Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-03
POSTMASTER
BUSSE WINS
IN CHICAGO
Elected Mayor of the
Windy City
Plurality over Edward =. Dunno Is
1921 Votes-campaign the Most
Exciting In History Of
the state
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
CHICAGO, April 2.-Chicago's post
master, Frederick A. Busse. the Repub-
lican candidate, was elected mayor OF
the city today, having plurality OF
1921 votes over Mayor Edward E.
Dunno.
The total number Of votes cast for
Mr.. Busse was 164,SS9, and for Mr..
Dunno 151,71s. The prohibition candi-
date polled 5S75 votes and the Social
lists 13,459.
Two years ago when Mayor Dunno
was elected to office he polled 163,1S9
votes and John NJ. Harlan, the Republf-
can candidate 1861 The Socialist
vote the same year was over 40 600. to-
days vote being a great disappointment
to the leaders of that party.
The new mayor will have the city
council with him, but it is very close,
as the makeup of this body shows 80
Republicans, "a Democrats and one In
dependent Democrat.
The ordinances settling the street car
question were carried by good ma
jorlty.
The total vote was 165,S46 for and
1S2,720 against.
According to the latest returns at
midnight the only Democrat outside of
aldermen elected was John e. Traeger,
Democratic candidate for city treasurer.
The issues in the campaign have been
largely based upon the improvement of
the local traction system. Both parties
were agreed that present conditions
were intolerable, but differed as to the
best method to be employed in revising
them.
Where Leaders Differed
The Democratic party, headed by
Mayor Dunno, stood for municipal
ownership through condemnation Of the
street car properties if the right could
not be obtained in any other way. The
Republican party favored ordinances
which were recently passed by a Demo-
cratic city council over the veto of
Mayor Dunno.
These ordinances provided for twenty
year franchises for the street car COM
panies. the city retaining the right to
purchase the systems for $50, 700 plus
the amount to be spent for immediate
rehabilitation of the lines, six months
notice being necessary of the cltys IN
tention to acquire the property.
The ordinances dlSO DlONluC lOl uIll-
:yersal transfers throughout the city, a
5-eent, fare and 55 per cent of the net
revenue of the companies to be paid
to the city. The fight for and against
the adoption of these ordinances has
been exceedingly bitter. They were
carried today by majority Of about
10000 votes.
The vote today showed a decided re-
versal of public opinion on the ques-
tion of municipal ownership compared
with the last mayoralty campaign two
years ago.
Socialists Lose Heavily
At that time Dunno received 1853, ,1S9
votes against ,691 for John NJ. Har-
lam the Republican leader The Pro-
hibition ticket received 2,294 and the
Socialist 43,034 votes. This year the
Republican vote was 165, 900 and that of
the Democrats was close to $4,000. The
Prob -bition vote runs slightly above
that of two years ago, while the So
cialist vote fell off heavily.
The campaign has been one of the
most vicious the city has ever known,
with charges and counter charges be-
ing hurled back and forth. The per-
sonal lives of the candidates have been
held up to the public and throughout
the entire campaign speakers on both
sides have INDUCED night after night
in TRADES filled with invective and
abuse.
The disagreeable feature of the cam
paign, which became so pronounced in
it's latter part, commenced when Mayor
Dunno circulated a petition for a refer
endum vote on the traction proposition
at the present election. He and his
followers announced that 151, 900 pc
titioners to sign this proposition could
be gotten.
The charges made by the Republicans
that thousands Of these names had been
forged and that the list had been
padded in every conceivable way pos
sible.
These assertions were vehemently de-
MED by the Democrats and the follow
ers of Mayor Dunno, who were in favor
of immediate municipal ownership.
From this time until the end of the
campaign feeling became more bitter
and more intense.