, 1864-04-21
the CHARTER ELECTION,

the CHARTER ELECTION.
Etst Vas Dcne-Thc D!E.r.r: Wards
dRlent Voting.
considering the cugrofsucnt Of the business
men Of tie city In aGaiss OF private speculation
sud profit, the Republican ticket did well at III.
1stc election. The whole vctc caat exceeded 9.ooo
This il less than tic vote c@ss ut the ,aayoraltv
election last spring ty 1000. The figures show
that twenty Republicans out Of every ono hundred
pa eEs,s1o o da. e e. to ths Ro
. om1ron CoEIc;l.
rnd It should have been thirteen hnn1red 4'I, ~,
jLst the Third Ward through the neglect OF oos
hundred Republicans lt-n; On the arcnues-hexT7
tie t;n h"cr required 10 deposit their Tote. IN
TIT 1nllot-'o=- These men the last Who should
co1rl lain u high tsser. III the Third Ward last
Sns::: ., &c Eer:l;!eaa vo:e W.: s3a On Tuesday
least seEentyarc III the Republican strength. Lad
the kame vote been cast on Tuesday thai was cast
TT Kaa;a ssars 4 wGs s Ts'!a ar
OF lease to stay 1T home
4 listIc more determination, aod q little more
effort would have esved ue the Ihirtecath Ward
ecrtlct ack, The coppeshead candidu:c for Con-
missioner, carried ths ward b. a. Single vote
Our candidate for Alderman, GEstav F.ecn-r, did
rot ents run 1pto is s'csst ard is beaten by
have made one of tho aoet va!aable members q
llepublicans who neglected to vote. As i: was, Wa
ebo1ld hase carried the day, hsd moi ths co2acz.
bead lnrp*ctoIs. seeing that ri.ehess friends wcsr
uyer; and irarinG that he woa!d bo elected, pcrenp-
tcrtly eloecd .he POLLS ta,rtT minutes beiore the
5actn nj 3uStHirI = nFn 0F7t
after iii shat Fischer Is legally elected. II so thc
Rvynblicsns will have control Of the Council.
W irereased crease OF msioriiy ;or Police comaission. @
CT, from one hundred and cichry nine. which WIS
Erynn'e majority. to two hund;cd and twea'y SIX.
Counties rrnndly, going into The Cornell " the
enormous majority OF tour hundred and Seventy
enc. There ts'not enough lett CT the member OF
eEs Of The afst fapss ~ ." peTse ~ to BY
| Nrst Ward did uoblr. increasing the Republican
Y3ajory neatly one hundred yotes. This may fEir-
t1asn is coeey challcnced ia The Tenth, wiere The
N,I,h a:sa rolled up more than her accustomed
tccef e1on O-gan upon Willard Wood.zi, By giving
him three hundred end dEv majority. Job Carpea-
Ter, Tie hero OF the 'Prohihftury liquur Jaws had
nct d OF IN affidavit to proTe that he was eandl-
date.
III tls Sc. eatht the Rc!1 bic.ns made s.llant
2cht, reducing ire Coprertesd msjontv O. last
LuIdIc ard EIGHTY three Bad 1t moi been for the
illegal voting IN the south Precinct, John Com!sky
and Shcrain wou'd now be down unon their rn.i-
Gus tfert, i rightly directed, viii do. The Ger
mans rs well Is rhe Americans did their whole
duly III tlas Corperhesd Ward
drn from The roto il the Fihh End sixth Wards.
Tic torMcr hcaTy. Copperheaa m.jorities ere not
materially reduced. ii The Fifth, 40. Republican
oby vii Known VAT % saai III. str rStes
srd their influence. This, however, did not avail,
and Sheridan, the present incumbent, was eleeted
acertsln Rallroad influence Il alleged to hare bee3
brought to bear, which carried th. Copperhead
candidate, WallWotk, into the Council by . large
and the Copperhcads generally In the next Boatd.
| We cannot In conscience ras Of the result In
tic lib Ward. We carried this stroes R-pn5li-
| majority, and this splendid yote was allowed to
te whitfield down 10 thirts-th1ee, On 1nesday,
for candidate for Commissioner, and the piti-
| IVES shameful. Petty personal animoelty against
ticket. The Eleventh should haTs given two hun
cred and seventy+nre majority. instead OF thirty.
tacties IN this Ward T. S. Fitch, the candidat= oi
lie mvincihle Club va. trotted out on the mora.
skin Of Its teeth representative in the Council BY
an advocate OF rebellion.
teen1h did nobly. Sherman's majority of one hun-
| d.ed and nine wae utterly wiped ont, and forty.
! five given for Brown Here was I Republican gain
81 one hundred and tity'o1r on the general .icket
| The Germans end S1ndinayians struck hauds cor.
daily IND whipped the u1be1nian Copperhead:
gloroEsly. For Aldermen nc did even better than
ihis; 1ye1 laweon was elected by, nearly hun
dHd majority. The Fifteenth made lancr gain
ior nc IniOa teket than any othcz, snd IS euttIed
to that having fairly won
The boys in the Fourteenth Ward worked clori-
ously, and land ont Doctor a. rpthe-
cvil.in.the-bndca e1ectuauy. Even the
phsaocs sep proiasey oS soss ais ts
| with anatomical enETaYirgs. Mercury and cubchs
arc rot 1ncEchaatahle commodities IN the Four
The Repubicans Of the Sixteenth we're over
! powered by the tweere in sailor boarding houses
md the i.causnteEs OF The loE TEosgeries and sa.
that portion Of the Sixteenth Ward lying West OF
Clark street. A fleet Of ole hundred full mannea
Essstls Il IN ne haEho1 and their crews voted the
the uuprecedcntedy large majority secured for IL
But he election shows that Chicago is aRepabN-
publican soldiers. When the survivors return, the
majority x1,l be reckoncd by thousands. The Cop
perhead majority Of lest spring Is wiped ont. Nine
WARTS Eave Republican ma3oFdties, and siz wards
The tLemelefs manner in which the voting was
0ceLE.1n of tnd3EN1u. c4tl-c1t all oYcf the city,
It st. r1:douhed that both Of these wards were csr-
rled fy gangs of Een who E:d already voted In the
| tuta A1Q Slxln II 4fds. EDr come f91aou, pcr!t1ns
through tbs conr5taoce Of the majority Of Lbs
Board CT Police Commis ssIauc7s. there u:s bnt a
tiDE:e po1ice officer At each precinct In these
wards, end 1t WIS =; muta as ,naas life was
worth to eaaIcn.e the cattle who GANG up in
dr1yee Of fity and deposited their ba!ote d. II IN
the Iil;h. ard AFTERWARDS in the Seventh and
Eighth Wa.de. eomc IT our nea ATTEMPTED
TO chalfcNcc these scamps ut ono pre-
c:hct ot the Eighth Wand, fEt o'RsEcr,yt he Who
az ELECTED Al,tr1cE-ordcTed The tEiug stopped
lnd th1catened TO thrGrE the frt: tnan who oh;cted
irto the c.:tcr, There wa. large cany OF balltes
snd shoulder httesr around the polls. and had the
sttenFt Eeen made to continue the challenge our
men Wuu!d hxye hce1 driven from the ground
ILE .Clt!eu OF :airs ie Il ts,e LAST decree die
cracefnl, :ni il 1t las hren brought about throa.
the cunnir6nce. or nt the lns1ruoe ct lhe Mayor
and the Police Commissioners. II Il right that the
rctEontili lty shor1d ue hxed upon them. 1hc..
itl1tle dtEl. th1t Comiskv aad Paddy O'Rcrcsty
owetttir election eoely to iIcssl votes. u.a the
u Ctmm!Es!tDrrS eworn in enough special police
ncn to keep he peace 70 that Republican
limb We should hare carried both these wards and
| Consequently the clsy- The Seventh and Eighth
| Wards are fast becoming rcruhltcan;z-d. Wltb
suitable police pTotection4 SO that honest vote
| could te caet. 1t would eoou become altogether
| 20. Was it from economical motives that on Tho
oecrEi0n OF an election 60 important aud exciting
.s that of Tuesday, that thirty special policemen
only were appointed. :Then according to the Comp
troticr'e rep IT there nearly bali million o!
| dollars lying Idle in the tteas1ry?
REpEH11cAS GA1Ss.--Yes yesterday morning VIC
sta ~sSf