The San Francisco call., 1899-03-15
Business Men Now
Feel Satisfied.
CONFIDENCE IN R. w. SNOW
HINSDALE MAY SUCCEED
HARRY THOMAS.
Nearly All the Candidates Elected
Monday Have Been Rewarded
for Their Faithful Serv-
ices in the Past.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,


90S Broadway, March IA.
Nature sympathized with public feeling
in this city to-day and materially helped
to sink politics in oblivion by washing
from every post and piece of fence thou
sands of cards bearing silent testimony
to the fact that there has just been an
election. Oakland is tired of elections
and politics, and merchants especially are
glad that attention can now be devoted
10 business for the next year.
Everybody is satisfied with the result
of yesterdays election. The new city
government will be in harmony with its
various branches-something that has not
been known in many years. Although
Democrat will hold a seat on the Board
of Works, Mayor Snow and City Attor-
ney Dow will control 1t. and there viii
Council that it will be perfectly useless
for the two solitary candidates elected on
other tickets to try TO accomplish any
trary to the wishes of the majority. The
whole municipal government Will be re-
sponsible to the party, and there is no
benefit from such happy conditions.
There will be no scandals over the tax
public Improvement during the next two
years for the various departments will
be forced to work on the same platform
and an administration of progress may
Street Superintendent Miller probably
considers himself unfortunate IN not De
eral opinion is that he is lucky man.
Mr. Miller has been Street Superintendent
four years, and there has been gen
eral desire that he should continue Where
he is AS a matter of fact, some OF the
voters told him prior to election that IL
they did not vote for MN MN IL Woulo od ht,,5 De
leave his present position There is no
doubt he will not be disturbed ana thaI
managed under the new administration as
in the past, and with far more harmony.
Mayor-elect Snow is not programmed;
He is known to be very independent ana
70 exnress his honest convictions, even
when his political interests might be pest
sllbserVed by silence. Oakland feels Sate
with Mr. Snow as Mayor. and certainly
his ten years experience in the Audltor 5
office has made him more fitted for the
high position he will enter upon next
month than any other man VINO mas ever
been Mayor of this city. BUSINESS IN
terests cannot help but revive unuer
these conditions, for with conservative
progressive intelligent and capable ad-
ministratiOn merchants will feel conndent
that there will be no radical or 1mproVi-
dent move made that Will tend 10 distuFo isitI[
conditions most conducive to prosperity.
The City Council will be composed OF
men most of whom have already been
experience in that body. Nine OF the
eleven members are Republicans, and
were elected under such circumstances as
to guarantee united action on all pubic
Stetson. Mott, Girard, Upton, MeesA,
Taylor and Rowe constitute the majority.
1. Schaeffer and c. Kramm are the NIL
nority although they may prove as use
fuI in furthering public interests as the
others. AS eight votes are necessary TO
override the Mayor on any measure meas
there can be no friction on this point
1t would not be surprising If Mr. snow S
deputy in the Auditors office, D. Z. inns
dale, should be appointed secretary ol
the new Board of Public Works MT
Hinsdale can hardly expect to be retained
under the new Auditor, against wEom ne
was competitor in yesterday s eIectlon; !;
1t is stated however, that Mr.. snow ana
MFR Dow will vote TO make Mr.. Hinsdale
the successor of Harry Thomas.
One of the incidents of Yesterday
election was the practical test gwen 10
the ballot machine invented by Mr. ElIls.
the well-known Livermore newspaper
proprietor. This machine was piace1
near the voting booth in the CITY Han
Precinct. There was no official character
TO the test, and all voters were invited 10
patronize it. During the day 3l6 voters
recorded their choice, and the machlne
worked to perfection. The voters were
surprised at it's simplicity, and during the
day it did not once get out OF order.
the returns printed by the machine with
the official record of the precinct, because
everybody was at liberty to vote, the re-
turns of the machine showed perfect ac-
curacy in themselves. That as 10 say,
the total number of votes cast for each
candidate agreed precisely with the total
number of votes cast, and a comparison
of the ticket with the official ticket tends
to prove its accuracy. Five minutes after
the DOLLS closed the complete returns from
this precinct were printed on the machine
and made public, and not until five hours
later were the official returns made
The results of yesterdays election show
largely that there is a desire to reward
people who are faithful in office. Mr.
Snow was elected Mayor after serving
ten years faithfully as Auditor. Mr.. DOW
was elected to succeed himself as city
ATTORNEY because of his fidelity to the
cIty's interests during the past four years.
Mr. Breed was elected Auditor because
of his hard work as chairman of the
County Central Committee, which largely
contributed to the Republican success last
fall. Mr.. Millers defeat was practically
a tribute to his good work in the Street
Department where he will stay. The
election of Councilmen CuYellier, Barstow,
Mott Girard. Upton and Rowe is re-
ward for their past services in the Coun-
Gil and Treasurer Gilpin was elected be
cause of his honest administration for
six years in that office. The same pr1n-
chile followed the election of School d.
rectors and Library Trustees.
The figures from the Second Ward are
very interesting. Mr.. Girard was elected
nv about six to one over the man who
had vainly attempted to besmirch him In
his home ward. Mr.. Woodward will vote
once more on a water ordinance and then
retire from public life. Out of about a
thousand votes in his ward just seventy
one made him their choice, and it is note
worthy that in one precinct he received
inst eight votes, which is the exact num-
her of the election officers in that pre-
cinct which the Mayor appointed. :.
Oakland will now willingly bid farewell
for long time to primaries, campaigns
and elections.