Omaha daily bee., 1897-10-12
FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Last of the Pre- Election Contests Will Take
Place Thursday.
REPUBLICANS NAME PRIMARY CANDIDATES
Fifth ward the Only One that Prom-
ises to Furnish n Contest OF
Any Importnnce-samcO Old
Factions at War.

The primaries to select delegates to the
city convention will be held Thursday aft
ernoon and the convention will occur at
Washington hall Friday evening. Although
the only nominations to be made this year
are those of members of the Board of Educa-
tion there is more than usual interest in the
complexion OF the next board and there are
gratifying indications OF a strong sentiment
In favor OF selecting the best possible ma
terial for that part of the republican ticket
owing to several retirements which have oc-
Cured during the year there are seven va
cancies to be filled at this election Five
oil these are for the regular term of FIVE
years, one for two years to fill the unex-
pired term OF /. o. Rhoades and one for one
year to fill the unexpired term OF c. r.
DAVIDSON. The members whose terms ex-
pire at the end Of the year are William H.
Anderson. A. w, Johnson, ]. L. Weshans,
A. j. Lunt DR.. ]. c. Moore. H. ]. Penfold
and Phil Il. Winters. OF these only the first
two Lamed have served full terms. The
others have been elected by the board at
various times to fill vacancies. Penfold was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Rev. T. E. Cramblet DR..
Moore to succeed Lunt. Lunt to succeed
Rhoades, Welshans to succeed c. r. David
son and Winters to succeed Jonathan Ed
wards.
FILLING THE VACANCIES.
For these vacancies there sufficient
NUMBER OF candidates number of when
have previously been members of the board,
The First ward has no candidate, having
already two representatives on the board.
In the Second the candidates are Andrew
Kiewit, John c. Brewngton and j. l..
Welshans. H. j. Penfold is a candidate for
reelection from the Fourth, and in the
Filth there is vigorous rivalry between DR..
Moore and A. j. Lunt. DR.. w. III. Christie
and j. F. Burgess are both candidates in the
Sixth, and B. f. Thomas is in the field
from the seventh A. A. Buchanan and C.
E. Morgan of the Eighth are both candidates
and Charles E. Winter in the Ninth,
In each case except the Fifth ward, there
is only one delegation filed, the candidates
having consented to place their names
tho ballot with the understanding that the
| one which receives the endorsement of a
majority Of the voters will have the support
of the delegation. But in the Fifth there is
a feud of long standing to be fought and the
| two tickets represent two factions that have
| been contending for supremacy in the warl
| for two years The element which is now
| supporting DR.. Moore won a victory at the
| primaries l6et week and each side is conf
| dent of electing it's delegation Thursday
| Lunt has already provided for a possible de-
| feat, however by securing the delegation
| ton Of Frank Heacock as janitor at the Co
| lumbian school. If he is defeated in his own
Nard he will still have a delegation with
which to fight his way in the convention.
| The fight in the Fifth ward extends in
| some degree to the other wards and there
| is a strong undercurrent of opposition to
| Lunt. number of delegations are said to
| be soldly orDosed to the continuance of the
| present majority in control and the question
| of divorcing politics from school matters is
|
The following are the complete delegations
| from the wards:
| DELEGATES FOR PRIMARIES.
First Ward-R. c. Jordan, Henry Inman
Fred Back, George Armstrong, Charles Sun
| blad, Philip Stein, Henry Bauman, A, Frska,
| Charles MOTtenson.
Second Ward-H H. Boyles, George Reid,
William Nicklas. E. G. Bone, w. w. Bing-
ham, George Cathroe, NJ Schmitt. George
| Stryker, H. Gibbs.
Third Ward-W. H. Crutchfield, William
Ge Ike, Charles R. Groves. Frank E. Hea-
cock, John Lewis, Tom McVittie, William
Reese, Henry Rhode, F, Travis.
| Fourth Ward-T X. Scarborough, John G
Kuhn, John w. Battn, F. C. O'Hallaren, G.
H. Burchard, R. S. Anglin. Elijah Dunn,
Frank Burman W. B. Whitehorn.
Fifth Ward-For A. j. Lunt: F. e. Coul-
ter, w. s. Gibbs, R. w. Gibson, S. K. Green
'eaf, Thomas Patton Thomas Pieronnet, A.
A. Raymond, Paul Seward, Thomas Whyte.
| For j. C. Moore: W. T. Graham, w. B.
| Christie Victor Danie!son, P. A. Edquist,
John C. Holt. George w. Baker, H. S. Gill
| lespe R. X. Brown, John S. Swift.
| Sixth Ward-C. w. Johnson, A. p. Gram.
George E. Collins George w. Mccoy, Louis
Lttlefeld. Fl. 7. Leavitt, William Bell John
| Carnaby, w. S. Askwith
| Seventh Ward-Arthur E. Baldwin, John
Steel, Charles F. Beindorff, John l.. Pierce
| Lymon Waterman, Thomas Cory, M. j. Ken
nard H. L. Day, George w. Covell.
Eighth Ward--T N. Leslie, ]. e. Ham
| mond, W. p. Cowan, j. B. West, U. B. Bal
| 2onbe George n. Hibbard w. c. Mclean,
R. p. Dohman, Harry c. Streight
| Ninth Ward--Jonathan Edwards, G. S.
Benawa. B. p. Akvis, S. T. Virgins, o. p.
| Shrum, Andrew Peacock, ]. E. Van Glider.
! Charles e. Winter, II. H. Stevens.