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Show THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. A Quiet Day , and a Probability That the People's Ticket is Elected. The election, up to the time the Democrat Demo-crat went to press, has proved a very tame one. The People's Reform Ticket seems to have suffered severe demoralization demorali-zation by the declination of a number of the nominees toyrun on the ticket, and many of the People's party proper preferred pre-ferred to remainv at home rather than vote for the ; thinnest . and most undesirable municipal ticket' yet put in ; the. , field. The stormy weather will doubtless be assigned as the reason for an unDrecedentedlv bVbt f by the News and Herald, but there are other reasonsamTwe have named them From every precinct . it was as-1 certamed thac- up to 2 o'clock the vote had run ' terribly behind, and nv the fifth precinct, at the time stated there had only been 169 votes polled in all, and perhaps not-more not-more than ten per cent, of these were for the Reform Ticket. Some close observers noticed that quite-a number of the People's Peo-ple's party would i-tear off a narrow slip from the lower end of the regular ticket before depositing it, and this, if it has been practiced extensively, will make a poor showj.ng for '"Alfred Solomon. It may be taken for granted, however, that the same fear that kept manv from running run-ning or voting for the Reform ticket will also prevail in the f matter of a straight unscratched vote of the authorized ticket. Such is life. " - |