The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-21
HEAVY DAYS WORK
Nearly Six Hundred Women
Registered Yesterday.
SENTIMENT FOR ROSS
Some Evident Necessities of
the Campaign.

The registration hum struck merry clip
yesterday and resulted in the heaviest
days work for both sides since the nomi-
nations. The bulk of the work was in
the basement OF the City building, where
the women register. Over so ladies came
in during the day, and so far as could be
noticed in casual conversation the honors
for Ross and Tapp were about evenly di-
vided. During the latter part Of the day
there was a decided Ross sentiment in the
Office talk while the queen sove-eLgns gave
their names and age.
Upstairs City Clerk Kramer and his as
slstants were kept busy with the steady
run OF work, which lasted through the en-
tire day. The feature Of yesterday was the
regularity with which the voters came
steadily pouring in.
The total up 10 o'clock last night was:
Males, 4,422; females, 1885. Total 6,357.
One thing is very apparent in the matter
Of registration and that IS that the women
who are for Mayor Ross must register al
once
There Is still reprehensib,e lack Of in
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the Republicans that they would win
easily and without effort has not been dis
PEELED as much as IT should be.
The claim was made two years ago that
II Mayor Ross was elected he would make
a good business mayor. He was elected
after a hard fight. From the day he took
hold OF the city he has guarded its in
terests as he would those of 4 very dear
child. The Wichita Of TWO years ago was
not inviting. Miles upon miles Of back.
rotting, jagged board sidewalks reached
everywhere. Crossings had reared high
above the surrounding ground, streets
were ungraded and uneven. Grifenstein
park was a tangled wilderness. The
finances Of the city were in bad shape.
No one vii or can deny these assertions
Mayor Ross began TO improve the city.
He gave the impetus TO the movement 10
paint residences. TO build new homes. TO
erect additions; he made the streets bet
ter: he improved the sidewalks hundred
fold. He gathered in the revenues of the
city and honestly turned them over. He
conducted the business Of the city in a
strictly business way. No one denies this
The opposition does not deny it. Contra
dictiOn on every hand stares them in the
face il they do. The only thing the oppo-
sition has attempted in the way Of a cam
paign is observation-disclosures of Mayor Ross
inability 70 make a speech; ridicule OF the
claim of his friends that he has been an
exceptional mayor; ridicule Of everything
pertaining TO his adninistrat ton.
But everybody who is for Mayor Ross
and who does not want TO see Wichita
turned over to a government by emotional
whims should register, and do so today.
PROSTATE Wichita by the inauguration of
experiments in municipal government and
every merchant. every Iaborer, every
home-owner, every worker for Wichita
and for himself and family will under
stand. too late. how important a matter
this Of registering and voting is.
Nearly every laborer. every merchant.
every owner Of real estate knows what
Wichita has passed through since 1883
During the last TWO years It has begun
revival. Those who have but recently
moved to the city need merely to ask any
one who has been through the mill what
difficult time IL was. Now the businesses
OF the city are prosperins. the artisans are
at work. the city is keeping step with its
prosperous neighbOrs in Oklahoma. Il is
in no shape to be practiced upon.
The registration books viii be open to-
night, Wednesday and Thursday till 8
O'clock