The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-04

lid 1.-THE vsnquished Lay Defeat to
the CoIored TIckets-with the City and
Six Townships Heard From BridsemaH
Has Majority.
The hottest political fight in the his
tory Of the city was made yesterday al
the Republican primaries between L.
Oh. Cox and S. y. Bridgeman. candi-
dates for clerk OF the district court
Both sides lined up not only ready TO
fight but with great deal OF bitter
ness Of feeling engendered during the
kong campaign preceding the prma-
~ies.
There was no serious trouble as was
I expected. at the polls. That which was
feared was avoided because it was
feared.
The net result OF the primaries so far
as heard from, and if there are no con-
tests. is that Mr.. Bridgernan viii be
nominated on the first ballot His
friends claimed last night after having
heard unofficially from five townships
that he had 1856 votes or forty more
than sufficient 20 nominate him
He carried all the wards in the city
except the third.
In he First ward he got a majority
Of II.
In the Second he got a majority
Of so.
In the Third ne lost by a majority
OF six
In the Fourth he got a majority of 81.
In the Fifth he got a majority OF
eight
In the Sixth he got majority Of So.
In the Second ward G. W. Bristow
got the delegation for representative
for the Sixty-seyenth district, in the
Fourth ward c. NJ. Irwin got the dele
cation and in the Third ward DR.. Allen
got It.
For representative for the Sixty
eighth district, Otto G. Eckstein got
both wards-F'irst and Sixth.
The primaries opened in the city at
4 O'Clock and lasted until I. The chair
man Of the county central committee
appointed the election judges and clerks
by authority of a resolution. Mr.. Cox's
friends claimed that the chairman was
TOO friendly to Mr.. Bridgeman to exer-
else this power and wanted the voters to
elect judges and clerks. but the chair
man exercised his right.
The city sent its ballot boxes 10 the
primaries 70 be used but the commit
tee had ballot boxes of it's own and used
them In the Sixth ward the city ballot
boxes We're thrown out the back door
and into the weeds.
Late last night il was discovered that
Bridgeznan got six delegates in the
Third ward and they will probably be
conceded 10 him.
II happened this way. There were
three candidates for clerk IN that ward,
Cox. Bridgeman and Mr.. Mccall. Mr.
Mccall had six delegates on his ticket
the same as were on the Bridgenan
ticket and the Is votes they got there
added 70 the 125 they got on the Bridge
nan ticket made them 143 votes each
and gave them IL majority. In the
Judges counting UP, they went by the
head OF the ticket and that is how the
mistake was made.
In the Sixth ward the caucus ticket |
was beaten It contained six votes for
Bridgeman and seven for Cox. but Mr..
BTidgeman made a fight 70 get the en-
tire delegation and got 1t.
II would be untrue to say that there
was no soreness last night over the re-
suit OF the primaries. When fight has
been 50 hot there is always soreness &C
companying defeat, but in five days
from now the leaders and victors
thought everything will be serene and
every Republican VIII be working for
the ticket to be made by the convention |
TOMORROW.
At n Fourth ward the polls were |
closed al o'clock but those who were |
ready at that time 10 vote were left IN |
and they cast their ballots.
Chairman Wilson said last night that |
il mis- opinion the primaries were the |
fairest ever held in Wichita OF course |
the friends OF the defeated candidates |
take issue with him on this. They |
claim that they had several voters who /
We're not allowed to cast their ballots. |
II any voters were kept away who have
a legitimate right TO vote it is proba-
BILE that q contest Will be made and the |
matter settled in the convention There
was no talk Of a contest last night.
In an the wards colored tickets were
used by the Bridgeman side and in four
Of the wards they used flaming red
white and blue tickets. Mr.. Cox's
friends attribute his defeat more 20 the
oolored tickets than TO anything else.
TIE following are the delegates cleo
ted:
FIRST WARD.
egates--John 5. Beckwith. J. D.
Deyier. e. A Whitbeck, g. w. Root,
George Morgan, T. J. Parham. II. L
Tuttle. John Carter, W. y. Caswell, J.
H Cole. s. B. Herman. D. E Fuller, F.
S. Burt. P. ". Bentley. Phil Hyde. Grin
Heron. An Fshenstock. A c. Husey,
Ben Reynolds. Cliff Sawyer, F. L. Ack-
erman, F. w Swab. Ben Eaton.
Alternates-Frei Buckley, Tom Co
viii. H. F. Goode. G. ". Berdfne. Bert
Barlow. Herman Pulls, E z. Bigelow,
y. J. Tangney. G. w. Crawford. J. ?.
Graham, Bud Clark. Phil Hyde. 6. F.
Stewart, r. 3. Wallace. Jim Bentley,
John Higgins, VIM. LILLE. Thos> Shaw.
Paul Brown. John Andrews. Joe Cor
win, George Green, ". F Walker.
SECOND WARD.
DeleSates-John A. Doran. John N
Chain. F. J. Cossett. Ceph RIhey. ".
F Schell. ThoS. c Wilson, W. NJ John
son. b. II. Downing. A c. Race. VIM
Dent. c. F. Horner. ]. CT. Williams
Theo Reed. john L. Powell, And. J.
Wit. j. r Dunston- c. II. Luling. J.
w Dresser, John Mccullough, s. CT.
Corwin. l. V. Jones, S. ". Flemming.
Frank Levan-
AiternateS-Ed Dumcnt, John NJ Cos
sett. E z. Enoch, r T. Preston, John
T CaTpen ter, Casper Haines. J. T Nose
Iey, W. B. Mead. Geo. d. Downing.