Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-20

mercer people SPOKE 10 a single man III
the line. Policeman Russell from time to
time would call men known to be for Mer-
Ger out OF the line and take them into the
polling place through the back door. where
they we're permitted TO vote ahead Of those
who had stood in line fer nearly an hour.
The anti-Mercer men protested against this
for the reason that It was a question OF
time, II being impossible to poll 1000 votes
during the time the polls we're opened. Rus
sell admitted that he had taken men into
the polling place through the back door,
but said that be had a right to do II. Later
In the evening a member Of the force gave
himself and the board away. A voter Of
the ward approached the polling place while
the count was in progress and was stopped
by the policeman. He protested and asked
90 be admitted. The policeman was in doubt
and said he would see about II. The seeing
about it, consisted in calling upon John
N. Westberg. upon whose order the voter
was admitted. Total vote cast 9Os is about
half the republican vote Of the ward. The
highest vote received by a Mercer delegate
was, 4s9; the highest for a Pratt delegate
was. s91. The highest vote for the Mcdonald
ticket was 545, and for the Evans ticket,
S3s; Blair beat Holmes out by a vote Of sos
TO 26f for the high man. w. w. Eastman
was endorsed for assessor.
seventh ward.
In the Seventh ward. where j. p. Breen
lives and Mercer claims to reside. the non
residents VOTE more than doubled that OF
his opponent. Interest in the election ran
as high in this ward, perhaps, as in any
with the exception Of the Fourth. Not UNI
til the last ballot OF the congressional con-
test was counted did the tense feeling
akNSE H. -
the polls subside. The crowd fingered I'm
til the Mercer Breen vote was all in, but
there was little to, attract after this. The
remainder OF the ticket ran about the
same. There was considerable animation
over the race between Thomas and Coch-
ran for assessor. which was won by the
former, hands down.
Eighth ward.
The vote in the Eighth was one Of the
largest. II not the largest. ever cast in
that ward, and when the polls we're closed
at Z o'clock a line Of voters numbering
from hfty 20 seventy-hve had not yet been
able to cast their ballots. The Mercer
ticket was uniformly successful In this
ward by a majority ranging in the neigh
borhood Of fifty votee. The total vote cast
was 5s4. and the straight anti-Mercer vote
was 80 as compared with 254. In
the contesting delegations for the congress
slonal convention A.. Brown led the anti
Mercer ticket with 267 votes and John p.
Friray the Mercer ticket with 800 votes.
Ninth Ward.
No contest was made In the Ninth. where
but one ticket was in the field. So far as
this part Of the balloting was concerned
the contest was decidedly tame. The max
imum vote was 447. The contest for SEN
atorship between NJ. A. Hall and w. A.
Gard!asr was q oBs-sided affair, Hail win
ming 1t four to one. For representative
p. NJ. Morsman. jr., led with the highest
vote and C. F. Robertson second. with
Harry Fisher and II. p. stoddard in order
named. 40
The delegates elected to the three con
v%entions are al follows: -
. Congressional DELEGATIONS.
Fret ward-IrRsht Bartson, Herman
Alien H2sRt smith BIC S,yd &sc sSnSla q. 4 : A PF %iiIis
grlniag, s A., corqeers' F. I'll. Hqye. JOSEPH
third %SardEG9Srrs;ec nf BrewS s''sS Theodore
Brown, George Crow. Ole jackson, George
A Fo MsfS' w ySaS sImG q aid II B. z ziT 7 n1i,.n
Il, 9. Meyer, F: F. Trefa, ". A. webster
M Wsfjng; John A. Wakefield.
p9neessn,w EG K Lower " witt william 4. Nal Il
loTy, Joseph c. Moore, Fl. G. Rockfellow
Alfred Samuelson.
Christie, Charles N. Spear, J...R, Redheid
James NJ. Talbot. J. II. Walkup, f. c
Seventh ward-Ralph w. breckenridge
William c. Goss, J. A. Griffin, George M
N~attinger. Swan Peterson. r. F. Swoboda
Eighth Ward-M. T. Barlow. Robert l.
bryant. John b Furay, j. c. Peterson
pr s. X; spaulding, Alex l. Swanson
Ninth ward n. Andrews. p. w. Birk
Son. E D. wead, G. W. Watties, r, "
South omaha-Charles L. Alstadt, I. ]
Sopenharye, George Curtis, E.. s. Daniels
Harry Kelly, joseph Ko oS2GSr' e LO +, i IeIgR
Seorge Massic, A. H. Murdoch, William
McCEaith. H. {: Murphy, Mike Smith, s
hauer. "
County Delegations.
First Ward-Henry Baumann. janet
Guggenmos, Peter Hanson. T. N. Julyan
I; w: Koeller. George Kyral. George Lamb
Charles Nelson. r. X. Paxton, John Pier
son, Adolph KIeneck,
Second ,ward-John F. Benin Thoma.
Hamei,' Joseph Ksvsn, ID MoT 1liL Geo Gs
NIcklas' Mix Lee, Vaclav souka.
Rr rnsTd T SsTSmaG Rry Bernstein; Georgy
Jackson, Bob Johnson, Gus @. Laeder
George A Mead, Jesse Merritt, II. b. Zim
Fourth ward-w. r. Adalr, Gustave An
derson. F. s. Brownlee. A. II. Comstock
q ~ Davis, Ed Haney, H.. B. Morrill,
George D.. Rice, b. ]. Scannell, George r
FIFTH wsrd-Cornelius Farrell. Harvey p
linton, Dr. w. A. Hostetter, Joel Johnsor
Hugh A. Myers. w. T. Nelson, Niels Me
sen, Willard +. Sears, f. r. Woods. NJ
sixth ward-B. r. Ball, Bert Bust
Joseph Christensen, Robert HouEhtor
ueorEe /. Hurst. NJ. Marks. John G. PaRleI
Samuel Ray, w. II. shriver, w. q. IRE,
Seventh .Ward-J. b. Blanchard, Milto
Bouma, John l.. Carey. A. c. Fostel
Byron r. Hastings, Charles 8. HaywarC
Cheney st. Clair. $1,000
Eighth Ward-George b. Curry, John 4
Hardy, C.. l. Harris, L. c. Holder, A. "
Jeferis, Charles Leslie, c.. q. McDonai,
J.C. Pierce. Gus Sedin, c. II. YounRers
Ninth Ward--J, l.. Baker, Louis Burk,
H., w. Corduroy, Edgar Cone, Jesse CaI
roll II. ], Bodwell, Frank Gaines. O.
shfum, Charles UNFIT. W. f.. Rhodes.
Judicial Delegations.
First ward-Frank W. Bandhauer. r.. !
Wilson, Bert G. Miner.
Second Ward-Henry Knodel, Josep
Mitchell, Albert p. HoOck. IVY
Third Ward J, katelmRh. George !
Mead, Fred l. Smith.
Fourth Ward-Frank u. Kennard. Geors
II. oonant. George T. Nicholson.
Fifth Ward-R j. Clancy. Ezra Y
Fields, A. q. PinkeftOn,
Sixth Ward-Byron G. Burbank, r.
wilcox, Carr AFFORD.
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