The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
The LATE ELECTIONS.

CntcaSO Gives Almost n Clean sweep Icr
the Republicans. with Similar Results In
Other Cities.
CHICAGO, April 3.-The entire repub-
lican ticket with the exception of q
few isolated aldermen was elected
here yesterday, George B. Swift's
plurality for mayor approximating
$1,000. This is taken from incomplete
police returns. At 10 o'clock last
night $40 precincts out of geo. returned
Swift 129, 764 votes; Wenter tdem.l,
90, 591, and Holmes (pop.). 9,s76. The
council will stand overwhelmingly re-
publican. "Hinkey Dink McKenna"
(dem.) was defeated for alderman in
the first ward-a democratic strong
hobby 400 votes.
In the nineteenth ward ex-Con-
gresham Frank Lawler, independent
democratic candidate for alderman
and ex-candidate for postmaster, ap-
pears to have the whiphand. Alder.
man McGillen, Mayor Hopkins right
bower, is behind in the twenty-frst
ward, and the only survivors of the al
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outlook, are Stuckart, of the sixth,
and Bennett, of the eighth.
The republicans are giving them
selves up to the delirium of victory,
and crowds of 1000 marched through
the city hall last evening with horns
and drums.
The city voted by a majority esti-
mated at 10000 to place itself under
the operations of the civil-service law,
which will apply to every department
OF the city government.
Roy o. West, republican candidate
for city attorney, ran several thousand
votes behind his ticket, but was
elected by a handsome majority.
James r. b. Van Cleave, for city clerk,
Adam Wolf, for city treasurer, and
Charles G. Neeley, for circuit judge on
the republican ticket, were elected by
majorities equal to Swift's.
In half a dozen wards of the CITY
which have the reputation of being
d~lsorderly on election day there were
numerous conflicts between gangs of
drunken ward workers outside the
polling places, but the police were at
the scenes of disturbance in sufficient
force to separate the combatants with
out serious results. The prospect of a
clvll-service law in operation seemed
to serve as an incentive for the police
to perform their duty irrespective of
party.
The only serious ARRAY reported dur
ing the progress of the voting occurred
in the twenty-third ward, where the
aldermanic fight was particularly bit
ter. This is the ward where Gus Col
lander, an election officer, was MUIR
dered last November. John Dalton, a
republican challenger, shot and fatally
wounded his cousin, Pat Dalton, out
side a polling place. Pat dared his
cousin to come from the booth, and
when John refused to show himself
Pat went away. He returned soon
with part of the Wesson-street gang
of toughs, and finding John on the
sidewalk, attacked him with a knife.
John fired and hit his assailant in the
abdomen. The police arrested John
and took his victim to the hospital,
where the doctors said he could not
live.
In the eighteenth ward sidewalk
fights and attacks on polling places
were frequent. W.. j. Ray, a chal-
lenger in that ward. was knocked
down, and after getting on his feet
tried to use his revolver on his assail.
ant. An officer who rushed between
them would have been shot had not a
sergeant wrenched the weapon away.
AT 4:40 o'clock Maurice Williams was
standing in the door of Willis Wood
sons saloon, at 10 Green street, when
some one came up behind him and say.
ing: You will vote for Wenter, will
you?" shot him in the calf of the leg.
Williams says he does not know who
shot him, but just prior to the attack
on himself he had seen the saloon
keeper fire two shots apparently at an
other man.
Municipal and township elections
were held throughout the state yester-
day. Reports received at a late hour
indicate republican victory in almost
every city and town.
Party Lines were Dropped and the Re-
suit Is Mixed.
OMAHA, Neb., April 3.-Municipal
elections were held in Nebraska YES
terday, except in Omaha.
In Lincoln, F. a. Graham, republi-
can, was elected over j. Ii. Broody,
democratic nominee, Endorsed by the
populists and civic federation, by $50
votes. Plattsmouth, for the first time
in twenty years, went democratic,
~electing five democratic councilmen.
In South Omaha and Beatrice it is
mixed result. In most of the smaller
towns of the state the only question
up was license against no license, and
the no license towns seem to dominate.
Party lines were generally dropped
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