The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-15

| Bessemer. April 14-(Special.)-A last l the city primary is over and the following have been elected to look after the af- fairs of the city for the next two years. ] commencing the first Tuesday in Octo- | Der:
 Mayor, Walter L.. Rush.
 City clerk and treasurer, E. B. stubbs. President of the council, I. A. Lewis. Chief of police, T. B. Wallace.
 Sanitary inspector, Ben F. Thompson. Street superintendent. D. NJ. Ratliff.
 Day warden, William Crawford. Chairman executive committee, Rush ] Randall
 Aldermen from the First ward T. J. ! Batson and Percy Benton. Aldermen from the Second ward, Lacy ! Edmundson and Rose Huey.
 Aldermen from the Third ward, George Ross and George Rutledge. Aldermen from the Fourth ward, Steve Durrick and T. R. Copeland. Committeeman from the First ward, J. S. Randle and w. D. Lanier. l Committeeman from the Second ward, J. A. LaRue and E. A. Little. Committeeman from the Third ward, H. W. Massey and E. Milton. Committeeman from the Fourth ward, 1 R. J. McCabe and E. N. Parnel
 The fight was a hot one from start to finish and there were only three candi- dates who did not have opposition for their positions, namely Mayor Rush, Clerk Stubbs and Sanitary Inspector ! Thompson. It has been foregone con- cluson for some weeks that these three men could not be beaten, at least just at this time, and for that reason they were left severely alone. The race for president of the council was a warm affair, and even as late as o'clock the friends of Dr. Winters were under the impression that he had walk over. Edgar Mitchel's friends were also quite confident that he stood good show to be elected president, but when the votes commenced to be counted this | idea was soon sent skyward. In this race MT. Lewis received SO7 votes. Dr. Winters receicved 20S and MT. Mitchell received 72. So it will be seen from that that MT. Lewis received more votes than both of them put together. The race for chief of police may have been quite a surprise to some people, and it is supposed that the most surprised crowd in the city was the Law and or der league. They put Frank Childers up to beat Chief Wallace, and the result of the votes when counted showed that Chief Wallace had received 4O2 and MT. Chil- ders had received TIT, small difference of 225 votes.
 Rush Randall only beat A. D. Maddox ' hi oft ag- ecutive committee.
 The victory of D. M. Ratliff was quite a good one, as in justice to MT. Ratliff it must be said that he has been compelled to confine himself strictly to his work ever since the campaign has been wag- ing and for that reason he was unable to get out and see the voters. He re- ceived 221 votes and the nearest man to him received 92 votes.
 Will Crawford boiled a good vote for day warden, receiving 234 votes. The closest man to him received 145 votes.
 The race for alderman in the First ward was mighty close, MT. Benton de- feating MT. Miller by only four votes.
 George Ross had walk-over in the Third ward and he went up against big odds.
 In the Second ward Lacey Edmundson received 152 votes and Rose Huey re- i ceived 149
 | Sam Stein also put up an exceptionally good race and his friends were very much gratifed at the showing he made.
 One of the surprises of the day was the defeat of MT Thomas in the Fourth ward It was almost a foregone conclu- sion that he would be elected and in this connection be it said to the credit of Political Prophet William T. Kennedy that this was the only man he picked out that fell down. He picked out ten men to win and out of this ten nine won out MT. Kennedy stated this even- ing that when the next primary was held he would be in position to place his hands on all the winners.
 The election, taken as a whole, passed off very quietly, this being accounted for in a great measure from the fact that the voting was done in different wards Of course the Second ward was the cen fer of attraction and there was a good crowd around the city hall during the entire day.
 The Law and Order league was very much in evidence, but they do not ap- near to have made very much headway since the only candidate openly backed py them lost out by a good margin. | ----s~