The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-03
HARRISON A VICTOR
MAYOR OF CHICAGO
BY LARGE MAJORITY.
THE VOTE WAS BADLY SPLIT.
REPUBLICANS MAY HAVE MAJORITY
OF COUNCIL.

The Chief Issue Was Granting of
Franchises to Street Railway Com
panies-HarrisOn'sR Record Was for
short Franchises-HonOre Palmer
Elected an Alderman in Hnrri-
sons Ward-The Fact That Hnnccy
Was Machine Candidate Cost
Him Many Votes.
Chicago. April Garter H. Harrison
has been reelected Mayor of Chicago for
the second time. nd will next week COM
mence his third term as the chief execu-
tive of the city His official plurality over
Judge Elbridge Hanecy, the Republican
nominee is 2s,257 votes. The total vote of
the city, with eight precincts to hear
FROM is, Harrison, 156,S52; Hanecy, 1S,GS5.
In the last mayoralty election the vote
was: Harrison, Democrat, 1886; Carter,
Republican, 107, $50; Harrison's plurality,
1853
In the presidential campaign last fall
the city vote for President was: McI<in-
ley, 1874 1885, Bryan, III. .165; McKinley's plu-
rality, 1881. Samuel Alschuler, the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of the state
was ahead of Bryan, however his vote
being 1851, against 1895 for Yates a
plurality of 16 1856 for Alschuler
Out of the thirty-fve wards of the city,
Harrison to-day carried twenty-six and
Hanecy nine.
The vote was badly split, some of the
strongest Republican parts OF the CITY
giving only small plurality for the
party nominee, and some of them going
for Harrison, who, however, suffered in
some of the Democratic strongholds. The
city wards were redistridted after the
presidential election and the regular ma
jorities in some of the wards were turned
| souarely around from what they have al
ways BEEN
| ID is impossible at this time to predict
| the exact formation of the new council
but the indications are at present that
! the Republicans will have working ma
| 1ority The present body consists of IS
| Republicans, 27 Democrats and inde-
pendents. OF the hold-overs 16 were Re
| publicans, Is Democrats and independ'
ents.
Franchises the Chief Issue.
The chief issue in the campaign has
been the granting of franchises TO thu
! street car companies. These all expire
soon by limitation, and the terms of ex
tension are to be settled during the nexi
two years. Harrison has in former years
made a record against the granting OF
long franchises and he and all of his
followers claimed throughout the cam
paign that the Republican nominee was
| inclined to grant long time privileges
| The Republicans denied this with great
! energy. making their campaign on the
flaws they picked in the record of Mayor
Harrison, and saying that Hanecy was
no more disposed to favor the street car
companies than is Harrison.
Hanecy was the nominee of the Repub-
lican machine which is dominated by ex-
| CONGRESSMAN William Lorimer and this
| fact cost him many votes in his party
as there are many of the rank and file oi
the party who are stoutly opposed to theii
party machine and all of it's works. The
Democratic following of ex-Gov. Altged
was against Harrison.
One of the features of the campaign
was the aldermanic contest In the Twen-
ty-first ward. Mayor Harrison's home
ward, where Honore Palmer, son of Pot
ter Palmer, was a candidate for election
| on the Democratic ticket, 1t being his
first essay in politics. His opponent was
S. H. Helm. Republican, who has beer
alderman from the ward for two years
Palmer was elected by majority OF
about 1900