St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-03
NEARLY A CLEAN SWEEP.
Town Officers in All the
Towns Also Captured by
the G. o. P.
CIVIL SERVICE is CARRIED.
1t Provides for Taking Police
and Other Departments
Out Of Politics.


from the municipal election indicate
that the Republicans have obtained
a complete victory, electing George
B. Swift, their candidatefor mayor,
by plurality close to 10000, 800 pre-
cinetS out of a total of 938 giving
Swift 126,615 and Wenter $4,000. In
addition to the mayor, the Repub-
hcans have, the returns indicate,
elected their candidates for assessor,
collector supervisor and town clerk
in all the towns, making a clean
sweep of all the town offices. OF the
aldermen the Republicans have GER
tainly elected sixteen out of the to-
tai of thirty-four, and claim that
they have fully thirty aldermen, but
this is very doubtful, the Democrats
claiming at least ten of them. Frank
Lawler, the ex-congressman, who
ran as an Independent in the Nine
teenth ward, is elected by good
majority. The proposition to put the
police and all other city officials un-
der, civil service rules and extend
the mayoralty term to four years
las undoubtedly been carried by
majority very close to that obtained
by Swift. The returns on this vote
are coming in very slowly, but the
vote, as far as it has been shown, is
in about the same proportions as
that of the party vote for mayor.
AT the last mayoralty election, when
Mayor Hopkins was elected to fill
the unexpired term of Mayor Har-
rison, the Democratic plurality was
1,290. At the last state election, in
the same wards, the plurality of
Wulf, Republican candidate for
state treasurer, over Claggett, Demo-
crat, was 44,065.
Ehe. late returns show that George
Irude, the, Democratic. candidate for.
city attorney, is running far ahead
OF his ticket, and he has an excellent
chance for election, against West,
Republican, who hasbeen scratched
unmercifully. ~
Democratic aldermen have been elect
ed in the Sixth, Ninth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-seventh, wards, while the Re-
publicans certainly have secured
twenty aldermen. Returns from other
wards are not sufficiently definite to
determine the result with accuracy.
Aid. John McGillen, of the Twenty
first ward, credited with being the
father Of the Doodle ordinances, was
buried deeply.
CIVIL SERVICE CARRIED.
The civil service rule has been car
ried by a heavy majority, probably
20, coo.
Reform seems to have been the spirit
of the balloting. ALI persons say that
the election was the most orderly ever
known in Chicago. The policemen de-
tailed to guard the polling places had
rather an easy day of it. In a few in
stances factions had differences, but
they were settled out of court in the
greater number of cases. By common
consent the day was about as quiet as
ordinary Sundays. In the stockyards
district, the scene of many bloody cleo
ton fights and riots in the past, there
was hardly trace of excitement A
serious shooting affair at No. 78 Oak
street, in the Twenty-third ward, re-
suited from an election wager, but
was not regarded as an "elec tion-day
feature" in the usual sense, for it was
simply a personal quarrel apart from
the balloting.
IN THE STATE,
so fGr as heard from, the following
are the results: In Moline the Peoples
party gets the mayor, six out of eight
aldermen, and the remainder of the
ticket. In Rock Island the Republic
ans secure all but the city clerk and
two aldermen. In Peoria they elected
all the township ticket except collect
or. In Springfield the Democrats Sc
cured rything but two aldermen.
In Quincy the Democrats get the
mayor and probably all the city coun-
Gil. In Litchfield the parties divide the
offices about evenly.
(; SWIFT'S MAJORITY 28,52O.
2:30 a. Incomplete returns on the
lnayoralty ticket show: Swift, 143, III;
Wenter, 102, ,1S7; Holmes, Populist,
12,410; Swift's majority. 2S.52O. The civil
service measure has been adopted by
a majority of 57,054.
.GALESBURG, ILL.,, April I'm the
Tenth congressional district election
today, G. w. Prince, Republican, was
elected by about 1000 plurality, over