The San Francisco call., 1905-02-01

OAKLAND, Jan. 31.-Frank X. Mott
will be the next Republican nominee
for Mayor of Oakland, having carried
the First. Second, Fourth and Fifth
wards in the Republican primary to-
day, after one of the bitterest political
battles ever held in the city. His op-
ponent, George E. Randolph, won in
the Third, Sixth and Seventh wards,
but these were not enough. Mott will
head the party ticket at the next mu-
nicipal election.
The principal contests of the primary
were il the Fourth. Fifth and Sixth
wards, where the opposing factions
worked actively until the polls closed
The result was an extraordinarily
heavy vote. In many of the precincts
of the contested wards more than one
fourth of the registered vote had been
cast before o'clock in the morning
and in nearly every precinct almost
all the voters registered came to the
polls and cast their ballots.
There was no opposition. TO the Mott
ticket in the First and Second wards,
and Randolph controlled the Third. In
the Fourth the Mott forces, headed by
Dick Aver and Edward Planer, We're
opposed by Councilman Edwin Meese,
ex-Supervisor w. H. Church and DR..
NJ. l.. Emerson. 1t was here that Mott
scored his most decisive victory. car
rying the ward by a majority of 224
votes.
: The Fifth Ward was the scene Of a
quiet but bitter contest. City Treas
urer FELTON, Taylor, Councilman Ben
Pendleton. Senator G. R. Lukens and
]. Cal Ewing were handling Ran
dolph's fight in this ward, while Car
ence Crowell, Charles d. Bares Jr. and
Ben Woolner were working hard for
the Mott ticket. Until the close of the
polls both sides claimed the victory, but
when the ballots were counted 1t was
found that Mott had carried the ward
by a majority of 156 votes.
The Sixth Ward was the battle-ground
Of the hottest fight of the primary
With the opposing forces headed re-
spectively by NJ. ]. Kelly for Mott and
Councilman W ]. Baccus for Ran
dolph. Allied with Kelly were Bert
Hemstead, Eddie J. Smith, Frank Pc
rata and a score of others, while ]. j.
McElroy, Harry Borchert, Assembly
man Phil NJ. Walsh. Frank Barnet and
Dan Doody were working for the Bac-
Gus Randolph ticket.
The Seventh Ward was also the
scene of z vigorous battle Of ballots.
with Judge Henry A. Melvin, County
-
Rowe and Councilman Robert Aitken
leading the Randolph forces. Opposed
to them were Councilman ]. It. Wal
lace and r. II. Chamberlain, with an
able corps of lieutenants at each poll
I; ing place 1t was generally conceded
that the Randolph ticket would carry
the ward, and there was little surprise
expressed when the c~unt of the ball
I lots showed that Randolph had won by
a majority of 315 votes.
The result OF the primary means the
nomination of Frank K Mott for May
or. Abe P. Leach for City Attorney and
Frederick c. Turner for City Engineer.
Mr.. Mott introduced an example of
up-to-date politics to-day by the use
OF a handsome automobile, in which a
flarge number of voters were brought
| to the polls
The greatest surprise of the election
was in the result of the vote at the
| poll at Fourteenth and Webster streets.
I This is FELTON, Taylor's home precinct.
and the Randolph forces predicted that
/ the Taylor Pendleton ticket would car
ry three to one. Mott carried this pre-
cinct by a majority of thirteen votes.
| The result of the vote in the con-
tested wards is as follows: