SUCCESSFUL ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES — BIG MAJORITIES ROLLED UP BY THE DEMOCRATS

Summary

Election-result spread celebrating the **Democratic sweep of Butte's 1917 city election**: "BIG MAJORITIES ROLLED UP BY THE DEMOCRATS." Carries portraits of four (or more) successful aldermen and the "MAYOR-ELECT" (W. H. Maloney). Includes **P. T. "Tish" Maloney**, the Second-Ward Democratic aldermanic candidate, among the successful winners. Closes the four-clipping Tish 1917 alderman campaign sequence: Mar 18 self-ad → Mar 25 endorsement editorial → Mar 29 ticket ad → Apr 3 victory. Tish is now an **elected Butte alderman as of Apr 1917** — extending his documented civic role beyond his Hennessy clerk status. Pairs with the 1906 Butte directory (then Hennessy clerk in his early 20s) and the 1909 marriage to Margaret Scully to form a coherent Tish-arc: clerk → husband-and-citizen → alderman.

People

• Patrick "Tish" Maloughney (b. ~1883 Michigan; JJM's best friend + Chatham cousin of Aggie Kelly)(as printed: P. (Tish) Maloney)
  role: alderman elect 2nd ward · family confidence: 75 strong

Also mentioned

• W. H. Maloney · mayor_elect

  Won the Butte mayoralty Apr 1917. Distinct from Tish.

• Peter J. Cavanaugh · alderman_elect_1st_ward
• John Hanratty · alderman_elect_3rd_ward

  Wards 3 and 4 partial-portrait captions to verify.

Places

• Butte, Montana (primary)

Themes

• politics_butte
• elections
• municipal_politics

Story threads

• Butte Irish-American organisational life — Hibernians, Gaelic League, Erin's Daughters, RELA
• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• source_primary_family
• direct_family
• book_chapter_material
• evidence_primary

Source type

news_item

Related sources

• 1917-03-18 — The Butte Miner, p.9 — In the Second Ward — P. (Tish) Maloney — For Alderman
• 1917-03-25 — The Butte Miner, p.4 — An Enthusiastic Campaign — the Democratic Municipal Ticket
• 1917-03-29 — The Butte Miner, p.4 — DEMOCRATIC MUNICIPAL TICKET
• 1906 — Butte City Directory 1906 (R. L. Polk or similar publisher) — 1906 Butte City Directory — five Maloughneys at 421 North street, Walkerville

Open questions

• Full text of the victory write-up (vote totals, ward margins) and confirmation of which portrait labels belong to which ward. Defer to post-2026-06-01 vision re-pass.