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Show HAVE NOW SPLENDID CHANCE FOR SUCCESS Deflecting Republicans Will Now Come BackJAnd Help Party to Victory Democrats and Citizens Break Even. The pilmary election passed ot a was oxpocted very quietly aud resulted result-ed In b preliminary victory for the Republicans, nil of their men quullfy leg for the final on JJovomuer 7ih. The DomocratH qualified but . two, their candidate for mayor and the short term commissioner, while the CltlzenB-Nonpnrtlsans qualified a like number, their condldatcs for long term commissioner and auditor sue-I sue-I cessfully coming under tho wire. The I big race of tho day and the ono in which, the. greatest intorcst centered was Wtfeen tho thrco candidate-! for mayor, and by recourse to tho returns re-turns It will bo seen that It was very closely contested. Tho groat iurprlso wan the light toto polled by the namocratlc candidate, lie had the entire-Democratic field to himself, while tho Republican candidate' expected ex-pected a division of his party's strength with the candldato on tho non-pai tlsnn ticket, who Is a Repub-llcnn Repub-llcnn of long stnndlng. Notwlthstand-Ing Notwlthstand-Ing these coiidltions, which are veil-fled veil-fled from tho fact that in Republican i districts the normal vote was pvac j ft,1- tlcnlly divided, between, tho j.iun , Jl-'' dates on tho Ilcpubllcnn and Non . , I Partisan tickets, Hon Thomas Sinmt 1 came within frfteen votes ot being 1 tho high man. Ho made a manulft- I cent race, and enters Into tho final I contest with odds In his favor. Another surprise) was the cndort.5- ment of George W. Undqulst, the I Non-PnrllBan candidate, over Mosos I i hatcher, tho .Democratic candldato. I It was expected that Mr. Thntihcr I would win a place ,pn. the ballot hat I tho gamo was played to his defeat I within his own party. Whether It was H the statement of his own party pa- per to tho effect that "ho speak? H right out In mcctln," or echoes of tho convention over tho fight between Mr H Thatcher and merabors of the pint-H pint-H form committee, relative to tho ret-H ret-H erenccs to the last Democratic nd-H nd-H ministration In tho platform wo do H not know. Tho fact remains that Mr. H Thatcher was ruthlessly slaughtered B unless Llndqulst negotiated 3omo H trade, or porfonncd some coup not H yet brought to light, H Mr. Joaoph Qulnnoy, candidate for H auditor on tho Non-Partisan ticket H proved tho real raco horse ot the H day. Ho Btartod In early In the morn- H Ing at the farthermost corner ot the H city, and kept up the paco all day, H and didn't atop one minute until ho H had successfully reached the goal. H Mr. Qutnney is an. old resident, com- H raandlng the respect of all clashes, andjM the office to which he was H aspiring had nothing to do with., the H shaping ot the policy ot the admlnls-H admlnls-H .tratlon, no matter which party or H ' clique won, the peoplo just handed K him the votes as an evldenco of tho jH respect In which he was held. His B victory la in no sense a repudiation B of tho two excellent young men who H ran against him. It was simply a H choice between friends as It wove, jB where no great question ot govern-K govern-K irtfsiH or policy ot administration was B t slake, and the people just cIiom; cJPBPf..SS!he older candidate. S The Republican city committee, H nhd workers, are to bo congratulated H on their a ictory. It will ho remember- H cd that their ticket was tho last In tho field, and by that limo a great H many ot its followors had received H tho impression that the Ilopubllcan H party would not put n ticket In the field, nnd bed aligned thcmsolvos with tho Nonpartisan movement. If Tiioy roluctantly supported the new B movement to tho end, but now that J It has been beaten, as veil as the common enemy, tlioro i3 no ro.inon why every Honublloan should not re-I re-I turn to tho fold nnd nesUt lu tho el- octlon of Us party candidates oo el wtlon day. Tho Rp.ubl(nn pary )s the only party in t'je u'ty that .vill have full reprogentntlnii on thy of flclal ballot. Citizens wll' want to elect a party that will !.. responsiliie. . 'i '-Ml not 'war'- u divided house lii'i'-lc cne pu.V oaii lay the li.mne II lil the other, .1 while away ilui tlmo of the city trying to Bhlft responsibility re-sponsibility from ono to another, therefore they will elect the Republican Republi-can party, and place tho entire responsibility re-sponsibility upon them. Again tho result re-sult Is a fine testimonial as to tho standing of tho Republican candidates candi-dates with the people, and the ability abil-ity which they possess. Wo congvntu-lato congvntu-lato tho people on thqlr good Judgment, Judg-ment, and tho candidates on tho l'i-llmlnary l'i-llmlnary score to their credit. Homo hnvo expressed surprise at tho magnitude of tho Non-1'arthan strength, but when It Is analyzed there Is no cause for surprise. In tho first place they wero in the Held early, and had sumo very flno men enlisted In their cause. Such men as A. 0. tundstrom, the Dell nrotherti, Dr. D. C. Dudgc, and othors of like magnitude, are strong and powerful I nnd. whcilstbuy go to work something Is going to bo done. Again' tholr candidates can-didates wero politicians of long standing, were rcsourcoful, npont money freely, nnd were thoroughly or-gnnl7cd, or-gnnl7cd, ami to the man on tho in side they wero huio to put up a good fight. They Imported speakers, and did everything they could do, legitimately, legiti-mately, we think, to win a victory Hut tho people, tho sober bettor Judgment Judg-ment ofthe people, ruled ngalnst tlutin, and endorsed the Republican pauy abovo all others, nnd It Is now time for those Republicans who took part In tho Nou-l'artlsan movement to come back home, nnd assist in making mak-ing their party strong nnd a power for good In tho city. Uoys come j.h-'; It Is your duty to do so, That tho Democratic party .h lu tho minority in tho city is clearly evidenced. ev-idenced. They had the better of conditions con-ditions from start to finish, aud in tho end made no bottor showing than the now organization. Thoy worked hard and long, nnd true to their pact history did not fall to blasso forth In sensatlonnl tones their old threadbare church influonco stories. It would Indeed In-deed bo a treat to havo them pa3S up ono campaign without these apparent ap-parent foundatlonless charges. |
