Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-26

the beginning. that Lynch would sweep the field, though, to be sure, some couldn't see things that way and felt confident right along that ThomS was
 a winner. It was the liveNest kind of a tussle, and although the Thoms men
 got bad drubbing, still they fought like Trojans, and when they learned that the Lynch supporters were in the ascendancy in five out of stx voting districts they acknowledged him the victor and promised to follow his lead- ership into the fray on the first Mon day in October and do their prettiest
 to secure him seat in the executive
 chair.
 At the opening of hostilities the first ward men boasted that Lynch would
 not get look in, but the battle H. q
 not been on many hours when the Thoms cohorts showed signs of weak
 ening and long before the cannonading ceased 1t was agreed on both sides that
 Thoms and his followers were outside the breastworks. The tick ct was headed by F. T. Cavanaugh,
 Ernest Miller and Andrew J. Kenneal- ly. They came out of the scrap with | nearly POO votes to spare. The total
 vote was 599, 392 for Lynch. POS for
 Thoms and four spoiled ballots.
 There was some sharp-shooting in
 the second ward. the only spot where Lynch and his warriors went down before the opposition, by small mar gin, to he sure, but enough to be called victory. Tn the, Waterville end of the district H. M. Rigney. who manned l the guns for Thoms, made 8 desperate | fight and either coerced or coaxed al- nc+ aysv1N in >1aa &1 ~&, l for his man, with the result that but l sixteen electors dared to come forward and declare themselves in favor of the candidate for organized labor. Not withstanding this the whole ward was Conceded to Lynch during the heat of. the contest, and about 8 or o'clock you couldn't find a man in the ward who thought it would go for Thoms. but when the result was announced Lynch was lacking couple of dozen votes necessary to give him the ward. ] The whole number of votes cast was l 45S. 240 for Thon1s and 21S for Lynch. 1 There was pretty mill in the third l ward, in which James ID. Russell, A 1 Fl. Wells and John Tareila proved 1 themselves more than a match for the
 men fpitted against them. The Iithu- l anians buckled on their armor early ] in the day and kept up a strong fusil- l lade until a truce was declared by the 1 closing of the polls at 10 o'clock, and l by that time the Thoms aggregation l had been routed horse and foot and Lynch and his men were nlonarchs of 1 all they surveyed and had lot of am l munttion to spare after capturing ev- 1 erything in sight. The total vote was l 4D0,s 263 for Lynch and 227 for Thonls.
 This is the district where Mr Lynch lived for many years, and his op- 1 ponents made supreme effort to spike l his guns there, but his packers were too numerous and it didn't take the l Thoms leaders long to see that they ! had big job on their hands.
 l There was open war in the fourth ward that is, it looked that way at the
 outset when some of the Lynch braves l charged the other fellows with trying l to deny them certain rights which they | thought belonged to them; but the storm blew over without anybody I being hurt and from that time on I Lynch's followers hammered the l Thoms men so badly that it is thought
 some of them who heard of the mas
 sacre concluded that discretion was the \ better part of valor and didn't go into 1 the field at all. Brophy, Murray and Dunn, candidates for aldermen and
 lientenants for Lynch, did excellent l work, Dunn was a new man In the business, but he proved himself a first
 class soldier just the same and brought l into the scramble fighting force that
 assisted materially in downing Thoms
 and the .Mahaney Spain Reardon con-
 bination. who went into the engage
 ment fully equipped to slaughter all before them and also take good care Of
 their dead, one of the aspirants for al
 dermanic honors being a practical em-
 palmer and experienced funeral direc- I tor Nearly 800 citizens answered the
 call to arms and of these 4o6 had the l word Lynch" written on the points of their bayonets and 293 proclaimed l themselves for Thoms. Lynch had a majority of 191, there being two l spoiled ballots.
 Thoms and his army were almost l annihilated in the fifth district, where I 54S good men and true, led by Law l renee Tobin. John Hurley and + K. | Bergen. rushed onto 176 men who un- | furIed the Thoms banner under the l guise of aa independent workingmen's l ticket and gave them an unmerc1ful l beating. The tramp of hurrying feet
 
 was heard all over the district from l the opening of the polls until the last
 chance to vote had passed away, so
 that perhaps the war horses of the old fifth never covered more ground in the
 same length of time than they did
 while the fight was on, and when 1t
 was over and their standard bearer
 appeared over the ruins of the enemy
 their enthusiasm knew no bounds and
 such excitement never before prevailed 1 in that part of the town. 1t was so
 all over the city. People sat up until
 Jolly daylight to hear the returns, and
 when they learned that Lynch had l carried the day they retired happier
 than ever before in their lives The,
 winning tickets are as follows:
 l First Ward
 Aldermen Patrick J. Cavanaugh, | Ernest A. Miller, Andrew J. Ken neatly.
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