The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-04-09
Az KANSAS CITY

campaign filed with unusual severe re-
ordinations and strife and in which
parties were split from center to circum-
ference, the city election today passed off
as peacefully as May party. The cleo
ton was for mayor, city treasurer,
of the upper house, four members of the
upper and ten of lower house, and one
member of the school board. The
scratching was the heaviest in the his
tory of Kansas City elections and this
made the result very hard to determine.
| The polls were open from g a. m. to 3
p. M, and the largest votes for years were
with the Australian system of voting not
the slightest friction was experienced. But
one man was arrested for illegal voting
The A. =. A. was the leading issue
| The novelty was presented of a Republi-
can ex-mayor, Henry S. Kumpf, a prom
inent banker. running for that office on
an independent ticket. With him on that
ticket were members of both the old
parties. On the Republican ticket Jas.
judge and pronounced in favor of the A.
Z. A. The remainder of the ticket was
as mongrel as that of his leading Oppon-
emf.
John S. Crosby, who headed the Peo-
pies ticket cut but little figure. In the
campaign the Kumpf managers have
charged the Republican administration
with leaving deficit in the city treasury
of almost 100000 and in addition to a
desire to best the A. p. As many of
both parties voted the Kumpf ticket in
their fight for reform government. On
the other hand many Democrats eft their
own ticket, claiming it was under the
rule of gang politicians and voted with
the Republicans.
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fusal of two or three A. Z. A lodges to
support their organizations nominee be-
cause of their being previously suspend
ed from the order.
The returns are coming in very slowly
but at midnight it is CONCEDED that the
Republican A. p. A. ticket has been elect
ed Returns nave been received from
these give Jones, Republican and A.. p.
A. candidate, a plurality of S0S Jones
is not running ahead of his ticket and it
is estimated that complete returns will
show the election of the entire Republican
ticket by about 1000 plurality. The
Populist vote is light.
UTAH G. @. ?. CONVENTION.
Salt Lake, Utah, April THE Re
publican state convention elected Il. ]. |
Cannon. G. Il. Brown. Isaac Trumbo, w. |
K. Mccormick and Thomas Kearns as
delegates to the st. Louis convention |
The platform is confirmed almost entirely |
to protection and bi-metallism, the decla- |
rations being:
We believe in protective tariff; in re- |
ciprocity; in bemetallism. which is the |
full recognition alike of gold and silver |
and their free coinage in the minis of the |
nation at the ratio of sixteen to one. We |
view with sorrow and shame the spec
tacle which our country presents today |
because of the attempt to substitute for |
a protective tariff tariff for revenue and |
because of the destruction of silver as |
money of final adoption.
We repudiate the belief that protection
without bimetallism can restore pros
perity. Bimetallism and protection must
be accepted as constituting the vital in
principle, necessary to the safety
of the industries of our country and the
toilers who carry on those industries.