Jayne, R.A.
From Lane Co Oregon
Eugene Daily Guard, Tue December 8, 1903
Springfield Election
Citizens, Ticket Won by Good
Majority - Issues Involved Not
Shown on Surface.
Springfield held an election for
city officials yesterday and after an
exciting election has settled down to
business again.
The citizens' ticket made a clean
sweep, electing all their candidates
by a good majority.While the election was supposed tobe on the temperance question, yetthis was not the case as the real is-sues involved did not show up on the surface. The vote stood as follows:
For mayor -
Dr. R. A. Jayne ... 73
E.C. Martin ... 52
Councilmen, two years' term
M.M. Peery ... 75
J. D. Cox ... 73
W. M. Sutton ... 50
J. T. Tuffs ... 52
Councilmen, one year term -
Henry Sinner ... 72
Milton Bally ... 35
For recorder -
E. Sxxxxxxx ... 75
L. E. Thompson ... 49
B.A. Washburne, for treasurer, was
on both tickets and he received the
full vote cast, 125.
Eugene Weekly Guard, December 8, 1905
Citizens Ticket Won Out
At the Springfield city election yesterday the entire "citizens" ticket was elected by a good majority. There were only 106 votes cast out of a voting population of perhaps 240.
The successful candidates were as follows:
Mayor - Dr. R. A. Jayne.
Councilmna (sic) - E. E. Kepner, H. Sinner
Treasurer - M. M. Peery.
Recorder - G.A. McCauley
The Opposition.
The "independent" ticket was as follows:
For Mayor - Dr. R. A. Jayne
For councilmen - H. Cogill, M. M. Peery.
For treasuerer - Albert Walker
For recorder - G.A. McCauley
The issues at the election were the water works and liquor questions.
The "citizens" ticket was in favor of granting a franchise to the Rhodes, Sinkler and Butcher Company for water works in favor of licensing saloons.
Bell
In 1907, the City’s fire committee, which consisted of Mayor R. A. Jayne and Councilmen E. C. Martin, E.E. Kepner and J. Sinner, bought the 375-pound bell from the Reareson Machine Company of Chicago for $57.50.Mayors of Springfield | |
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