Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
BREAKS INTO THE COMBINE
Primary Elections Result Disastrously for
Two Star Members.
KENNARD AND TAYLOR BOTH DEFEATED
hment Secures n denomination I'm the
Second-Lunt and AslSwith Tie In
the Fifth-Stuht Beats Back
in the First.

The republican primaries yesterday brought
out one of the largest votes ever cast at a
primary election in the city the total being
over 5000, and in one ward the Sixth, over
| 1000 votes were cast. In all of them there
was much larger per cent of the total vote
cast than is usually the case. which was
| probably due to the fact that there was a
lively fight ON in each of them over members
of the city council. This overshadowed
everything else and 1t is impossible in
most cases to ascertain who the delegates
| favor for members of the Board of Education,
being selected by the councilmanic candidates
| without any reference to the aspirations of
| people in the other direction. In some of
| the wards the count was unusually slow and
| this, with the large vote cast, made it late
before anything definite could be obtained
| as to the result.
One of the notable features of the prma-
ries is that the combine of the members of
the finance committee of the council was
| badly demoralized, Kennard and Taylor, the
| two star members going down. Kment, one
| OF the old members of the council, was more
| fortunate, as was also Mercer in the Ninth,
| Taylor made close race but Kennard, his
| running mate, was never In II at any stage.
In the First ward the fight between
| e. Stuht and Peter NJ Back, and Stuht won
| by a majority of an even 100, the vote be-
ing 324 to 224 They favor Frank Bandhauer
| for the school board.
| In the Second ward there were only two
! candidate, Anton Kment the present MEN,
| ber from the ward, and Andrew Kiewit.
| lively contest was anticipated, but the re-
| suit demonstrated that 1t was easy for
| kment, the vote being 1863 to 1874 Frank
| Bandhauer is the delegations preference
| for N plau,bar of bo of
| In the Third ward there was a red hot
| fight on all day, and at the closing of the
| pools both of the contestants, Sol Prince
| and Captain OMalley, were of the opinion
that it would be close, and both were of
| the opinion that they had the best of it,
There was 692 votes polled and the scratch
! ing "on delegates was great that slow
work was made counting out. O'Malley was
| the winner on the direct vote for council
| man by ffty-three majority.
KENNARD A SHORT HORSE.
In the Fourth ward is was a straight
| fight between w. f. Bechel and f. b. Ken
nard. and the finance committee combine
| candidate was not in it at any stage of the
fight. The total vote of the ward was 500
and the average majority of the Beche del
egates was about 200. On the vote for
councilman it was $40 for Bechel to 1877 for
Kennard many of those voting neglecting to
specify their preference for that Office other
wise than by the delegates voted for.
In the Fifth ward the vote was very close.
1t was tie. When the ballots were counted
Lunt and Askwith had exactly 291 votes
apiece but Lunt claimed the advantage
from the fact that three of his ballots had
been rejected by the judges. One was i'm
perfectly printed and two fell on the floor
and were never placed in the box. Lunt
claims that the preference of the voter was
sufficiently indicated in each case and that
he will succeed in establishing his right to
the nomination There was only one ticket
of delegates in the field. They will present
the name of George H. Hess for member of
the Board of Education
There were 1067 votes cast in the Sixth
ward and the multiplicity Of candidates
greatly complicated things The various |
candidates for councilmen had agreed to |
submit their names to the voters to decide |
who should have the nomination and only |
ono list of delegates voted for |
karr was the successful candidate, receiv- |
ing 311 votes. The votes of the other can |
terman, 127; Littlefed. 172; Fairman, lis; |
Walcott, 1O1; Morse, 3; Noll, 8; Durlik, so;
Christianson, II.
The Eighth ward furnished one of the
hottest fights of the day. The result was
in doubt until the last ballot was counted |
and 7. S. Crocker was the winner by the
narrow margin of eight votes. There were
s45 votes cast and the preference for coun-
Gilman was: Crocker, 3O1; Taylor, 293; Steb-
bins, 81; Bruner, 43. With one or two ex-
ceptions the Crocker delegates were elected
There were 607 votes cast in the Ninth
ward and Mercer received 4S1 to 126 for
Davidson. There less stir around the
polls in this ward than any other in the
city, and it was the only one where a light
vote was cast.
MOUNT WINS IN THE SEVENTH.
There was hot fight in the Seventh ward,
not over councilmanic honors, for d. T.
Mount won those fairly easily, but the vote
on the wards representation In the Board |
OF Education was close enough to be excit-
ing. AT o'clock this morning the votes
on the latter question were still being
counted but it looked though Ira O.
Rhoades would have majority of the dele
cation and be returned to the board. The
delegation will certainly be mixed one
In all probability it will consist of five dele
gates favoring Rhoades and four pledged to
Sam Macleod.
Macleod's ticket was headed "unpledged
delegation" but there wasn't much doubt
about the preferences of the men whose
names were printed in bod-faced type on
that ticket. Four of the candidates for
councilman, Arthur T.. Baldwin, Thomas S.
Carey, Joseph H. Taylor and John C. Thomp-
son, in addition to looking after their own
interests, combined to help out the Macleod
ticket.
A total of 1876 votes were cast With
single exception, this is the largest vote
ever polled at primary election In the
Seventh ward Dave Mercer's fight In the
spring brought out 751 voters 1t Is esti-
mated there are about 900 republican voters
in the ward. Most of the voting was done
early in the afternoon
TA.te was only one exciting incident dur
ing the voting. One of Macleod's workers,
who had charge of obtaining liquid refresh
ments for all voters who felt that they
would like to be revived, took crowd to-
neghboring saloon during the afternoon, and
ordered up drinks for the gang. Then the
saloon keeper limited that ii might be well
IL he were reimbursed for the drinks that had
been consumed. the abbreviated politician
told him to visit hades. There was a war
of words. followed by few passes with the
dukes. The heeler was thrown out and the
men he thought he had In line scattered.
A little time later the saloonkeeper. who
has been a republican for years, went to
the polling place to cast his vote The
ward heeler vexed at his undignifed exit
from the saloon and infamed with much
imbibng, promptly challenged the saloon
mans vote. The bluff didn't go. The ward
heeer was escorted from the hall by a po-
liceman and was only saved from arrest |
by the intercession of his friends.
The vote on preference for ward council
man resulted as follows: ID. 7. Mount lS9;
Fred j. Smith, III; Joseph II. Taylor, l19;
John C.. Thompson, 1l9: Thomas S. Carey, 80;
Arthur p. Baldwin, 2S, and Edward Walsh,
23.
DELEGATES SELECTED.
The following are the delegates selected:
First Ward-Peter Boisen #. X. Darling,
Otto Likert Frank Mcdonald Christ Nor |