The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-04-06


In the 1st and Sd wards there we're
contests and carriages and autos were
used to get people to the polls. The
total vote was about
Total cast men women
LIST ward 218 115 95
21d ward 70 n
3rd ward 206 141 65
so nearly 500 votes st by getting
up an excitement. so the election board
could earn their wages.
Now that ladies are voting they at
once should learn to walk to the polls
and vote Riding to the polls in a rig
in the interest of candidates is q
dead Rive-away and they get the old
| time reputation of "being he -ded''.
In the Is ward the vote stood
John Schlyer 1T Frank Fields 100
Tony Jacobs rs Scattering
In the Sd ward
Alex ScheeIer lis Al Nickles 81
Till Early 113 Hi Addison 81
1t is pleasure to state that with all
this lot of new voters there were only
3 spoiled ballots.
The election of John Schlyer is 3
triumph over the 'would-be Bosses.
They packed the primaries to beat him.
Then it was Religious talk. a ''anti-
Russian talk, or that he drinks.
Anything to turn the voter. But his
frie1 de who had known him to be true
to el e~y public trust in the past an6
would be this time. rallied to his sup
port AID elected him. He feels CRATE
full to his supporters, as also to those
Methodists and Lutherans who couldn't
b. fooled by their stories to come to
vote The people will find him battling
always for their interests
The same Boasism was pra ctised in
the Sd ward. The word was passed
around among the faithful go there
and vote for Addison & Nickels' and
they went. No democrat need apply
It was so rank the voters elected Ear
Iy and Scheeler who are old timers and
be with the people for the benef fl of
b people.
In the End ward Tony Jacobs had no
opposition. His public work has al
ways been open, a5ove-board ard per-
fectly straight.
While they are vo'ecs al right, in
shape the contest took, il is unfortu-
Do%o fbaf fba r,,nis+o-a - oSl,.I:--
didn y and the Normal faculty or fam
lis voted.
The d, feat Of Frank Fla Ids was NJ,
per onal defeat as be Is very popular
and made faithful and attentive coun
Gillian when there before an1 would
have tn time. but the raw manner
his Supporters put him up-the desper-
ate o k done TO secure his election,
aw, ke the opposition; III .rds feared
he Wa1 Icing USED f, a pufpo e; the
bitter opposition to some of his SUI
porters; drove many to vote for S.hIy-
e. and tlelds defeat
It YVES the same in the Sd ward con-
test. Al NickIes If one uI our best
business men, careful and would have
made good official, and would have
been elected without opposition had
the primary bern square and he and s
democrat named in place of Oshaat.
Hiram Addison is good worker and
as himself would have made a go d Of
icer. but the waV he was ramed, his
CO nection with the telephone. the
expectation IF tie Bell system and q
ne eded franchise, made voters suspic-
tous. Tue Ha'i.ra printers who printed
the telephone directory were not here
TO vote for him and he couldn't expect
tie papers in HAYS to boom him,
md Early got the maj ritY.
No, it wasn't Msrshal Troth or At
torney HO;mquist to blame-theY were
srpl7 following orders.
Il was a terrible jolt to the crowd
who tried to run the city affairs and
they have shown all the week that
En- feel it. It has been years since it
wal tFie1 here and be Iong before it is
tried again.