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Show ALEX. B. LEWIS ON SCHOOL BOARD Named To Fill John T. Thain Jr., Vacancy. Cyrus E. Jones Elected Clerk of Board. J At ;i meeting of tlin Logan city Hoard of Education Friday evening, 1 g Jfc,Alcx;ui(ler B. Lewis was named as the successor' of the late John T. Thaln, Jr. Mr. Lewis was a Democrat for years, but recently united himself with the Socialist foices in this county-It took two ballots to eler .The herctofoie I'emociatlo minority named ex-Siiporlntendont D. 0. Jensen, Jen-sen, a democrat, and the republican mcmbeis named Joseph E. Cowley, a republican. The votq se.su I ted 2 and 2. Mr. McLaughlin, republican,1 then paesentcd five names, any one of which he would vote for. lie stated that he believed all these gentlemen otcd the republican ticket. These were: W. W. Hall, J. E. .Cowley, -Richard Yeates, II. Hawkes and Alexander Lewis. Mr. Benson, republican, expressed ex-pressed a preference for W. V. Hall, while McLaughlin seemed to favor Lewis. When the vote was taken it ! showed that Jacques, democrat, had voted for Alexander Lewis, and that both Benson and McLaughlin had voted for him. Mr. Thatcher had again voted fori). C. Jensen. ( The Herald correspondent seems to think McLaughlin "got Ills whes crossed" when he named Alexander t It. Lewis, but that remains to be seen. To "a man up u tiee". It looks as tho 1 -' jrthe democratic minority was slipped I W"v up on. Although Mr. Thaln was M 'elected as a lepubllcan and by an . ovei whelming majority, it appeared 3 as though the dcmociatlc minority g! -v-f 'decided to have a democrat there or block all business of the board. In the natural older of things a republican republi-can should have been selected to till Mr. Thain's place and It 'was the legitimate le-gitimate and courteous thing that the 1 democratic minority should recognle tills and acquiesce, but democrats arc not built that way, evidently. The secret of this selection is that Mr. Jacques had no more idea than tho man in the moon that Mr. Benson 8 would vote for Mr. Lewis-thus there would have been another deadlock, 'and so on interminably, or until the jepublicans should consent to the election of a democrat. Tho minority 'fell down. One other little business was lians-acted, lians-acted, census cnumeiatois being appointed ap-pointed as follows: First ward C. C. Jensen; Second ward -Inez. Thaln; "Third ward-Jed M. HIali; Fouith ward May Maughan: fifth waul iMaud Kgbcrt. |