The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-07

G.. w. Apple, whose name was on
neither ticket, got "A votes for coun-
Gilman, and w. G. Jones, Del. North.
rup and Miss Matte Thayer got one
vote each.
The election was quiet and
peaceable, as all our elections are
but that a very lively interest
was taken in it is shown by the large
vote pOlled. No tally was kept of the
ladies who voted, but the percentage
must have been nearly, if not quite
as large as that of the gentlemen.
The POpulist ticket was an excellent
one in every personal way. Mr.. Bar
tells is one of our most popular bust
ness men and his administration as
mayor during the past year has given
very general satisfaction, while the
gentlemen who were associated with
him are highly esteemed as business
men and citizens. So their defeat
was solely "a matter of politics. Moth
ing could make this palmer than the
fact that Mr.. Bartels was elected last
year by the same voters who defeated
him this year. Last year he was
thought TO be running on a non-par-
tisan ticket, and his personal pOpu-
larity elected him. After his election
some of his indiscreet friends claimed
his success as a great Peoples party
victory, and got out their ROSTERS
and crowed nightly over the defeat
of the Republican party. 1t was the
recollection of this unwarranted and
ill-timed growing, together with the
wish to register a condemnation OF
the attempted revolution at Topeka,
that caused the Republicans of lola
to put out straight party ticket this
spring. They concluded that if the
Pepulists wanted to draw party lines
as their jubilation last spring indi-
cated-they ought to be accommodate
ed.
1t was admitted Oh all hands as
late as noon on Monday that it was a
straight party issue. But when the
overwhelming defeat of their ticket
became apparent some of those who
instigated it began to try to make it
appear that it was a non-partisan''
ticket, and not any more POpulist
than il was Democratic or Republi-
can. That kind of talk is entirely too
diaphanOus for even this warm
weather. A convention presided over
and managed by Frank Power and
Chris Ritter is about as apt to put out
nOn-partisan ticket as one would be
that was called and managed by
Capt. Slower or Bob. Stevenson.
The result of the election in lola
cannot be tortured into anything else
than an overwhelming Republican
victory and an overwhelming Popu-
list defeat.
REPUBLICAN VICTORIES EVERYWHERE.
The returns from the city elections
all over the State show sweeping Re-
publican victories wherever party
lines were drawn. LeavenwOrth,
Atchison, Kansas City, all elected
Republican mayors. In Topeka a
Republican mayor was elected for the
first time in four years, and by ma
jOrity of $500 over both his opponents.
In Wichita the Republicans elected
their mayor by HOS majority, although
Gov. LewelliDg left Topeka and went
down there more than a week before
election to take personal charge of the
Populist campaign. The sole question
at issue was whether their home
town should endorse Gov. Lewelling
or Speaker Douglass, and the Popu-
lists bent every effort to succeed.
Their defeat will be recognized every
where as the most significant rebuke
that could possibly be administered to
their party.