Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-02
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
WOMEN At THE POLLS.
They Exercise tho Fran
chise in Kansas. ~
SOUTHERN WATERS RECEDING.
HeadIess Body" Of a Man
Found in the Woods.
FURTHER REPORTS OF THE STORM
Passage of the Fertilization
Appropriation Bill.
SOUTHERN WATERS REcEDING.
FURTHER REPORTS OF The STORM



WESTERN ELECTIONS.
Councllmen and School Boards in
Kansas Towns-Several Returned to
Omce-Party Lines Net Drawn-Dem-
oorats Make a Clean sweep In Three
Townships In Chicago.
Topeka, April l. ELECTIONS were held in
Kansas to-day in sixty cities of the first, Sec
ond and third class for councilmen and mem
bers of the school boards. In nearly all the
cities no political lines were drawn and the
battles were fought on purely local issues.
The only interest attaching to the elections
was the exercise of the suffrage by women
who are permitted under the laws Of Kansas
to vote for CITY officers and members of the
school board.
The women at Manhattan two years ago
women have administered all the depart
ments of the city government from the mayor
down through the council to the janitorship
of the city hall. The women had another
ticket in the field to-day, and the prospects
are that it was elected over the three other
tickets in thed6eld. They had control of all
the election machinery, having appointed
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the precincts. At Leavenworth inter-
est in the election centered in the
candidacy of Mrs. 81. D. Cushing, who
ran for the council on the re-
publican nomination. Women were also
candidates for the school board In three
wards, having been nominated by the repub.
licans. Something over six hundred women
were registered, but not over half of them
went to the polls. The democrats ran q
skroioht ala fickaf ond xuoo oil al ruikI,
the exception oflthe First ward councilman.
All the women candidates were defeated.
The women of the w. G. T. q. took the
greatest interest in the election and spread
an election temperance lunch on Delaware
street during the noon hour.
At Emporia the women were worked mp to
the highest pitch of political excitement over
the candidacy of Mrs. Jackson for reelection
as member of the school board. The regis
tration of women was fifty per cent. larger
than year ago and 687 women were enrolled
on the poll books. Most of them voted in
support of Mrs. jackson. The issue was made
on the proposition of the opposition to Mrs.
Jackson to reduce the salaries of school teach
ers in the interest of economy. Mrs.. Jackson's
platform was "good salaries for good teach
ers." The returns at O'Clock indicate Mrs.
Jackson's reelection.
At Topeka about $50 women were regis
tered, but less than half that number cast
their votes. They had no candidates In the
field and were not directly interested in the
election, the issues involved being local to
the various wards.
At Atchison the women had no candidates
in the field, but the democrats had endorsed
three women and the republicans one for
| election TO the school board. The republic
cans carried the day and the republican lady
was victorious.
Six hundred and more women were regis.
istsred at Wichita. About three hundred of
them voted. The election there was very
quiet, no general issue being involved. The
| ladies had no candidates. Returns indicate
the election of an equal number of democrats
| and republicans.
| The registration of women throughout the
state in the cities of the second and third
| classes was generally smaller than usual,
owing to lack of interest. Returns from
several of these cities indicate that q little
over half of the women who registered voted
| At Salina the election was an animated
one. The female suffragists had nominated
| q woman candidate by the school board fol
the anti-suffragists. The suffragists wer,
defeated and the oolored women elected by
an overwhelming majority.
At Hiawatha three womed were elected t.
the school board, but at wellington the thre,
women candidates were showed under.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 1.-The democrats
made clean sweep of all the Offices in tn,
to-day. The majorities vary from 200 Il
$500. The outgoing south town officehold
eIs are all republicans and the north tow
the same with one exception. Tn
west town officials were all democratic
and that party continues In control II
the annexed towns the republicans maintain
the lead by q narrow margin. Besides thu
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aldermanic honors contested at the polls
The political complexion of the council ap
peard, at ten-thirty o'clock to have beel
practically unchanged by the days struggle
the board remaining republican by about
majority of three.
Complete returns show decided democratic
gains among the aldermen. The new boar
democrats to thirty.one republicans, will
two Independent democrats and one indie
pendent republican.
MILWAUKEE, April 1.-The election Il
this city to-day excited unusual interest ow
ing to the fact that the so-called Burnet
law enacted by the last legislature and re
curing the teaching of English in O.
schools, private and parochial, as well a
public, was made an issue: The republican
were pledged to Its repeal whic
was demanded by the Catholic bishops an
German Lutheran clergy which had bitterl
denounced the laws. The polls did nc
close until $50, but the indications from til
returns thus far received are that Georg
w. Peck, democrat, editor of Peek's Sar
has been elected over Mayor Brown, wh
was renominated by the republicans. Thel
was also a third ticket in the felt
headed by n. 8. Murphy, the labor citizen
candidate. Many democrats denounced I'll
position of their party on the eduoation'
law, but voted for their party candidates O
the grounds that the law was not an issr
in the municipal candidates: The Luthe
an and Catholic clergy were very active
supporting the democratic candidates WI
were pledged to the repeal of the law.