Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1887 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOTJnNAX, AVEDN.ESD AY, OCTOBER 12, 18S7.

THE DAILY JOURNAL.

"WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1887. WASUWCTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. liiATH. CorresDondem. NEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. KEW TORK Oedner House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Falmer House. CINCINNATI J. T. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing, northwest corner vlbird and Jecrson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and southern Hotel. WASHINGTON. J). C Kiggs nouse and Ebbitt louse. Telephone Calls Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 Now, for natural ga3. It was a glorious victory. "WHEN I'm done I'm did.' FALSE affidavits are apt to recoil. Tee Journal feels pretty well, thank yon. "Corruption wins not more than honesty.' Tallv-sdeet forging is not indorsed by the people. TVe are still in favor of the enforcement of law. It was a victory for law and order over their enemies. And Michigan City only 154 miles away, as the sheriff goes. There seems to have been too many men in "this politics." The saloon gentlemen will have the headache this morning. The vest pocket vote made itself felt in a remarkable manner. Dr. Edeniiarter may tarry at Jericho until his beard is grown. FIRST blood and knock-down for the cause of law and order. The course of Mr. William Henderson is reasonably well justified. All honor to the honest Democrats who helped to down the gang. The gentlemen who have been vilified by the gang organs are vindicated. ANOTHER Chatsworth disaster! Have we not "supped full with horrors." The vile and abusive course of the gang organs contributed to the result. The Coy gang was not vindicated, and the indictments still hang over them. Simeon did not succeed in buying tip the labor vote to any alarming extent. 1 How does the Honorable Joseph, E. McDonald like the news this morning? Has Coyism received its final quietus, or will it have to be knocked out again? Look at the figures from the noble Second ward 723 majority against the gang1. Perhaps the Sentinel will realize now that a campaign of filth and vituperation does not pay- .- PERSONAL defamation, slander, vilification, filth, indecency and blasphemy are at a discount. The Journal will continue to be published at the old stand. Now is the time to subscribe. Dr. Edeniiarter has verified the old story of poor dog Tray. He was in awful bad company. Where, Oh, where is Dr. Edenharter's able prediction? nis majority was to be exactly 873. The labor organ did good service against the Coy gang, and the labor vote was, not bought up. THE colored voters did their duty manfully, in spite of blandishments. They may be poor, but they are honest. The honest, taw-abiding citizens of Indianapolis are not prepared to surrender to the bummers just yet. Dr. Edeniiarter said he would be elected by exactly 873 majority. He had better get Simeon to alter the figures. An honest man's character and official record do count for something, as Mayor Denny can testify this morning. The little boss bit off more than he could conveniently masticate. The law and order voters were too numerous for him. In behalf of the friends of law and order, Ihe Journal extends thanks to all honest men who refused to indorse the Coy gang. A Woodstock, Va., correspondent of the New York Tribune says: "Senator Riddleberger desires it to be stated definitely and graphically that every publication during the past month which purports to give his expres-

sions, or to represent his opinions or purposes

in regard to the pending campaign in Virginia, is false and unfounded. The Senator is a true and loyal Republican and he will do all he can to aid in the coming Republican victory in this State next month." As Woodstock is Senator Riddleberger's residence, this state ment i3 probably correct. It may indicate his course in the United States Senate, which has been a subject of much speculation. IT WAS A GL0BI0U8 VICTOBY. At this hour of writing the returns from the city election indicate the indorsement of Mayor Denny by a majorityof not less than 800, and the election of fifteen members of the Council and six members of the Board of Aldermen. A determined struggle was made by the corruptionists and monopolists for the Council, but the people have triumphed gloriously, increasing the' Republican major ity from one to seven on a joint ballot. Coy ism and Tom Johnsonism "are in one red burial blent." The result is a splendid victory for the cause of law and order and good government. We do not claim-it as distinctively and exclusively a Republican victory, although the winning candidates are Republican and Republicans led the fight. But our readers will bear witness that the Journal endeavored to lift the contest above the plane of ordinary partisan politics. The circumstances of the case and the issues involved gave the contest this aspect. Fortunately for the Republicans they nominated a ticket that fully represented the popular demand for a purification of politics and a rebuke of Coyism. They nominated a clean ticket, on a platform which was thorougly understood by every honest voter in the city to be the enforcement of law and the overthrow of the gang. With a poor cause and a poor ticket they might have been defeated, and would, perhaps, have deserved defeat. With such a cause and ticket as they had success was almost assured. It was a campaign of principle on one sida and of plunder and corruption on the othei. Such a campaign could not fail to obliterate, in a considerable degree, ordinary party lines. As a matter of fact it drew to Mr. Denny's support a large number of honest Democrats, and men of other party predilections, who could not be induced to indorse the Liquor League, the saloons, and the methods of the Coy gang. The Journal desires distinctly to recognize the services rendered by this class of mil in the cause of good government. Eventually yesterday's victory will inure to the benefit of all parties. For the rest, it must be admitted that the Republicans made a gallant, old-fashioned fight. The old guard was out, and its watchword seemed to be "Up and at them." Anyhow, it did up and at them. There was no remarkable organization on the Republican side, but the people took up the fight and carried it on to victory. There was also a notable lack of money for the ordinary and legitimate campaign expenses. The other side had a large corruption fund and used money freely. The friends of law and order depended on different tactics and other weapons. They were thrice armed in the justice of their cause and in the spirit that animated them. The victory is worth a great deal to the city and to the Republican party. It has saved the former from a degrading and demoralizing tyranny, and has demonstrated to the latter that a party can always command success when it deserves it. This lesson we apply to our own party purposely, and at the same time it is one that will commend itself to the Democracy and to other parties as well. The result is distinctively one in favor of public order and morals, in which the whole people will share. Sometime during Monday night accounts differ as to the hour a collision occurred between two trains on the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, which resulted in a frightful loss of life. The accident happened near a village within fifty miles of Chicago, but so secretive were the railroad authorities that the public had no knowledge of the affair until late the following day, and the most meagre particu lars were given. A relief train was secretly organized and sent out from Chicago as soon as the news of the disaster was received at headquarters, and those in charge must have been fuily informed of all the details within a very short time. The causes ut the accident were probably discovered at once, and the names of the killed and wounded should have been, if they were not, ascertained immediate ly. Up to a late hour last night, however. the accounts given out were conflicting, and it was with the greatest difficulty that press representatives secured the desired facts. Why railroad authorities should endeavor to conceal the particulars of such events is not easy to understand. Reticence on such occa sions invariably creates the suspicion that the accident is worse than reported and arouses a prejudice against the road far greater than if all details were freely given out at once. The public has a right to the truth, and if it accepts exaggerated rumors the fault, as well as the consequences, is with those who mis takenly endeavor to cover up the facts. THE Honorable Mr. Bynurn said in his Coygang speech, on Saturday, that "as goes the city of Indianapolis, so goes Marion county, and as Marion county goes, so will the State of Indiana probably go, and if we expect to elect Cleveland in 1SS8 we must have Indiana." Let it be so recorded. Readers of the Journal outside of Indian apolis, as well as those inside, will be glad of the assurance that, now the election is over, something besides city politics will be served

up for their delectation. The Journal, however, has no apologies to make for having devoted so much attention to local matters. The fight against Coy and Coyiem was for the good of all the people in the State.

The Journal was to have been honored with a serenade by the gang, and all the arrangements were completed for the event, which was to be' a" crowning exhibition of Coyism. We trust that our esteemed fellow-citizens, now in somewhat considerable tribulation, and likely to be afflicted with many stripes soon, will not forget us. The Journal is at the old stand. Senator Van Vooreees declares positively that he will not be a candidate for the presidential nomination against Cleveland. Well, who wants him to be? Two or three papers have "mentioned" the Wabash Sycamore as a possible vice-president, but there is no Van Voorhees presidential boom visible at this distance from Terre Haute. THE whole. Republican ticket Js triumphantly elected. The infamous and brutal tactics of the gang in respect to the nomination of O'Donnell bore its legitimate fruits, and John W. Bowlus has a splendid majority, one of which he may well feel proud. The disgraceful attacks made upon him only added to his strength. After leaving St. Louis the statistical feature was partially eliminated from the President's speeches, but at St. Paul he fell back on the slips prepared at the Government Printing Office. Dan Lamont ran off to Chicago to spend Sunday when he ought to have been remodeling the impromptu addresses. Dr. Edenharter's own ward "indorses" him by sending a Republican to the Council as his successor. Mayor Denny's own ward gives him a most handsome increase on his majority of two years ago, and returns Councilman Pearson by the largest majority he ever had. Look on this rricture, and then on this. Sanders, the Union Labor candidate in the Fifteenth ward, indorsed by the Republicans, came within a beggarly twenty-five of defeating Burns, the street-car stable foreman, in whose behalf Tom Johnsonism exerted itself to the utmost. Mr. Burns, however, will feel very lonely in the Council. The London Post complains that our government has two policies on the fisheries question, one for the Atlantic and another for the Pacific ocean. The Post is in error. The conflicting rulings of our able State Department, instead of showing two policies, show that we have none. The Council now stands thirteen Republicans to twelve Democrats, and the Board of Aldermen is ' a tie. The new Council will stand fifteen Republicans to ten Democrats, and the board six Republicans to four Democrats. Coyism and Tom Johnsonism are on their last legs. A bank can be run for a good while without a cash basis, if Ammi Baldwin's statement in regard to the lamented "Fidelity" is to be believed. Given a vice-president with cheek and a pretty confidential clerk, and the institution is good for at least five years without other capital. It is the height of foolishness for the reformers to keep on talking about the duty of President Cleveland to prevent Higgins's interference with the Baltimore election. The President is in the boundless West now, and has forgotten that such a place as Baltimore exists. Isn't it a little unreasonable for England to complain that Americans have one fishing policy for the Atlantic and another for the Pacific? We have different fish to fry in those widely different regions. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald said that "Mr. Simeon Coy said he would elect Dr. Edenharter, and that he always kept his promises." What does Mr. McDonald now think of his indorsement of the little boss? It is not at all probable that Robert Garrett is insane. What ails him is plain mental incapacity and inability to "reach." Mr. Garrett inherited a railroad, but not the brains to manage it. All kinds of property and business are upon a firmer basis this morning. Nothing is so good a foundation as law, backed by a public sentiment in favor of its righteous en forcement. There will be a marked change in a good many people's opinions this morning. Some tender-footed gentlemen will have more con-. fidence in a fighting campaign hereafter. The tremendous gain in the Twenty-third ward for Coyism, brought about by the big breweries with their bulldozing and corrup tion fund, did not count, after all. Our compliments to his Excellency, Gov ernor Gray, and does he not think that he has thrown himself away without sufficient cause? The leaders of the Democratic party tried to whip the masses of the party into an in dorsement of the Coy gang, but they failed. THE labor candidates made a square, manly fight, but they could not poll votes enough. It was their misfortune, not their fault. Ilia First Season. Minneapolis Tribune. President Cleveland has not been in th aVinw husinA.tc Ion that is certain. Ar. t rrirmA man would carry around with him a better stock ot newspaper cuts and lithographs.

THE COY GANG MUST 00

From the Ballot-Box Comes an Outraged Public's Very Emphatic Warning. It Is Loud Against the Vindication of Tally Sheet Forgeries, Lawlessness of Liquor Sellers and Corrnpt Political Methods. Mayor Denny, the Representative of Law and Order, Is the People's Choice, And They Ee-Elect Him by a Plurality Too Large lor the Gang to Wipe Out by Its Criminal Methods. The Republicans Also -Gain Two Mem bers of Council and One Alderman. Several of the Schemes of the Gang to Hun In Illegal Votes Are Thwarted by the Interference of the Police. TheCandldates Elected. MAYOR, CALEB S. DENNT, (Rep.) CLERK, JOHN W. BOWLUS, (Rep.) ALDEBMEX. Rep vblicnnt. First District M. M. Reynolds and James H. Taylor. Second Wm. E. Tousey and M. F. Connett. Third G. S. Wright and H. P. Smith. Democrat. Fourth District T. J Clark and H. W. Laut. " Fifth John Rail and J. F. Reinecke. COT7NC1LMEN. TtepnbJicann. First Ward E. B. Elliott. Second D. F. Swain. Third C. F. DarnelL Fourth W. H. Wilson. Filth J. R. Pearson. Sixth II. L. Smith. Seventh Rt. McClelland. Eighth J. C. Finch. Ninth W. T. Long. Tenth J. L. Gasper. Eleventh Tsaao Thalman. Twelfth M. M. Cummings Thirteenth EdwardQuinn Fourteonth W. E. Davis. Twenty-first P. C. Trusler Democrat. Fifteenth M. J. Burns. Sixteenth W. J. Parkinson. Seventeenth W. M- Hicklin. i Eighteenth Simeon Coy. Nineteenth John O'Conner. Twentieth G II. Stuckmeyer. Twenty-second P. J. Kel-Twenty-third Thos. Markey. " Twenty-fourth Jas. Johnston. Twentv-fifth F. W. Gaul. TIIE DAY AT THE POLLS. A Variety of Weather, Much Hard Work, and a Heavy Vest-Pocket Vote. , There were sunshine and clouds, winds vary1 me from straieht blows to tempestuous gusts, and more tban all a raw air to make the outdoor work of yesterday's election an undesirable duty. As if ibese execrable weather conditions were not enough to depress the ardor of the most energetic politician, there occurred in the afternoon dashing rains, when more or less bail fell. The day began well, with a clear sky and cheering sun, but before 9 o'clock theclouds gathered, the air became chilly and piercing, and so it continued until the close of the polls. The usual jokes as to its being bad weather for Republicans passed freely among the bystanders at the polls, particularly when there was a lull in the voting, and the gangway remained empty for five and ten minutes at a time. But the interval would pass and be followed by one in which the suffragists would cast their ballots as rapidly as if there was no end to the line. Another resting spell would come to inspectors, judges, clerks and challengers, to be again succeeded by brisK voting. Of course, at noon and in the evening there was but little opportunity for them to do anything but receive votes, record names and watch the voters. It was then that the northern wards began to pull up their averages of past elections, showing decisive gains for Denny. During the day the voting bad been such as to warrant this expectation, and the workers interested in the Republican ticket counted with little doubt on its getting a vote beyond that of last falL There was life, steady work and confidence in the northern part of the city, while in the South Side the Democrats would not venture an opinion and complained of its being hard to get out their voters. Last fall it was" otherwise. Then the gang had dash and bravado, wagons and drums, and.a general hurrah air in their movements. Every quarter of a precinct was searched for voters. They were routed from boarding-houses, shops, and even sick beds, but yesterday there was little or none of this work on the part of the gang agents. On the North Side the voting was, a year ago, regarded as something that could be done if one had the time, and left undone if he did not feel like going to the polls. The result manifested itself in the impudent claims of Coy and his backers long before the polls were closed. They claimed every office from the head of the ticket down, and would not concede even a possibility of any Republican being elected. But yesterday it was early shown that the Coy ticket had lost materially through Democratic votes of a year ago being given either for Denny or Davy. It was taking the best chances of success at the evry outset away from the gang, leaving it nothing but bribery and frauds to carry it through, with the assistance of its legitimate votes south of Washington street. There was no sweeping revolt among the North Side Democrats, but their vest-pocket vote, with that given the Union labor ticket, damaged Edeniiarter and O'Donnell. Of this the gang bad early information, but instead of attempting to counteract the loss Coy left the Democrats, loyal to him in every ward north of Washington, to take care of themselves. These workers remained at the polls, but with a sort of perfunctionary dullness that predicted defeat. As the day progressed the confidence of the Republicans increased and in nothing except the secret vote which no one tried to explain could be there found anything to even eceourage the gang. It appeared as if the uncontrollable energy of the boss had been transferred to his own ward, from which early in the day the report went out that he was running fifty votes behind Edenbarter. Whether true or false Coy seemed to be more interested in his own election than in that of the men he had nominated for Mayor and city clerk, for but little of his time was spent away from the two precincts of the Eighteenth ward. Usually at an election he can be traced from one poll to another by the liveliness his money threw into certain classes of voters. Yesterday it was Coyism without the presence of Coy. The vest-pocket vote, that indefinable factor in elections until after the ballots are counted did the work. In Edenharter's own precinct it bore a muspicuous part in disturbing calculations. The Union Labor people claimed it in face of the fact that tbeir open vote was far

short of what they expected even in the pre cincts where the workingmen have the majority.

Here and there a venturesome Democrat would claim that secret voters were scratching Dennv, bnt as the voters themselves heretofore support ed the Democratic tickets this pretentions asser tion by the gang acents bad nothing to confirm it. It was apparent that Coyism was being se riously slashed and if its opponent refused to con fidentlv name a majority for Denny it was not becausa be had not believed in the success of the Mayor, but because he did not have the act ual figures at hand. During the afternoon Edenharter, of all Democrats of his class, expressed confidence in ins election. An hour later Coy declined to commit himself to an opinion except that the election would be close. "But no matter what happens'' he remarked "Coy is all right." Edenharter thought if his calculations had not mis led him he would be elected by a majority anywnere ironi fcUO to 1.000. At that time the only wards where he could hope to poll a vote to overcome Denny's gains in the northern wards were dragging vexatiously slow. In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-fifth wards Denny's friends were claiming effective gains, while the gang Democrats mourned over the lightness of the vote. The day wore on, and as trie ballots were getting down to the last the confidence in the election of Denny and Bowlus became almost a certainty. The first precincts to send in their returns added to this belief and the night began with the rejoicings of all good citizens over the defeat of the gang. In the,Seventeenth and other wards the gang attempted to counteract toe influences that were against it by frauds lent votes, but the vigilance et the citizens soon checked this system of robbery. In others the agents of Coy. noticeably in the Fourteenth and- Fourth, sacrificed Edenharter for tbeir councilman. Towards the last hours of the election the slacking of the gang candidate for Mayor became general. It was an attempt to save something out of the wreck. In the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first. Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth wards this confusion of Coy's heelers and beaters was increased by the renewed activity of the Union Labor people. Everywhere at the close of the polls the election of the Republican ticket was practically conceded, for the unceasing watching to prevent frauds, the determination of citizens to save the good name of their city and the powerful factor that in almost every precinct did its work in obliterating the names of Edenharter and O'Donnell were most effective. WORK OP TIIE GANG. Several of Their Schemes Thwarted and a Number of Arrests Are Made. With the agents of the committee of one hundred well scattered over thecity, and more vigilance by all honest citizens than has ever before been equaled, the gang bad but little opportunity for putting into operation the many disreputable schemes it had concocted. Coy and his immediate workers painfully felt the watchfulness over them, and several times almost lost their temper. Coy, himself, spent the entire day in his own ward, the Eighteenth, where he was a candidate for re-election to the Council. He had stationed at both precincts a crowd of the worst ward bummers of the city. "Goose" Eden, Charley Stuckey and Louis Reinhold were conspicuous workers in behalfiof the boss. Early in the morning it became evident that it was the intention of these seconds of Coy to resort to any means to bring about his re-election, or "vindication" as they termed it, and as there was a scarcity of Republicans about the polls with enough grit to buck against the gang, Charles Reynolds, of the Second word, was sent down to the Second precinct and given possession of the Republican poll-books. The gang kicked vigorously when be appeared, and almost went so far as to threaten him with personal viejence, but hg remained, and during the day was useful in blocking several schemes of Ccy's henchmen. Joe Wacbstetter, and Charles Stuckey, Coy's bartenders, and "Goose" Eden took charge of voters as they came up, and it soon became apparent that some of them were being improperly influenced to vote the Democratio ticket. Across from the polling place is a lumber-yard, and about the middle of the forenoon the trips of the gang to it became so numerous that the police were notified. Dawson Schafer was sent from the station-house in citizens' clothes with instructions to watch the yard, and before he had been there five minutes he arrested two negroes, George Wood and George Thompson, forgiving away liquor. When they were searched at the station-house on each was found a note reading:. Hon. Michael Catlahan: Pay to bearer same as oth ei w. P. c Both notes bore on the right-hand corner the figures $200.00, and had an additional indorsement "Avery." Wood says that early in the morning be went with Thompson to Coy's saloon. Thompson was instructed to take some money to the southern part of the city, and before they started Thompson mentioned that he had had no breakfast Joe Wacbstetter, the bartender, then wrote out the orders they had in their possession when arrested. Both claimed that they had not looked at tbe orders after they had been given to them, and admitted that tbey had not been given any breakfast. They both live in the Eleventh ward, and were unable to give any excuse for banging about the polls of ' the Eighteenth. The arrest of tbe men seemed to worry the gang very much, and they were very quiet until late in the afternoon, when they again began to make frequent visits to the lumber-yard. Patrolmen Pace and Joyce were set to watch them again, and about 4 o'clock saw Charles Stuckey, Louis Reinhold and Joe Wachstetter take several men behind a lumber pile. The officers emerged from their hiding elace and came upon Stuckey handing out whisky to tbe crowd. Reinhold was just in the act of taking a drink, but didn't have time to finish before Mr. Stuckey was arrested. Four charges all for giving away liquor on election day, were placed against him. John Sullivan was immediately sent for, and became the bondsman by making affidavit that he was the owner of $1,500 worth of unincumbered real estate in Marion county, when the tax duplicate shows upon his oath that he has no real estate. This second raid upon - the gang weakened them materially, and during the remainder of the evening tbey were very quiet. The vigilance of the Republicans in the ward completely unnerved the gang who came upon tbe ground early in the morning expecting to have things their own way. There is no doubt but that votes were bought with both liquor and money, but tbe buying had to be done away from the polls. Superintendent Boone, of tbe work-house, was a conspicuous figure all over the city yesterday, and it is said that wherever be went be boasted to his Democratic friends that he bad turned out all the work-house convicts who would vote the Democratic ticket. To-day it may not be so funny with him, for unless there is a change of mind by the officers, Mr. Boone will be arrested for cntempt of court. He is placed in charge of the work-house as the people's servant, and has no more power to release a man whose time has not expired than any other private citizen of Indiana. Yet he did Monday evening either release, or allow to escape every man in tbe institution wno would vote as desired. Saturday morning. John Craig and Walter Ryan were on the police slate for drunk enness. They did not apoear in court, but fines were entered up against tbem, and the officers instructed to bring them id. In tbe afternoon they appeared at the office of Sergeant McKinney to get a watch they had put np as part bail, and -were taken into custody and sent to the work-house. After ..he officer who took them out bad left tbe institution both were released, after taking from tbem a pledge that they would vote the Democratic ticket. Yesterday afternoon a Journal reporter asked Mr. Boone about the release of the men, and he replied 'that he had released and voted them, and would show Sergeant McKinney that he bad as much 'd d authority as him." Morris Steibing was sentenced to the woric-honse for sixty days for attempting to kill his wife. Yesterday afternoon he was brought down town and voted and then turned loose. How many illegal votes were gotten into the ballot-box in this way could not be ascertained last evening, but the matter

will receive full official investigation, and Mr. Boone will be required to answer for his conduct. In speaking of the Steibing release, Superintendent Travis remarked last evening: "It is simply damnable." It developed yesterday that the gang had arranged to brine in repeaters from several of the adjoining counties, and vote tbem, bnt they were so closely watched that it is believed that no effort was made to vote any of the men. A crowd of fifteen or twenty tough looking characters came over from Hendricks county yesterday morning, and on the same train with them came W. R. McClelland, Republican clerk of Hendricks county, and some other eagle-eyed Republicans. The scheme to bring in a score or more of votes from that connty was accidentally discovered by Mr. McClelland several days ago, and since that time the would-be repeaters have been under surveillance. They were shadowed all dav yesterday by the gentlemen from Danville. Tbey visited nearly all the southern wards, but. suspecting that they were being watched, made no attempt to vote.

PLEASANTRIES OP THE DAT. Incidents That Afforded the Hard-Working Hustlers for Votes Some Pun. The American citizen as he is represented in Indianapolis is a little superior to any other in thf way he stands about the polls on election day with a campaign cigar between his lips, a bunch of tickets in his hand and an expression of countenance indicating that he appreciates all his constitutional and statutory privileges. When city elections used to be held in the spring, the ward-worker found the climatic conditions of the vernal season much better adapted to his needs than the unpleasant features of a day like yesterday. Just how many times the remark was made that "It's a cold day when we are not on the side of victory," etc. would be a very difficult matter to say, but it was the prevalent "chestnut" of the day. Shivering crowds of tireless campaigners who had met tbe enemy on many occasions and knew the ropes made raide on unprotected wood-piles and in that reprehensible fashion gained material for camp-fires. Up in the region of the First ward where some of the privates in the ranks can tell all about Sherman's march to the sea, the camp-fire was a feature of the day. When a voter appeared at the voting ''chute" the challengers and ticket peddlers wonld forsake tbeir comfortable quarters and sally forth to see that the purity' of tbe ballot was not marred. The success of the fire scheme spread and flames were crackling all through the North Side. The atmosphere was cot productive of any great outbursts of enthusiasm, and quietness characterized the proceedings at all the polls. Ballot-casting seemed to be regarded as a mere business matter, and the bI'ti of nancr were dropped in the boxes quietly, and the citizens moved off. Good feeling seemed to prevail everywhere among those taking part in the day's doings, and pleasantries were passea freely. An old German, whom everybody seemed to know, offered bis ticket in the morning at the second precinct of the Ninth ward. Some one on th challenger's bench. passed the wink and said: I euess we'd better challenee that." "Sballenze me, ven I haf live across derstreed since 1856?" be exclaimed excitedly, but wa& pacified by tbe laugh that went around. Out in the second precinct of the Thirteenth ward a young man was given "stickers" for the labor candidates. He leaned up against a treebos and arranged bis ballot carefully, but when be came to cast it bis friends began laughing and guyed him so that be threw bis ticket away and went off without voting. Samuel E. Perkins was an earnest worker for the Republicans at this precinct, and voted the way he shot, throwing the throttle of bis vengeance wide open. His erstwhile Democratic associates took a fiendish delight in saying mean things about him in his hearing, but be bore up bravely and gave them as good as he got. These sallies kept the crowd at this precinct in good humor. Barney Conroy, who had a short experience as a government mail-handler at the depot, also has a grievance against the Democracy, and put in the golden moments carrying men to the Perkins precinct to vote Republican tickets. "You see, I'm hustling in the interests of Coyism," remarked Simeon the illustrious, at the first precinct of the Eighteenth ward, as be posed on the enrb with a box of cigars under his arm and nlentvof ticketa in hia overcoat nncket. In a number of precincts it was stated that Democratic challengers were endeavoring todeit , uuaiigiD, iaiiiiiuinii, iaiQ ,u 1117 rvr-uiug, uy objecting to tbe votes of colored men. This was done in many instances utterly without cause, and merely to binder the transaction of business. It was observed tbat the election boards were unusually cautious in their work. The arrest and trial of the conspirators, and tbe carelessness of officers of elections broueht to light at tbeir trial, is seen to have had a good effect on all connected with the ballot-box. "Inspectors and judges will be pretty likely to hold on to their papers this time," said an old party worker at a down-town precinct, "and any officer wanting to see if his papers are all right, or desiring to organize a building association will be careful what becomes of the doenments in bis keeping, and know who takes them from him." "Make way for this lady," said challenger W. Ij. Taylor at the first precinctof the Ninth ward. Everybody in his neighborhood thought some feminine band was about to cast a ballot, but it was only a new scheme of proving the voting; right of a man who had been challenged. The woman turned out to be tbe proprietor of a boarding-bouse, under whose roof the gentleman abided, and she stepped forward with her account book under her arm to show the date of his advent and reception into her domicile. The newly adopted citizens, with naturalization papers in their pockets, seemed to feel a. little bit awkward at the polls, and the papers which showed that Uncle Sam's boarding-house was really open to them caused them some anxiety. A new-comer on tbe Sooth Side tried to vote his declaration of intention and was only persuaded to keep it by vigorous oratory on tbe part of his friends. He was a German; but a Hibernian in the south west quarter carried off the honors by asking a friend if he didn't get an allowance from the government for his time and services iu voting. He was told that any pecuniary benefit must be derived from sources other tban the public treasury. At nearly everv voting place ex changes of pleasantries relieved the jnonotony of the day. The occasional showers and tbe cold air rendered out door work decidedly unpleasant, and those who may wish to jollify and ' "holler" this morning may find rheumatism in tbe limbs and a cold in the throat sad impediments to the inclination. A TRIUMPH FOR LAW AND ORDER. Rejoicing About Republican Headquarters Over the Good New. By some intuition the people generally know where the enthusiasm over a victory is to prevail Directly after supper they began to crowd Republican headquarters, on Pennsylvania street, to hear the news and rejoice in the great workjof conquering an organizationof politieianr who stop at nothing in accomplishing their ends. As the evening rolled on the crowd swelled from a few hundreds to thousands. The room could not accommodate a tenth of tbem, nor could any more hear distinctly the returns that were read as messenger after messenger hurried in with a report from this or that precinct, adding always to the good news that was at first announced. The interest became intense, the enthusiasm swelled into cheers and cheers as some marked gain was read. Outdoors the large crowd flocking street and sidewalk called loudly for what was given those within. An ardent Republican, to satisfy the demand, took his place on a stool at tbe door, and as the returns were told to him he repeated tbem to the throng. Every few minutes would come the load hurrahs from the throats of thou-