The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-04-05
DEMOCRATS TAKE. i ALL.
c. q. DuRLAND is ELEcTEDl MAY
OR OF NORFOLK. IS
PAT DoLAN PULLS THROUGH
Dolan and Eiseley and Garvin Were
the only Salvage That the Repub-
lieans Were Able to Retain--some
Very Large sized Majorlties.
Frun. .,nesday's DailyJ

Very Large sized Majorities.
[Frun. tuesdays Daily.l
Mayor--C. Il. Durland, democrat.
City Clerk--Julius HUH, democrat.
City Treasurer-Julius Haase, dem
ocrat.
Police Judge. f. Eiseley repub-
lican. ''
City Engineer-H. Salmen, demo
crat.
Councilmen-S. w. Garvin, repub-
lican. First ward t. b. Kaufman,
democrat Second ward; julius Deg
ner, democrat, Third ward; Pat Do
Ian, republican, Fourth ward.
Members Board of Education-Al-
bert Degner, S. G. Dean and Tom
Shively, democrats.
Tuesdays city election in Norfolk
brought democratic Landslide" that
carried practically the entire demo
cratic ticket to victory with range
of majorities that startled even the
democratic leaders. or the repub
lican ticket G. f. Eiseley for police
judge and S. w. Garvin for First ward
L
$24 900 school bond issue carried the
day by vote of 575 to las.
The election was marked by an UNI
usual amount of Independent voting.
Most of it was done by the republican
voters, the straight ballots indicating
that the democrats as a whole did
not jump far from their party lines.
The range of majorities was greater
than is customary in Norfolk elections.
The spirit of hope which had sprung
up in the hearts of many republicans
as election day drew to a close, was
crushed by the first load of democratic
ballots taken from the ballot boxes.
Before the canvass of the votes promi-
nent democrats conceded that the re-
suit might be close. AS the monoto-
nous counting of the white ballots
progressed it became apparent that
while the energetic campaign carried
on by the republicans had won some
democratic votes, large sections of the
republican ticket had been deserted by
republican voters.
Unofficial figures place Mr.. Dur
lands majority at 1877. The mayor
elect took no part in the campaign,
but save for City Treasurer Haase he
polled the largest vote of any man on
the ticket.
Among the republican candidates
losing by narrow margins and whose
defeat may be attributed wholly to
the democratic tendency of the voting
were Chris Anderson, candidate for
city clerk, and NJ. c. Hazen and c. p.
Parish, nominees for the school board.
Anderson lost by AZ votes, Hazen by
40 and Parish by A. Tom Shively
was elected over Parish by the vote
of the Fourth ward, where Shively
was looked on as the local candidate.
Judge Eiseley, the only successful
republican candidate on the general
city ticket, was elected by only IA
votes despite the fact that his oppon,
ent, Police Judge Westervelt, had pub
licly declined to be a candidate. The
democratic label was nearly enough
to send the Office seeking the man.
In the election of councilmen the
movement was not wholly democratic.
In the Fourth ward 1t is said that
Dolan's vote was not counted but
merely ESTIMATED" In the first ward
Garvin worked up private landslide
of his own, securing an unusual ma
jority in the fact of democratic vic.
tory.
AS predicted in The News the $24,-
600 school bond issue encountered no
serious opposition. The vote on the
bond issue was nearly the same in all
the wards, the total majority in APP
proval standing at 430 votes.
The total vote cast on the head of
the ticket Tuesday was 757 votes-not
an unusually large vote in view of
the favorable weather conditions.
Few women took advantage of the
opportunity to participate in the
school election.
Tuesday vote in detail according to
, unofficial returns is:
For mayor