Arizona republican., 1916-04-05
George Edwards Is Elected Mayor = His Platform Was to Submit Charter Embodying Simplifie,d Form of Government
ELECTION IS
 HOTLY CONTESTED
Many Other Elections Are Held Throughout Coun- try With Wet and Dry Propositions Figuring Prominently
1RepubIican A. p Leased Wirel

KANSAS CITY, April 4.-GeorSe Ed
 wards, republican, was elected mayor of Kansas City today by S,160 votes, ac-
 plete. He defeated Mayor Henry l.. Jost, democrat, who was seeking re- election. The vote announced tonight
 was Edwards 30.S1S, Jost 22,65S. Edwards was pledged in his campaign platform to submit to the people for
 their approval a charter embodying simplified form of government for the city.
 As result of todays election which practically was clean sweep for the republican ticket, the republicans prob ably will have half of the sixteen mem
 bers of the upper house of the city council, eleven of the sixteen members of the lower house and all the citys administrative officials.
 The election today was the most hotly contested one for many years. Two police commissioners, James $. Lapsley and Colonel Fred A. Lamb, were remanded to the county jail by Judge Clarence A. Burney of the cir cult court for contempt, after having ignored writs of habeas corpus issued to compel them to release 300 men held at police headquarters who were al legged to have been arrested to prevent them from voting The commissioners were released on bond few minutes after the polls closed. after having been | in jail more than three hours. They are to answer the contempt charges to- I morrow. Republicans said the charges would be pressed. Twenty attaches of police head quarters. including Captain Flahive, acting chief of police, and J. L. Ghent. chief of detectives. also were brought into court on similar charges. Captain flahive was the only one remanded to | jail The charges against the police men probably will he dropped, it was said.
 | Eighteen of the 300 men arrested and l held all day were ordered released about 30 o'clock. This gave them 30 minutes in which to vote. The others were admitted to bond after the polls closed
 A pitched battle, which featured the
 most turbulent municipal election this city has witnessed in many years, re- suited today i'll the placing in the county jail of James $. Lapsley and Colonel Fred A. Lamb, police commis- sioners, on charges of contempt of court, after city patrolmen had arrest = ed more than 300 persons, all of whom were held at police headquarters. The commissioners were released on bond early tonight.
 The commissioners were remanded to | jail by Judge Clarence A. Burney, of the circuit court, because they had ig- | nored writs of habeas corpus issued by Judge Burney that would have freed
 the arrested men. Previous to their incarceration, Captain Thomas ]. Fla hive, acting chief of police, had been released from the jail by Judge Ralph 1 S. Latshaw, of the criminal court after ! having been locked up several hours l Captain Flahive had been sent to jai on charges similar to those against his tsuperiors.
 1 The dragnet that crowded the sta l tion with men and a few women, whom opponents of Mayor Henry l.. lost democrat, and candidate for re-elec- 1 tion, said were nothing more than po- 1 litical prisoners. we're put into actiol shortly after o'clock this morning ant continued throughout the day.
 | Many of those arrested, it was de. clared, had been wearing buttons de