The San Francisco call., 1904-04-04
PARTY LINES
ARE ALL DOWN
Interior Towns Are Prepar-
ing for Regular Municipal
Elections Held in Spring
CONTESTS ARE SCARCE
In Some of the Places but
One List of Names Is
Placed Before the Voters
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway. April g.

Ills Broadway, April 8.
The annual spring elections in the
interior towns of Alameda and Con-
ira Costa counties Will occur a week
from tomorrow. April H. The tick
cts have all been filed in accordance
with the law and the voters are now
able to see for whom they will have
an opportunity to vote. In no cases
have party lines been drawn, the NOM
inations all being made by petition
and not by convention, and in few
cases are there any contests.
In the town of San Leandro there
is more fight than in any other town
in the two counties There are three
trustees 10 be elected and there are
i've candidates for the three places
{. L. Best John j. Gill, Edward
Hoerst, ]. F. Hopper and William 6.
Muntz. For clerk there are three
candidates.. W. Harbert Anton ].
King and L. ]. Martin. Ferdinand
Meyer has no opposition for treas
urer, but there are four candidates
for marshal-Manuel j. Bettincourt
NJ. Borge. William NJ. Dowd and NJ.
Geisenhofer.
In the neighboring town of Hay
wards there are but few contests.
There are three trustees to be elected
for the full term and one for an un-
expired term. For the full term
there are but three nominees for the
three places-Charles W. Heyer, NJ.
c. Petersen and W. j. Ramage. For
the uneXpired term there are two can
didates-C. NJ. Buck and George w.
KaNanaugh. Z. b. Haas has no op-
position for treasurer, but there are
two candidates for clerk. A. Ober-
muller and Clyde NJ. Reese, and three
candidates for marshal - Arthur G..
Allen, Frank Caten and Charles ].
Schilling.
Livermore has a very quiet election
in prospect, for there is not a single
contest Nearly all of the present Off
GERS will be returned without opposi-
tion as a reward for the hard work
they have done for the municipality.
Town Marshal d. A Smith at first de-
clined TO stand for reelection, but he
was so urged by his fellow townsmen
TO stand for election once more that
he finally consented and as a reward
for his work he will be elected with
out opposition. The only ticket in
the field in Livermore is as follows:
Trustees, c. f. Beck: r. Mathiesen
and ]. D. Ryan; marshal, d. A. Smith:
clerk, W. H. Wright; treasurer, w. H.
Taylor.
There are two fights in Pleasanton.
JOnll 0OlLailN - OBpOSlitS l.. L. AAOoO,
the present marshal, for that position.
George W. Meyers is fighting j. H
Neal, the present clerk, for that office.
EmeryVille has a few fights. j. 5.
Emery and Fred ]. Stoer are candi-
dates for trustees TO succeed them
selves while P. G. Lynch and c. Z.
Farnam are opposed. John c. Co
burn, present clerk, has an opponent
in the person of Arthur Koele. Mar
,nI . 4. Nav
burn have no opposition.
There are no fights in Pinole, the
nominees being: Trustees, T. J. Stats,
]. A. Fraser, ]. p. Barrett. j. l.. Wal
ton and John Silvas; treasurer, A.
Greenfield; clerk, Z. NJ. Downer; mar
shall, II. A Christian.
Hercules has no contests, with the
following nominees: Trustees, ]. Bir-
mingham Jr., NJ. Murray, w. A. Ray,
A. Mcdonald and B. w. Stevens;
clerk, L. Hart; treasurer, S. Birming-
ham; marshal, H. Mccullough.