The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-16
YESTERDAYS ELECTION,
NEtRLR ALL THE DEMOCRATIC
 CANDIDATES ELECTED.

Only About ne-Third of the Full Vote
 PolIed-Surpriscs in the First and
 Ninth Wards Dem 0 ocrats Elected Four
 AIderm en-at- Large and SIX Ward
 Aldermen While Republicans Elected
 Two at Large and Two from Wards
 Next Court of Comno" Council Will
 be Democratic by seven Majority-The
 Vote for Aldermen and Town Officers
 Yesterdays election passed off very
 quietly and a small vote was polled
 only about one-third of the full vote
 being cast. As a result of the election
 the next board of aldermen, which will
 be the sole board of the court of com
 mon council under the new law will
 stand; Democrats IS, republicans H.
 giving democratic majority of [. The
 four democratic candidates for alder
 men-at t-large were elected yesterday by
 majorities ranging from 632 to 952, The
 two republicans elected under the pro-
 vision of the law for a minority repre-
 sentation, are g. Fred Strong and Quar-
 tus A. Lyman. The four democrats elected are John J. Sprightly, Edward c. Frederick, Cornelius H. Conway and William Trueman. MT. Conway receiv- ed the highest vote on the democratic ticket, 4540, while MT Trueman receiv- ed the lowest on that ticket, 4,190 Mir
 Strong was elected by a vote of 35SS running considerably ahead of his tick ct. MT. Lyman the other successful republican candidate for alderman-at- large, received 3499, 51 more than re- ceived by Alexander Johnstone, the lowest on the ticket.
 The democrats also elected their can didates for ward aldermen in the First ward. the Third, the Fifth, the Seventh, the Ninth and the Eleventh, while the republicans elected two, one from the Thirteenth ward and one from the Eff teenth. The doubtful wards were con- sidered to be the Eleventh, the Thr- teenth and the Fifteenth The out come in the Ninth was somewhat of a surprise. It was thought that August I-ubenoW. at present a councilman from the ward and the republican candidate for alderman, would be elected but to the surprise of the politicians the dem acratic candidate, Michael A. Moran | ir.. young man. won by F votes over l MT Lubenow. In the Eleventh, where it was thought that the vote would be l close. the democratic candidate George IT Jacobs, defeated Duncan M7cArthur ! the republican candidate, by a vote of | 422 to 1855 In the Thirteenth ward, I where there was perhaps the hottest | contest in the city, the present alder- man, William F. Acorn democrat was | defeated for reelection by the republi- | can candidate. John w. Hine, now a councilman from the ward, by vote of PAS to 1S4. Tn the Fifteenth ward Cap | tain Edward J. Morse. republican, was | reelected over Robert H Meachen | democrat by vote of 15O to 136
 The victory of James F. Wheeler, the | democratic candidate for ward alder man in the First ward, caused some surprise. He won from his republican rival, Charles A. Tngersoll, by vote of 220 to 139 MT. Wheeler served as a councilman from the ward in 1901 and was member of the board of finance, being the councilmanic member or that board
 The board of aldermen for the next year. after June 2, when the new board is to be organized will consist of twen- ty-nine members. Next ensuing year will be the first for a single board com mon council and while the arrange ment made in the new law to carry the plan into effect provides ultimately for a board of twenty-one members. there are fifteen members. elected last year for two years, who will hold over an other year so that for the first year under the single board plan there will be twenty members. Of the hold over members eight are democrats and seven republicans, the hold-overs from the Second Third, Fifth, Sixth. Sev- anth Eleventh, Twelfth and Fifteenth being democrats. while those from the First Fourth, Eighth Ninth Tenth, and Fourteenth wards are 
 Trades council leaders last night pointed with satisfaction to the fact , that ten of the aldermanic candidates by the Trades council were elected ,
 In the election of candidates for se- ectmen and constables the democrats were also successful electing the ma f ority in each case. The two republican f selectmen elected are Nehemiah Can lee a member of the present board z md Samuel F. Hoyt, a young lawyer. I Mr. Candee received the largest vote , ,n the republican selectmen ticket and r 'Tr Hoyt received the next largest, get r ing eleven more than the other repub- q ican candidate, Charles W. Blakeslee. r.. who is member of the present board. s The constables elected are Peter J. l Michael R. Enscoe and c Henry l.. Leonard democrats, and Ros- c oe P. Brown and Louis Coleman, re- ,ublicans