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Show OGfii'SJIffl. TJie tiler) Ion Opens With Cold Weatlicr, But an Abundance of Enthusiasm. Tho Issue a Plain One Between Liberalism and the Pract oss of Tradition. THE LIBERALS SURE OF WINHIKG Maj or and Marshal Take the Bits In Their Teeth and Itun Way Ahead. The Git Councilman O'.aira Ererything But Brother Gannon in the Fifth. TH VOTE TO. BE A HEAVY ONE Rnturn From the Cont.et up to 3 O'clock lhl Afternoon A Vary Ktoit-li Ktoit-li Controvoray. Ogdp.x, Feb. 9. Special to The Times. J Election morning dawned bright and cold but even the frosts failed to chill the arder or stop the gale of enthusiasm that hat blown for the past few days. Tne contest at the heads of the tickets has been the most eventful t ne if that for r-ity marshal may be temporarily dismissed. Turner, Tur-ner, leading tho citiztns-peoples fusiou has made a desperate fight from the lirst. Personally he is not popular. As a politician he is. There was a limit, j as there always is in a town where a man's political complexion is as pro nounced as his religion, to even Tur- j ner's artifices however and having sounded the depth of his resources there wag no possibility of going deeper. The result: was that when the polls r opened this morning the canvassers knew almost to a ditinite figure just the number of votes that wore for and T against. On the other hand McNutt, tho liberal candidate for mayor, had a "guessing" clientage the exact strength of which no was capable of approximating. approxi-mating. ' ft had been reckoned that most of those liberals and they probably did not exceed 150 who had gone over, misguided, to the enemy would return to the fold and now that the colors are floated and liberalism Is pitched against the traditional order of thinp predictions are being realized. At nis time the tickets are being voted pretty straighc aud tho outlook is most ' assuring for a complete liberal victory, the possible exception being the loss of a councilman in uiS fifth ward where Frank J. Cannon is running on the citizen s ticket. . , : In th.) election of marshal much interest in-terest is centered. The present incum-V incum-V " - I!. of the office. J. W. Metcalf, is one of the most popular officers in the territory. Ill i-pi-iil-rl hna hffn A 1 Th) nnlv.rif. icism that has been or could be lodged against him wss his refusal to force the saloons to observe the midnight rule. This has lost him some votes among the church-going element but wh.ilever injury he may hace sustained in that direction has been repaired by the more conservative classes of both sides. His opponent, George Buck, is no more of a fanatic than is Metcalfe, unless it be that the former loves to chase the hVkle gnddo; through the green jungles of tho gaming house. Possibly that in these follies ho has taken some but'oits from his opponent's string, but not enough to avail him anything any-thing at the ouicomti. At this time the election is progressing progress-ing quietly, and 2i00 votes will bo polled before the result shall have been registered. .Ouden. Feb. 9. Special to The Times. ) 3 p.m. A very heavy vow is being polled and in two out of five wards 800 vo'es have been deposited. It looks now as if the liberals would make a e'eau sweep. The ticket is deriving de-riving more strength thuu was first counted on from the mormons The election of Metcalf for marshal is conceded con-ceded at this hour, but the hosts are keeping up their work, McNutt, liberal candidate for mayor, is way ahead. |