The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-03
, A CLEAN SWEEP.
Republicans Got Evorythlng in
Sight In Chicago
BY FORTY THOUSAND MAJORITY.
Swift Elected Mayor by About That
Figuro-Tho Great Metropolis OF the
West Turns Down tho Democratic
Admlnistratlon-St. Louis Giycs
from Eight 20 Tcn Thousand Hofub.
lican Majority for Aldermen.

ShI1auOi hpil s.-aL ~ " CluCh thc
returns from tho municipal election In.
dica.e that tho Republicans have oh.
tainod complete victory, electing
George b Swift, their candidate for
mayor. by plurality close to 10000.
Eich. hundred aud twenty precincts
out Of total Of 0SS give Swii. l9G,6lj
and Wenter $1,000. In addition to the
mayor, tho Republicans have, as the
returns indicate, elected their candi-
dates for assessor, collector, supervisor
aud town clerk in all the towns, making
a cloan sweep OF all tho town offices.
Uf tho aldermen, the Republicans
have certainly elected sixteen out OF the
total thirty.four, and claim that they
have fully thirty aldermen, but this is
very doubtful. the Democrat, claiming
at least ten OF them. Frank Lawler, tho
c1.congreIsman who ran as an indo.
pendent in tha Nineteenth ward, Ia
elected by good majority. Tho propo.
sition to put the poles and all other
city officials under civil service rules,
and extending the mayorality term to
four years, has undoubted been carried
by majority, very close to that OBJ.
tanned by Swift. The returns on this
vote arc coming in worry slowly. bu. the
vote as far as II has been shown, is
about the samo proportion as that Of
the party vote for mayor.
At the last mayoralty election. when
Mayor Hopkins was elected to fl III the
uneIpired term OF Mayor Harrison. the
Democratic plurality was ,29l. At tho
last state election in the same wards,
tho plurality Of Wuln, Republican can.
didate for state trcasuror, over C!ageett,
Democrat, was ii,065.
LATER RETURNS.
At midnight no figures had been re.
ceived to change in any way the geper.
al estimate OF the resul. made at 10
o'clock. The later returns show that
George Trude, the Democratic candi-
date for city attorney. 10 running far
ahead OF his ticket, and he has an ex-
cellent chance for election against West,
Republican, who ha, been scratched
numerically ,,-z--ss3---,. li,,-, a-a"-
Democratic aldermen have been elect
ed in the Sixth. Ninth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-seventh wards, while the Re-
publicans have certainly secured twenty
aldermen. Returns from other wards
are not sufficiently definite to determine
the result with accuracy. Alderman
John 3lcGillen, OF tho Twenty.frst
ward, credited with being the father Of
tho doodle" ordinance, was buried
deeply.
The civil service rule has been carried
by heary majority. probably by 90
900.
Reform soems to have been tho spirit
OF the balloting. All persons concerned
say that the election was the most order
ly ever known in Chicago. The police
men detailed to guard the polling places
had rather an easy day OF 1t.
In the state, as far as heard from. tho
following are tho results: In Moline,
the Peoples party gets mayor, six out
OF eight aldermen and tho remainder OF
the ticket. In Rock Island, the Repub.
licans secure all but tho city clerk and
two aldermen.
In Peoria they elect all tho township
ticket, except collector. In Springfield
the Democrats secured everything but
two aldermen. In Quincy tho Demo.
Gratis get tho mayor aud probably all
tho city council.