Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-08
CHICAGOs LOCAL ELECTION.
Repu blfcans Have Twenty Out Of
Thirty-Five Aldermen.

Thirty-FkVe Aldermen.
Out Of thirty-five aldermen. the republi-
cans Yesterday at Chicago elected twenty,
the democrats thirteen. and two independ-
ents were chosen. There are thirty-four
wards in the city. but two aldermen were
chosen in the tenth, there being a vacancy
in that ward. The principal feature of the
election was the effort of the reform element
to down a number of the aldermen.
The reformers were successful with a ma
torfty Of the men they were after, but they
failed to secure three or four bright par
ticular scalps they desired. Party lines were
not strong in a number of the wards and
the reform movement had much weight
The fight on the town officers was in all
OF the towns straight party issue. and the
republicans were uniformly successful
carrying all the town offices by majorities
ranging from 1900 to 1900
The election was very quiet, save in the
first and nineteenth wards, where there
were number of fights and several shoot
ing ARRAYS, nobody, however. being seri-
ously injured. Not over twenty arrests were
made during the day.
The returns from the aldermanic contests
show that the republicans have on the total
10000
Full returns from the first and nineteenth
wards in which most of the fighting oc-
CURED. show that twenty six men We're laid
The great majority Of these were not In
jured badly, and none OF them fatally. The
man hurt the most was Joseph Tregan, who
was shot in the ankle.
At II o'clock returns from thirty-five
towns throughout the state showed the re-
publcans successful in thirty, the demo-
Gratis In three, and split tickets elected in
two. The vote was entirely on city and
in any part of the state to call out a strict
party vote All Of the voting was on local
matters.
Political Notes.
Returns from the special congressional
election held in the eleventh district of
Texas yesterday to elect a successor to the
late Cor gresham W. H. Grain indicate the
election Of kleberg, democrat. The other
candidates are Lawher. populist, and Brew
ster, republican. Kleberg is for the gold
standard.
Nebraska municipal elections occurred
yesterday. A heavy vote was polied, even
in the face of heavy rains. A general dis
position WAS manifested to disregard party
lines. The issue was high license, and in a
rajority Of cases was carried.
Martin PattiSon, the republican candidate,
and Mesaba iron maker. is elected mayor
of West Superior. Wis, by about 600 ma
jCrity. He succeeds to the Office from which
Rev. c. S. Starkweather was deposed by i'm
peachment.
The republicans have again carried Mil
naukee by an average plurality for the en-
tire city ticket of probably 1000. At mid
Plight returns had been received from more
than one-haif of the 124 voting precincts in
the city, and the result waS4uffic!ently well
established to leave no room for doubt that
the entire city ticket was elected.
The republican convention for the first
congressional district of Kentucky yester-
day elected J. H. Tapley and w. H. Yandel
as delegates to the St. Louis convention
and instructed them for Bradley
Senator Allen nf Nal 10 hoe
letter to Gov Holcomb declining to he a
candidate on the populist ticket for presi-
Dental honors.
Republican conventions to select delegates
to state and congressional district conyen-
tons were held in Carroll, Coffee, Gibson,
Summer, Henderson, Weakley, Campbell
Sullivan, Blount, Sewer, Cooke, Monroe.
Anderson. Carter, Greene and Washington
counties Of Tennessee Monday. All Endorsed
Mckinley and selected Mckinley delegates
to state and district conventions II g
and by nearly all the conventions for dele
gate from the state at large.
The Webster faction of the republican
party held state convention at Columbia,
S. c., yesterday. All of the delegates were
Etgroes, except fifteen white men, who have
Deeh known In republican politics in the
state ever since the war. The convention
was overwhelmingly for Mckinley, and the
four delegates-at-large We're instructed to
vote for him, first, last and all the time The
delegates are: Robert Smalls and w. n
Crum. colored: T. 3. Johnston and p
Webster, white.
Charles b. Lands was nominated for Con-
gress yesterday by the republicans of the
ninth Indiana district
The democrats of the twelfth Indiana dis
trict nominated James NJ Robinson for
Congress yesterday.