The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
S. Y. REYNOLDS
ELECTED MAYOR
Entire Citizens Non-Partisan Ticket
Carries the Day.
\, W. GLEASON AGAIN SOLICITOR
Seven of the Eleven officers Elected
Yesterday Succeed Themselves
Tho Councilmen-at-Larse
Are New Men.
H. W. GLEASON AGAIN SOLICITOR

The municipal election Monday was
a complete and overwhelming victory
for the Citizens Non-Partsan ticket.
They licked the platter clean," in the
largest vote ever cast in OskalOOsa at
a city election. Every candidate on
this ticket from mayor to councilman
was elected by unqUestionable major
tiles.
The men elected TO the new admin
istration are as follows: ~. ,an .
Mayor, S. V. Reynolds.
Solicitor, II. w. Gleason
Treasurer, Van p. Wittenmyer.
Assessor, John II. Perry.
Councilmen-at-Large Frank NJ. An
derson and Richard T. Penders.
Councilmen in Wards-First, Will
LaffoIlett; Second, w. r. Campfeld;
Third, Jacob Seibert; Fourth, J. L..
Milligan; Fifth, Fred BIattner.
Seven of these men were elected to
succeed themselves. II. w. Gleason
is reelected, as are also Treasurer
Van Wittenmyer and Assessor Perry.
Four of the council members were re-
elected, Laffollett of the First, Camp
field of the Second, Milligan of the
Fourth and Blattner of the Fifth.
S. V. Reynolds, the new mayor, de-
n
date to succeed himself to the Office,
having occupied the place only one
term. The two councilmen-at-large
Anderson and Penders, two well
known business men, are coming to
the administration of city affairs for
the first time. The new ward coun-
Gilman, Jacob Seibert, is an old and
experienced man in council, having
previously served four years. He
was elected IT. 1895 and served until
the spring of 1899.
Party lines were thrown to the
winds in the choice of candidates and
in the election. Political complexion
counts for naught, but of the men
elected the democrats have major
ity, the mayor being of that party, as
are also a majority of the seven coun-
cilmen. Just what the policies or the
political intent Of the ticket elected
may be is hard to determine. The
prohibition party entered the field as
an organization with a candidate for
almost every office. Their attitude
was easily understood. The "Citi-
zens' movement was intended as a
continuation Of the get together"
movement of the business interests
of OskaloOsa, inaugurated in the cam
paign of two years ago, when the
democratic and republican party
alignment was merged in a single
ticket The issues at stake this year
may not have been as clearly defined
as they were last campaign, but it
is alleged and understood that 1t was
tho Mahaska County Federation
movement as opposed to the license
system and attendant practices in
vogue in the city! The Federation
supporters, IL is understood, were
practically unanimous IN opposition
TO administration candidates and had
their own candidates in the field un-
der the title of Peoples Non-Partisan
ticket. They, however, endorsed the
candidacy of g. v. Reynolds OF the
Citizens movement as opposed to
Mayor Bacon, but at the same time
they were fighting practically every
other candidate on the "Citizens"
ticket and made special effort to cap
ture control of the city council.
The number of the votes cast was
surprise TO every one. The contest
up to two o'clock was waged without