The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-03
MAYOR DUNNE DEFEATED
 IN CHICAGO ELECTION
POSTMASTER BUSSE VICTORIOUS BY PLURALITY OF 1000
 TO 1S,OLO.

Dunne's Plan for Municipal Ownership
 of the Car Lines vanquished With
 Him-Ordinances Granting Twenty
 Year Franchises, etc., and Favored
 by the Republicans Adopted by 10000
 Mnjority-Hearstism Receives An
 other BIow--SociaIist Vote Falls or.
 Chicago, April 2.-The most intense campaign in municipal politics that Chicago has experienced in many years closed tonight with the election of Frederick A. Busse, the republican andidate. for mayor. over Edward F. Dunne, his demoratic rival and can didate for reelection. Busse's plurali ty was between 15,0OO and 1S0OO votes.
 The issues in the campaign have been largely basel upon the improve ment of the local traction systems. Both parties agreed that present con- dttions are intolerable, but differed as to the best method of revising them. The democratic party, headed by Mayor Dunne, stood for immediate municipal ownership through condem- nation of the street car property if the result could not be obtained in any other way. The republican party fa- vored ordinances which were recently passed by a democratic city council over the veto of Mayor Dunne.
 These ordinances provided for twen- ty year franchises for the street car companies, the city retaining the right to purchase the systems for fifty mill lion dollars plus the amount to be spent for immediate rehabilitation of the lines c!x months notice being ne- cessary of the city's intention to ac- quire the property. The ordinances also provide for universal transfers throughout the city, five cent fare and tifty-five per cent. of the net profit of the companies to be paid to the city. These ordinances Were approved to- day by @ majority of about forty thou sand.
 The vote generally showed decided reversal of public opinion on municipal ownership compared with the mayor alty campaign two years ago. At that ] time Dunne received 18s,1S9 votes against 1SS,671 for John H. Harlan. the republican leader The prohibitionist ticket received 3,294 votes and the sos cialist 23,0S4 This year the republican vote was close to 165,OO0, and that of the democrats close to 14S.00o. The prohibition vote ran slightly ahove that 1 of two years ago, while the socialist vote fell off heavily, 1t being more than 12000 less.
 The campaign has been one of the most vicious the city has ever known. Charges and countercharges have been hurled, the personal lives of the candi- dates have been discussed and speakers on both sides have indulged in tiradea filled with invectives and abuse
 The disagreeable features of the campaign which became so proaounced in it's latter part, commenced when Mayor Dunne circulated petition for a referendum vote on the traction pro- position. He and his followers an- nounced that they had secured 151, ,OOO signers to the petition, SO,OOO being ne- cessary to place the matter before the voters.
 Charges were made by the republi- can party that thousands of these names had been forged and that the list had been padded In every conceiv- able fashion. These assertions were vehemently denied by the democrats and the followers of Mayor Dunne, wha were in favor of immediate mu- 1 nicipal ownership.
 From this time until the end of the campaign the feeling became more bit ter.
 William Randolph Hearst came per sonally from New York to take part in the campaign and brought with him cartoonists and editorial writers.
 His papers were the onlypublications in the city supporting Mayor Dunne, all other newspapers being for Busse and the ordinances. The papers favor ing Busse made much of the cry that Chicago was able to manage Its own interests without receiving instructions from New York.
 Later-The total vote for mayor fol- lows:' Busse (republican), 164SS9; Dunne (democraD, 151,71S; Reubacker prohtbition), 5,S75; Kep (soclalist), 13,- 459; Busse's plurality, 1S121,