The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-03
All the City Ticket Elected, and the
Proposition to Adopt CiviI-Servicc
Rules Carried.
ST. LOUIS ALSO REPUBLICAN
COLORED MAN ELECTED MEMBER
OF THE LOWER COUsCIL.
Vote for Supreme Court Justice in
Wisconsin Exceedingly Close
Results in other States.

CHICAGO, April 2.-The Republicans
made almost clean sweep in the municipal
election here to-day. At 10 O'clock tonight
the returns indicate that the Republicans
have obtained a complete victory, eecting
George B. Swift, their candidate for Mayor,
by a plurality close to 10000. Eight hundred
and twenty precincts out of a total of 93S
give Swift 126.615 ana Wenter sS,O00. In
addition to the Mayor, the Republicans
have, the returns indicate, elected their
candidates for assessor, collector, super
visor and town clerk in all the towns,
making a clean sweep of all the town Of
fees
OF the aldermen the Republicans have
certainly elected twenty out of a total 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-C'ongressman,
who ran as an independent in the Nine
teenth ward, is elected by a good majority.
The proposition to put the police and all
other city officials under civi-service rules
and extend the mayoralty term to
four years, has 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 about
the same proportion that of the party
vote for Mayor. AT midnight no figures
had been received to change in any way
the general estimate of the result made
at 10 o'clock. The later returns show that
George Trude, the Democratic candidate
for city attorney, is running far ahead
of his ticket, and he has an excellent
chance for election against West Repub-
lican, who has been scratched unmerciful-
ly. Democratic aldermen have been elected
in the Sixth, Ninth, Eighteenth and Twen-
ty-seventh wards. while the Republicans
have certainly secured twenty aldermen.
Returns from other wards are not suffi-
GENTLY definite to determine the result with
accuracy. Alderman John McGillin, of the
Twenty-first ward. credited with being
the father of the Doodle ordinances.
was buried deeply. The civil service has
been carried by heavy majority prob
ably by 10000.
At the last mayoralty election, when
Mayor Hopkins was elected to fill the
unexpired term of Mayor Harrison the
Democratic plurality was 1921. At the last
State election in the same wards the plu-
rality of Wulf, Republican candidate for
State Treasurer over Claggett, Democrat,
was 44065.
Reform seems to have been the spirit
of the balloting All persons concerned say
that the election was the most orderly ever
known in Chicago. The policemen detailed
to guard the polling places had rather an
easy day of it. In a few instances 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 stock
yards district the scene of many bloody
election fights and riots in the past, there
hor dIxy n excitement A
GUS shooting affray at No. 70 Oak street,
in the Twenty-third ward, resulted from an
election wager, but was not regarded as an
election day feature in the usual sense,
for it was simply a personal quarrel apart
from the balloting.