The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-17
PRIMARY TOTALS
SHOW 10000 VOTES
Complete Returns Give Mayor
Smith 1871 and His Lead
ing Opponent 1883.

1HN OpDOihCttt 1000
A total of 1923 votes were polled at
the primary election Tuesday for may
or, and based upon this, almost 10000
voters exercised the franchise. In the
hot fights for aldernanie nominations
many persons in the several wards did
not vote for the mayoralty candidates.
This cannot be considered light
vote under the condition. Two years
ago, when there was hot fight for the
various nominations but 1000 more
votes were polled. AT that time there
was much more campaigning previous
to the primary, and it is therefore con-
sidered by good judges that the vote
that was polled shows decided in
terest in the outcome of the election
the first Tuesday in May.
For the first time T h e G b e was
able to publish the complete returns in
the regular edition of the paper, thus
informing the people of the identity
of the candidates for whom they will
have an opportunity to vote some hours
in advance Of the usual time. This
was largely due to the arrangements
for collecting the data by the City
Press association and the promptneSs
of the election judges.
Mayor Smiths Vote Is 1871.
Mayor r. A. Smith received a total
of 1911, and his opponent, John L.
Gieske, 1870. Fred P. Wright, the Re-
publican nominee, was favored by 1883;
John J. Leighton by 1868 and H. S.
No a11f1 i T i1 Dot {c + X, n
Democratic candidate for comptroller
having had no opposition, and A. R.
Kiefer is the Republican who will con-
test with him.
The nominees for the assembly and
their total vote. follow:
Democrats Henry G. Haas, $685.;
Rudolph Schiffmann, SIP; r. D
O'Brien, 1868; DR.. E. II. Whitcomb
$500; M. Doran Jr., 5,151; Frank Yoerg
1899; P. ]. Giesen, 1880; VIM Pow
ers. 4.415.
Republicans. B. Doran, 5,oe5;
Herbert p Keller, 1863; Sidney H
Reeves, 1896; Ross Clarke, 1854; Frank
Arnold, 1874; H. C. Schurmeier, 1861;
J. Watson Smith, 3,493; John E. Holt
3,279; Thomas Montgomery, 3,219.
There are a number Of surprises to be
found in this list. The Republicans de-
S. S. Crooks, James B. Caldwell and
George Thane, who filed at the instance
of the committee of kids who induced
f. P. Wright to become candidate for
mayor. The machine was supposed tic
be for these men, but they did not pull
through. On the Democratic side il
was confidently believed that w. A
Van Slyke, who is serving his first
term, would again be chosen. He Sc
cured 4,160 votes, being the tenth man
on the list.
Some AIdermanic Surprises.
There were. also some surprises in
the aldermanic contests. In the First
ward it was thought by the Republican
politicians that ]. o. Linden would get
three votes to one for A. D. Nelson
Such did not prove to be the case, and
Linden received 500 votes to Ats for
Nelson. Charles Nyberg is the Demo
cratic nominee. In the Third ward, L.
o. Wilson sprung a surprise by getting
the Republican nomination by an over
whelming vote. He received 247 votes
as compared with 126 for Harry Sim
mons, and 95 for F. w. Babcock. In
the Fourth, Frank Huber won the
Democratic nomination by a vote OF
961 to S13 for G. B. De Witt. John
Howard is the Republican nominee, by
a vote of 1872 to 149 for James e. THE
baud. In the Fifth ward, Otto Roh1and
Is the Democratic candidate, and John
f. Bruggen1an stands for the Repub-
licans. They had no opposition.
G. e. Bruckner secured the Repub-
lican nomination for alderman of the
Sixth ward after a hot contest. He
won out by the bare plurality Of 9, Sc
curing 276 votes. as compared with 267
for M. ]. Bell. John Marti, also Re-
publican, got 244 votes. The latter was
opposed by many of the West side peo-
pie on the belief that he was DR.
Ohage's candidate There will likely
be contest NJ J. Moriarty was not
opposed for the Democratic nomina-
ton. J. w. L. Corning was not opposed
for the Republican nomination in the
Seventh ward, and there was no Demo-
cratic candidate.
The Eighth ward contest resulted in
Matthias Banz again becoming the
Democratic candidate. He secured 804
votes, George r. Daley, 664; A. ]. Ries
452; w. J. Preston, 224: Nicholas
! Herges, 102. Peter Zimmerman is the
Republican candidate, having had nc
! Brennan secured the Democratic nomi-
nation by a good plurality, securing
552 votes, as compared with 240 for j
| J. Mcmahon, and 211 for James FenSter-
maker. H. G. Norton is the Republican
candidate.
J. NJ. Hackney is the Republican can
| didate, and L. j. Dobner the Democrat
| ic candidate for alderman of the Tenth
ward They had no competitors. D. r
Elder defeated S. A. BlomQuist for the
| Republican nomination for alderman OF
| the Eleventh ward by a vote of PIP tt
| 178. F. B. Lynch is the Democratic
| nominee.
| James Cormican and Joseph Smith
are the Democratic nominees for justice
of the peace, to run all over the city
! The Republicans have for their two
candidates H. L. Mills and James L
| Johnson. Walter Boyd and John Lob
mann are the Republican candidates fol
| constables at large, and Stepher
| Lentsch is the Democratic nominee.
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