People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — Populist Mayor Elected. [ARTICLE]

Populist Mayor Elected.

Walter L, Baiustlell Wins the Figlit at iyoB) Mass, —Municipal Contests. Boston, Mass., Dec. 15.—The municipal elections in five cities outside of Boston to-day were very quiet. The result in Lytin was all the more surprising in that the populists elected their candidate for mayor by a majority of 1,899. Walter L. Ramsdell, the populist candidate, received 5.845 votes to 3,946 for Charles H. Baker, the republican candidate. The republicans carried the board of aldermen, and there was a victory in favor of license by a vote of 1,600, nearly two to one. A street commissioner, twelve aldermen, seventy-five councilmen, nine school committeemen and license were voted for in this city. Enough precincts had been heard from at midnight to indicate the election of John H. Duane, democrat, street commissioner and license, by 10,000 majority. The indications are that the republicans have gained one member in the council, makiug the board tied politically at six. In Cambridge Alvin F. Sartwell, democrat, was elected mayor, defeating the democraticindependent candidate by over 2,000, and no license triumphed, as usual, oy 1,700 majority. Andrew R. Curtis, democrat, was elected mayor of Newburyport, and the city voted license by 135 as against 357 last year. The aldermen elected were all independent citizen’s nominees. The republicans swept Chalsea, electing Herman W. Pratt mayor, and voting no license by 231. North Adams democrats reelected Albert C. Houghton, and the city voted license by 295.