Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-05
HARRISON
IS REELECTED
Will be Mayor of Chicago For
Two Years.
OF HIS OPPONENTS
Republican Candidate is Satisfied But
Altgeld is NOt--The Next
City Council.
OF HIS OPPONENTS

Chicago, April 4.-Carter Fl. Harrison
was reelected mayor of Chicago today
by a total vote of 46, 9l4, against los, 3O4 for
Zenas r. Garter, the republican candl-
date, and 10. 401 for John p. Altgeld, the
independent democratic candidate.
Harrison's plurality is 50, $40. In the last
mayorality election Harrison was elected
by a vote of 49, 900 against 59,3d2 for
Sears. the regular republican nominee,
and 1887 for Harlan, the Independent re-
publican. The democrats have elected
their candidates for the town offices in
the north and west owns, the republicans
carrying the south towns, although the
final count may take this from them. The
! returns at midnight, however, indicate
that they have a safe majority.
The vote from the wards shows. as far
as it has been counted, that the republic
! cans have elected IA aldermen and the
democrats nine. The contest in several
Of the wards is very close and the Off
cial count will probably be necessary to
determine the result. The city council
has been composed of As democrats and
233 republicans. and the democrats will no
doubt retain a working majority.
The election was entirely upon local is
sues, no element of national politics en-
tering into the campaign. The firm stand
taken by Mayor Harrison against the
proposed 50-year extension of thhe street
car franchises was Il strong element of
his popularity and gained him many votes
from the republicans, besides holding
CLOSELY to him many of the democratic
party who might have cast their votes for
the independent candidate. Another fact
that drew to him many republicans was
the existing opposition to the republican
machine among the rank and file of the
republican party. Thousands of votes
We're cast for Harrison that would have
been received by Carter, the republican
nominee, had not the latter beel backed
by the machine politicians.
Several Independent and republican pa
pers supported Mr.. Harrison, among
them the Times-Herald and Post, which
have been known as Mckinley organs.
The election revealed some remark
able changes in the republican vote, par
ticularly in the strong republican wards,
where the shifting to the democratic cam
didate was very marked.
In the third ward, which has always
been a republican stronghold, ana IN
which the democrats We're not able to Sc
cure a candidate this year. SO sure was
the party of defeatt, Harrison received a
majority of 81. In the last mayoralty
election this ward cast a total OF S,42S
republican votes, divided between Sears,
the regular republican nominee, and Har-
Ian, the independent republican canada
/ date. against 1854 for Harrison. Today
the republican candidate for town treas
urer received in this ward 3,447 votes,
against 1883 for his democratic COMPETE
tor. The fourth ward cast two years ago
1867 republican votes, against 1922 for
Harrison. Today it elected a republic
can alderman by a majority of 1,S00 and
Harrison carried it by a majority over
Cartier of Gil. In various wards a like
result was shown, there being a strong
republican slidee toward Harrison, many
of the wards which gave him strong ma
%ioritiees returning republican candidates
for aldermen.
The election was one of the most quiet
that the city has ever experienced.
There were rumors of coming trouble in
the first and eighteenth wards, where the
republicans claimed they h ad Secur-
ed positive evidence of ''colonizing'' on
the part of the democrats, but the mat
ter came to nothing, and there We're no
difficulties to speak of. Several arrests
We're made, one man, Robert Ferguson,
having in his possession before coming
to the polls a marked official vote. He
informed the police that he had received
it from Timothy O'Connor, a republican
politician, and the latter was arrested.
Mayor Harrison declared himself to-
night as being greatly pleased with the
result of the election, saying:
1T shows that the people of Chicago
are pleasede with the administration,
and | am glad of t hat, for l honesetlty
endeaVOred to give them the best admin
lstration l could. The result shows for
itself"
Mr.. Carter, the republican candidate,
said: Il do not take the Harrison VIC
tory to be a rebuke to the republican
parity. Indeed, l think that national is-
sues were not in the minds of the people
when they cast theier b~allots-simply the
idea was uppermost that Carter H. Har-
rison was alone to thank for defeating the
attempt at long term franchises and that
reelection was due to him as a reward
for that act. Personally l nave no re-
grets over the result"
The suburb of Austin was annexed to
the city of Chicago as a result of the cleo
ton. This will add II 500 to the popuIa-
ton of Chicago.
Of the "a aldermen elected the republic
cans secured 10 and the democrats Is. The
next city council will consist of 2S re-
publicans and 40 democrats, a gain of five
for the republicans.
John r. Altgeld said of the result Of
the election tonight:
'One reason for the election of Mr.. Har-
rison was that the press supportede bin
almost without exception and the great
republican papers We're on his side. Why
did the republican papers support Harri-
son? The reason is not hard to find. They
saw that Mr.. Harrison ha2 already be-
trayed the democratic party, as he had
1t in his power to do, and he Will carry
the betrayal a great deal further and thus
make the reelection of Mckinley a GER
tafnty.
The republicans look upon this fight
as the first battle of 1900 and feel that the