The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-07
The Mayor Says Parker's Victory
Was Due to the Work of the
City Hall Machine.
REASON FOR THE LIGHT VOTE.
Good Citizens Apathetic Because
of Caucus Candidates C0nnec-
tion With the Gangsters-
Some Jugglery.

Mayor Ziegenhein is not backward abou;
claiming credit for the invaluable service
rendered the secret caucus candidates by
his City Hall machine at the Republican
primary on Tuesday.
They can say what they please about
my administration, but they can't deny that
I've given them n ticket as good as any, /"
said he. Il won't say it's any better, but
it's just as good. from Parker down.
when I saw The Republic this morning
with that big headline. .Ziegenhein Ma
chine Wins at the Republican Primary I
said to myself: They've got 1t right; you
can't beat Ziegenheln.' It's all over but the
shouting. Wen give the Democrats 10000
votes and beat EN-"
What Mayor Ziegenhein said appears es-
pecially significant in the light of the re-
marks made by Judge Zachritz yesterday
IL discussing his defeat: Its useless to
try to fight a machine"
The Judge wrote to Mr.. Parker yester-
day, congratuating him upon his nominal
tion and adding: 81 trust 1t will be fol-
lowed by the election of the whole ticket"
| He volunteered to do all within his power
to bring about this result.
| Judge Zachritz makes no statement ex-
pressing confidence in the election Of the
Iiegenhein- backed ticket. After the bump
Ing he received Tuesday he is in a humor
he thinks, with q great many Others that
the close alliance made by the Parker
people with the City Hall machine is bound
The light vote at the primary is taken
as an indication of the lack Of widespread
interest in the Republican nominees; 1t was
many away from the polls but apathy had
the weather beat in this matter, and the
prediction is heard on all sides that al
low on April 2, it will prove much colder
day for the City Hall gang and its nominees
than was March 8.
ZIEGENHEIN
BEHIND THE TICKET.
Good citizens. regardless Of politics, BE see !.
| ticket, which was nominated Tuesday, and
the Ziegenhein payrolers who are back Of
it. who are working for It ana whose e. onlg my
| hope Is that they may elect Parker IN the
| face Of public sentiment and thus retain
| their Jobs.
IT: DO Iaip You suppose e We would would have loft
man many PARKER a II See Se had S thought Billy had
any chance to win? We got the tn, rip,t tip from m
! stay with him. and that we had show to
elect him. where there was no show for
successful one, and he'll be business man
| in politics and be as smart as any one OF
| 'em II he stays in.
DO you suppose for second he can at.
| up nights working for him. the gang that
| did the plugging for him in the wards. the
ehinery she Of the WSoe town. 1s
II don't think he will. and If he does
he's a dead one. for, after all: politics is
and and getting what's in il for yourself. II
Parker won't make good with us, why, We'll
find somebody. who will make good.
in some wards where trouble was expected
more was dished out. That's one indica-
tion that this Parker crowd intends to do
things right"
SITUATION
PECULIAR ONE.
The fact that tha Cit. Hall gang is with
Parker and that he depends upon Its MEM
bers to do all the practical politics that
It is this very same City Hall gang which
brought such disrepute upon the Republican
seme business men on the Republican ticket
was made as last resort in the hope of
saving the party from utter defeat at the
this ticket. the City Hail gang will bend
every effort to obtain its success.
Of the are not taa oGkns for
any Of their nominees through. AS each
day passes the men on the ticket are more
thoroughly obligated to these. practical
politicians" and when anything Is due
them the practical ones never fail to collect
MORE ABOUT
REMARKABLE COUNTING.
Delayed returns continued to come into
day. One ballot box from the Eighteenth
Ward was received at $50 a. m. and the
other at $3.50 a. m. In the First District ga
ballots were cast and in the Second District
Central Committeeman Hahn declared
that the judges and clerks were careful to
count every vote for every candidate. 1t
district. Yet In the First District Of the
Seventh Ward. where S7 ballots were cast.
sioners' Office in less than two hours after
the polls closed. These facts go to show
either a remarkable dearth Of mathema-
ticians among the Eighteenth Ward Judges
Seventh Ward, SO marvellous that when the
returns came in from the Seventh Ward
district q disinterested. spectator in the
to remark:
'If ever run for office on the Republican
ticket the other fellow can have all the
Indians he wants. just SO have the judges
on my SIDE"
The returns from both districts of the
Seventeenth Ward. where n. L. Weeke.
Sergeant-at-Arms Of the House Of Dele
gates; was candidate for the nomination
as member of the House were not found
yesterday. and as a result the vote in this
trict Of the First Ward. The fight here. as
in the Seventeenth, was principally for the
House of Delegates nomination. Edmund
Bersch, present member, was a candidate
for denomination. The 1eturns from the
Second District indicate the nomination Of
one of his opponents, Gustav H. Overbeck
by 14S votes. But this may be overcome by
the vote in the other district.
The total vote, with all Of the seventeenth
Ward and one district of the First Ward
missing. Is: Parker 2O.077; Zachritz, 5000.
with complete returns the total vote may
less than were cast at the Democratic pri-
mary.
HOUSE OF
FIGHTS.
In Mayor Ziegenheins ward, the Ninth, !
Emil Hartmann, present representative in |
the House of Delegates, was beaten for the |
denomination by Louis P. Gronmann. In |
the Tenth Ward Charles A Gutke, present |
was victorious. |
In the Twenty-eighth Ward. where a |
candidate of S. F. Myerson, Central Com |
Paul Reiss. the opposing candi- |
date, was chosen by majority of 400 |
beating Nangle in his own district. This |
is decisive victory for the Cabanne Re- |
publicans, who compose the Citizens Re
Club Of the TTenty-eigh.h Ward;
absence at the primary Of attempts
at. repeating, after both the Zie-
geinbein-Parker newspapers had worked |
themselves into frenzy denouncing
in advance the efforts which they reported |
would be made to stuff the ballot boxes
cerned, the primary was dead dull. II
there were any Indians" they were all
for no "hollering" was heard from
the Parker workers.