Kansas City journal., 1898-03-13
REGAIN WONT STAY "IRUN. "
HE WILL RUN ON AN INDEPENDENT
TICKET.
Claims He Was Counted Out at the
Primaries and VIII Do His Best
to Defeat John p. Lynch
If Nothing More.

"oh, here's song Of anyhow. from out de
Dey say dat Lynch won out because deal
was fixed; -
And so, despite returns, de Regan he will
run;
':Dey tried to trow old Martin. but he
wouldn't stay 'trun.
Once more the hoarse and disfigured voice
of the irrepressible Martin Regan will be
raised in de bloody Sixt',' and once more
the slogan of Sixth ward Democrats will
be: HE stans by his frien's." This time.
however, it will be only a faction of the
party in that ward.
Regan. whose name has been the rallying
cry for the Democracy of that ward for 10.
these many years. refuses to acquesce in
the verdict of the primaries of last Mon
day, according 10 which he was defeated
for the nomination for councilman by the
narrow margin of eight votes by John P.
Lynch, the present incumbent. Martin has
never known defeat in the past. and he re-
fuses to make its acquaintance in the pres
ent. He proposes to run anyhow, claiming
that he was counted out by the judges and
clerks. He is now preparing petition, to
be filed with the election commissioners,
empowering him to run on an independent
ticket.
This action insures not only a more than
usually lively contest In the Sixth ward
an April, but the election of John g. Deery,
the Republican nominee. Regan has hum
dreds of friends in the ward who will rally
around him in the past and will make it
decidedly interesting for Mr.. Lynch. That
the Democrats of the ward are pretty even
ly divided between the two men Is shown
by the very close vote by which Lynch was
nominated. While Regan claims to have
hopes of being elected. it is known that his
chief desire is to encompass the defeat or
Yes. dey trowed me down" said Regan
last night, but | never went back on my
frinds and they don't go back on me. I'm
goin' to run and I'm goin' to be elected,
too. / went into this thing to be on the
square and If the vote had been honest: l
counted out and my frinds won't stand it.
j was ahead twenty votes in the West end
at 10 O'Clock at night, when they thought l
But when / didn't get beat there, they
went over the votes gain at 10 O'Clock at
night and counted me out by eight votes.
forget it. i have talked with lots Of Re-
publicans in the ward and they say they
ere wild me; Deery is foreman for Mike
Ross and Ross helped to nominate Lynch
so as to beat him with Deery. That's the
game they are tryin' to play on me and
tt,s too coarse II wont go down: The The
I'll get lots more of Democratic votes. be-
sides a good many Republican votes"
figures in the local Democracy for fifteen
or twenty years. He was originally the
proprietor of one of the toughest variety
houses in the West, in the early days of
Kansas City. He ran saloons galore dur
ing the period of his supremacy and Of
course drifted into politics and into the
council. He was a member of the lower
house for twelve years. Finally he went
broke and declined a denomination two
years ago. His fortunes were wrecked on
another variety house at Eighth and Wal
nut which was too far south to. be a
success and which was subsequently Dem
ocratic headquarters. He went to Cripple
Creek two years ago and Is credited with
having made a little money. He returned
to Kansas City several months ago and
at once announced his return to politics
and declared he would again represent the
against Regan's honesty in the council and
he has thousands of friends in his party.