The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-06

leave the place. In order to secure hel
! money, she grabbed the registration books
and refused to surrender them until she
had been satisfied by Costello that the
State had no intention Of beating her out
| Of the rent
The trouble originated under almost ex-
actly similar circumstances as that in the
Fourth Ward The Parker judges insisted
that only such ballots should be counted
as were numbered while the Zachritz
judges demanded that every ballot in the
box should be counted. G. A. Witte, one of
the Parker judges said that he and William
McMaster, the other Parker judge had
| numbered every legal ballot that was cast
and that they knew IL any ballots were
found In the box not numbered they were
illegal. They both said that while they
were numbering ballots they had seen sew
eral slipped in by voters and others not au-
thorized.
Mr.. Hobbs, when he heard the statements
of both Sides ordered the judges to proceed
with the counting of the ballots. as with
both sides holding out. he said the dead
lock might last for all eternity"
At 2:3O O'Clock this morning the returns
were far from complete. In the Seven
teenth Ward the ballot boxes were taken
from the Parker judges while they were
en- route to the Election Commissioners
office. When the boxes were found and
taken to the office the total sheets were
missing
1t VAS impossible to obtain an accurate
statement of the result on the vote for
members of the House of Delegates in
some of the wards, as the results did not
reach the Election Commissioners office.
In the Nineteenth Ward Julius Lehman.
who has been It's representative for sixteen
years in the House of Delegates, was de-
feated for denomination by Sam Stannard,
former City Committeeman. Lehman is
LIT known in the ward as ''the man who
put the lights on the water tower" this
being counted as the greatest of his achieve
ments in behalf of his constituents while
member of the legislative body. Lehman
was at one time Speaker Of the House.
When the day dawned cold, raw and
windy the Parker men realized that 1t was
Zachritz weather. and that in this one
respect the odds were against them. The
Zachritz workers were jubilant when they
felt the icy blasts. AS one Of them ex-
pressed 1t:
you won't catch any Silk-Stockings
in line for an hour a day like
this. Red flannel socks are the thing to-
day, and we've got 'em on
Out in the West End, where long lines
of men were strung out from each voting
place carriage would drive up OCCASION
ally, and from it would alight business
office to cast a vote for Parker.
First he would try to get into the polling
place: and on being told that he would have
to fall in line and wait his turn he would
consent, reluctantly, only to give it up in
five or ten minutes. return to his carriage |
and go back to the warmth of his home
or office. There Is little doubt that the |
weather and the insufficiency of voting
places kept thousands from voting, and |
most of them were Parker people. Zach |
ritz's friends. realizing that the odds were |
against him. stuck 1t out and put in .heiS |
votes. although the exposure to cold |
numbed their fingers so that they Guaid l
scarcely scratch Parker's name.
In the second precinct OF the Tenth Ward /
! ripple of excitement was caused late yes
erday afternoon by the arrest Of John
Dean. alias Skippy Dean, alias John Doe,
md Joe Gamosche, who. the police claim,
made several attempts at repeating. 1t is
.lleged that they were working in the inter-
st Of Zachritz and had voted in several of |
zenith Wards
They declared to Sergeant Grass at the
'econd District Police Station that they |