The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-05
MCGEE AN EASY VICTOR!
He Carries Every County in the Cir
cut and Has Votes to
Spare-P. Il. McCar-
thy Defeated.


The "Silver Craze Proves to Be a
Very Lively Corpse all Over the
Country.-Other Election News.
AS predicted by The UNION for sew
eral weeks past, the people of the sew
enth judicial circuit are not ready to
turn the judiciary over to the paid
agents of moneyed corporations and as
a result Levi McGee, the silver candi-
date for circuit Judge, has been trium-
phantly elected over the railroad can
didate, S. E. Wilson of Hot Springs,
MCGEE carrying every one of the three
counties of the circuit.
Tuesday dawned warm and bright
and Rapid City never experienced a
Quleter election Gay. The vote was
light, only 474 votes being cast in town
- a full hundred short Of the vote last
fall. But it was a McGee day and long
before the polls closed it was conceded
that the peoples candidate would go
out OF Rapid City with Il majority in
every one of the four wards, which he
did. He carried the city by a majority
of 1866, the ward vote on the judgship
and commissioner for the second dis
trict standing as follows:
First ward Wilson. "a: McGee, 80:
for Commissioner, Cross (rep), 24: Nc
Carthy (sil), SO: Clark [ind] 3S.
Second ward Wilson, II: McGee,
1l6; Cross IS: McCarty, 73: Clark, 80.
Third ward Wilson, 26: MCGEE, 81.
Fourth ward Wilson. II: McGee,
Is.
Rockford gave McGee d majority of
q.
Douglass gave McGee 8, Wilson
Keystone. McGee 80. Wilson 1O2.
Hill City gave a McGee majority of
2G.
Custer City III Custer county gave a
Wilson majority of q over McCec.
Hermosa. Custer county gave McGee
333, Wilson %.
Buffalo Gap, Custer county, McGee
-, Wilson , ?.
Prnigle gave a McGee majority Of I
over Wilson.
Hot Springs, Wilson's home town,
gave Il Wilson majority of 81 over
McGee
Oellichs. Fail River county, McGee
25 Wilson A.
EdgemOnt Fail River county. gave
Mc'5ee ID majority Of - over Wilson,
A number Of precincts in all three
counties are yet to be heard from, but
republicans concede d McGee majority
III every county in the circuit.
The poor farm proposition is defeated.
Z. B. Mccarthy. the silver candidate
for commissioner in the second district
is defeated by a small majority and
Fred Cross rep, is elected.
The peoples party elected their
judge, Joe Moore. in the eighth circuit,
with a good round majority
There never was a livelier corpse in
the Black Hills than this "''oiIver
craze" which was ''EiIly d" by the re-
publican ''victory' last November
CLOSE IN OHIO.
Columbus, O.. Nov. 3.-The result of
the election in Ohio is still iu doubt.
1t will require an official count to salts
fy the contestants. The more the re-
spective parties figure on the returns
the smaller their pluralities seem to
become. while their claims increase
in opposite directions. The closeness
OF the vote has caused an intense feel
ing and the usual cry of fraud.
Last night both the republican and
democratic committees telegraphed all
their coulty committeeman to beware
of frauds. The state headquarters will
be.kept until officiat counts are made
IN all the counties of the state. 1t is
expected there will be trouble in some
OF the close counties
Both parties today claim the state.
The democrats claim the election OF
Chapman for governor and their state
ticket on such a close margin that it
will require official figures to deter
mine the plurality.
Chairman McConville claims the
democrats will have a majority OF
seven in the legislature on joint ballot
The republicans claim Bushnell, for
governor, and the rest Of the state
ticket by 5000 plurality, and that the