There were eight aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: Cameron Anderson, Wilfrid Gariépy and James Walker had been elected to two-year terms in 1906, and were still in office.
The fifth-place aldermanic candidate - Herman McInnis - was elected to serve out the remaining year of Daly's term.
McDougall was nominated by William Short, Arthur Cushing, J C Dowsett, W R West, A E Jackson, and J W Huff.
The letter's writer was eventually exposed as being incumbent mayor William Antrobus Griesbach, who was not seeking re-election but who was supporting McDougall's opponent, Picard.
[3] The East End Ratepayers' Association endorsed George S. Armstrong, John Galbraith, William Clegg, and Isaac Lane for election as aldermen.
[4] All four men had signed on to the association's platform, which included (John Galbraith was the author of the 1897 utopian futuristic novel In the New Capital.
The number of eligible voters is no longer available, but the Edmonton Bulletin noted on the day of the election that "both Mssrs.
Wilfrid Gariépy, E J Hart, Prosper-Edmond Lessard, Joseph Henri Picard, S Schultz, and O Tessier were elected.