Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-10 | Page 7 | San Francisco a Surprise

SAN FRANCISCO A SURPRISE labor party made a clean sweep of the city san francisco nov S arte rte union labor party achieved an astonishing triumph in battle at the polls from the head oc the down to the eighteenth nominee for supervisor every union labor candidate was elected mayor eugena E being returned to office for a third term by a majority over john S partridge the joint nominee of the republican and democratic parties the remainder of the of the ticket were elected by majorities ranging from to the clean sweep the fusion leaders white the fight between and was secretly conceded by atheni to be an open one they had farm faith that many popular men cen ticket would be honored ly a recall to public life but the popular as well as their less promising cot leagues alike burled under the and coroner leland who scored the highest vote ot last election aa arll as IL U brandau abeln for attorney the hope of antl labovites laborites have retired to private life thero is disposition at the democratic anad republican headquarters to attrib rAa the result to the voting machines were used at every voting place it Is declared that the followers of in their tear of becoming involved in intricacies of the apparatus by voting split tickets solved the proa lym by the simple method of voting straight party tickets the people proudly attribute the result to an endorsement of the present administration they declare mayor first assumed oace in tho midst of turbulent labor strikes that during his tour years dijt administration peace has held sway and that the silent mercantile vote was cast for him to preserve the present peaceful conditions it Is believed that the proposed high license ordinance has been defeated the election was characterized by little or no disturbances th e use of voting machines served to produce pio duce early announcement of the results ninety minutes after the polls had ben closed it was known that bad been re elected the total vote cast was in the neighborhood of last night the streets were throng ed with cheering shouting adherents ot the union labor party and several impromptu professions processions process ions headed by bands of music or drum corps paraded the downtown down town streets