The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-05
WARM CONTEST ON
IN KANSAS CITY, MO,
Leaders Of Both Parties Work
Ing Hard TO Bring Out
The Full Vote


Chicago. April 5 with the "wet"
and dry" Issue, which had conynlsea
Chicago during the early part Or the
campaign, dropped from the ballot,
me interest Ia t0days aldermanic
election has greatly subsided. Now
that the fate Of the saloons liz not to
DC decided today. the voters have suf.
Tered a revulslon of feeling, and the
political frenzy which had promised
To make todays vote record breaker
has relapsed into the miIdest sort of
interest, The anti-saloon forces say
That their failure to get the Issue be-
Tore the people today is not to be
taken as final, but that the campaign
VIII be kept up until the people have
chance TO register tLeir opinion ON
the liquor question.
The registration lists show 433.38g
persons on the rolls who are entitled
to vote In today's election. 1t is GER
tain that the vote cast Will fall far.
short OF this stupendous figure. whicY
was due in large part to the intereE
In the local option struggle.
The registration figures establish
new high water figure for Chicago.
exceeding the highest previous regis
tratlon OF 1908 by nearly $4,000
homes. The registration after reyi-
sion In 1908, the presidential year.
was 409,f3t.
The Increase in the eligible voting
strength of Chicago In two years by
Sc large figure AZ 5000 gives some
Indication of the big growth I'm the
citys population. While portion OF
this new registration Is due to ths
wet" and dry fight, the figures
are taken as fairly accurate criter-
ion Of the rapid growth Of Chicago.
The failure OF the "drys" 10 get
the liquor question on the ballot to-
day only followed campaign oA
which majority of the men, women
and children or the city had partlci-
pated, and In which thousands OF dol.
lars had been spent The liquor I'm
terests spent vast sums In fighting
the local optlonists. the campaign IN.
I cluding the uae Of large space La all
the newspapers of the city. II was
asserted that II Chicago became dry
the city would be bankrupted, the an.
nual loss in saloon taxes alone being
estimated al eight millions.
The withdrawal OF the liquor Is
sue from the campaign followed the
filing of complaint by the "wetsv
asserting that ont OF the $4,000 names
on the dry" petition 2e,128 we're
those OF non-yoters. The commission.
ers sustained this charge.
Warm Contest In Kansas City
Kansas City. Mo. April 5.--As a
straw 70 show which way the political
wind is blowing. today's municipal
election I'm Kansas City looms up as
Of national importance. Leaders OF
beth parties are working hard today
to bring out the full vote. Kansas
City IS about evenly divided between
Republican and Democratic voters.
and defeat for the former would
argue. the politicians say, a dissatis-
faction with the national trend OF the
q. o. p. IN many quarters the out.
come of the battle 81 ballots viii bo
considered vote OF confidence, or
the contrary, In the Taft administers
tion. The Democrats carried Kansas
City by more than 3,500 votes In the
last mavoralty election. and the par
" candidates are working hard to re-
peat that victory today.
The election at Kansas City win he
OF significance TO the state at large
; ana will indicate TO what extent. II
any. there Is dissatisfaction In the
Republican ranks on account OF the
tariff or state matters. Republican
leaders say the result at KanHs City
viii prove to the country at largc
that the Sixth district Democratic
, slianjslide was due to the stay-at-home
g Republicans. They contend Republic.
T ms In Il sixth district knew before
Z hand they had no chance to elect
! Griffith. and tnat the most they could
hone for was to reduce the majority
for Dickinson.
! The unprecedented majority iAr
the Democrats at Kansas City last
fall saved the entire state Democratic
ticket. Jackson county and Kansas
City Is practically the only section OF
the state that returned an increased
I, vote for the Democrats.