Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-02
Ec1oN LIVELY BUT RATHER QUE

For the first time in sixteen years ohaha
has elected a democratic mayor. The
weather was beautiful in fact, what might
be termed republican weather, hut II was
Dahlman day and when the votes were
counted the democratic candidate for
mayor had been elected by 1850. The bal
loting began early, fast and furious and
never ceased until the polls closed at
o'clock. The use of the voting machines
again proved troublesome to people who
wanted to scratch tickets, but expiditious
i'm the counting.
The first returns came In over the tele-
phone from the fourth pricinct of the
Sixth ward at exactly four minutes pa,
6 o'clock and within an hour every one Of y
Of the ffty-four precincts OF the city had
reported and the figures were in way Of
tabulation. At first 1t looked as II Dahl
man, with his big plurality. had pulled
through with him all of his associates on
the democratic ticket, but nnal footings
show that two Of the republican nominees
had won out, namely, Bingham and zim-
man for councilmen from the Second and
Third wards, respectively. The worst
beaten man on the ticket is John H. Web
ster, seeking election as building inspector
on the republican ticket who fell behind
Wthnell. his democratic opponent by over
400 votes. The range Of the voting Is
seen from this tremdous democratic plar-
ality, to zimman's republican plurality Of
more than 1000.
Not Confined 20 Any ward.
The democratic cleanup is not confined 70
any one ward or to any one section of the
city. The naturally democratic wards I'm
the lower end OF town piled up huge ma
jorities for Dahlman and his democratic
running mates, but the republican strong
holds on the hill also fell down lamentably.
The Ninth ward. which was counted on by
the republican managers to give to Benson
not less than 400 over Dahlman. fell down
down to less than half OF that and the
Eleventh ward, in which Mr.. Benson re-
sides, figured for another 4O0. turned UP
with only 150 to the good for the repubh-
cans. Dahlman carried the First. Second.
Third, Fifth, Fights and Tenth wards. the
J Third ward leading the van rfth n plur-
ality of 11oO, the Second ana Tenth wards
vieing with each other for second place,
with 800 apiece. Benson's biggest plur-
| ality came in the Twelfth ward. go. while
the Fourth ward, once abanner republican
ward. went for Bosom by only twelve plur-
ality. The democratic tidal wave, there
fore, must have been coterminous with the
city.
Result IL Indicated Early.
1t was seen early in the day how the vote
was going and Dahlman kept rising as
Benson stock went down. Later in the
afternoon the republican managers took
hope that they might save the bulk OF the
ticket II the questionable vote In the Third
ward could he excluded and began laying
the foundation for contest to throw out
the returns from certain precincts. where
9 IL H..
firgrantly violated. Deputy County Attor-
ney Shotwell declared he had evidence
enough to invalidate the vote in the second
and third precincts in the Third ward on
the grounds of interference OF election
officers with the voters, but the talk OF
contest died out in the evening after the
fact was disclosed that Danlman would be
elected without the Third ward at all.
Vote on Mayor by Precincts.