Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06
Z. .. Jones Elected Mayor
by 81 Majority.
REPS HAVE COUNCIL.
Majorities- Republicans Made Hard
Fight for Will Leonard and Elected Him
One Democratic COu Ouncilman and Two
Republicans Chosen.
The rooster crOweth,

Plymouth goes democratic by a ma
jority of 81 votes. and the people of
Plymouth have decided that it shall be
Editor Oglesbee instead of Mayor
Oglesbee.
BY this vote it is quite evident that a
great many republicans shared the opin-
Ion of The Independent in the mayor
ality contest. 1t is question if Editor
Oglesbee himself did not believe that
the best interests of the city would be
preserved by his defeat, if we are to
judge by the following editorial taken
from Tuesdays issue of The News, in
which he says:
"The people all over the land are
awake to their best interests, demand
ing good, clean and honorable business
methods
Whatever may have been the i'm
piled meaning of the defeated mayor
atty candidate in the above quotation,
it is evident that the people have looked
to their best interests and that they
have selected good, clean and honora-
bic business man for mayor. They
have rendered their decision with un
mistakaole emphasis. They have left
the republican candidate for mayor Il
votes in the rear of the next lowest
among his fellow candidates
1t is evident that the politics of Ply
mouth is about evenly divided as the
vote of the other candidates show,
and the result hinged in several cases
on the ability of the opposing candida
dates to muster the greatest number of
personal friends who would forego party
affilation.
This appears TO be the case as regards
the clerksnip. Mr.. Leonard has all the
time been considered the strong man
on the republican ticket from the fact
that re has large circle of friends
among the young men, and the defeat
of Prosper Ball does not carry with 1t
any differences that Mr.. Ball is unpop-
;.lar in his party. 1t simply means that
he had the strongest possible opponent.
AS it was, he would have been elected
if the small number of twenty-fOur
votes had been changed.
The republicans are trying to make
future political capital out of Mr..
Balls defeat, but Mr.. Ball and his
friends will not be misguided by any
such appeals to their prejudices. His
vote shows that he put up good battle
against the strongest possible opposi-
ton
In the first ward DR.. Reynolds re-
ceived handsome majority. being the
only democratic alderman selected.
Messrs Morris and Kuhn were the
two successful alderman on the repub-
lican ticket
The vote is as follows:
Z. o. ones, First ward, IA; Second,
166; Third, 1863. Total, 479.
Il. b. Oglesbee, First ward, 10; Sec
ond, 148; Third, III. Total 1893.
u. o. Jones majority in the city, 81.
Prosper Ball-D-First ward l26;
Second 1876; Third 142 Total 4Oi.
Will Leonard -R-First ward 81
Second 10; Third 100. Total 451.
Leonard's majority in city AZ.
j. N. Wilson-D-First ward 1873;
Second AL; Third 163. Total 432.
Chas. Wilcox-R-First ward 80; second
166; Third 1863. Total 425.
j. N. Wilson's majority in city is Z.
Thos. Chahey-D- ward 1873;
Second IA; Third 157. Total 43i.
Simon Myers-R-First ward 50; Sec
ond l63; Third 176. Total 424.
Chaney's majority in the city is 10.
DIR. Reynolds s-D-133.
G, s. Cleveland RS.
Reynolds majority is 4S.
| George Vinall-D-134.
| e.. l.. Morris s-R-17O.
Morris majority is 36.
YIN. Sult-D-160.
John Kuhn-R-I73.
Kuhu's majority is IL.
Election RumbIes.