Arizona republican., 1902-11-05
GOOD SHOWING
 IN THE COUNTY
Latest Returns Indicate Safety
 of Half the- Ticket
wv. Cook Elected.Sheriff and Kibbey Councilman-Barnett and Phillips Have Also Probably Made a Landing.

The result of the county election was not greatly different from what had been expected. but it was brought about in manner different from the calculations O. any Of the political managers. The republicans did not de- velop the strength in town that had been calculated upon, but they proved much stronger in the country districts.
 Morrison win go out of the town with small majority, but he has gained so much in the country that it is possible that he will carry the county.
 As matters stood this morning it ap- peared that the republicans had elected Judge Kibbey for the council. A. C. Mcqueen for the assembly, w. w. Cook fer sheriff, C. " Barnett for recorder, J. C. Phillips for probate judge, and J. A. Harshall for supervisor. The candi- daCy of A. J. Edwards for district at tCrley is in doubt.
 The election, the most bitterly con- tested of any that has ever been held in tra county. passed off quietly
 Later returns gave more hope of the election of the republican county ticket. Though the republican candidates had not developed the strength in town that had been expected, returns from the country were favorable beyond expecta- tiols. Long before midnight the elec- ton of Cook was conceded by the dem ocTats, as was also that of Barnett There seemed little doubt of the cleo tion of Phillips for probate judge. Even after the returns from the town Were, all in the result was so much in doubt that it would take the returns from the smaller precincts to decide it.
 There were recriminations by the members of the Young Mems Demo- cratic club and the Jeffersonian demo- crats. The former said that they had stood by their agreement to support Stout, but that McFall and Langston had been thrown down in every pre- cinct where Stout had made a showing
 The polling record was broken in Phoenix. It was thought a good thing had been done two years ago when the puecinct of Phoenix cast more than half the vote of the entire county. a little more than 100. Though other polling places outside of town had since been established. the four polling places in the city or rather the four precincts which had been made out of Phoenix precinct cast more than that number. In the third ward alone there were 509 votes.
 Early in the morning an impression grew that the democrats were having the best of it. They were certainly displaying the greater activity and IL was suspected that they were doing unfair work. For instance the demo- cratic managers procured the voting of the name of Fred Branch twice. There is only one Fred Branch on the great register and he has not been ill the city for a year and a half. He is now resident of Grass Valley, Cal He was formerly a machine operator on The Republican. It was discovered that many of the names which the re- publican committee had placed on the list of those who were dead, had moved out of the county or had been sent to the penitentiary were being voted. T; began to look as if the democratic eiac- ton boards were out-maneuvering the republicans and that the needed ma jority in the city could be obtained. it at all by overwhelming strength. By the middle of the afternoon the repub- lican managers began to show discour- agement but they still kept up their hope of the election of Cook who was expected to develop surprising strength in the out of town precincts upon which the Stout adherents were bank ing. It looked as if the whole town with the possible exception of the sec ond ward would go democratic. The democrats were claiming everything. The republican situation was slightly relieved in the meantime by good news from abroad. But that did not help the county ticket Word came that q and that he was carrying Congress by majority of six to one. A dispatch received from Bisbee said that things looked so favorable there that the re- publicans would not concede that county as they had been willing to do by majority of 200.
 When the polls closed in Phoenix and the separation of the ballots began things began to take on more favora- lbe aspect. In the fourth ward which the republicans had given up to fourth ward methods were 100 straight repub- lican votes, 10S democratic votes, and 19S scratched ballots. or this number the republicans had reason to expect much. At the same time the democrats were conceding the first ward which they had been claiming all day. In the third which it was supposed would be overwhelmingly democratic the indica- tiCns at the beginning of the count were that the republicans had the ad- vantage.
 The first word from the outside pre- cincts came early from Peoria in which the republican head of the tick ct had a majority of three but Stout had a majority Of two over Cook. Next Buckeye was heard from with a ma jority of i3 fer Wilson and the legisla- tive ticket but that was not unexpect- ed.
 When sixty votes had been counted at Tempe, Cook had forty and Stout twenty.
 MARICOPA COUNTY.
 The Result as shown by Precinct Re