Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-12
THE BALLOT.
Results of Municipal and Town
ship Elections in Various
Western States.
Women at the Polls in Kansas-Strik-
ing Engineers Made Alder
men.

A condensed summary of the spring local
elections in various parts of the West will
be found below:
Illinois, Chicago the Republicans swept
the field, electlng sh their candidates tor
town offices with one exception and captur-
ing eighteen OF the thirty new Aldermen. The
new City Council will be composed of 30 Re
pubilcans, 10 Democrats aud lndepen-
dents. The Labor party pol'ed 1857
votes, and tho Prohibition party S23
votes 1he Republicans carried Spring
field, electing six OF the seven Aldermen. The
Prohibition vote was larger than
year ago. In Jo Daviess County the Repub-
cans elected IA of the % Supervisors The
Republicans also carried the following cities
and towns: Rock Island, Moline, Vandalia,
Sterling, Cerro Gordo, Princeton, Braidwood,
| Champaign, Paris, Sycamore, Monmouth,
| Kankakee, Iuscola, Decatur, Bloomlngton,
Warren, Tolono. Capron, Plano, Chat-
] ham, lliopolls, Charleston, and Geneseo
The Democrats were successful in the fol-
lowing cities and towns: Freeport Quincy
Eigin, Urbana, Waukegau, Arcola, Belle
yllle, joliet Chenoa, Shelybville, Au-
burn, Hennepin, Jerseyville and Minonk
| Independent or mixed tickets were victorious
in Litchfeld, Centralia, Morris East ST.
Louis, and Woodstock. License tickets car
ried the day at Galesburg, Salem and Har-
ward, while the antl-license people were sue
cessful IN Wheaton, Mount Carroll and Can
| ton. In Galesburg two striking engineers
on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road were elected Aldermen with whoop.
| Wisconsin, Tho Fusion ticket, supported
| by Democrats and Republicans, was elected
| In Milwaukee by about $40 majority over the
| candidates of the Labor party. Ten Fusion
| lists and nine Labor men were elected to the
| City Council The new election law resulted
| in the quietest election ever held in Milwau-
kee. Thomas ii. Brown is the Mayor elect
In Racine, NJ M. Secor. Democratic
nominee, was chosen Mayor At
Fond du Lac, Alexander Mcdonald, the Peo-
ple's candidate, was elected over Hoskins,
| and license Council were chosen in Rich
| land Center. The Republicans carried Ripon,
Menominee, Elkhorn, Janesvlle, Manitowoc,
Fort Atkinson, Beloit and Delavan. The
| Democratic tickets were successful in Osh-
kosh, Watertown, Madison, Appleton, Keno
| sha, and Prairie du Chen.
Kansas The feature OF the local elections
in Kansas was the part played by the women,
and electioneered for the tickets OF their
| choice At Oskaloosa o city ticket composed
| of women for the Council and q woman for
Mayor was elected by 66 majority. They are
tration is looked for W. @. McClung was
elected Mayor of Jewell, chiefly by the influ-
| ence OF the women, who worked for him at
the polls all day. His election means no
saloons AT Abilene City, l0o women ballots
were cast for municipal and school officers
and decided the contest in favor of the Repub-
lican nominees AtLeavenworth the Democrats
elected three Councilmen, the Republicans
two, and the Union Labor party one. The
rest OF the ticket is evenly divided between
the Republicans and Democrats. There were
about $40 votes cast by women, and they
were nearly evenly divided The women
were o factor controlling the result of the
balloting in many of the towns
Io,ca. The city election at Dubuque re-
suited in victory for the fusion ticket
by majorities ranging from $50 TO $780, The
knights Of Labor, who put up q straight
| ticket, were completely routed
Ohio-1he municipal election at Cincinnati
ii was unprecedentedly quiet The vote cast
was only about 49, 600. The Republican city
candidates were elected by an average major
ity OF about 5, 600 each. Tho entire Board OF
carried Cleveland by 1000 majority. Sandus-
Ky also went Republican. In the judicial
district embracing Columbus and Franklin
ed Judge BY from 100 to 600 Martin, Demo
crat is elected Justice by 1,600 Pugh pre-
sided IN the recent taly-sheet prosecution,
and Martin was prominent witness for the
state Twelve saloon keepers were arrested
at Cincinnati for keeping saloons open during
election hours. The penalty for this offense
heretofore has been q light fine Under the
present law the penalty is 500 fine and ten
days imprisonment The authorities have
determined to test the law,
Aichigan.-In Grand Rapids Ira A. Weston,
the Michigan member of the Democratic Ma
tional COMMITTEES. was elected Mayor by three
votes The citizens fuse1 with the Republicans
on Mayor Of Coldwater, and b. H. Calkins,
Republican, was elected by 994 majority over
X q. Chandler, Prohibitonist The Demo-
cratic tickets wero elected at East Saginaw,
Jackson, and St. Joseph. Mixed tickets were
chosen at Adrian and Grand Haven, while the
Republican tickets were successful at Battle
Creek, Muskegon, Big Rapids, Reed City,
Niles, Kalamazoo, Holland. Paw Paw, and
| Dowagiac.
Missowi-H G Kumpf, Republican, was
elected Mayor OF Kansas City by q small ma
jority. The other Offices are divided between
the Democrats aud the Law-and- Order party.
Republicans carried St Joseph by majorities
averaging 400.
Nebraska The city election in Lincoln was
hotly contested The Prohibitionists and Dem
ocrats united against the Republicans The
latter carried the day by q good majority.
Over 5000 votes were polled
Indiana. Elections were held throughout
Indiana for township officera Returns from
one-half OF the counties of the State show that
the Democrats have gained thirty-five trus-
teos There are about 1000 In the State.
, Five hundred and fifteen were Republican IN
> 1896 and 475 Democratic The vote was light
, The Republicans carried Indianapolis tand
Marion County BY about 1900 majority