Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — MUNICIPAL ELEOTIONB. [ARTICLE]

MUNICIPAL ELEOTIONB.

The Ist was a Democratic day. The municipal election in Chicago resulted in a pronounced Democratic victory, the Board of Aldermen being Democratic over ail opposition. The Democrats at Milwaukee elected George W. Peck (Peck's Bad Boy) for Mayor by about 5,000 majority. Many city elections In Missouri wore held under the Australian system. It worked well. Sixty cities In Kansas held elections. In Manhattan all the offloers are women Re publicans. In Leavenworth the Democrats carried everything with a male ticket Atchison went Republican with one oouncil woman elected. Topeka went Republican and male. At Salina, the election was an animated one. The female suffragists hud nominated a woman candidate for the school board from two wards. A colored woman was run by the anU~snffragi*U. The suffragists were defeated and the colored woman elected by an overwhelming majority. ■ At Hiawatha three women were elected to the school board, bat at Wellington the three women candidates were snowed under. Throughout the State hot about half the women who registered voted.