Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-04-08
Average Majority for Heads of
the Ticket is 250i Majority
of the Mayor 232,
AVERAGE FOR ALDERMEN 62
FOR SCHOOL BOARD "a
influences Leading to Demo-
cratic Victory Plainly Evident
and Emphasized by Demo-
cratic Speakers at Last
Nights Celebration,

landslide, sweeping through ev-
cry ward in Albuquerque, resulted yes
terday in the election Of the entire
democratic ticket from top to bottom
with a high water majority of 3g6 and
low mark in the wards of 26. The
democratic ticket was successful in
the case of every candidate and the
majority in every case was safe, the
closest vote being in the First ward
where Auge (Dem.) won over Hay
den (RepD by majority of but 26
votes
The total vote cast was not excep-
tionaly large, being approximately
1000, including some sixty-nine votes
cast by the socialist ticket
Yesterdays result has been called
a landslide and in truth il was just
that, but ii could hardly be fairly
called democratic landslide since it
is freely acknowledged that local in
huences and votes normally republic
can were responsible for the election
of the ticket and not any sweeping
victory FOR party politics. The inhu-
ences referred to were various They
We're discussed with some frankness
last night by the men who addressed
the big crowd joining in the demo-
cratic jollitication meeting, and they
will be discussed freely and with vig
or IOT some llno To come IN AIDu-
querque and the county
TO return to the results
Felix II. Lester, the democratic can
didate Tor mayor, won the election by
the comfortable majority Of 232, a
very fair majority in a hotly con-
tested election in a hormaliy republic
can city.
John B McManus, the democratic
candidate for city clerk, was elected
Iv- 3 l,. sfpt,, fg,t.T
This is one Of the largest majorties
ever given here for a candidate for
municipal office in a contested cleo
tion.
simon stern, the democratic cam
didate for treasurer, was elected by
l22 majority.
Henry Auge was elected to the !
council in the First ward by 26 ma |
iority. over Mr Hayden, who retires /
from the council Charles Conroy de- |
feated D. II Boatright by 60 vote in
the Second ward: stephen b. COe' de- /
feated Or. b, II Briggs in the bird /
ward by SO votes and DR.. Jam H. /
Wroth defeated j. r. McLaughl.n in |
the Fourth ward by 80 votes, the |
largest majority given for an alder
man This leaves the next city coun-
ell of Albuquerque composed of six |
democrats and two republicans, the !
list being as follows:
Hanley and Learnard republicans; |
ReaVen, Neustadt Auge Conroy Coen
and Wroth, democrats.
The city administration of Albu-
querque is thus absolutely in the con-
troll of the democratic party for the |
next two years,
The democratic candidates for the |
council are pledged to maintain the
retail liquor license where 1t stands
tndny: they are pledged to economy
and wise action in the construction Of
the sewer system which they are
pledged to build and to economical |
administration of city affairs. The
speakers at last nights celebration
emphasized the statement that every
pledge made during the campaign
would be rigidly adhered to and there
is no reason to believe that there will
be any effort whatever to bring about
any reduction of the present retail
liquor license.
The school board Is now also in the
control Of the democrats by the addi-
ton Of Messrs Trimble, Giegoldt Ma
10y and Moore.
There seem to have been three main
influences which operated to carry
the democratic ticket to victory yes
terday. according TO men who are in
the best position to make a careful
analysis of the vote These are:
superior working organization mann
tanned and skillfully operated by the
democratic campaign committee. An
extremely skillful playing upon the
sympathies of the saloon owners and
their following, known as the saloon
vote" by which the democratic cam
paign managers cheerfully loaded the
whole responsibility for raising the
retail liquor license upon the shOul-
ders of the republican party, a res
possibility which the republicans as
cheerfully shouldered since that ac-
ton meant a long step toward the
elimination of dives in Albuquerque
Tho course, however. lost to the re-
publican ticket a very large normally
republican vote
And finally, the impression true or
false right or wrong, fair or unfair Il
an impression skllfully and energet-
ically spread by the democratic man
ayers, that one Francisco A. Hubbell
had been called into the camp Of the
republicans and was being used in az /
recting the republican campaign.
1T is a fact which cannot be de-
MED, that II the responsibility for