The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-24
WORD BATTLES ARE
!. FAST And FURIOUS
ONLY SIX CANDIDATES HAVE
|E OFFICE CINoHED.
Outcome in Seven Wards IsRDeemed so
Uncertain that Eevery Vote Will Be
Needed to Determine Results Sur
prises Are in Store for Both Sides.

T.. Of the thirteen aldermanic contests
now being fought in various parts of
the city it Isl conceded that six are al
ready settled. The candidates who are
as good as elected are M. A. Gerber,
FIRST ward; Ben G. Sheldon, second; A.
E. Merrill, fourth; Wendell Hertig,
fifth; E. W.. Clark, eighth; John H.
Van Nest, thirteenth. &C.
e. J. Conroy, democratic candidate
for alderman in the second, believes
that he has chance, altho the ward
bases his hopes on what he claims is a
general dissatisfaction over the result
of the republican primaries. Several
charges have been made against Shell
don, both before and after the primary,
| but these or being ruin down prove to
| be untrue and to have originated in
malice or Ignorance.
In the third, which is usually, close;
George V. B. Hill is picked as the win
ner over Hubert MengelKoch, the dem
| ocratic candidate. Hill will have the
substantial support from the other side.
A hard fight, is being made on alder
man Lars Rand in the sixth by John
Peterson. Alderman Rand is serene
and confident. His labor legislation in
the CITY council is said to be a strong
card in his favor in the ward, where
95 per cent of the voters are toilers.
Aid erman A. c.. Vaughan in the sew
enth is being pushed rather close by
ing a vigorous fight: It lis not be.
lieved that it will avail much, as the
seventh is one of the most reliably re.
publican wards in the city, and nomi
nation is supposed to be equivalent to
election.
Nels Swanson is making a sturdy
campaign to. free the ninth ward from
democratic control by defeating Alder
man Peter Mccoy. The latter has beer
twice elected in spite of determined
attacks, and his friends predict his re
election by 800 votes.
There is an even race in the tenth
where John w. Wilson and James Dwy
er, former alderman, are pitte(
against each other. Both sides appea
confident and it is difficult for an out
n slider to pick the winner. Alderman
4 August firmly believes that he will
4 have a republican colleague after Jan
i and predicts that Dwyer will hav
4 no better success than he did two year
! Alderman C. A. Westphal of tn
eleventh is picked as loser by peopl
who watch local politics more CAREFUL,
than the average citizen. There is
feellng In the ward that ne has no
: "made good.' One element of strength
J. in favor Of A. P. Ortquist, the repuh
lican candidate, is that the party work
ers for the first time in ten years ar
united and are pulling together ik
, a well-trained team. Westphal ha
estranged himself from many Of tn
democrats, and he is willy political
and must be reckoned with until tn
votes are counted:
Alderman Dennis G. Bow is anothe
r candidate for reelection who has
: fight on his hands. Altho nominally
republican ward, the twelfth is full o
, independent voters. Moreover, in MAJ
, tin F. McHale the democrats have a
/ unusually capable man and the part
IS making an aggressive fight.
| Attempts to raise an independen
candidate in the thirteenth have prove
futile, and Alderman Van Nests onl
opponent is a socialist named Roberts.