Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-03
Elections Being Held in Several
Western States Today.
HEAVY VOTE POLLED GENERALLY
Hot Contests in Several Of the Big
Western Cities.
RESULT IN OHIO YESTERDAY

CHICAGO, April IA brisk vote was
polled early today for the election Of alder
men and town officials. Politicians had all
along complained Of the lack of interest
taken in the campaign and were agreeably
surprised at the large number of voters
who. encouraged by perfect spring weather,
visited the voting booths before going to
work.
The reform element which has ma
jority in the present council, began work at
the peep of dawn to get their constituents
to cast the needful ballots. But they were
not more active then the leaders and the
rank and file of the so-called gang" The
traction and other corporate interests have
been active throughout the campaign, work
ing against the reform candidates, who
stand for compensation for all public fran
chises. Thirty-six aldermen are to be elect
ed, and assessors, collectors, supervisors
and clerks for the various townships.
Exciting Contest in Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 3.-Municipal
elections were held throughout Wisconsin
today. The contest in this city was the
most exciting in many years. The street
railway issue had been the feature of the
campaign. The weather early In the day
was cloudy and threatening rain, but a
heavy vote was polled. The city tickets
were headed by Mayor David S. Rose, dem
| ocrat. seeking reelection, against Henry ].
Baumgartner. republican. Aldermen, super
visors and county judge were also voted
upon.
Big Vote in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 3-Fine
weather brought out almost the entire vote
of the city today. A full city ticket was to
be selected. For mayor, p. s. Brown, jr.,
headed the republican lists, while James
Reed led the democrats.
Hot Contest at st. Joe.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 3.-The city cleo
ton here today hotly contested. The
" Gather was clear and warm and heavy
vote was polled. Early indications pointed
to the success of Combe, republican candi
date for mayor, and the majority of his
ticket.
Voting in Nebraska Cities.
OMAHA, Neb., April 3.-Municipal cleo
tions are being held today in all towns and
cities of Nebraska. except Omaha. In the
larger cities the issues are political, though
local matters are so thoroughly mixed that
1t can hardly be called straight political
fight. In the smaller towns the liquor
license question was predominant. In South
| Omaha, which is generally a democratic
stronghold, the fight was political and had
been an exceedingly lively one. The weather
was perfect and large vote was polled.
Result in Ohio Yesterday.
A summary of the results of the munich
pal and township elections in Ohio yester-
day indicate more republican than demo-
cratic gains but no special cause for it is
assigned, except that the republican fac
tions that have been fighting for years have
evidently been getting together, and that
the democrats have shown more indiffer-
ence than usual. This applies especially to
the larger cities; but there have been re-
publican gains according to the returns
from rural districts and interior towns that
are not thus accounted for.
In Cleveland, where the factions have
been most intense, the result is also de-
cisive. A feature of the day was the cleo
ton of DIR. Washington GLADDEN. as coun-
Gilman at Columbus, where the question Of
municipal franchises was special issue.
Toledo, where Mayor Samuel Jones has
held sway as an independent factor for
years. At Dayton the democrats reelected
Mayor Lindmuth. At some interior points
the republicans elected officers.
AS local issues were paramount at almost
all places, 1t is difficult to indicate any
cause for the drift of public preferences.
The republicans never scored such a sue
cess over the fusionists at the election
for all the city offices in Cincinnati. They
also have all members of the new board of
trolls everything except the police and fire
departments. The board of legislation
stands twenty-four republicans and seven
democrats, and the board of education
twenty-four republicans and seven demo-
Gratis.