Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-08
NO OPPOSITION.
The City Election is Passing Of Very
Quietly in the Capital City
Monday.
No Opposition Materializes to the
Citizens Ticket and the Vote
Cast is Light.
Elections that Are Being Held in
Other Cities With the Issues
They Involve.
No Opposition Materializes to the
City Elections.

City elections are in progress through
the state Monday, nearly if not all of the
incorporated towns electing city admini-
STATIONS for the ensuing period. Various
issues are involved. local in nearly every
case, although in no city is there any
ovcrshadowing interest.
Fargo has a warm campaign on, be-
tween Mayor Johnson, the present
incumbent of the office and o. G. Barnes
the regular republican nominee. Both
men went into a convention with the
agreement that they would abide by
the result, but after the convention,
johnson claimed that he had been
bunkoed and came out as an indepen-
dent candidate. johnson appeals to his
record as a worker in the interest of the
city of Fargo as a claim to reelection,
making his principal point OF the pass
age of the retroactive tax law. The
other side claim that Johnson was we'll
paid for all his work, and that he is a
good deal of a fraud as a reformer. The
issue is in doubt, as johnson has quite
a following ana Barnes has the advant-
age of the support of the straight re-
publican element.
Grand Forks city election promises to
be quiet. Mayor Dinnie is likely to be
reelected without much opposition. The
democrats met with Indifferent success
in getting a candidate to oppose him.
Tracy Bangs would not run, and no
other democrats seem to want to 20 up
against him.
jamestown will have an interesting
contest between Alfred Steel, a we'll
known insurance agent and business
man and Bailey Fuller, the present
mayor. There is some opposition to
Fuller among the "wets" who have
always supported him, because of the
extreme drouth, and the result is doubt
full. There is added interest there be-
cause it is stated the election will have
a bearing IN the fall campaign.
Valley City is in the thick of a heated
contest between A. H. Gray as the re-
publican nominee and Uncle John Rus
sell, who is supported by Dunlap and
the reform element. The present adj
ministration is accused of extravaganza,
and the electric light plant matter
enters into the situation to some extent.
Mandan was threatened with a three
cornered fight, but things have quoted
down there and the election is likely to
be rather one sided and not bitterly
contested.
In the city, the day is ideal for an
election of any kind, bright, clear and
warm. There was no great interest at
the opening of the polls and the election
opened very quietly.
At the polls there is no opposition to
the citizens ticket. There was a little
diminishing among the opposition
Saturday night, and the leaders of the
new gang" were in consultation. There
was also a report that another conven-
ton was to be called to nominate a
ticket, but no patriot came forward to
immediate himself on the altar of the op-
position, and no ticket was put up.
As a consequence the election today
has been exceedingly quiet and prob
ably not over 200 votes will be polled.