Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — HOT TIME ATELECTION [ARTICLE]

HOT TIME ATELECTION

Pittsburg Has Scraps Ad Lib. and Various Other Political Entertainment. GENERAL RECRIMINATION FIRST Then the Tug of War—Prayers of Allegheny Women Were In Vain— Philadelphia Also Votes. Pittsburg, Feb. 21. —After one of the most bitterly fought municipal campaigns In w’hich the greatest vote was cast ever cast In this cityAleo.W. Guthrie, mayoralty candidate of the Citizens’ party, the Democratic party and the Civic League, defeated bia opponent, Alexander M. Jenkinson, by a majority of 0,000. In 1903 Mayor Hays, the present Republican incumbent, received a majority of 7,371. Since that time three new wards have been added to the city. Was a Red Hot Campaign. The campaign throughout had been one of vituperation and recrimination, and charges of crookedness emanated from both sides almost hourly. Wholesale arrests were made during the last days of the campaign for repeatingand colonization, lodging houses were raided, and men carrying illegal tax receipts were hustled »to the police stations. The day was characterized by many tights at polling places, and in two districts the election boards were haled into court, charged with refusing to allow negroes to vote. Their Prayers of No Avail. George B. Logan, the candidate for mayor of the Good Government patty in Allegheny, was defeated by his opponent, and the present incumbent, Charles F. Kirschler, Republican, was elected. Kirschler’s majority is estimated at 4,000. The feature of the campaign in Allegheny was the part taken in it by women. Throughout the entire day they held meetings of prayer for the election of Logan, and carried sandwiches and coffee to rhe workers at the polls, while brass bands played patriotic and popular airs in the neighborhood of the polling plates. Free-for-All at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Feb. 21. —Philadelphia elected 2 magistrates. 17 select and 14 common councilmen, 12 school directors in each of the 43 wards, constables and division election officers. Great interest was taken in the election of conncilmen. In the Second ward Harry' G. Ransley, president of the select council, who was opposed to Mayor Weaver in the gas lease fight, was a candidate on the Republican and Democratic tickets, and defeated by a small majority P. J. Devitt. the City party ami Lincoln party ca'ndldate. There doesn’t seem to be any significance of any kind in the results, it being a sort of free-for-all tight. A feature of the election was the candidacy of fifty' women in various wards for the position of district school director. Nearly all the women were on the "reform” tickets, and a large percentage of them was elected.