Some of our readers know already, that Mr. John F. Smulski, defeated by Mr. Peter Kiolbassa for the office of alderman of the Sixteenth Ward, has filed a complaint with the city council as to the legality of Mr. Kiolbassa's election.

According to the official recount Mr. Kiolbassa's majority was only seventy-two votes, so the opposition hoped that somehow this majority would be cut down.

But this hope is not being realized.

Yesterday, after many legal skirmishes, in the presence of election officers and a committee of the city council, a recount was begun.

The first fourteen precincts were recounted. And what was the result?....Mr. Kiolbassa not only did not lose a vote in these precincts (in spite of the many 2attempts) but he actually gained three votes.

So he has a majority of seventy-five, not seventy-two votes.

Tomorrow the other fourteen precincts will be canvassed, and we are convinced the results will be the same.

At any rate the contest will prove a fizzle.

Mr. Smulski began it, we understand, mainly on the demand of the Republican city machine, whose members supported him with a vigor worthy of a nobler cause. These gentlemen hoped something unforeseen might happen so that, by trickery, enough votes might be thrown out to change the result; they have miscalculated.

That a Pole should permit himself to be used for such a purpose is very incomprehensible to us....