The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-09
Vote at the City Election PoIIed
without Any Claims Of Re-
peating or of Fraud
SHOWS BIG CAIN in VOTERS
Vote on Tuesday Even Greater Than
That Cast at the Primaries
Result Shows That City Has
Made Big Gains

The election on Tuesday removed
much of the claims of fraudulent vot-
ing on the primary election and in
addition it showed to the people of the
city that Kenosha is laying off her
swaddling clothes and the claimed adj
vances in population which have been
questioned are shown to be true There
were more votes cast in Kenosha Tues
day than were ever cast on any former
election.
It was declared that on the primary
more votes were cast than ever before
in Kenosha and some people insisted
that it was impossible that there was
so many votes in the city. On the pri-
mary election there were 4116 votes
cast in the entire city and at the
election yesterday the total vote Of the
city exceeded this figure by 1913, the
total vote cast being 1919, this is near
Ivy 100 votes more than were cast in
the presidential election four years
ago and largely in excess of the mum
Der cast in the general election two
years ago. In some Of the wards yes
terday the vote was considerably larg-
er than at the primary and it is certain
that the greatest precaution was used
by the election officials to prevent lille
gal voting. Challenges were made in
some of the wards, notably the Fifth
but there was not enough of these votes
to make any change in the election for
any city candidate, In the Second and
Third wards the vote was just about
the same as on the primary. In the
north wards of the city the vote was
larger than at the primary. In the
Fifth ward the expected falling off
came and this seems to support the
contention that there was fraudulent
voting in that ward at the primary. In
the Fifth ward on the primary there
were 81 votes and at the election yes
terday there were ISL not counting the
blank ballots. However, it is said that
the candidates for mayor polled the full
strength of the three tickets in that
ward and this indicates that the ward
was about go short Of the primary vote.
The election has taught the people
that there is great silent vote in
Kenosha that must be reckoned with
The conditions seemed to be just ripe
on Tuesday to bring out this silent
vote and there can be no doubt as to
the way it voted 1t is certain that
there must be a Encouragement of po-
litical lines in Kenosha before the COM
ing of another election and the vast
plurality of the Democratic candidates
on Tuesday makes it absolutely neces-
sary that the Republicans Of the city
get together and present united front
to the Democrats at the coming general
election. It is certain that the Demo
Gratis seek to put the strongest posi-
BILE ticket in the field for the county
election in the fall.
1t is evident that the Republican
party in Kenosha was badly fooled in
the vote of Tuesday and the great in
crease in the number of voters is large
ly responsible for the victory of Mr..
Scholey by such a large plurality.
It is not thought that there will be
any chance of an investigation of the
vote in any of the wards, but there are
mutterings of discomfort in some places
where the vote was close and it is pos
sible that there will be some contest
in the future.
The election showed one thing con-
clusively and that is that the hide
pendent candidate is not popular
feature in Kenosha elections Fred
Palmgreen who ran as an Independent
candidate for constable in the Third
ward failed to encompass the defeat OF
Frank Symmonds the regular Republi
can candidate and notwithstanding the
fact that he had picture posters just
like Scholey, he got but SO votes. In
the Fourth ward Nick Gloss who came
out as an Independent candidate after
being beaten by Cleerman by only -four
votes got but thirteen votes. Cleer
man by the way is getting use to mar
row escapes. He won the Republican
nomination by single vote and wher
the count was made last night it was
found that he had defeated the Demo
cratic candidate by just one vote.