El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-14
A CLOSE ELECTION.
The Democrats Carried the City By 6
Small Majority OnIy.

The Democrats Carried the City By q
Small Majority Only.
After the HERALD vent to press yes
terday the main fight for control of The
city was begun by the republicans. 1t
looked like q close race, but every hing
| convinced the republicans tuat If they
| they would win the .le ton, so they
went to work and worked hard until
| the polls closed. The labor vote and
| the railroad vote began to come in, but
the latter was badly cut off by a wreck
out on the road that required q num-
Der of railroad men to go to the front
| thereby costing the republican ticket
| many sure votes and taking out of the
city several strong workers among the
| railroad men.
| In the early part of the day the dem
ocrats were carrying every hing, but
by II O'Clock, Bloom, Fink and Others
in the second ward began a systemat, C
Campaign that surprised the mocrats
and demoralized them for a while, but
Judge Magoffin ''staid with his guns
and kept his workers constAn ly on the
move. 1t as evident to all that from
IL o'clock until the polls closed that
Everything was going republican and
that 1T was hard even for the second
ward to protect the democrats from
total defeat. The majority in that ward
was evidently being badly cut down,
and as the officers of the election did
not count the vote hourly as the Aus
tralian ballot intended. every body was
at sea. The democrats claimed 14O
majority in the second, while the re-
puolicans conceded them 40, and strong
efforts were being made 10 cut down
that majority as The republicans were
confident that they were ahead In all
other parts of the city. and in this way
The election was fought out until the
polls closed.
In the first ward the republicans
were on hand early and worked hard,
and by IL O'Clock they were certain
they had a majority and would be alb g
| 10 hold it until the polls closed. Every
| inch of ground WAS fought and when
the five o'clock vote came in it was evil
dent that the democrats had no show
there and the republicans were feeling
| sure of election.
| The third ward depended almost en-
tirely on the way tne rail, DAD vote
| went, but the repu bile aDs failed to put
out men in the field aud men they de-
pended on to do outside work we're sent
off on the road so toat they lost ground
Lnere. Sumo of the men that would
have been good WORKERS were acting as
| juo ges of the election, and their hands
were tied. Tom Bendy and George
Wallace were working for the demo-
Gratis in that ward, anu as they found
no opposition they had walk over with
voters who had not already made up
their minds. Late in the day the re-
publlcans began working the ward and
tuen things changed, but in the end
the democratic head of the ticket had q
majority OF 81 in the ward, while Nc
CAr.hy the republican candidate for
alderman from the third had major
ity of two. The full vote of the third
| ward was 457, only 344 voted.
The fourth ward was very quiet and
while the voters did not turn out, still
the majority in this ward was p in
favor of the head of the republican
can nominee for alderman from that
ward had a majority of eleven over his
opponent Drummer. The fourth ward
was the first 10 announce the result OF
q in favor of the republican ticket, The
third ward then announced results
which showed the heads of the tickets
tied. The first ward then announced
and gave the republican ticket a ma
jorlty of b and the republicans began
whoOplng. They were not certain OF
the second ward, but knew the result
would be close, and they were convlnc-
ed that LOOK had been defeated as he
ran far behind tue ticket in every ward
so far heard from, and if the aldermen
had been elected by their respective
wards the result would have been three
aldermen on the republican ticket
elected, and the republicans
would have had stanu-off in
the council with Del Bueno, an indie
pendent, who wOulu vote with the re-
pu plicaDs on city Issues as often as he
would have voted with the democrats.
large crowd gathered around the
seconu ward polling pace awaiting the
result of the count. The democrats
were uneasy, but claimed everything
in or out of sight, while the republic
cans awaited eXpectant, happy in the
thought that from a sO-called demo-
cratic walk-over the election had
dwindled down to very slim majority
If not defeat. When the result was an
nounced the ward showed q ma jority of
81 in favor of the democratic ticket
which gave Judge Magoffin a majority
of 30 for mayo throughout the whole
city and elected him. George LOOK
had As majority in the second ward, but
as Ed Scott had reached the second
with a majority of SO it showed that
Scott had been elected by a total ma
jority of 3S. Long, the republican
nominee from the second ward, reached
the ward with IA majority, but Bur-
tons majority in the second ward was
So, which gave him a majority of Al.
The following table shows the COM
Mate result of Vesterday'S election: