Baxter Springs news., 1918-11-08
SKIDMORE LEADING OIL
SPARKS BY five VOTES
Big Majority Galena and South End Gave
Sparks Has Been Wiped Out Soldier
Vote Will Tell the Tale Republicans
Have Majority Of One in County Court
House

The feature of interest in the last returns of the cleo
ton in Cherokee county the for state senator be-
tween Oh Sparks Democrat and A. H. Skidmore Repub-
can The last tally giving Sdmore five votes in the lead
with every precinct i with the soldier vote the deciding
factor comes as great surprise to the democrats of the
south end of the county and to most of the republicans
Sparks out of Galena with majority of 4OS votes
which was thought enough to make him safe All the early
returns in favor of Sparks with the exception of
Baxter Springs which gave Skidmore majority of 20
votes not enough to cut into Gaena materially At
time Sparks leading by 700 votes and local demo-
Gratis said that Sparks would be elected with than
thousand votes to spare Skmore said to have lost Col
umbus by slight majority, which made the democrats
jublant and more confident Of the outcome "A cnch"
said local democrat 81 knew Sparks would beat Skid
more by 1000 majority at least" he concluded The
tyy and the north end cut into Sparks regularly all day
Yesterday and finally "eat up" the Sparks lead entirely
The result is "tosS up"
The republicans have majority of one in the court
house as against the confident prediction of the democrats
that they would have all but two The republicans have
elected both north and south end representatives to the
state legislature and have chance, little bet
ter, for the state senator.
The republicans now concede the defeat of Mrs Anna
Hamilton by Arthur Hoyt for the office of county treas
urer Mr. Hoy has the scany lead of some 85 votes 1t is
possible that official count and the soldier vote might
Ichange this enough to give Mrs. Hamilton the office, but
the chance is slight.
Smkin, district clerk; Boss, district Judge; Murray
Register of deeds Schrener probate judge Frazier sher
li Hoyt treasurer; Maserson, county clerk Sanders
county superintendent Elleman, county attorney, and
Mobey county commissioner, have all been elected by
ortes differing only slightly from those published in yes
terday's Daily Citizen.
The Republicans now have two commissioners coun-
y attorney district clerk register of deeds and district
Judge The democrats have the probate Judge, county
clerk county treasurer county superintendent and one
commissioner which gives the republicans lead OF one
the court house. In addition to this the county gave big
majortes to every state and national office candidate
Despite this seeming victory of the republicans they
really have nothing to be proud of because at least two
candidates left at the post because of lack OF organ
zaton and the proper support The majority of the re-
publican candidates haphazard without any attempt
at cooperation The democrats able to defeat o. W.
Fail and Mrs. Hamilton by superior organization and
earned the election of the opposing candidates by effort
and better management The between Anna Master
son and Jean Con was very similar to the between
Minnie Murray and Phil Metzler. Miss MastersOn was
elected because her brother had been drafted out OF the
office and was given good republican support in genuine
sportmanship. Miss Masterson was the only democrat
that carried Baxter Springs for the county offices On the
other hand Miss Murray beat Phil Metzer because Phil
never makes race seriously, but fills the ticket makes
\ ltwo-days campaign and smiles at the results
The race between Judge Ellis and Lou Schreiner for
probate Judge resulted did because OF two factors
used against Ellis One deserved the other not Ellis be-
ing the chairman of the draft board made him eligible for
whatever anmosty the action of the entire board aroused
in the county. Frazier member of the board, escaped
this sentiment which all aimed at Ellis The other
factor in Judge Ellis defeat was his long period In Office
Many people think the Judge has had the office long
enough for man and great many republicans In Bax
ter Springs openly gave their support to the opposition
fhn of lead makes IT