The advocate., 1897-11-10
REPUBLICANS HAVE LOST.
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ical partisan In local affairs that he has
been in the past
]. J. KugIer, the POpulist candidate
for Commissioner in Dickinson county,
was beaten by but six votes.
In Linn county the opposition to the
Republican party elected forty-two Of
the sixty-fve township officers.
In Reno county the court house prop
osition carried, but the high school did
not fare so we'll, majority being given
against 1t.
The Republicans get the two High
School Trustees in Dickinson county,
but In Atchison the Popullsts get one of
the three.
Judge Andrews majority is 112 He
carried Rush, Ness, Scott, Edwards and
Pawnee and lost Greeley, Wichita, Lane
and Hodgman.
In Hamilton county there are several
precincts which cast very light vote.
In Shiloh there were votes cast, in La
mont z, and in Forbes only 3.
Two years ago the average Republican
majority In Phillips county was 1873, this
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two years ago and 1888 this year.
In Bourbon county only about two
thirds of the total number Of voters
were out. A light vote costs Populists
more strength than amy other party.
In the next issue OF the Advocate a
table showing the officers elected in each
county will be given. 1t will be on the
same plan as that Of two years ago.
Miss Mabel Marlin was elected County
Superintendent of Saline county by the
PopulisCs to fill the unexpired term made
vacant by the death of her brother.
The figures given in the summary on
county officers in this issue does not in
Clude officers elected to fill vacancies or
officers which are elected in some coun-
ties and not in others. 1t relates only to
Clerk, Treasurer, Register, Sheriff, Sur
veyor and Coroner.
In Bow Creek township, Sheridan
county, the Republican ticket was nOmi-
mated at the county seat, which is not in
the township at all, and no convention
was held by that party within the town
ship. A contest on the Republicans
elected is probable.
In its issue Of Thursday previous to
election the Topeka Capital said that
vote for Cook for Sheriff was an in
dorsement of Mckinley. Cook was
beaten in Topeka by a majority of 66
and only carried the county by 1875. Nc
Kinley had majority of 1887 last Year,.
Barber, which has always been Pop
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every office. The result is due to fac
tional fight within the party Simpsons
friends says 1t is black eye for Mckay
and Titus, while the friends of the last
named gentlemen assert that Simpson
Is the cause of the defeat.
The silver fight did not win I'm Brown
county, every one Of the Republican
candidates being elected Grant Har-
rington, Of the Hiawatha Democrat,
prints the pictures of the candidates
elected, accompanied by the following
statement: 1--WE must live with them
for two years, so let us be good natured
about IT,"
Paola Times: "Popullsts, as matter
Of fact, are noted for the little interest
they take in vOting where they consider
there is nothing but Office at stake. The
average Populist must have something
more than place to arouse his enthusi-
asm. He has no interest where he CON
siders there is no great principle In
volved. So he remains at home. But
his heart is right and when the enemy
counts his apathy as indicating change
in his opinion, the enemy will sooner or
later awaken to the fact that Pop is
not always asleep when his eyes are
clOsed"