The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-04-05
EASY FOR HARRISON.
Chicago Elects the Young Democrat
Mayor for Third Term.
RoIa Wells Chosen Mayor of st. Louis by
Good Plurality, Although Republicans
Charge Eraud-TOm johnson
Wins at CIeTeIand.


Chicago, April S.-Carter H Harli-
son has been reelected mayor of eli
cago for the second time and viii next
week commence his third term as the
chief executive of the city. His to
tai plurality over Judge Elbridee
Hanecy, the republican nominee, win
be in the neighborhood Of 2s,5OO votes.
The total vote of the city, with eight
precincts to hear from, is: Harrison,
155, 275; Hanecy, $4,000; Harrison's
plurality, 2s,O73.
In the last mayoralty election the
vote was: Harrison, democrat, 14s
496; Carter. republican, 1O7, 437; Har-
rison's plurality, 41,O59.
In the presidential campaign last
fall the city vote for president was:
Mckinley, 1s4, 7s6; Bryan, III, 165; Nc
Kinley's plurality 1921. Samuel Al
schuler, the democratic nominee for
governor Of the state, ran ahead OF
Bryan, however, his vote being 1ss, 521,
against 172, 3s6 for Yates, plurality OF
16,135 for AIschuIer.
Out of the IS wards of the city, Har-
rison carried 20 and Hanecy nine. Tn
vote was badly split, some of the
strongest republican parts of the city
giving only a small plurality for the
party nominee, and some of them 90
ing for Harrison, who, however, sui
cred In some Of the democratic strong
holds. The city wards were redis-
tricted after the presidential election
anG the regular majorities in some
of the wards were turned squarely
around from what they have always
been.
One Of the features of the campaign
was the aldermanic contest in the
Twenty-frst ward, Mayor Harrison's
home ward. where Honore Palmer, son
of Potter Palmer, was a candidate for
election on the democratic ticket, il
being his first essay in politics. His
opponent was S. H. Helm, republican,
who has been alderman from the ward
for two years. Palmer was elected by
a majority Of about 1000.
RolIa Wells Had Easy Victory.
st. Louis, April 3.-Rolla Wells, the
democratic nominee for worlds fair
mayor, was elected to that Office by
plurality of about 5000. With him
was elected the entire democratic
ticket. At midnight Charles F. Wen
neker, the republican candidate for
city collector, conceded the defeat of
the entire republican ticket. George
w. Parker, the republican candidate,
and Lee Meriwether, who is running
Independently on the municipal own
ershiP platform, are running a close
race for second place. Some of the
republican leaders claim that the Mes
bit law has enabled the democrats tc
81 cIr ut he
polls They claim fraud, and threat
en- to contest the election. The dem.
ocrats, on the other hand, say that
their candidate was elected honestly
and they don't fear the result of a
contest
Tom johnson Elected Mayor OF Cleveland.
Cincinnati, April 2.-While the DEM
ocrats carried the larger cities and
some of the smaller places, yet the re-
publicans show slight gains in the
state as a whole. At Columbus. where
the republicans have had the city gov
eminent, the democrats elect their
mayor by close margin, while at
Cleveland ex-COngressman Tom L
johnson, democrat, was elected mayor
by about 5000 plurality. Golden Rue
Samuel Jones (non-partisan) was re-
elected for the third time at Toledo.
At Springfield the republicans elected
a mayor for the first time in eight
years.
Little Interest in Michigan.
Detroit, Mich, April 3.-Robert NJ.
Montgomery. of Grand Rapids, re-
publican, has been elected justice of
the supreme court by about 10000 ma
jOrity and Frank W. Fletcher and
Henry W. Carey. republican candi-
dates for regents of the state univer-
sity, have also a majority almost as
large. The vote cast was unusually
light.
Result at st. Joseph.
st. Joseph, Mo-, April 3.-At the
city election Tuesday the republicans
were victorious in the election of six
out of nine members of the house of
delegates. The republicans elected
the board of public works, but lost the
auditor.
The Sebraska Elections.
Omaha, Neb., April 3.-The issue III
nearly every small town in the state
was license or no license and reports
received last night from so villages
indicate that the majority of them
have gone for license.