The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-29
IPARDEE FORCES GARRY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES
LEIGH DEFEATED FOR MAFoR-
 ALTR NOMINATION.

The Result May be Contested by De-
 feated Candidates FolIowerx--cIoirn
 That Illegal Ballots Were used--
 Total Vote for MayorI Pardce 2,o78y
 Leigh 1,45e--Candidntes for Alder
 men-at-Large Selected Are Messrs.
 HeaIy, Maxwell, sTeGuinnexs and MuI-
 vey-weIles Men Win All Over City.
 At the democratic primaries, which were held in all the wards in the city yesterday afternoon and evening, wfl- liam s. Pardee defeated Walter Leigh as candidate for mayor of that party by a plurality of 62c votes, the total vote which each man received being. Pardee, 2076, and Leigh, 1.456. Tn fact. the so-called Pardee-w -welles ticket swept practically everything before it. which undoubtedly means that MT. Welles will be reelected chairman of the town committee. If he so desires. This is the statement made by one of the party leaders after the votes had been counted and seemed to be agreed to by all. It looks very probable, how ever, that MT. Pardees nomination will be contested by MT. Leigh's supporters. many of Naom claim that under tfls party rules MT. Pardee's x vote is H. legal owing to the fact that few days ago p0mary tickets were sentSinto all the wards by MT. Pardee's supporters with cross printed i'll front of MT. Pardee's name. The claim is made that this is contrary to the rules which stata that the voter must mark the name of the candidate for whom he is voting in the square himself. MT. Leigh himself could not be seen last night, but sev- eral of his leading supporters said that there was splendid grounds for pro- test.
 The biggest surprise of the whole primary was the way Alderman Rick etts of the Twelfth ward ran. He was badly cut all over the city and was also defeated on the ward committee in his own ward. Alderman Ricketts always has been and is an exceedingly popu- lar man personally and the only way the party leaders could account for his defeat yesterday was the fact that he voted against the appropriation of s1,- 200 for free text books in the high schools when he was member of the board of finance, and also voted re- gently at a meeting of the board of al- dermen to award the contract for the printing of the journal of the board to MT. Bone, who is a republican, instead of to Mir. Fields, who is democrat. MT Ricketts Is at present alderman-at- large and with these two exceptions 1t is said that his party has never had any cause to complain of him, the above two reasons are therefore given as the cause of his defeat.
 The exceeding popularity of Alder man-at-Large Patrick McGuinness is shown in the large vote which he poll ed. The vote was the largest polIed for any of the candidates for aldermen at-1arge. Alderman-at-Large James Maxwell, who is a candidate for re- election, also showed his popularity by the splendid vote which he received.
 Of the eight aspirants for the candi- dacy for aldermen-at-large the follow [ ing four received the nomination: Pat rick McGuinness, James R. Maxwell, Richard B. Healy and Joseph H. Null yey. The total vote of all the aspir- ants for aldermen at-large was as fol lows: Richard B. Healy, 1870; James R. Maxwell, 2214; Patrick McGuinness, 2s7S; Joseph H. Mulvey, 2274; James F.
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