The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-16

a telephone call, but before they got
to the scene of disturbance the trouble
had been quelled. What was the
trouble?" inquired one of the police
men when he hurried up the hill to the
crowd at the booth.
They were tearing the Innings out
| of one another a while ago." one Of the
bystanders remarked.
COMMITTEE COMPLAINED.
The Democratic city committee also
had a complaint against this ward. 1t
| is one of the Democratic strongholds
| and big majority for the city ticket
| was looked for. 1t developed that the
O'Boyle men during the day previous
had distributed specimen ballots bear
| ing on large letters: Don't Mark
| Here" Don't Mark Here" Don't
| Mark Here" at the head of the Re-
| publican, Democratic and Prohibition
| ist columns and Mark Here" at the
| head of the fourth, or Independent
| column, where O'Boyles name appeared
isolated and alone. One of these lin
| struction" ballots, it is said was left
| at every house in the ward.
There was little or no excitement in
| the Nineteenth. but the election there
| had several features. Chief among
| these was the manner in which the
| Democrats allowed the school control
| Ter contest to go by default. F.. B.
| Manley and Peter b. Albaugh both
| filed claims of having received the
| Democratic nomination and their fall
| ing to try 1t out in court, the county
| commissioners could not put either on
| the official ballot. This destroyed what
| ever little chance either of them had
| for making a showing against Louis
| SchWass, the Republican nominee. Mr..
| Manley made no effort yesterday and
| Mr. Albaugh prevailed upon very few
| to go to the trouble of writing his name
| or placing his sticker in the blank
| column.
This ward is the home of John j.
| Murphy, candidate for poor director,
and his candidacy was emblazoned on
the dead-walls throughout the ward
with placards reading, do you favor
the election of poor directors by the
people? Vote for John J. Murphy"
Other South Side wards also contained
some of these placards.
At $3.50 o'clock only ninety votes had
been cast in the Second district, where
| over 300 votes were polled last fall.
This had very distressing effect on
| Democratic headquarters when 1t came
| in by carrier and word was sent over to
make renewed efforts to get out the
| vote.
IN THE TWENTIETH.
The Twentieth ward Democrats had
no opposition from the enemy, but they
managed TO work up the warmest kind
of a wrangle among themselves. For
select and common council respective
| ly Thomas j. Coyne. the present in
cumbent, and Michael ]. Cusick. as
Democrats, were opposed by Mark f.
| Cabin and Michael j. Langan, who
appeared on the ballot as the nominees
of the Republican and Citizens par
ties-somewhat chimerical organization
in that stronghold Of fully and with
out reserve" In that ward everybody
is related TO everybody else and all four
candidates are much admired members
of long as TO lineage-families. Each
had all his relatives out working for
him and as a consequence everybody
i'm the ward was in arms In the Sec
ond district there were 164 votes polled
at 4 o'clock, which is twenty per cent.
more than was polled at the same hour
in the last election.
In the Second district there was an
enlivening episode in which Alderman
John Rudy and his constable, Michael
McMurray, were the central figures
Both men had to submit to extensive
repairs after their friends had put an
end to their miX-up.
There was not a Democratic ward
candidate in the Seventeenth, Frank
S. Barker being unopposed for school
controller. as were the Republican can
didates for judge and inspector of elec-
tions and assessor of voters. Mr.. Bar
kers being also candidate for a one