761; Joseph 1. Dimond, 1881; Charles S.
Laumeister, 7o40; C. c. o'Donnell, 1887.
William Broderick, the incumbent
OF the office of Auditor, won by mar
gin of $40 votes, the result being as
follows:
1885; William A Deane, 23.447; Fleet F.
Strother, 1888; Asa R. Wells, 2514.
The votes for other important officers
were as follows:
Tax Coilector-James n. Block 26,O0s, Cod
frey Fisher 1908 Edward l. Sheehan IL ,416,
Cord H. Wetjen 20, ,152.
Treasurer-Willia m A. Asmussen 1890,
Henry Doscher 4097, Henry S. Martin 1877,
H. o. Searns 7748, Augustus c. W1dber 49,
1872.
Attorney and Counselor-John R. Aiken
90, ,695, A. Barnard 6756, Harry 7. Creswell
%, 274. T. Carl Spelling 4486.
Gt,rt IabrN nharf
Munich 7l39, F. T.. Newbery 2191, Lott D. Nor.
ton 1928, Charles S Tilton % ,584.
Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways
and Squares-William F. Ambrose 21,252.
George W. Elder 1869, D. L. Farnswerth 1856,
D. A. Macdonald 955S, Aug. Muller 1241,
George P. Wetmore 14,587.
Judges OF the Superior Court-Chesley K.
Bonestell 1922 Rhodes Borden Is ,7o2. w.
G. Burke, 1901, William H. Chapman 9023,
Carroll Cook "a pit, Frank H. Dunno "a, 152,
Robert Ferral 12,712, John F. Finn 1886, J. C.
w. Lawler 4504, Joseph Leggett 1889, Frank
J. Murasky 1924, 7. w. Nowlin 1892, Horace
W. Philbrook 1854 Anstin A. sanderson
1862, E. D: Sawyer 1868.
The present Police Judges were elected
by the following vote:
James A. Campbell 80 ,O74, Charles T. oonlan
"a 613. H. L. Joachimsen 23,7S2, Charles A.
Low 20,895.
Ali OF the present Justices of the Peace
were elected by comfortable majorities,
the vote being:
Gottlob c. Groezinger 26, ,o45, J. E. Barry
25 109, Frank H. Kerrigan 81 1856, John A.
| Carroll 81 ,318, G. w. II. Cook 20,476.
The Supervisors elected, with their near
est competitors, were as follows:
First Ward-Lawrence Devany 25.4ss, John
Hayes 90. 653
Second Ward-Thomas H. Haskins 90, 1856
Daniel w. Wessen berg 16, ,O94.
Third Ward-P. NJ. Delany %, 1923, John L.
Hanly IL ,253.
Fourth Ward-John II. Sheehan 23, ,494. Will
liam H Phe. ps Is ,649.
Fifth Ward-Washingto Dodge %, ,924,
Thomas g. Walkington 1921.
Sixth Ward-John Lackman 0,121, John
Wolf 16 951.
Seventh Ward-T A. Rottanzi "a, O83, James
H: DAILY 1908
Eighth Ward-Thomas Morton 90, 500, Frank
Conklin 1S $50
Ninth Ward-James E. Britt 2I, 1868, Richard
w. Heilmann 11540
Tenth Ward-E. J. Smith 20, 15S, Charles
Gildea 15,648
Eleventh ward-Charles A Clinton 2o,6s4,
l. J. Truman 1922.
Twelfth Ward-Thqmas w. Rivers II ,274, E.
H. Aigeltinger 13, 13l.
The successful candidates for School Di-
rectors owe their offices to the following
voieS:
14,994, Charles L. harrington 1888, Thomas
A. Burns 1928, Thomas R. Carew 1878.
William A. Derham 1S, 0S0 George l. Drucker
17,107, James L. Halsted 1S. III. Philip Ham
mond 16,254, E. L. Head 15,057, Samuel l..
Waller IL, 329, Edward J. Gallagher Ia 592.
For Treasurer unexpired term, A. c. Widber
received 21,886 votes and w. A. Asmussen
13, 456.
For Superin tendent of Public Instruction,
unexpired term, Reginald H. Webster received
10 160 votes and Madison Babcock Ii, 4,279.
The School Directors elected for the unex-
pired term were Joseph H. Soper, 16, ,O49 and
Thomas r. Knox, Is 1862.
The charter was defeated by 2099 votes, the
result being, for the charter Is, ,S79, against
1878.