The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-23
Only Two Candidates Made the Race. FIRST PRIMARY UNDER
 THE MUNICIPAL CODE Both Sides Were Confident at the
 End. F.u List of Managers and Clerks se- Iectea ts Conduct the Primary witA List of Voting Places
 h the seven wards. 

Tn. first primary under the new Mu- vfcipai Code will be held today and a Mayor. two Police Commissioners, a President of the Council and fourteen Ward Aldermen will be selected The campaign. which started out mildly has been one or the most suehuVes III recent years.
 The tasks of the campaigners ended Saturday night. but the clerical force or the two candidates had a strenuous day yesterday 1t was a case of the OK in the ditch" The work of the Mont nomery County Registrars added soo new names to the registration lists and all these names had to be copied classified and checked at campaign headouarters. Through all of wet sunday, clerks and typewrtters worked at top speed.
 The candidates last night talked de- saefedly about the weather. All were anuarentiy disappointed because It looked 60 much like rain today. Un- less there is change in the weather the vote will hardly be as large as was expected. Notwithstandlng snis' ft is expected to break all records.
 The ticket that will be voted today is na follows:
 For Mayor-Gaston Gunter. J. C. Ty-
 For President of the City Council c. U. Ruth. Ira H. Virgin.
 For Police commIssionsr--I. H. De- wees, James Gallagher, w. B. Holmes. Emanuel LObman.
 James Parrish.
 Far Aldermen Ward 2-John M. Burch, j. T. fletcher.
 For Alderman, Ward 3-Berto H. Johnson, ]. RI. Kennedy c. F. Morttz.
 For Alderman, Ward 4-W. R. Brassell. Junius J. Pierce, W. W. Sei- de.
 For Alderman, Ward S--Robert Lowe, A. B. Thompson.
 For Alderman. Ward s--F. J. cram ton, James J.. Sullivan, William J. Toole.
 For Alderman. ward 7--George w. Ellis, John F. Jones, s. H. Saul.
 The polls will open this morning at 8 o'clock in the eight voting places of the city. Announcement was made saturday night that the Louisville and Nashville would hold its north and south bound trains thirty minutes to give prospective passengers chance fo vote. The Mobile and Ohio will hold their train until S:S0. The Western will also hold it's western and eastern trains for the same purpose thirty minutes. A num- Der of Montgomery travelling men re- auested the authorities to eSSend this accommodation
 The polls will close this evening at 6 o'clock. The ticket is not long one ana it is expected that the returns will begin coming in by or before o'clock. Rv IO:3O o'clock the result will be known in each ward.
 The various polling places are as follows:
 ward 1, Durr's stables; Ward ?. Loeb's Stables; Ward, 8, County Jail; ward 1, store in Dorsette Building; Ward 5. office of CitiZens' Light, Heat and Power Company: Ward s, Police Headauarters; Ward 2, Highland Park end, Brock Grocery Company; Ward T. CloverdaIe End, Hegenwald's tinshop.
 The officials selected for today are as follows:
 ward l--Managers, Hunt Taylor. W. B. Davidson, Isaac Araham; Clerks, Tony Boscovitz and W. H. Barrett.
 Ward 2--Managers, A. II. Arlington, Clerks, J. H. Higgins and R. c. Banks.
 Ward 3-Managers, H. M. Blue. B. H Brown, T. G. Foster; Clerks, c. w. Herbert and Henry Hobbie
 Ward 4-Managers E. E. Taylor. J. Y. Brame and C. L. Campbell Clerks, Albert D. Kohn, George Stuart
 Ward 5-Managers, Cyrus D. Brown H. c. McRee. Hugh Nelson; Clerks Paul Roeder, Henry Englehardt.
 Ward 6-Managers, c. D. Faber, J. E. Trimble, P. J. Mahoney; Clerks R, J. BeIlamy and R. c. Benjamin.
 ward T-(EIiGhland Park)--Man- arers, W. c. Peebles, W. D. Peck N. w. Purifoy; Clerks, L. A. Baarcke Earl Ramage
 ward 7-(Cloverdale) Managers B. McGough, L. c. Parker. J. c Hegenwald, W. T. Hodge and J. O. Lee.