Arizona republican., 1900-09-02
DEMOCRAT PRIMARIES
Smith Supposed to Have a Shade the Best of It But Wilson Men Claim ing the County - The Local Candidates Were Run Over and Trampled Upon In the Melee.

Mark Smith may have captured Mari copa county at the primaries yesterday and Colonel Wilson may have captured it. One of them certainly did, but no one knows with any great definiteness which. The friends of both are there fore consistently claiming it. Returns from the country came in slow and scattering last night, but as many pre- cincts had not been heard from the re- suit was left open to claims and con lecture. The Wilson people passing their claims on what they know did happen, and what they expected to happen, say they have the county by a majority of about seven. On the same kind of basis the Smith adherents claim it by d majority ranging from five to twenty-five.
 The result in the city was what was expected. Wilson carried the First and fourth wards and Smith the Second and Third. This gives Smith a majority of three in the city. but it is claimed for each of the candidates that he has friends in the others camp.
 The delegates from the First ward received HIS votes against 63 for the opposing ticket. They are F. M. Mog- nett w. C.. Dawes, George Gallagher, James Dodson, J. M Shott, J. Olea, E. s. Russell, Gus. Haigler. E. Sunderland. w. B. Lount, George Bellas, George F. McFal.
 The Second ward delegates are Yer non Clark, Joseph Brennan. L. R. Kru- ger, Frank Coyle, s. P Clark. A. J. Godfrey, Nose Drachman. A. E. Price. A. c. Baker, Henry George, S. F. Hoefer, J. c. Davis.
 One hundred and dsixteen votes were cast for this ticket and sixty-eight for the defeated Wilson ticket Though ths. victory was overwhelming, the result was in doubt until the ballots were taken out of the box. The storm cen ter was in the Third ward. The Smith people had claimed this ward from the beginning but the Wilson folks determ- ined to give them run for their money. The chase was so hot that when the polls closed at o'clock neither side had the nerve to claim the victory. The fol- lowing ticket having received 129 votes against 99 for the Wilson ticket was elected:
 Robert Friedel, James Gibson. A. L. Strait, H. L. Tulburt, Andy Anderson, C. D. Doris. Joseph Dougherty. E. Gonzales, D. F. Greenwood, J. Huntlay, P. P. Parker, William Wilson. $. J. Doster, Seth Byers, G. w. Boston, Charles Slankard.
 There were more alleged democratic votes cast in the Fourth ward than there are democratic and republican voters. The following ticket received 147:
 w. T. Smith, William Dowen. Frank Luke, w. J. Welcome, Bud Gray. P. G. Lama. Clay Leonard, c. F. Chapman, A. E. Remson, A. H. Lawrence. Charles Peterson, Cash Winters, John Rous- seau.
 Eighty votes were cast for the Smith ticket.
 The first outside precinct heard from was the Osborn district, which has three delegates for Smith. This was offset by the news from Cartwright, with four delegates elected for Wilson. Word came from AIhambra that it had gone for Smith, but Glendale and Peoria had de- cided in favor of Wilson. Hot Springs Junction, with two votes, was equally divided. The Wilson men last night were claiming both the Murphy and Isaacs districts.
 The following delegates were elected IlOlil l. OeiAA T. Hayden, Charles Williams, Fisher Bailey, c. c. Woolf, D. Dimes, G. Cave. and George E. Campbell. This is a Smith contingent, but the Wilson peo- pie are claiming from one to four mem- bers of it.
 Mesa elected this delegation: Orley Stapley, R. M. Wallace, J. E.. Drane. Sr., H. L. Chandler, w. K. Bowen. w. J. LeBaron, J. G. Peterson. J. Holdern and w. H. Allen received the same number of votes. This is a Wilson dele gation, with the exception of LeBaron. The Wilson camp received a telephonic message that Lehi and Alma had gone for Wilson.
 It had been supposed by both sides that the whole territorial contest had been cornered into the Third ward. It is easily seen that it has escaped from its cramped quarters and is al large in the county.
 Primaries were held yesterday in the counties of Gila, Graham. Santa Cruz, Pima and Pinal. It was said last night that so far as could be learned Santa Cruz and Pima had gone for Smith.
 The fortunes of the candidates for county offices Were overshadowed and wholly swallowed up in the iSmith-Wil- son contest Their work all remains to oe done between now and next Wednes- day.
 Contrary expectations, the prim- aries in the ty passed off with com- laratiyely lit friction. Fighting, if not bloodshed, lad been looked for in the Second ward. But there was no