The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-06
IN LIVINGSTON.
Democrats Will Have the Distribution of
Offices.


Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, April 5.-According to
the new system of politics ushered in at
the city election every office to be
filled in this city henceforth will be
filled by democrat and those who
cannot be elected will receive their po-
sitions by appointment. Pursuant to
this plan the city council met last
evening and elected Peter Doonan to
fill the uneXpired term of Alderman
Leonard Goughner of the First ward,
who resigned from the council to make
the race for city treasurer, and was
just five votes shy of the number re-
quired for election. Doonan was nomi-
mated at the democratic ward prima-
ries and was a general favorite among
the First ward voters, but it was plain
to him that both he and William
Jones, the populist nominee, could not
contest for the place without splitting
the vote Of the forces opposed to the
administration party and insuring the
. election of the republican candidate In
view Of this fact Doonan withdrew his
name from the ticket and Jones was
elected to succeed himself in the coun-
Gil, with the vacancy caused by Cough
ner, Jones' colleague from the First
ward untitled. The sequel shows that
Doonan had a long head, for, by the
action of the city council this evening.
he is seated for the remaining year of
Goughner's term, and the council
stands democratic with majority of
two This majority insures the APP
pointment of all the men selected by
John T. Smith, the new mayor, for the
appointive offices of the city. Just who
. these men will be is not known at
present, as no choice has been made at
this time, and the democratic candi-
date for mayor made no promises to
anyone. 1t is quite generally supposed
that the present incumbent of the office
of city marshal will serve under Mayor
Smith, as it is to him as much as to
any one man that Smith owes his cleo
ton. Peter Nelson, the present mar
shall, is one of the men who left the re-
publican party as soon as the policy of
the democrats became known, and he
took an active part in the city cam
paign, working early and late for the
success of the democratic ticket. For
the position of night watch J. H. Prof
fit appears to a general favorite and
Is considered entitled to the appoint
ment if he wants it, as he also did yeo-
man service in the city campaign and
won high praise for his Vote-getting
ability. For second night watch Louis
. Housen, the present incumbent, a dem
ocrat, will likely be retained, as he is
an excellent officer and a strong party
worker. The result of the election gives
general satisfaction and the sweeping
majority of the. democratic ticket is re-
garded as harbinger of better times
for the city of Livingston and the her.
aid of an era of progress which will
lift Livingston into pre-eminence
among the towns of the West. Real
estate men are particularly happy, for
they seem to see in the election Of a
democratic mayor and council an open
ing for revival of the real estate bus
mess which was at one time so profit
able in this city. Few croakers are
heard to complain of the way the cleo
ton went and there are many men in
the republican party who are satisfied
that the grand victory for the demo-
Gratis is good thing for the town, and