The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-07
ELECTION IN OHIO
WAS A DECIDED VICTORY FOR
NEITHER PARTY.
REPUBLICANS MADE GAINS
NIT DID NOT SECURE MANY ADJ
MINIsTRATIVE CHANGES.

Most Notable EAccptAoh was NJ
Columbus, Where Mayor HinI<le,
Dcmocrat, Was Defeated by jeff
rev. Republication johnson
N,,ou Mt Observation-Disclosures Imam
Defeated ingalls, at Cincinnati.
uov II Is Supposed the Results
VIII Affect state Election.
cincinnati, O., April 6.-While the
7anublicans had material gains in the
bounicipal elections in Ohio to-day
they did not secure many changes in
tho administration of the cities. The
most notable exception was at Column
bus. where Mayor Hinkle, Democrat,
was succeeded by Jeffrey, Republican
The Mayors of all the large cities,
except Columbus, were reelected. The
Penublicans retained control of Gin
cinnati and the Democrats of Cleve-
land. and Samuel M. Jones was elected
as an independent for the fourth time
as Mayor of Toledo.
The Tale of the Cities.
The Democrats reelected their tick
cts at Dayton, Sandusky, Chillicothe,
Hamilton and other cities normally
Democratic, and the Republicans at
Steubenville, Youngstown, Warren,
Ironton Portsmouth and other towns
that they have heretofore controlled.
The winning tickets were of either
of the dominant parties. The Fusion
tickets, as a rule, were defeated in
a dozen or more cities where they were
in the field.
One of the most notable gains of the
Republicans was at Mansfield and of
the Democrats at Springfield, where
local issues controlled results, as was
the case in most of the changes.
what Will Be the Effect:
There is much diversity of opinion
as to the effect of these municipal
elections upon the next Republican
nomination for Governor, but it is con-
coded that Mayor Tom. L. johnson of
Cleveland will now become a formid-
able candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor a few
months hence.
AAC 1liSdAAo OppOolllOll Will NC OOil-
tinued, with a view to making him
the Democratic opponent to Hanna
for the senatorship.
There is considerable gossip here to-
night about the incipient boom of
Mayor Fleischmann for the Republi-
can nomination for Governor 1t is
conceded that the Endorsement of
Mayor Fleischmann's administration
mainly produced the result in Cincin-
natl the largest plurality ON the larg-
est total vote in the history of the city.
Vote at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, O., April 6.-Complete
returns from the 22S precincts in Gin
einnati give Fleischmann, Republican,
42,SO7 ingalls,, Fusionist, 26,2S7; Swing,
Socialist, S,774; Martin, Prohibitionist
S45 Total, 1888.
Fielschmann's plurality is $500;
majority, 12,001.
The council and school boards each
stand 20 Republicans to Democrats.
The entire Republican city ticket, in
Guiding all the boards, was elected by
ABOUT the same vote as that of
Fleischmann.
The villages of Bond Hill, Evans
ton, Hyde Park, and Winton Place
We're annexed to Cincinnati by de-
cisive vote
Melville f. ingalls,, the Fusion can
dldate for Mayor, heard the returns
to-hight at the Queen City Club and
declined to make a formal statement,
but his colleagues on the Fusion
ucket stated that the result was due
TO the superior organization of the
Republicans in a city normally
Republican stronghold, fraudulent reg
lstration, repeating. and corruption.
1hey insisted that the Fusion organi-
zatlon would be continued and per-
feCted
Mayor julius Fleischmann said:
The election of the entire Republi-
can ticket is a victory for the people
OF Cincinnati. They have filed their
protest against the defamation of the
city fair name. This triumph means,
not only that Cincinnati will continue
10 progress, as she has progressed
during the past three years, but it
means that the next Governor will be
republican; that Marcus Hanna
VIII be returned to the Senate, and
mat Theodore Roosevelt will be the
next President of the United States"