The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-06
LOCAL ELECTIONS
Republicans VIII Carry Topeka
and Shawnee County
With the Customary Majority.
Apparently.
HARD TO FIGURE UP.
The Australian Secret Ballot
Makes 1t Impossible
To Closely Estimate the Plur-
alities This Early.
SECOND WARD SAFE.
Is the Way Republican Leaders
Look at 1t.
POpulists Not Making Strong
Claims There.
To Closely Estimate the Plur-
alities This Early.
SECOND WARD SAFE.
Is the Way Republican Leaders
Look at Ii.
POpulists Not Making Strong
Claims There.

Election day ia Topeka dawned clear
and pleasant and there was large crowd
at almost every one Of the seventeen vot-
ing precincts in the city when the polls
we're opened at 8 o'clock.
An effort is being made, and with good
success, to get the vote polled early. AS
early as S:8O d. IN. there were over 100 in
line at several Of the most populous pres
cincts
The arrest Of Albert Barton in the Sec
ond precinct of the Fifth ward was the
only distur bance reported up to noon.
Commissioner Of Elections Frank Her
aid. who made visit to every voting
precinct in the city during the forenoon
said everything was quiet and he did not
look for any disturbances.
lie said: "We (Populists) will carry
the Second ward sure, and we Will ALSO
carry the second precinct in the Fourth
ward, although Of course we do not ex-
pect to carry the Fourth ward"
The Republican workers in the Sec
Ond and Fourth wards, say there is nQ
ground for Commissioner Herald's
prophecy, aud the Republican leaders
claim they will carry every precinct in
the city.
A Journal reporter who visited each
precinct in the Second ward cary I'D the
day, found the indications al that time
pointing towards Republican success.
give it's usual large Republican majority,
and the First, Fourth and Fifth wards
will not be far behind.
The city registration corrected and re-
vised ID S,374 and the vote will probably
be over 1000. Some Republican work
ers claim they Will carry every precinct
in the city and have plurality of from
$500 to 1000. Populist managers say
that the Republican ticket viii get ,5U0
or 2,OJO plurality in the city.
No.. a. #HaaHH.
large vote for their ticket aud some of
the candidates themselves do not expect
more than $40 votes
There is but little betting anywhere iu
in the city today but J. Nj. Padgitt pat
up 1925 on John Davis ia the Fifth dis-
trict and several others have made small
bets on the result ia the Seventh dis-
trict.
In the First ward the vote is being
polled rapidly. In the First precinct af
o'clock out Of a registration of 544
there had been $40 votes polled
In the Second precinct 2j2 votes had
been cast out Of the registratiOn of a53.
and Ia the Third precinct 3O7 votes had
been polled out OF 522 registered.
A big Republican majority is expected
in this ward. Workers at the polls sav 3
majority will be given for the suffrage
amendment and against the propositluu
to sell the old court house.
second ward
Things were unusually quiet iu the
Second ward up to noon, ana there were
stronO indications that the ward would
60 Republican this time it did laat
The Populists, the more conservative
ones. were willing to admit that Said
one Of them, Nv @ are not i'm 10 much up
10 this hour, but we are holding OH
good deal Of our force till afternoon"
At the Monroe street polling place
there was hardly anybody THAT could ua
classed as a loiterer excepting perhaps
the policemen, TO whom the peace ot
that precinct was especially assigned
There had been about 135 votes cast, and
il was judged that a majority OF them
were Republican.
At jefferson street about 100 of the 403
votes were in and the majority was cons
ceded to be largely in favor OF Morrill,
ticket There were very few people
about the polling place and no excite
ment. whatever
Atthe East Fourth street polling place
there was fair sized crowd and they
we're talking politics in quiet way. The
Republicans were feeling good and tha
Populists were hopeful. About l3O votes
had been cast and the judges were very
particular to see that everything was
straight James H. Clarks ballot was
refused because his middle initial on tHs
registration book was wrong A iead-
ing Populist admitted there that tno vote
would be largely Republican.
There was a good sized congregation
about the polling place near sixth ana
Lake. but there was no excitement eN-
cent once. when some one challenged ?
mans vote and even then there was NO
III feeling. or the SAB voters registered
over two hundred Of them had been ia
and cast their ballots. There was dii-
farance in opinion as 70 the result in that
precinct, a Populist saying that it was
about even while the Republican de-
cIared that they were polling two % the
opposition's one.
Several Interested spectators and Vo-
ters were about the polling place at the
Veale block all day and both sides had
men there to sec that there was nothing
CONTINUED on Eighth PaceI