People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — CARTER GETS IT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARTER GETS IT.

Chicago Chooses Mr. Harrison as the World’s Fair Mayor. WINS BY A COMFORTABLE MAJORITY. The Entire Democratic City Ticket Elected—A Republican Mayor Elected in St. Louis—Returns from Wisconsin and Kansas. CHICAGO GOES DEMOCRATIC. CHICAGO, April 5. —The city election held Tuesday resulted in the elevation once more of Carter H. Harrison to the mayoralty. A bulletin of the city Press association gives the following as the vote for mayor in 790 out of 794 precincts. Harrison (dem.), 113,021: Allerton (rep. and citizens), 93,326; Cregier (Ind.), 2,778; Ehrenpreis (socialist), 830; Harrison’s plurality, 19,005. The entire democratic city ticket was elected by decisive majorities. Aside from the candidate for mayor, the following were chosen:

City treasurer, Michael J. Bransfield; city attorney, George A. Trude; city clerk, Charles D. Gastfield. The new council will consist of 38 republicans, 27 democrats and 3 independent democrats. Mr. Allerton was fairly well supported by the north and south towns, in Hyde Park, Lake and Lake View, but the west side went heavily against him. Every ward of the west division except the Twelfth gave Harrison a majority over Mr. Allerton, and the Twelfth ward majority is not much over 1,000. The First, Fifth, Sixth and Twenty-third wards also gave him sweeping majorities. Democratic Town Tickets Elected. The democrats elected their entire west town ticket by large majorities. They also carried their ticket in the south town and Lake. William T. Ball and the north town republican candidates have been elected, as have been the Lake View republican cadidates.

The City Enlarged. Through the vote on the question of annexation in the city and in West Ridge and Rogers Park Chicago acquires an additional population of about 3,000 and about two square miles of territory. The vote in the city was overwhelmingly in favor of letting in the two villages, which themselves voted to come in by a substantial majority. Chicago now reaches north as far as the Evanston line. The election passed without any unpleasantness. There were some attempts at illegal voting in the First and Eighteenth wards, and the parties who made the attempts have been arrested and lodged in jail. Throughout the State.

In many of the townships and some of the cities of Illinois elections were held Tuesday. As the vote cast was light and local issues overshadowed those of a partisan nature the returns afforded slight basis for estimate as to which of the two great parties is in the lead. Republicans elected the heads of their tickets in the following towns, in some of the rest the offices being divided: Arcola, Atlanta, Charleston, Clinton, Flora, Galesburg, Greenville, Harvard, Kewanee, Macomb, Napierville, Plano, Quincy, Tuscola, Vandalia, Waukegan, Woodstock, Chrisman, Warren, Kirkwood and Hillsboro. Democrats won in the following: Alton, Bridgeport, Braceville, Lisle, Mason City, Pekin, Ramsey, Salem, Shelbyville, Springfield, Galena, Carthage, Ottawa, Carrolton and Rock Island. Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE, April 5.—The democrats carried this city Tuesday, electing all their judicial candidates and sending Mayor Peter J. Somers to congress to fill the vacancy caused by the election of John L. Mitchell to the United States senate. Somers’ majority will run between 1,200 and 1,800. Ludwig is elected over Boehr for judge of the superior court by about the same figure. Mann, democratic candidate for judge of the probate court, is reelected by over 2,000 majority, and Judge Johnson, democratic candidate for circuit judge, had no opposition. For judge of the supreme court Webb ran about 1,000 ahead of Newman, as he was on the democratic as well as the republican tickets. Republican mayors were elected in Eau Claire, Janesville, Baraboo, Washburn, Oshkosh, Beloit, Waupaca, Viroqua, Stoughton, Edgerton, River Falls, Black River Falls and elsewhere. Ashland’s populists elected O’Keefe by a small majority. The mayors of Madison, Kaukauna, Manitowoc, Ripon, Kewaunee and Juneau will be democrats. Few straight municipal tickets were elected. Nonpartisan tickets were elected in the cities of West Bend, Antigo and Dodgeville. Republicans Carry St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, April 5.—The election in this city Tuesday resulted in a victory for the republicans. They secured mayor, collector, council and most of the minor offices, if not all. Cyrus P. Walbridge secures the mayoralty plum from James Bannerman by a majority of about 3,000. Henry Zelegenheim, for collector, and Charles Nagel, for president of the council (republicans), defeat their democratic opponents by large majorities. The republicans, it is thought, also secure every one of the six councilmen and a majority of the house of delegates. Four years ago Noonan (dem.), for mayor, defeated

Butler (rep.) by about 3,700 majority, the issue being an almost unanimous desire for a change in the method of administering the city government. For the first time in the city’s history the aristocratic west end voted almost exclusively with the laboring class for Walbridge, he having been indorsed by the laboring people as a whole, and the returns from the west end show an increased vote for the head of the republican ticket. Michigan Returns. DETROIT, Mich., April 5.—Returns of Monday’s vote in the state are not all in yet, but there is no doubt of the election of Hooker (rep.) to the supreme bench by a plurality of 10,000 or over, and the republican candidates for regents have won a still greater victory. All the proposed constitutional amendments have undoubtedly carried, the opposition being inconsiderable. Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 5. —Many of the cities of Minnesota held municipal elections Tuesday. Party lines were not closely drawn, the contests generally hinging on the question of license. At Anoka the democrats and populists united against the republicans and elected George McCauley mayor by a majority of 124. The combination also elected all the aldermen except one and all the other city officers except treasurer. Donald Grant (rep) was chosen mayor of Faribault. At Ada W. H. Bangs was elected mayor, and he pulled through the remainder of the republican ticket. No license won by a majority of 3. At Wabasha the citizens’ ticket, headed by C. C. Hirschey (dem.) for mayor, was elected by a majority of 111. At Albert Lea T. W. Knatvold (rep.) was chosen over W. G. Kellar by a majority of 143. Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan., April 5.—For the first time in the history of city elections in the state party lines were strictly drawn in Tuesday’s elections. In almost every city the republicans ran straight tickets, and this where they had heretofore not even made an attempt to win at city elections. The weather was universally favonable and all parties made an extra effort to carry the day. The vote polled was the heaviest for some years, and in the larger cities very nearly 30 per cent. of the ballots cast were by women.

Women at the Polls. The adoption of a resolution at the last session of the legislature to submit the granting of full suffrage to women gave a new impetus to the movement, and the women, who already enjoy municipal suffrage, made an effort to bring out a big vote in the hope of making a good start in the campaign that will last until the fall elections. The women hired bands, rode around the different polling precincts and engaged in proselyting with a zeal which made the men contemplate. The female voters among the colored people were just as enthusiastic, apparently, as their white fellow citizens, and could be seen in interesting groups at all of the polls. The effect of women being at the polls was that the election was the quietest and most orderly ever held in the state. In Kansas City Mrs. Potter received but a few votes, and her ticket, the independent, is probably defeated. The vote for the other mayoralty candidates is close and the result doubtful. At 1 o’clock a. m returns from elections throughout the state indicate a victory for the republicans and indicate the change of sentiment against the populists. At Leavenworth, where the republicans have not had a victory for thirteen years, they elected their entire state ticket by a majority of 1,000. At Wichita the election passed off quietly, the anti-bribery law working perfectly. The republicans made a straight fight against the democrats, populists and some dissatisfied republicans combined and won a decided victory. The issue was made, in so far as the democrats and populists were concerned, on the administration of Gov. Lewelling. This issue was interesting on account of the fact that this is Gov. Lewelling’s home. Republicans Ahead In Denver. DENVER, Col., April 5.—Eighty-nine precincts out of 112 in this city give a plurality of 2,000 for M. Vanhorn, republican candidate for mayor, over J. D. McGilvray. The populist ticket cut little figure in yesterday’s election. The republican ticket is probably elected.

Illustration of Carter H. Harrison.

CARTER H. HARRISON.