WOOLF WINS IN
THE THIRD WARD.
IN SPITE OF EFFORTS OF HIS
BENEFICIARIES.
MORRIS VICTOR
IN TENTH
CARY DEFEATS HARTMAN AND
GREEN BEATS LORBER.
Had it not been for the contests for aldermen to the lower house of the council in the Third, Eighth, Tenth and Thirteenth wards yesterday, the Republican primaries to elect delegates to the city convention next Monday would have been pretty tame. The total vote in the fourteen wards was but 3,322, and of this total about 2,800 votes were cast in the four wards where there were contests for alderman. The result shows the renominations of Morris Green and Woolf, and the defeat of Hartman in the Thirtenth by Dr. W. E. Cary.
The outcome was no surprise, for in the Eighth, Tenth and Thirteenth wards there is a preponderance of officeholders, both city and county, and they were out in force personally working for the success of Morris, Green and Cary, and wherever and whenever necessary spending their money. A similar fight was put up in the Third against Woolf, some of the officeholders leading the insurrection, being men who owe their jobs to Woolf's personal efforts. But they found in Woolf a bulwark of strength and popularity with the rank and file of the voters, and he beat his opponent, Sommerfield, nearly three to one.
Notwithstanding the vigor of the contests, everything passed off smoothly and there were no disturbances. The workers for the respective candidates put in their best licks, and went about it with vim and without demonstration.
Alderman Hartman had been for days assailed and derided as the candidate of the corporations and street car company, but the unfairness of these attacks was demonstrated by the fact that in the precinct where the bulk of the Thirteenth ward street car employes live he lost by a 79 majority.
