The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-22
WAS DECIDED LULL
Not Nearly So Many Men
Registered Yesterday.
SEVENTY TWO HUNDRED
Is the Total Tapp Men Knife
Burton.

Not nearly 50 many men registered yes
terdsv as the day before but the women
kept I'D the pace OF Monday until about
4 o'clock. Five hundred and fifty women
had registered at that hour. Not more
than 80 nen registered all day and after
3 o'clock hardly a dozen came in, until &
The total now numbers 300 The books
viii be kept open tonight and tomorrow
night until O'Clock.
The very men who. for political reasons
are fighting Mayor Ross today and reiter-
at.ng impossible stories against him have
I'd 10 within the last month, gone on rec
ord. daily, in the assertion that as mayor
FF'lnlay Ross has been great success.
This IS true Of every man on the Popu-
list ticket except one or TWO.
There Is no question but that Mr.. Tapp
himself, had George Young been noml-
mated, would not only have voted against
Young. but would nave run independent
for mayor in order to help Mayor Ross
out and beat Young, IN fact, the enmi1y
against Young was SO strong that when
an effort was made last Friday IN order
to paIIiate certain elements, TO force James
Burton, the leader OF the Young forces, 20
withdraw from the ticket as councilman
the Tapp forces were N favor OF 1t 10 2
man. and only the firm stand Of single
Democrat on the ticket prevented this.
The TaDp men in the Sixth ward are Sc
cretlv organizing 70 knife Burton, who IS
running for the council, because, they say
II Taop is elected mayor and Burton leads
thu council he will be a disturbing element.
They also accuse Burton and Young OF
carrying the First ward primaries by
fraud.
Mr.. Tapp knew that Mayor Ross has
made a good mayor. He got in the race
only through a rivalry in which ne wanted
10 beat Young. The Tapp forces were told
bv the Young crowd that they couldn' t
elect Tapp, but the Tapp forces replied
that Tapp would make better race than
Young. Young came within sixty-four
votes Of being mayor and the Young crowd
IS still insisting that Tapp will be daisy
II he reaches within several hundred Of
that figure.
Ever since last July the men who make
up 1.-THE PopulLst ticket have been pointing
out with pride how Mayor Ross has cared
for the city's finances. Every Populist
nominee, but one or two. has been loud
in his praise OF Ross various improve
ments in the city. Every man on the ticket
knows in his heart that as a careful, pro-
grsssive, live mayor, Finlay Ross has few
equals.
In nearly every case the Populist nomi-
nees have for months been staunch friends
Of Mayor Ross, and not until their minds
were filed with the desire Of winning, have
they found tongue to say a thing against
him. Now they are saying things against
him for campaign purposes. Real discred-
its being absent, the opposition is resortinG
principally 10 ridicule. L is the only fight
they have 70 make. Mayor Ross Is not
a poser or an orator. which fact seems
70 be the street charges against him, but
for the next two years during its revival
Wichita can best dispense with oratory
and pastures, for clean, straightforward
business. and the less the community runs
- undesirable experiments and impas-
stoned oratory on the part Of its officials,
the better il will be for Wichita.