Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-07
Dr.B.E. Lamb, Republican
Is Elected Mayor.
Street Commission and All but
One Ward Is Republican.
4 Clean, Business-Iike Administra
tlon Is Guaranteed.

The Republicans carried the nity at
the municipal election held Monday,
electing their candidate for mavor.
street commissioner and every lnpm-
Der OF the city council with the tX-
ceptlon Of one ward. This was the
hfst municipal election in many years
III which the Democrats presented
| complete tickets in the field and &C
&c 6rtlnS to a statement made by the
chairman OF the Democratic city com
mittee they We're Well pleased with
the result The election was a very
quiet one ana was much closer .han
was anticipated Dr. e. +. Lamb,
the Republican candidate for MAYOR.
was elected by majority of ia over
II. II. Elorldse the Democratic can
didHtc. Street commissioner James w.
Jones vas Reelected to that office
o%+r John 7. Carron. the candidate
of the Democrats. by n majority of
l52. pr. Lamb carried four out of
the six wards and will have with
him in thf city government the COM
Ing year five aldermen and /: COM
mon opuncilmen. His opponent car
rieI Wards ! ANA ;, but the Demo-
cratic candidates in Ward alone
We're the only successful ones And
in that ward the Democratic candi-
da-, for constable. Henry LAewellyn.
vas defeated by seven votes by War
ron J.. Tozier, Republican.
Down in Ward & Il large ma jOrity
vas rolled up for Dr. Lamb and the
entire ticket was elected with the
exception oil constable There We're
three candidates in the field. Alfred
Hall. Republican. Frank Seavey, DEM
ocrat. and Chester \. Phillips, Ind,.-
pendent Republican. No choice re-
suited and the ,ut",ne is ~ Vet un-
decided.
When the mayor Ind aldermen met
Monday evening u canvas the re-
turns the matter was considered but
no actieu vas taken. City solicitor
Knight was present. Together with
Judge Atkins they investigated the
statutes hut We're undecided just what
10 do in this ease and wished more
time in which tc consider the case.
There * a possibility that the mayor
and aid rmcn may have the authority
to appoint q constable in the ward.
Ia" voters failing tn elect one.
Considering that tlS was III" first time
that party lines have been drawn at a
municipal election, the result was close
Tho vote WAS light one less than ll~
votes being thrown ont of a total regis
tration of l14l. The weather. especially
, in the forenoon was unfavorable but the
workers in the wards were after every
vote possible and in several wards nearly
the entire vote was called out, this being
especially true in Ward I.
There was considerable splitting %
votes and as n result quite a number o
defective ballots We're cast. The use o
stickers also made the task Of countins
much harder and longer, but the returns
| from the city We're in the city clerks
| office in fairly good time
| Up in Ward 5. formerly one of the Re
| publican strongholds the Democrats did
hard work and elected all but one of their
/ candidates In Ward 5. a ward SAID to
| have been strongly Democratic nor many
years ago, the Republicans returned a fhe
ma jority.
The following tabuated returns Will tell
| tba story of the election in brief and give
each candidates vote: