The morning news., 1890-11-05
SCHOOLS AS AN ISSUE
Lively Fights in Illinois and Wis
Consin-

Lively Fights In Illinois ana Wis.
consin.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Nov. 4.-when the
polls closed at 5 o'clock this afternoon the
most unique aud exciting political struggle
In the history Of the city came to an end. A
feature Of The day was the activity OF the
Catholic and Lutheran clergy in marshal
Ing their forces against tho Bennett law.
At the pollina booth ut the corner OF Green
bush and Mitchell streets, on the south side,
almost in the shadow of the st, Stanslaus
Catholic church, two Polish priests bu ied
themselves in seeing that each OF their
countryInen voted as early as possible, and
examined their ballot 20 make sure that
they were cast against the "little schooi
house,
Fa her Grueza hustled around IN tho
crowd, carrying little silver-hesded cane,
which he swung in an animated Kramer.
From this place he posted of 10 the Fourth
precinct Of the Twelfth ward, on Grove
street. His church is outside the city, In
the town OF Lake. and he stated triumph
anty to all his friends that when he left his
precinct there had been only ] or 2 repub-
hoan votes against 100 democrats.
MONKS VOTE AGAINST THE SCHOOLS.
Some curiosity was manifested Ia the
second precinct of the Sixth ward, where
the Capuchin monks had registered. About
10 O'Clock they appeared, twenty-shree
strong, headed by the father guardian.
crowd gathered at the corner while they
drew up on the side walk, and went into tho
booth one by one. Each one was allowed
Go cast his ballot without molestation from
the republican challengers, as it had been
ascertained that they had all been
Ac MI thau hask
they went away, aud there were twenty
three democratic ballots in the boz.
VOTE OF THE LUTHERAHs.
Most Of the Lutheran churches held meet
ings last night at which democratic tickets
were distributed. At the booths the Lnth-
erans would not have any hing TO do with
the peddlerS. Some Of them would take
anything put IN their hands and shove 10
into their pockets. where it was presumably
left. The charac,e ,er OF the vote cast is con-
sequontly a mystery. The democrats, OF
course, claimed that every Lutheran who
appeared with his ticket In his pocket
put IN straight democratic vote;
but the other side claimed Just as conh-
IDENTIFY that the reason why tue Lutherans
acted 30 mysteriously was that they wanted
to fix their tickets to suit themselves with
out letting anybody know 1t. At nearly
every polling place some Lutheran, gener-
ally school teacher, was stationed to SEQ
that their people did not allow themselves,
70 be persuaded to accept ticket from the
republican peddlers.
PROHIBITION AND LABOR VOTES.
The prohibition and labor votes generally
went TO the republicans. At most OF the
polls there was no LABOR ticket peddler at
all. In some precincts no straight labor
ticket could be had even at booths.
A number Of republican peddlers had
union labor tickets with tie names OF
Hoard, Spencer and the respective repub-
lican candidates for assembly. Split tickets
of every imaginable kind could be found In
most OF the precincts. A favorite was the
democratic ticket with the republican con-
gressional aud county candidates pasted
over ii, and these seemed to be In consid-
cradle demand among the Lutherans. The
pssters Of all the different candidates Iygere
distributed in untold quantities.
A CONGRESSMAN GAINED.
MILWAUKEE,. Nov. A, 1t:30 P. Mn to-
days election the republicans lose one con-
gressman-M Mitchell. DEM. being elected in
this district. SO far as received the returns
indicate the election of Cooper, rep, in the
First district; Barwig, DEM, in the second;
Lafollette, rep, In the third; Mitchell,
dem, Ia the fourth; Brickner, dem,
I'm the fifth; Clark, rep, in the sixth
Thomas, rep, in the Eighth, and Haughn,
rep, In tie Ninth. Tie democrats claim
the election Of Peck and the entire demo-
cratic state ticket, but the returns are too
TO warrant the claim. The republi-
cans think Hoard is elected by 1900 to TO-
O00 The legislature Is republican, and
Senator SDooner will be re-elected