The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-04
BATTLES WITH BALLOTS.
The Outcome of the st. Louis Election,
and It's Cause.

ST. LOUIS, April 3.-Complete returns
from the twenty eight wards of the city
show that Judge E. A. Noonan, dem, for
mayor, has a total vote Of 2S,7lS; Col
James Butler, rep, 81 ,0S9; Noonans plu-
rality, 1,629. The democrats elect the
auditor, inspector of weights and measures
register, aud but one of the five councilmen,
while the republicans secure the collector,
comptroller, treasurer, president of the
board Of public Improvement, and four
councilmen. The house of delegates will
stand Is republicans and II democrats. The
result of yesterdays municipal cleo
tion, while surprise TO many
in the face of the overwhelming
not unexpected by certain elements of the
Republican party. The nomination of Col.
Butler for the mayoralty was claimed t.
have been secured by the free use of money,
and the followers of Slattery, his opponent
IN the convention, were bent on revenge.
In addition to this factor in the con
test, Judge Noonan represented the
liberal or saloon element, while Col.
Butler was recogn zed silk stocking
with prohibition tendencies. The defeat of
Gen. Mcneil for auditor is attributed to his
war record. On the remainder of the
ticket personal strength entered largely iuto
the contest and politics played but small
part. 1t was the young mans progressive
policy aS against the old mans conservative
ideas of municipal government.
HELD THROUGHOUT MISSOURI
City elections were held throughout Mis-
souri, yesterday, but, so far as reported,
politics did not cut much of a figure in
them. The democrats elected a majority
of their ticket in jefferson City, Sedalia,
Mexico and Springfield, and the republic
ans secured a majority of the offices in
Boonville, Maryville, Carthage and St. Jo-
seph, while peoples and other mixed tickets
were successful in more than a score OF other
places.
COMPARATIVELY QUIET.
CHICAGO. April 3.-The election passed
off yesterday, on the whole, very
quietly at the polls, only one Sc
rious affray being reported. In the First
ward John Carr and Ed Brown, both col
ored, became involved in a heated dispute,
as a result of which Carr was fatally
stabbed by Brown.
AT the LaSalle club last evening, George
II. Williams, the defeated republican car
didate for West Town assessor, had a dis
pute with ex-Adermau Simo1s and
knocked the latter down, cutting his face
severely with a ring. Williams claims he
was un erved by the long strain of the po-
htical excitement, and that Simons not
only taunted him with defeat, but called
him names.
A COUNTER CLAIM.
Simons, friends claim that the assault was
uncalled for, and that Simons had merely
joke1 Williams about the landslide. The
affair created excitement, and many exag-
gerated stories regarding the nature OF
Simons' injuries were circulated. Mr..
Williams is president of the La Sale club.
He is the man against whose candidacy
Frank Collier made so vigorous fight a.
the primaries, and since Mr.. Collier was
assaulted and severely beaten twice on
account of the trouble, and has since
brought suit against several persons, in
clu1ing police captain and two officers
for damages.
RHODE ISLANDS ELECTION.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 3-The state
election will probably not be decided by to-
days voting, and just how it stands may
not be known until tomorrow morning.
Four tickets in the field have settled the
matter of an election by the people, and
early in the day an election was seen to be
improbable. The fourth party in the field
was born for the single purpose f opposing
the resubmission to tAe people of a prolibi-
tory amendment. The party was made up
largely of republicans, men who have be-
fore refused to affiliate with the Prohibi-
ton party, though believing in that party's
general objects, and whom on this occasion,
when they divorced themselves from the
republican res s1Umissionists, still remained
apart from the third party, which was
working for a similar purpose, against re-
submission.
AN INDEPENDENT TICKET.
They nominated an independent state
ticket, but in Providence and in most Of
the towns, joined with the third party o.
the legislative ticket The result was that
while there were four general tickets in
the field, there was only the usual mum
ber of legislative tickets. The legis-
lature is republican in each branch,
but the majority will be reduced
If this city is democratic, as it is likely TO
be. The legislature will vote to resubmit
the prohibitory amendment Thirty towns
out Of thirty six, including all the cities but
Providence, give Davis (dem.) 1904, Ladd
(rep.) 9,174, Richardson (pro.) S03, Chase
Qaw inforcement) 1852. Davis lacks ,S35
of majority.