Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-03-21
Payroll Managers Make Bluff, but in Re-
ality Read Defeat in the
Figures.
Banner Republican Wards Make Great Gains
Party Managers Are Elated
at the Results.
Sheriff Barrett Wins Fight Over Attempt to
Curta His Patronage-General
Political Gossip.

The registration Tuesday. while
amounting to very respectable total
shows very large falling of In the
Democratic wards.
In the First. Fourth. Fifth. Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth. Eleventh, Twelfth. Six
teenth. Seventeenth, Eighteenth. Nine
1canth, Twenty-second, Twenty.third.
Twenty fourth, Twcnty-ninth and Thir-
tieth Wards the falling of is most de-
cided, and these wards have In the past
been always relied upon by the Demo
Gratis to roll up their majorities.
While the payroll managers are max
ing boasts to keep their courage up
deep down in their hearts they never
theless read defeat In these registration
figures.
. In the First Ward, for instance, con.
cerning which the City Hall crowd has
made claims Of gains. very large num-
her Of the votes (particulariy the lodg-
ing house fioater votes) will be wiped
ont by revision. The same may be
said Of the lodging.house district OF the
Eighteenth Ward, and already thou
sands of the necessary suspect notices
are being prepared to send out to this
fiotsam and jetsam Of municipal CAM
paigns.
In the Nineteenth Ward an analysis
of the figures shows that the increase
was almost wholly In the Italian pre-
cincts and districts which are Inhabited
by colonies OF Italians who work out
on the railroads and were absent from
the city when the registration OF last
fall was held. This, by the way, is
largely a Republican vote ana indi'
Gates, II anything, a gain for that
party.
While the City Hall crowd are trying
to decieve themselves into the belief
that they have at least held their own,
and while the figures really show that
they have suffered heavy loss all along
the line, there IL. on the other hand, no
doubt ut all as to the fact that the Re'
publicans have made substantial gains
in all their banner wards.
In the Second Ward the gain Is about
2,3sO, in the Sixth 1900, the Seventh
$500, the Thirteenth 1900, the Twenty.
fifth 1900, the Twenty.sixth 1900. the
Thirty-second 1900. the Thirty.third
1900, and the Thirty-hfth one thou.
sand.
These are districts where the voters
are solid and substantial citizens, and
where the suspect NOTICE and revision
will effect no change. With such a
splendid showing, the Republican party
managers unanimously predicted, on
the day after registration, II sweeping
victory for the Republican ticket, ana
the rout Of the payroll brigade and the
Ingrates Union on election day.
Alexander II. Revell. chairman Of the
Republican Campaign Committee, In
discussing the registration, said: ~ an
satisfied with the result. Although the
total registration does not seem to
have been quite as large as l was In
clined TO think II would be, ! am GER
tain that the election will demonstrate
that large majority Of the voters
who failed TO place their names on the
registry lists to-day were not Repub-
licans. The untlring and systematic
work done by the committee during
the last two weeks to induce full par
~ registration and the unprecedented
interest shown by the people In Mr..
Stewards candidacy are both guaran.
tees that we have got far and away
the best OF Tuesdays battle. The big
registration in Lake View and Hyde
Park is certainly Il good sign. wish
10 say, too, that our bureau for the
detection OF frauds has been doing eX-
cellcnt work which will, / believe, re-
suit in having large number of names
stricken from the rolls that have been
placed there fraudulently in the lodg-
ing.house districts. We propose to take
steps that will 60 far toward putting
an end to the use Of such methods in
Chicago"
Meantime, as elsewhere fully dis
cussed, leading Democrats who are
known TO be opposed to Harrison, have
been by Judge Hanecy's mandamus
decision placed In position where
they can do some good fighting against
the payroll patriots.
The opening Of the new headquarters
OF the County Democracy was the Oc.
casion Of large attendance on Sunday
last. Every seat In the meeting hall
was filed, and there were scores Of
men standing.
On the first floor are the Offices Of the
club. the Executive Committees room
and large reading and reception room.
Pictures OF Democratic leaders are On
the walls. The large picture Of Grover