The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-06
Democrats Win Notable Vic
tory at City Election in All
Wards Save the Third
ITALIAN GOES TO COUNCIL
Joseph G.. Rhode Defeats Timme in
Second While John Anderson is Nos
ed Out by One Vote-Thomey Wins
Big Victory in Third.

Democracy swept Kenosha in the city
election of Tuesday and all that the re-
publicans pulled from the ruins after
the election was an alderman In the
third ward, supervisors in the second
and third wards and school commission
of the other men elected were demo
Gratis and by the election the democrats
gained three seats on the common coun-
Gil and when the council reorganizes
the only republicans will be Herbert
| Thomey, elected from the third ward
and w. T. Marlatt who holds over as
the representative of the second ward.
Alderman Harbaugh the republican in
the fifth ward was beaten by Albert
Conforti, Henry II. Timme the repubE-
can representative in the second ward
was beaten by Joseph G. Rhode and
John Anderson who sought to succeed
George W. Hlgley as a republican re-
preventative in the fourth ward was de-
feated by Lyman Starr by a narrow
margin Of one vote. Aldermen 0 Brien
in the first, Stemm in the sixth, Wer-
ner in the seventh and Saftig in the
eighth were all reelected by large ma
jorities.
While the democrats are entitled to
the claim Of victory there was a person
al element to the election that caused
the voters to support men rather than
party and split tickets were very much
in evidence In most of the wards it
was a personal rather than a party
victory.
In most Of the wards the vote was
not up to an average vote but in the
fifth nearly the full vote of the ward
was polled In this ward the fight was
about as interesting as any in the city.
Albert Conforti was the first Italian
who had sought place on the council
and he was bitterly opposed by many
people in the ward. Conforti ran near
| ly thirty votes behind the head Of the
ticket in the ward but with this he
was able to win from Harbaugh in a
decisive manner. Early in the evening
the eyes of the politicians were turned
to the second ward where Joseph G.
Rhode was fighting it out with Henry
| Tilnme. This was one of the best CON
tests of the day and Rhode won in a
close finish with a plurality Of six
votes. This is the first time that a
democratic candidate has been elected
in the ward in many years. - Rhode is
credited with getting a large non-par-
tisan support and he was elected large
| ly as a non-partisan candidate. He
made his campaign wholly along non
partisan lines. In this ward A. B.
Ames easily defeated d. E. Corr for
school commissioner and John T. Yule
showed his Oh running form and won
from Edward Murphy by big margin.
In the third ward it was thought that
the democracy would have a chance
but Herbert Thomey the republican
candidate for alderman cleaned things
up in great shape getting the largest
plurality given any candidate where
there was a contest. In the fourth
ward Starr nosed out Anderson bv inst
one vote. In this ward Charles Jacobs
defeated Leo Hammond the democratic
candidate for school commissioner af-
ter bitter fight by majority of
| twenty votes. Walter Burke carried
everything before him and notWith-
standing the fact that the other officers
of the ward were republicans Burke
galloped home with a majority over
| Walden of over 100 votes.
T. w. Boyer the republican candi-
date in the sixth ran well but was de-
feated by Stemm by 81 votes.
The social democrats made a good
showing in the off year election, their
candidates polling 1872 votes through
out the city. In>none of the wards
however, did any of the social demo
Gratis get near to an election.
Joseph NJ. Meyer the democratic
candidate for assessor got the party
vote Of the democrats coming through
with total of 40 and a majority
of 1,03s over the social democratic
candidate for the same Office. John #
Wells the democratic candidate for
Justice of the Peace was unopposed
and he got total of 1,451 votes in the
icitg.
The vote east for the various city