The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-03-20
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Ol quo.
For the short term as assessor John
w. Stevens made a runaway race, he
receiving double the number of bal
lots east for his next nearest competi-
tor Victor Eppler. The vote was
Stevens 1472, EppIer 723. Fred ".
Mayer was third in the race for the
long term and Howard Dennis fourth.
N. j. Buchanan was third for the short
term with Charles Hertlein last. The
principal feature of the election under
the new plan was the elimination of all
social democratic candidates with the
exception of the fifth ward where Viii
liam Kaufman was one of the nominees
for alderman.
Members Of the present common
council who soughtN denomination in
the primaries, Jared badly on Tuesday
and three Of the number met defeat
while two Of the others were not CIV
en- an endorsement of which they
could be overly proud. The primaries
assured notable changes on the coun-
ell Albert Conforti, who had the dis
tinction of being the only Italian born
member of the council, was defeated
for denomination in the fifth ward, he
finishing fourth in class of seven
candidates. Emil Mueller led the pro-
cession in the fifth ward with a vote
Of more than a hundred and William
Kaufman, who was formerly elected as
socialist in the ward, was second.
G. Fred Stemm, one Of the most
prominent members of the council,
went down to defeat with a small vote
in the sixth ward, being defeated by
both Joseph Loef and Fred Beyers. In
the eight ward Alderman Jacob SAT-
tig, who has made most acceptable
pauper commissioner for the city and
who had been member Of the coun-
Gil was defeated by Charles Steinbach
and August Barth, the candidates
tas
finishing in the order named.
OF the successful aldermen in the
race for denomination Edward j. Sui
Ivan and Herbert Thomey, represent-
ing the first and third wards respec-
lively, swept everything before them
and both men were named with big
vote which came as an endorsement of
their work on the council. Alderman
Sullivan got majority OF all the votes
cast at the primary and Alderman
Thomey did almost as we'll
In the fourth ward Alderman Ly-
man i. Starr won the second place on
the ballot, being defeats stor first
place by John Anderson by q vote Of
nearly fifty Alderman Werner fail
cd of endorsement in the seventh ward
and John Joachim who was first man
to be named on the ticket, got more
votes than the alderman and w. J..
Threinen, the third candidate, put to-
gether. Werner is named however as
the second man on the ticket.
In the second ward Alderman Rhode
had refused to accept a denomination
and the first place on the ticket went
to Conrad Shearer with large plurali-
| ty over any of the other candidates.
George Harkins got the second place
with majority Of four votes over
William NJ Rowe.
1t is impossible to give the correct
ed figures in the ward contests until
after the csnvassing board makes it's
report, but it is certain that the sec
ond choice vote will not change the
list of nominees as given below.
Not a single one of the retiring
members Of the board of education
was in the race for denomination and
the board will have eight new mem
bers when it re-organizes. In several
of the wards it was necessary to count
second choice votes to get the position
Of some of the candidates for school
commissioner.
There was only one interesting fight
for county supervisor and that was in
the third ward where Thomas Scott
and Frank S. Symmonds were named
The work of eanvassing the vote
was started by City Clerk Harrington
this morning and it will be completed
some time tomorrow.