The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-17
FACTI0NAL STANDING OF NEW
CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE.


FACTI0NAL STANDING OF NEW
CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
ANTI-kERENS.
First Ward-Wiliam H Rudolph.
Third ward-Fred w. Presmeyer.
Fourth ward-Robert Walker.
Fifth ward-Joseph l. Schuier
Seventh Ward.FTed a; Hutzfeic'
Ninth ward-F. W. Wesseler
Tenth Wa-d-Harvev Feuerborn.
Thirteenth Ward-Wllliam II: Ludwig
Fifteenth Ward-F. W. Schlingmann.
Sixteenth Ward-C. G. Otto.
Seventeenth Ward.Hy l. Weske: Jr'
Nineteenth ward-Louis Schaeperkoetter.
Twentieth ward-Nathan Goldstein-
Twenty-first Ward-James B. PrichaTd-
Twerity-sscond Ward-Charles A Day.
TweRty-fourth Ward-Wm- II: Blake
Twenty-fifth Ward-Geo. r Weinbrenner-
Twenty-sixth Ward-Sas A Powers
KERENS.
Second ward-C. H. Witthoeft.
Sixth Ward-John b. Owen.
Eighth Ward-Henry Baer.
Eleventh Ward-Edward Koeln.
Twelfth Ward-Louis Alt
Twenty-third wari-P. H. Clarke
Twenty-seventh Ward-F. H. Kreismaan.
Twenty-eighth Ward-B. r. Bonner
Fusion with the Meriwether organization
was overwhelmingly defeated az the Repub-
lican primaries yesterday.
Anti-Kerens and anti-Ziegenhein faction
lists will control the new City Central Com
mittee. indications being that the relative
strength will be about % to s.
Of the anti-fusion men running against
Meriwether nominees, William II. Hahn for
Recorder of Deeds led the ticket, his oppo-
nent being F. II. Kawalsid. The latter re-
ceiyed only seven votes in his own ward,
the Third.
Evidences Of sharp practices are against
both factions In the Fifth and Seventh
wards challengers for fusion appeared with
forged certificates purporting to come from
the Election Commissioners ONCE
In the West End police were called 10
stop repeating
KERENS GETS But NINE
LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES.
Opponents of Kerens claim that he sue
ceeded In nominating only five OF the nine
teen legislative nominees. Senator Rollins
succeeded in breaking both states In the
Thirty-fourth Senatorial District, while
Joseph E. Martin beat his opponents In the
Thirty-second. In the Twenty-second Ward
there was funny work. which gave him
a lead which could not be overcome any
place else. Sam D. Hodgdon defeated Dave
Pareir in the Thirtieth-
OF tie candidates for the Legislature,
Kerens succeeded in naming only those in
the Sixth Legislative District
At 2 a. m. returns from the Justice of the
Peace districts were still incomplete. In
the First Louis c. Spies received s37 votes,
T. F. w. Zimmerman ei7 and Edgar A
Mepham. 2s6 In the Second Charles Boet-
ger received es7 and Nicola P. thinner LIZ.
In the third Patrick ]. Regan was not op-
posed. John C. Lyons and Robert Walker
won in the Fifth. Thomas o. Maloney won
in the sixth and John A Hyde in the
Ninth.
The following Constables were nominated:
First District: Edward Hunt; Second. Philip
Wolf: Third. A. A. Aegerter: fourth Joseph
F. Friel and N. P. Churchill; Fifth. Henry
Erb and George W. Stinebaker; Sixth.
Henry I.andwehr: seventh Louis Huber;
eighth, p p. F1nnigan; Ninth. Charles E.
stMohradt.
NEW CITY COMMITTEE
STANDS 20 TO 8.
The alignment Of the new City Commit
tee is twenty for the so-called reorganiza-
tion. under the leadership of the st. Louis
Republican Club. and eight for the Kerens-
Ziegenhein crowd. Unless there are q great
| many defections. the reorganizers should be
able to control absolutely the old Zegen-
helm element
| judges in the east end of the Twenty-eighth
Ward. refused to sign the returns. claiming
that there was too much repeating done
have control of the primary. they were un.
1 able to prevent repeating and the Aloe fac.
4 ton won out easily in that precinct At
| O'Clock nothing had been heard from tht
other precincta
TUB BECKER BEATEN
| IN SEVENTH WARD.
Some Of the best-known of the Ziegen
helm element are driven out of control by
| the primary. Louis CTubl Becker wa.
dore kalbfelrs candidate for the Cit,
| Committee in the First Ward. In the Fffti
old enemy, Joe SchuIer John owen wa:
able to hold his own in the Sixth. as ther,
was no opponent. In the Eighth, Johnny
Becker was beaten for Constable. and hi,
candidate for the City Committee Henry
l Baer, was overwhelmingly defeated In one
OF the precincts by writing in the name o
| followed In the other precinct Baer cams
up with a majority Of fourteen
In the Ninth. Eddie Baumann paid tn
| now out OF the game, temporarily at least
Gus Lang. who was appointed to nh ;
vacancy In the Tenth, went down befor,
Harvey Feuerborn Louis AIT. as usasi
came up smiling from the wreck and vii
continue as the Twelfth Ward representa-
sheim was unable to cut the ice In IN,
| Fifteenth. Fred Schlingman holding hi
own. Billy Hahn put his man In from tn,
Eighteenth.
NIEDRINGHAUs BEATEN
IN TWENTY-FIRsT WARD.
| Otto Stifel and Louis Schaeperkoetter hel,
their own In the Nineteenth I. X. Med
ringhaus was unable to hold the Twenty
nrst after serving fourteen years in TN
committee In the Twenty-second the oh
Frank-Lloyd-Comfort crowd was rolled b,
| Charley Day and his friends
In one precinct of the Tweuty-fifth wars
| George r. We,nbrenner, without an op
ponent for City Committeeman and hayinI
his own judges and clerks. failed TO receivI
a vote. though 1t s supposed that there wa
an error IN the returns. The S.. Louis Re
publican Club crowd is sore" on him fo
sticking with the old COMMITTEES CharieJ
Carroll received shts'n', In the Twenty
sixth at the hands OF Charles A Rowern