Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-09-07
NO. 36
THE ELECTION LOCALLY.
Mr.. eIbson's Majority Of $50 Was Larger
Than Had Been Antlclpated-serate
inc on Justice Ticket.

Wi' NtbeoH mdlOIiNy oI ooV was Larger
Than Had Been Antlclpated-serate
ing on Justice Ticket.
Tuesdays election in Brattleboro was
characterized by the same hustle which
attended the election four years ago,
when the Clement wing of the Republican
patry attempted to carry of the honors.
The finest kind of weather prevailed all
day, but the vote, not counting the scat
tering and spoiled ballots, fell off n from
that of 1902
The freemens meeting was opened for
mally at o'clock by Constable e. r.
Thayer, and the voting begaa at once.
Both the Republicans and the Fusionists
mad made canvass of the town and had
prepared a list of voters, indicating as
nearly as possible each mans political
preference, and as each voter gave his
name to the officer at the gate it was
written down by clerks and rushed to the
rooms where the leaders of the opposing
forces were assembled, to be checked OF
the list
Soon after the meeting opened coupes,
surreys, automobiles and other vehicles
began scurrying to different parts of the
town after voters, and this was kept up
until nearly time for the last ballot box
to be turned. The vote on both the lead
ing state tickets was much increased in
this way. The town representative bal
lot box was turned at 3 o'clock, and from
then until o'clock the voting continued
in desultory way as nearly all who
wished to exercise their right of fran
chise had done so before o'clock. It
took the board of civil authority an hour
to count the town representative votes,
and when Justice A. F. Schwenk an
nounced the result about 200 voters were
in the hall. Capt. e. w. Gibsons plur-
ality of $50 over Charles A. Boyden, Dem
ocrat and Fusionist, was a surprise to
ndxr M nna ri, fIaN h.
win by more than 250. The total vote was
1852 Mr.. Gibson had S31 and Mr.. Boyden
4Sl. Thirty blank representative votes
were cast and several ballots for Mr.. Glib
son were found folded into the state tick
cts but these were not counted, the rep
resentative vote having already been an
nounced.
The ballots for state and county officers
were scratched considerably, and it was
nearly 9 o'clock when the board of civil
authority was able to make the final foot
ings, The detail of this vote is given in
another column. Although the Republi-
cans and Fusionists had agreed upon
ticket of justices of the peace that ticket
was scratched more than any other and
the board OF civil authority did not at
tempt to complete the county ticket
Tuesday night. The vote for justices
was as follows: w. s. Newton 1179; r.
w. Gibson, 116O; A. F. Schwenk 1145; e.
L. Waterman, 1145; r. c. Bacon, 1141; H.
F. Weatherhead. 114; H. B. Chamberlain,
1876; C. A. Boyden, 1872; F. G.. Taylor,
1872; H. G. Barber, 1925; M. j. Moran,
1119; =. w. Blodgett, lib; A. P. Carpen-
ter, lib; A C. Spencer, lib; H. B. Haus,
1103. There were a blank ballots and five
scattering ballots.
Before the vote for state and county
officers had been figured out theetown rep
resentative returns from different towns
began coming in, and the results clearly
indicated a decisive Republican victory.
The returns on all tickets and from all
the towns in this county and from various
other towns were received at the New
England telephone exchange and were
given out without charge. They were
posted on The Phoenix bulletin board,
around which a crowd of from $50 to 200
gathered and remained until about 1880
o'clock and were also carried to the Re-
publican headquarters in bank building,
the Fusion headquarters in Retting build
ing and the Vermont Wheel club rooms,
where large number of members enjoyed
a spread.
The telephone office gathered the re-
turns quickly and accurately from every
town in Windham county, which was the
first time In the history of the universe
that every town was heard from on the
night of election.