The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-06
G0UN 7 y
The Result OF the Election
Cannot Yet Be Finally
Announced
The Republicans SQuedIing Hard
Because OF the Defeat
of Wakefield


The election is still the topic of the
hour on the streets. The Democrats
are anxious to tell how it happened,
and the Republicans, not satisfied with
the landslide, are claiming still fur
ther triumphs. The outcome was such
tremendous surprise, and there were
so many little surprises within the big |
one, that it is likely to be the topic OF
conversation for some time to come.
The Democrats have bowed grace
fully to their conQuerors and have ac-
cepted the inevitable. In fact, they |
have begun to take philosophical
view of the situation. While their
chagrin is more than skin deep, still
they will concede today what they |
would not before the fatal day. The
conservative Democrat, after due re-
flection, has come to the conclusion
that Pima county always has been a
G. o. P. stronghold, and that his
party should consider itself lucky to
have even captured a couple of offices.
They find consolation in the fact that
at least one principal office, that OF
sheriff, has again fallen to member
OF the party. They looked back over
the ruins today and remembered that
our invincible Mark Smith lost old
Pima on two different occasions.
Then, too, the victory of Colonel j. +.
Wilson furnishes a joy-giving note, and
lightens the burden of local defeat.
The party has come to the conclusion
that the success of Murphy, Ronstadt
and Bernard are indeed gains of no
small Importance.
/ The race for sheriff has been watched
with increasing interest. 1t has been
so close from the start, and the result
has been in doubt for so long, that the
voters have become more anxious at
every report. The ballot at Buenos
Ayres arrived late last evening, and it
sent Wakefield stock a soaring. How
ever, the figures showed that his op-
ponent still had a comfortable ma
iority, with two Democratic precincts
to hear from. This morning Murphy
was in the lead by twenty-five votes.
! Aio and Reddington are still to be
heard from. 1t is thought that his
final majority will reach thirty-seven
votes
! Rumors of a contest for the sheriff's
Office were rife on the streets this
i morning. 1t appears that the RepuD-
Ilicans have been quietly investigating
the baIloting for sheriff in the city.
They seem to think that the amount OF
money spent in Wakef1eld's behalf, and
the strenuous campaign for him should
have yielded more decisive results.
Rumors of fraud in the second ward
were being circulated about town this
morning. The Republican leaders re-
fuse to talk, but shake their heads
rather doubtfully. Their contention
is that large number of Republican
ballots were thrown out in that ward
because the voters had cast straight
tickets and then put a cross beside
Judge Meyers name, thus voting for
three justices of the peace. They
hold that the vote for sheriff should
have been a stapdof in the city, ana
that Wakefield You'd have won out in
the country. The Democrats say that
if these ballots were thrown out, as
the Republicans allege, then they must
have suffered also in the count. This
status would have evened up matters.
The law states expressly that where
a voters intention is obvious from
the marking that his vote should be so
counted. The Republicans declare
that the voters in the second ward.
where the ballots are said to have been
thrown out, intended to vote, the tick
ct. and that only the vote on justices
tshould be thrown out, because the
; mistake lay with them alone. The
law holds further that before contest
can be brought, the plaintiff must show
; that the result was altered by the
alleged error The Republicans will
have some trouble. no doubt, in COM
plying with this clause.
Many of the voters are not aware
that two pretty contests have been on
ever since the count commenced. The
Democrats have not overlooked this
fact. In the first place. success means
that Pima county will send two DEM
ocrats to the assembly. and secondly,
the schools will be in charge of a party
man. At noon today Judge COwan
was just ten votes behind Nat E. Plu-
mer. Will Angus at the same hour
was but six votes below DeLong., II
the two precincts still out report Dem
ocratic majorities these two Offices
,