The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-04

'er-Busch Branch, Richmond, va.
and the noiseless fall Of the ballot con-
t!nued. The Todd people lost no hope
and were doing as hard work and ~ big
letting as the Brauor side. The fight
was thus desperate to the last final
round. Everybody was kept guessing by
the early evident fact that the vote would
fall considerably below that polled in
the primary. This seemed remarkable
fact. In view OF the extraordinary interest
taken In the treasurership contest but It
was nevertheless fact. The early hour
OF closing was largely responlble tor IT.
AZ q result OF this state OF things no
estimates were safe; each side was wor-
ried about who would be affected by the
strinkago and how much.
BY and by. the day wore away. and
sunset came and with It closing OF tho
polls. The judges locked themselves in
and began to count the ballots; at two
opposite points OF the compass the Brauer
people and the Todd people gathered. and
began to count the minutes until some
thing definite should be known.
At tho courthouse on East Main Street,
the treasurer,s office WAS filles SON in
the evening with a. crowd OF hot Drauee
people. Deputy Jeter. In his shirt sleeves.
sat at desk with his ear to the tele-
phone and his pencil to a pad Around
him were pressed half hundred eager
people. Reports came In In struggling
fashion, and were Of the heart-disease
sort. so far as the Erauer people were
concerned few small precincts showed
Up first, and then with strained ears tho
crowd sat through interminable moment,
waiting for the large precincts. any one
| Of which might turn the tide. Mr.. Brauer
himself came In after awhile anu perehed
| himself upon stood, where he said he
4 eta hA
would lay.
Heart Disease Business.
At o o'clock eight precincts. small and
OF the opposition Kind, save Todd ma
! torlty OF about $50 and reports from two
other precincts later on increased this
| lead to 100. Up to this time the hopes
/ Of the crowd were soaring high. but word
| teean to come OF small leads In the
Brauer strongholds, and a damper was
| thrown over many 1nruirers were shli
| told that Mr.. Brauor would win. but II
1 was now said his majority would be worry
( small; tho fight would be very close. The
returns. 60 far as received. were counted
! and rerounted. and the BrauAr cnlcuin-
! tors began TO trembe. Defeat stared
| them in the face and II was generally
] realized that II Brauer didn't make a
| good showing in shumaker's and pulleo
up strong in Howard's Grove and HARD
ms Shop, he would lose. He was then
leading BY 20 votes In Howard's Grove.
his homo prec at majority much
smaller than he had expected
AS the nom ents dragged themselves by
with leaden feet, tho hopes OF the brauer
people grew weaker and weaker. Hardln 3
i Shop showed up with handsome major
/ tty. but shumaker's gave Todd over htty
votes and turned tho tide that cou!a no
longer be stemmed. the report run .,l
i Hungary was also sever blow 70 the
i Treasurer. All depended now upon Flow
4, ards Grove. Todd was leading ~ about
4 1sn and there were one or two small iood
i precincts still to be heard from. TO elect
4 Mr.. Brauer, Howard's Grove. his nome
district, would have to give him about
4 It's majority and Howards Grove va. .ss
Treasurer was leading by so votes, yerT
j much less than enough. Ten minutes later
4 the official report came giving DIT. 6rauer
Sc majority.
BY midnight the result was apparen.
4 ~ all Brauer admitted nothing put loao
was certain of success. he mao theh eo
majority with reports still to come from
i RiGga. Church and Seven Pines. two OF
his precincts. He claimed the county ~
probably l75 votes. The Brauer people
s,tli stuck on. but It was easy to see that
they had lost all hope. The cro"a Ia ~
the Courthouse began to leave ABOUT M ~
night. going off silently and IN as
hearted manner.
The Tickets Elected.
practically no interest was manlfssted
in tho election outside OF the treasurer
ah,n arht. It was impossible to get the
re,urns on the other Offices. but 1t -
80 10 70 saw that the full Democratic ticket
was elected.
but few Of the candidates were op-
nosed. There was Republican oandl'
= d.to for treasurer in the person OF Ml'
Iacoh n. shaw, but he did not cut much
azure. a Socialist. Mr.. Ed. G. Schroeder.
! opposed Mr.. Rosenegk for tho House o.
Delegates. r. W, Taylor was an n ,e.e
pendent candidate for the ONCE OF Jus
fice az the peace In Var1na. MT Q: J.
5 Ness was an Independent candidate for .
similar position In Fairfield. But these
) gentlemen. so far as could be ascertalned:
Received practically no votes. The tull
, ticket was elected, as follows;
County cerk-samuel P, Waddlu.
Sherff-SImon Solomon.
Commemorative Attorney--L. O. Wsn'
, denburg.
House OF Delegates-A, Won Rosenest,
Commissioners OF the Revenues: uppas
Dlstrict--C. w. Childrey; Lower District
su ua ruckahoe-R. w. Browa-
: ing: Brookland-W, c. Saunders; Fair.
field-J. w. Barnes; yarlna-W. 3. Fray
$ Magistrates: observation-disclosures T, Lew
. is, r. H, Jackson and Edwin Rugal
Brookland-R. II. Sale and Thomas r.
Darracott; Fairaed-G, w. Ihomas'
Myer Anglo and w. G. Gibson; Vayina-
Y G. A., ", TBritton. r, G. Friend and F. r.
constables: varlaa--T. a, Samuel,
/, Tuckahoe--W. l.. Fordi BrooMand--R
8 r. Waldrop, Tairheld-D I. Temple.
p George q, Conway; Fairheld-P. NJ. Hous,
ton; Brookland-V. Lltohfeld: Varina--
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