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Show njnHjMMiBWBaMJBaMMgBMS ftg' 'ny m" '-V " " " 1 " n'mlm nb u n.-.." " ; ' ' " '-J77'a '' ' '' '- '!. - ... - -. . -. I BWBKrBHv 7H w.; TCwVi- ?5jS! i Mayor-Elect P. A. Thatcher Commissioner-Elect James Larson LANDSLIDE FOR PRESTON A. THATCHER AND JAMES LARSEN RECORDED ON TDESDAY x Election Was Full of Interest. Every Available Automobile Was Pressed Into Service. The Young Voters Administered A Severe Rebuke to The Administration Crowd. Band Plays While the Crowd Made Merry The Evening. X Tho result of Tuesday's election wus a great victory for tho young oters of tho city and was a severe rebuko to the present administration crowd. AH that tho c'ty officios of tho various departments did to stay It, thoy wero unable to provent a landslide land-slide for Preston A. Thatcher for May or and James Larson for commissioner. commission-er. For weeks various department heads hevo been trying to strenghten their political fences whero they havo grown weak for lack of repairs, but tho postB wero hopelessly decayed decay-ed nnd with nil tho efforts put forth tho "Tammany" crowd wero ablo to do llttlo better than' keep tho result from being unanimous for winners It was a great victory1. The old dnlys when tho two political parties built" bonfires nnd got out tho brass bands after tho results woro flashed over tho canvass seemed to roturn for a while Tuesday night and lu spite of nil tho city police corps tr'ed to do, tho boys and their sweet-hearts had ono merry tlmo. Tho Logan Mooster band was out, twenty strong. They led tho nuirch back and forth on Main street with about two thousand thous-and fol owing up ttith tho merry ha, ha nnd the glad hand for tho vtctorB. Crowd Gathers. Tho crowd gathered In lront of the Thatcher nnd Lnrscu hendqunrtors about seven o'clock and it wrs but a few minutes after that tlmo when tho result of the Seventh district wns received. re-ceived. This was followed with tho ro-suit ro-suit from tho Third and It was then that It becamo clear to many which way tho wind was blowing. With theso results In hand, mo one doubted who tho winners would be. Tho ro-tu'iis ro-tu'iis strung along one by ono until they wero all received but the returns from tho Sixth. An hour or moro of wrllt'ng and this district crime through llktj all tho rest, n good majority for Thatcher and I.arsen. It was hero that to band got in its work and the bos cheered. Hoth Mayor-elect P. A. Thatcher and Commissioner elect James Lr.rsen wero forced to a high platform built for tho occasion, nnd they delivered neat llttlo speeches, thanking tho crowd for tho hearty sup port and complimenting their workers for the clean cut campaign which had been waged. Larsen High Man James Larsen proved to bo tho big winner of tho day. Ho polled 443 votes moro thrtn did Mr. P. C. Nelson, Nel-son, his opposing candidate for tho four year term. Mr. Larsen secured 1540 votes and Mr. Nelson 1103. Mr. Thatcher had a handsomo majority of 2C3 votes, securing 147C votes ns ngnlnet 1212 for Mr. Adams. There wo"o 208C votes ciist for mayor as shown by tho unofficial returns, tho largest number of votes cast In tho c'ty at any election by over ono hundred. hun-dred. MAYOR COMMIS'R t "a a ' g S a 5 ? O a DISTRICT g P 2 2. S 'o B 5T I 5 7 ; g First I 130 123 I27 125 Second j 109 1C1 1G7 100 Third j C0 12!) 117 7d Fourth j 11C 184 208 91 FlUh I S9 185 199 72 Sixth I S4 93 10C) 70 Seventh .... 89 1G5 145 103 E'Bhth I 121 141 148 llf. Ninth j 192 17U 183 181 Tenth j 213 127 1G2 1C1 I 1 II 1 Totals .... I 1212 1475 1540 1103 I ..- |