Show S BEPUBLICAN TRADERS Hannaite Scheme to Elect a Council jilajority The report comes from the Second precinct that Republicans there have already began trading on the council manic ticket Tho man they have picked out to help is George Canning and the Democrat they have picked out for defeat is T C Lewis The plan is to give a Republican vote for Smith or Laveille in exchange for a Democratic Demo-cratic vote for Canning In this way i is hoped to pull one Republican through t ruSh The same tactics it is stated are being be-ing resorted to in the Third precinct The Democrat picked out for slaughter there is John B Reid and the Republican Repub-lican that i is hoped to pull through is William M Elliott By these methods so the reports have t1e repos I the Lannan combine expects to gain a tclma from each of these precincts pre-cincts They are fighting for two in the First two in the Fourth and three in the Fifth making nine in all or a good working majority of the council I the expressions heard may be taken a a fair index thee schemer will have df ficulty in finding Democrats to play into their hands in this trading game Fighting Edgar Howe Ortherus P Przrtt another brother of the renowned Arthur h opened up a guerilla warfare on Edgar Howe in the Fourth precinct Ortherus was originally a Democrat but he had a nonpartisan attack two years ago and has never recovered His desperate efforts ef-forts to defeat Howe at this time recall the threat made by Lannan and A Pratt to the effect that no councilman who Voted to kick the latter out of the office of cbief of police would ever go back to the council I Campaign Notes As soon as the reading of the platform plat-form was completed in Fridays Han nacratic one delegate jumped to his feet and left the hal Thats enough he was heard to say Im done with them from this time out Their were too cowardly to give silver even a passing mention menton Two ladies who have eomethincr t learn about politics passed Republican headquarters last evening Whats that in there one of them asked Oh thats political headquarters was the replv The Democrats have one side of the room and the Republicans Repub-licans the other C W Morse nominee on the Republican Repub-lican ticket for city attorney was city attorney of Garden City and not Wellington Wel-lington Kan as state The Democratic delegates of the Fourth precinct are reminded by the chairman James Maxwell not to forget for-get the precinct convention to be held in Taggarts hal S7G First street at 8 oclock Monday evening to fill the vacancy va-cancy made on the councilmanic ticket by the withdrawal of Robert Patrick The Democratic district chairmen of the Second precinct will meet on Monday Mon-day evening at headquarters at 8 oclock sharp to perfect their organization organiza-tion and transact important business The call for this meeting is signed by J C Lambert chairman and Phoebe Felcher secretary The Democratic Womens club will meet at Democratic headquarters tomorrow to-morrow afternoon at 2 oclock All Democratic ladies interested in the success suc-cess of the party are invited to attend I at-tend |