Show THE SCHOOL ELECTIONS Hansen and Toronto Democrats l Erected rr < i I I ALB1 1 AND WESTERFIELD REPLJ1iL1CtNS CARY Tim FIRST I ND SECOND PKECIXCTS < II ulinn F Grant Republican Elect eh Without Opposition in the 1 1 Fifth The Contests Were Lively null Ole Vote Heavy For I School I Election Grunt Is a unPartisan i anil the Complexion of the Board I in iractically Uuehauscd < l rctcal UnemugeI1 The elections for members of the Board of Education passed on quietly yesterday The contests in the First Se nd Third and Fourth precincts were warm In the Fifth there being only one candidate J F Grant Re pu oilcan there was no animation and Mrj Grant had a walk over with 260 votes cast in his favor The Fourth precinct was the ground where the battlewas the most fierce The Republicans Re-publicans worked like beavers and were very industrious in circulating thft falsehood that Mr Toronto was oiposod to the high school but all ineir efforts yore vain Professor Torontos friends s worked very hard and with good effect That the First and Second precincts would so Republican was to precinct ox peeled but it is regretable that par tisanship should be allowed to enter Intoa contest of the kind to such u degree as to accomplish the defeat of such men a Professor Kiiigsbury and Waldemar Van Cott whose qualifica tions for positions on the Board of Education are far superior to those of theIr successful opponents J2l e fiT John Hansen mopped the earth with Harold M Pitt in tL Third < Thir wag a fulfilment of the prediction that no friend of Mr Geddes could be elect ed in notlY that precinct Hansen did yiOUBh his opponents worked tooth and toe nail to defeat workel The political status of the board is practically unchanged as Mr Grant is I regarded as a nonpartisan I First Preclncl j The election in the First passed off quietly The influx of voters to the polls Jiegan early and the hustlers and ward politicians were kept busy all day Energetic work had been done on both sides and carriages were flying in voters all directions after recalcitrant At noon prophesies on the result were doubtful although the Republicans I claimed a majority for their candidate and the Democrats did not contradict the claim From that time on Kings bury lost ground steadily and before the afternoon wore out even his strongest strong-est supporters admitted defeat The last carriage that came up at intervals inter-vals contained AUx voters and the crowd that hung around the polls all day cheered and yelled as the last straggling voters rushed into the balloting I bal-loting place Outside of this there was no demonstration and the election was I unembellished by rows or disturbances One question which puzzled the queston political politi-cal wiseacres in the two tents was as to which way the Populist vote would be thrown I was generally thought that Alff would receive the biggest Sprinkling of third party votes but tho doubt a to this made forecasts diffi cult The aim of the Democrats had t been to get their forces In the field early and In this they were successful I The count was soon made after the polls closed and a total Vote of LOOS was disclosed Of this Kingsbury received re-ceived 415 and Alff 503 giving the elec Iving tion to the Jatter by a majority of 178 Scconil Precinct In the Send the candidates were Waldemar Van Cott Democrat andS and-S B Westerfield Republican The fight was brisk from the start and both sides were confident of success Its a Republican precinct but Mr Wester field was not very popular with his own party many objecting to his re cbrd for the term he has already served on the board At 3 oclock 750 votes were polled of which Wester flelds friends claimed a majority for aim of over 100 This was not conceded con-ceded by the Democrats and the pollIng poll-Ing continued fairly active till the time of closing Van Cott was very popular popu-lar and If he had gotten into the field a little earlier there is hardly a doubt but he would han carried the precinct When the votes were counted the result re-sult was 577 for Westerfleld 478 for Van Cott 1 for J J Corum giving the election to Westerfield by a majority of 09 votes This very materially re duces the Republican majority of last year in that precinct Third Precinct The Tiilru precinct contest was full of life from the very start and only a general election ever duplicated the scenes around the Sixteenth ward ichoolhouse from the opening to the close of the polls At all times from start to finish there was a line of par Rest voters anxious to cast their votes B T Lioyd John L Nebeker and Charles Stevenson were the judges the former presiding and everything pastel past-el off quietly and without unusual incident in-cident At 2 oclock in the afternoon 500 votes were cast with Hanson lead Ing by nearly 100 votes At the close it was conceded ti1 Hanson had carried the day and tie result of the count showed that 823 votes were cast Hanson receiving 519 and Pit 304 giving Hanson a majority major-ity of 215 All things considered this was a big vote and Mr Hansons ma jority is something to be proud of Fourth Precinct Che warmest contest of the day was in the Fourth precinct which was counted on by the Democrats as a Toronto To-ronto stronghold Farlow ran a stout opposition and the Toronto hustlers were kept as busy as the vote chasers for the druggist A heavy vote was cst and from the time the polls opened in the morning a steady stream of ballots dropped into the boxes Both parties realized that the struggle was close and fO that reason the precinct polling place was the busiest of the liveEarly Early In the afternoon Jlr Farlows supporters saw that probable defeat was facing them and an extra spurt was made to bring their full strength to the polls Half an hour before the polls closed it was admitted in i the Republican wigwam that Toronto was ahead to the extent of about forty votes and though the remaining vote cast was almost solidly Republican it was to small to materially cut down the majority Just before sunset astir a-stir was caused by the arrival of a carriage containing exGovernor Thomas Thom-as among others who were met with the shrill cry of Foils closed just < they alighted from the vehicle A rather lively discussion followed the exgovernor and his cohorts demaaTtr ing that their ballots be received as the sun was still putting a robe of burnished gold on the snow of the western mountains The judges claimed they had closed the polls by mutual consent so the new recruits did not suec d in casting their ballots Messrs Sabine Axton and Ferguson were the judges The couTit revealed a total vote of 442 for Toronto and 38G for Parlous Toronto therefore won by a majority of 56 Among Mr Torontos most irjdefatig able workers was T F Thomas who has just returned from Denver He pulled off his coat and did right valiantly S Fifth Precinct The polling place for the Fifth precinct pre-cinct was the Thirteenth ward schoolhouse school-house Joshua F Grant being the only candidate there was little animation Colonel ballots in front Calonc Payne peddled balots frnt of the building and voters kept dropping drop-ping in at intervals a the day wore on When the votes were < counted it showed that 260 votes were cast for Mr Grant some of them by Democrats Demo-crats The judges of election were Messrs Joe E Inns P J Daly and E P Sears They had not a very arduous ar-duous day and were regaled by an excellent successful ex-cellent lunch candidate and good cigars by the |