The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-04-03
Republican Candidate for Mayor De.
feats James German by a Ma
iority Of rs Votes.
piRscH sQUEEzEs IN BY TEN.
Good Men are Elecsed 70 the Council From
Seven wards.-Result victory for
Better Element of the City.

The people won victory in Keno
sha Tuesday and as result of the YER
dict of the people expressed at the polls
the city government will in another
week pass into the hands of class of
as clean and competent men as we're
ever elected in Kenosha.
Charles H. Pfennig. the Republican
candidate for Mayor, is elected over
James German, who was an aspirant
for fourth term, by majority of IS
votes. Gustav Jacob remains City
Clerk, defeating Dumke by major
ity of 247, and Martin Steinmetz is re-
elected City Treasurer over G. N. Frost
by majority of 4O3. The Democratic
nominees for Assessor and Justice of
the Peace, Charles Orth and George B.
McCarron, have defeated Henry Jor-
dan and B. 0. Sturgis, but the ma jori-
ties are very small, the majority of
Ortiz being but thirty-fve and that of
McCarron but fourteen.
Besides electipg the head of the
city ticket the Republican candidates
for Alderman and entire ward tickets
were chosen in four wards. In the
First, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
wards the entire Democratic ticket is
elected by less than usual ma jorities.
The other wards are strictly Republican
with the exception of the Fourth ward
in which James Larsen and II. H.
Lane are tied for the Office of School
Commissioner with possible contest
in favor of Larsen.
It was an election of many surprises
and clearly victory of the people re-
CARELESS of party. The old gang
which had controlled the City Council
for so many years was wiped out and
with such men as T. ]. Dale, Charles
III Goodman, w. r. Anderson, John
Hegeman, George D. Head, Jacob
Hermann, John K1eist, William Leon
ard, Thomas Nader, Matthias Green
wa1d, Charles Werner, Peter Elsen and
Chris Schend in the Council the people
can feel assured that their business
and in a busidess like manner.
Mayor German was defeated by his
own strong holds. He came to the
bridge with his large ma jorities re-
duced by, over a hundred and in the
Third and Fifth wards his majorities
we're changed to negative quantities to
swell the ma ority of his opponent.
The vote was a full one and it was
clearly demonstrated that the people
were ready for change of admins
trations.
The greatest surprise of the day
came in the Fifth ward where the peo-
pie placed themselves on record as in
favor of better government by no I'M
certain majority. The defeatof Alder
man Scholey was expected but no one
had counted on the Fifth usually a
Democratic ward sending in MAORI
ty of 90 for Pfennig.
1t was men and not parties that won
the victory and when the band started
out Tuesday night to serenade the sue
cessfu1 candidates there were many
Democrats marching in the front rank
rejoicing in the success that had been
achieved.
The complexion of the City Council
along political lines will be six Repub-
licans and ten Democrats, but the n1en
elected on both tickets feel that their
election wasn't matter. of politics
but that they were chosen on account
Of the fact that the people thought
that they were the safest men for the
Office.
AS a matter of figures Martin Stein
metz, the Democratic candidate for
City Treasurer, leads his ticket with a
majority of 403. Mr.. Steinmetz has
been in Office two years and the peo-
pie were satisfied with the way he
carried on the duties of the Office and
granted him an acknowledgment OF
his work. The same can be said of
City Clerk Jacob, who had majority
of 247.
in Council a week from next Monday
night and it is proba bic that the Coun-
Gil will be recognized on wholly
non-partisan basis.
There was but one blot on the sue
cess of the people Tuesday, and that
was the election Of Peter sPirsch in the
First ward. It was hard fight, and
Thomas Hansen, the opposing candi-
date, can feel that he had the support
of the better element in both parties.
The floating vote in this ward, how
ever, was all controlled by the Pirsch
element, and to this he owes his ma
jority of ten votes.
The full returns show that the re-
suit of the vote in the different wards,
and the majorities of the successful
candidates was as follows: