The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-18
Election RESULTS
Democrats Carry Kansas City
BY Nearly 10000
Plurality.
CHICAGO WOMEN DEFEATED
lighthouse John' Reelected by Zig
Msjority-cIose Vote in St.
Joseph-In Other Cities.

Jcseph-ln Other Cites
Kansas City.-Henry L. Jest has
been reelected mayor OF Kansas City
His plurality over c. a. Burton, the
Nonpartisan Commission Government
candidate, was 9,SI6 votes. The-en-
tire Democratic ticket was elected
with Mr.. Jost except four lower house
aldermen.
William VoIker, candidate on the
Nonpartisan and Republican tickets
was reelected to the school board
The Republicans polled nearly 1900
votes for Harry z. Barker, their can
didate, getting their heaviest vote in
the Seventh Ward. The Prosressives
and Joseph P Fontron, their candi-
date, we're a negligible quantity, poll
ing fewer than a thousand votes
George Grant, the Socialist candidate,
ran fifth.
The Democratic victory was the
most complete they have ever won.
Commission Government was slaugh-
tered IN the congested downtown and
river wards. In the First, Second,
Fifth and Sixth wards majorities
against it were heaped up ranging
from 1900 to almost 1000 votes. In
precinct after precinct fifteen and
twenty votes would be all that would
be cast for it. a few precincts
showed even smaller than this.
Chicago Sticks to lighthouse john"
Chicago, TlI.-Fewer than 100, goo of
the 2I7,614 women eligible to vote
here took advantage Of their newly
gained suffrage and voted in the mu-
Ecipal elections None of the nine
yemen candidates for places in the
city council was elected and in most
cases the women candidates received
only a scattering even OF the women
votes cast in the ward.
In the First ward where the suf-
frage and civic societies had COM
bined their strength to aid Miss
Marian Drake, who opposed Bath
house" John Coughlin, who for a
score of years has represented the
ward, Coughlin won by nearly 1000
votes. He defeated Miss Drake three
to one, and received nearly twice as
many women votes as his opponent.
The women voters concentrated
policy submitted on separate ballot.
The woman vote defeated bond issues
aggregating $4,000 An issue of
health department bonds and an is
sue of public bathing beaches alone
were carried.
Kansas Elections Quiet.
Topeka, Kan-An second-cIass
cities and several of the first-cIass in
Kansas held municipal elections.
Elections were held in Manhattan,
Clay Center, Concordia, Atchison, En-
poria, Winfield, Great Bend, Eldorado,
Arkansas City, Mcpherson, Lawrence,
Ottawa and other cities. With few
exceptions little attention was paid to
party lines, attention being centered
on local issues. In most towns wom-
en- served for the first time as cleo
ton officials and in all such places
the day passed without incident.
Emporia voted to Gust pool halls by
majority Of ZOO In Cherryvale the
high school proposition won by an
overwhelming majority. The church
ticket won in Hutchinson by a safe
majority. In Atchison the Taxpayers
League succeeded in electing two OF
the four alderman.
meIndoe Wins in Joplin.
Joplin, Mo.-Hugh McIndoe, for
mer state senator and q Republican,
was elected JopIin's first mayor tn
der commission form government He
was one of the original workers for
a new charter providing commission
government and defeated Jesse F. Os-
borne, present mayor, who was OPP
posed to the change in government
McIndoe's majority was 557. Four
commissioners, J. B. Hodgdon, A R.
Hills, Charles Patterson and c. A
Robinson we're elected, along with
Bert z. Wagner as municipal judge.
The total vote cast was 1853
Close in ST. Joseph.
St Joseph, Mo.-Elliott Marshall
was elected mayor of St Joseph by
IL votes, with all precincts in. After
running neck and neck during the
early returns the late ones favored
Marshall over David E Curtin, Dem
/ oeraf Indications ara that the lam