The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-09
Candidates of the Republican Party
Gain Substantial Victory at
the Polls tuesday.
COUNCIL WILL BE REPUBLICAN.
Cumiskey Badly Defeated in the Third
ward-Jackson Defeated In Sixth
Socialists Garry Fifth Ward

The Republicans of Kenosha won
substantial victory in Kenosha Tues
CAV and when the ballot boxes had been
closed and the votes counted it was
found that the candidates OF the party
had made a remarka BILE showing The
Office of Justice of the Peace passes
into the hands of the Republicans for
the first time in a decade, the city
council becomes Republican, and sui
fcient members of the board of educa-
ton were elected to make the vote Of
the board a tie between the Republl-
cans and the Democrats.
The result of the victory was re-
ceived quietly, and while there was
notable cheerfulness among the crowd
of Republicans gathered IN the differ
emit news centers there were no noisy
celebrations, as the members regarded
the victory as victory of the people
rather than victory of any one party.
In the two hard fights honors were
even. Henry Cumiskey the much touted
candidate of the Democrats for Alder
man in the Third ward, was showed
under by an avalanche of ballots,
being only a few votes in the lead Of
the candidate of the Social Democrats.
Johnson Jackson on the other hand
was defeated in the Sixth ward for
School Commissioner, as Jacob Saftig
won by a narrow ma jority of seven
votes.
Light Vote Causes a Surprise,
With the closing of the polls the
first surprise of the day was found for
the vote was found to be one-third less
than the vote year ago, and the fall.
ing off was especially noticeable in
the Democratic wards, In the norm
wards the vote was less than sixty per
cent of the normal vote, and the bal
lots showed that the Democrats had
lost heavily by the stay-at-home ele-
ment. On the north side of the river
the Democratic majority of nearly
three hundred was cut to less than
half this number, aud when Sturges
went to the bridge with plurality of
nearly three hundred it was evident
that the downfall Of Stewart was COM
plete.
Sturges Runs Ahead
BENJAMIN 0. Sturges was elected
Justice of the Peace by a plurality of
1875 votes and it is noticeable that in
several of the wards he ran far ahead
of his ticket, while in every ward he
received a full party support The
foreign vote, which had been counted
solid for Stewart, seems to have been
lost in the shuttle and the small
plurality for Stewart in the First ward
was one of the first surprises of the
evening. When the final returns began
to come in from the south wards it was
evident that the Republican candidate
had outclassed his opponent. Mr..
Sturges will qualify for the Office next
week and will be Judge Sturges before
the first of May.
Social Vote a SURPRISE
One of the genuine surprises of the
election was the election of William
Kaufman as the alderman from the
Fifth ward. Kaufman was the stand
ard bearer of the Social Democrats
and carried with him into office Social
Democratic Supervisor. The election
of Kaufman was predicted early in the
day by the voters of the ward and it is
said that his election was largely due
to the fact that many people who had
formerly been identified with the Re-
publicans in the ward voted so1idly for
him. kaufman and his party we're
jubilant over the victory as it is the
first time that an Alderman had been
elected from this party in Kenosha.
The Social vote throughout the city
was disappointment as it was
thought that the party would poll at
least a thousand votes but the total
vote for Burns, the leader for Justice
of the Peace was but 457 votes and the
only victory was found in the Fifth
ward.
Solid Republican Wards,
The First ward was the first to send
in complete returns and the election of
William Rowe over Anderson for AL
derman was hard blow to the Demo
Gratis. The result in this ward as.
sured a Republican council as the re-
ports from the count of the straight
ballots in the Second, Third and
Fourth wards showed that they were
solidly Republican. In the Second it
was almost unanimous for Frank
Wells, he receiving a large majority
on the straight ballots and beating
out Mcconnell by plurality of 49,
one of the largest if not the largest
plurality ever known in the ward.
In the Third the victory of Ander.
son was even as great for after all the