Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-09
Ex-MayOr Harrison Will Re-
tire from Politics.
He Finds the Boilers Lot Is Not
a Happy One.
The Chicago MayOralty Contest Re-
mains in Doubt.
aCregier and Washburn Both Claim Small
Pluralities-A Democratic Land
Slide In Colorado.
Associated Press DISPATCHES.

CmcAao, April S.-Ex-Mayor s. Carter
H. Harrison this afternoon announced
his permanent retirement from political
life. He proposes to leave Chicago for
good, and either travel or go on farm.
Concerning the tactics of the Cregier
wing OF the Democracy, he said ut
was in line with its action for the past
two months-fraudulent, intimidating,
corrupting and disgraceful. 1t was a
revelation to me, for I had never before
attended the polls in the hoodlum dis
tricts. Wilder and more disgraceful
orgies, more besotted savgery and open
appeals to buyers Of votes, could not ex-
ist in the most ignorant of southern
plantation districts"
A TTCKEr-PEDDLER's QHosT DANCE.
William H. Branif peddled tickets all
day yesterday for Harrison. After the
polls closed, he went into saloon very
happy and called for drinks. After
wards he began dancing aid singing un-
til he was out of breath. He was large
man, and the bartender warned him to
desist or he would hurt himself Braniff
kept on dancing, however, and soon
dropped to the floor and died in few
minutes. sN
WHO ARE THE vICToRs?
At midnight, tonight, both the Re-.
spublicans and Democrats were claiming
to be the victors in the exciting election
for the mayoralty. Each side, however,
had practically minimized its claim to
aplurality of two or three hundred. The
official count to begin tomorrow, is
awaited with impatience. The Demo-
Gratis put forward the assertion that
many votes for Elmer Washburn, the
Citizens candinate, were counted for
Hampstead Washburn. On the other
hand, the Republicans protest that in
one. precinct alone, the stock
yards, over one hundred votes
were deposited for names that
were refused registration, and that some
of the names are those OF persons who
have been dead for weeks or r'months.
In this particular precinct, it is charged
affairs were so manipulated that every
Judge and clerk, without exception, was
Democrat, and the plurality for Gre
gier was something abnormal.
Not few people tonight were inclined
to believe that the many alleged mis-
takes and changes in estimates, were in
the interests OF the gambling fraternity,
and were designed to give certain big
bookmakers chance to hedge out on
their bets.
REPUBLICANS ON GUARD.
Colonel Nye, chairman of the Repub-
lican campaign committee, went before
the election commissioners, this morn
ing, and requested that two members OF
the committee be permitted to remain
on guard over the vault in which the re-
turns and documents were preserved,
night and day, until the official canvass
has taken place.
"My reasons for asking this" he said,
''are amply sufficient. / have been in
formed upon unquestionable authority
that Mayor Cregier has declared that no
circumstance can remove him from Of
fee for two years. That seems to me to
warrant extraordinary precautions
against fraud"
The election commissioners finally
agreed that two men should be permit
ted to remain in the vault room until
the official canvass commenced tomor-
row. As an additional precaution, the
combination was changed on the safe
containing the official returns.
cREGIERITEs CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Subsequently Chairman Nye asked
that the judges of the Fifteenth pre-
cinct of the Twenty-ninth ward be pros
ecuted for refusing to admit Anton
Pophal, challenger of the Republican
and Citizens parties, to the polling
room. Nye stated that of 565 registered
votes in that precinct 564 are shown to
have voted, strangely large proportion,
and that of these 542 are recorded for
Cregier, and only six for Hampstead
Washburn and sixteen for the other
three candidates. He said he had
sstrong suspicious that fraud had been
resorted to in several precincts, and he
was engaged in ferreting out the perpe-
traitors.