Show SILK STOCKINGS responsible FOR MUNICIPAL misgovernment 1 THE chicago municipal election held beld one week ago d discloses Ise loode some I 1 interesting particulars in relation lorl to the ethics of voting the registry list revised and corrected up to election day contained a total of names the total number lumber of votes cast was leaving about 86 per cent of the registered voters tin unaccounted accounted for the election was by no means unimportant por tant there were 84 aldermen and number of town asse assessors collectors I 1 supervisors and clerks elected pu public blip feeling ran rather high owing to the fact that 9 aldermen were under indictment for dishonesty in office the election was conducted under the australian ballot law so that there was no excuse for intimidation coercion or the fear of at the polls toe Tue local papers have entered into the analysis of the situation and are trying to solve bials problem of absenteeism at the polls tha 3rd ard ath and wards in chicago a are re usually denominated the american districts there are scarcely any lodging houses bouses to in either of them the percentage of foreign born citizens in these wards is so flo luw as to be unworthy of notice the absenteeism at the polls on election day in the third and fourth wards was 88 38 per cent of the registered voters and in the twelfth 35 per cent the sixth ward is almost entirely composed of wage workers and small shopkeepers the absenteeism there was only 21 per cent A chicago paper says that those w who 60 stay away are the individuals who broan over the election ejection of bad men to the council scold because municipal Ef fAirs are not decently managed and yet will not take the trouble to vote for hwd men much of the responsibility tor fur municipal misgovernment misgovern beut rests on the men who think it beneath their AlIgn dignity ity to turn out except at a presidential election of the 34 84 aldermen recently elected jn in chicago 18 were republicans 13 democrats and 3 independent democrats democrate the old council was strongly democratic but in the new it is said the parties are a tie the mayor is republican and trouble is apprehended over the pending organization of the council ou on party lines there is however talk of organizing by means of a joint committee composed of both pir titS it a |