Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-03
.BUSSE WINS N
CHICAGO ELECTION
Republican Candidate Gains De-
cisive Victory in Democratic
Stronghold
HEARsTlsM Is REPUDIATED
4EARsrlsm is REpuD'ATED
yellow Journalist and His Hired Men
Lent Personal Efforts to Dunno =
More Than 10000 Votes Changed
From Two Years Aso-Busse's fIu-
rality Over $4,000.

| rality Over $4,000.
Chicago, April 3.-Chicago's post
| master Frederick A. Busse. the repub-
lican candidate, was elected mayor of
this city yesterday, having plurality
of 1921 votes over Mayor Il. r..
Dunno. The total number of votes
cast for Mr.. Busse were 164,SS9, and
| for MIR. Dunno 151,71S. The prohibition
candidate polled 5,S15 votes and the
socialist 13,459. Two years ago when
| Mayor Dunno was elected to office he
| polled 163,1S9 votes and John NJ. Har-
Ian. the republican candidate. 1851.
| The socialist vote the same year was
| over 10000, and yesterdays vote was
| a great disappointment to the leaders
Of that party.
| The new mayort will have the city
| council with him, but it is very close,
! as the makeup OF this body shows 35
republicans, "a democrats and one in
/ dependent.
| The street car question was carried.
The total vote on this was 1G5,S40 and
1920 against.
According to the latest returns at
midnight the only democrat, outside
| Of aldermen elected, was John f.
| Traeger, the democratic candidate for
I<,;t f,,ao i,,Ii
| that he will be elected by at least 5000
| plurality.
The issues in the campaign have
| been largely based upon the inn
provement of the local traction sys-
| TENS. Both parties We're agreed that
present conditions We're ntolerable, but
/, differed as TO the best method to be
employed in revising them. The DEM
ocratic party. headed by Mayor Dunno,
| stood for immediate municipal owner
| ship thru condemnation of the street
| car properties if the result could not
be obtained in any other way. The
republican party favored ordinances
which were recently passed by demo-
! cratic city council over the veto of
Mayor Dunno. These ordinances pro-
| vided for twenty years franchises for
| the street car companies, the city re-
| tanning the right to purchase the sys-
| TENS for $50,000,000, plus the amount
| to be spent for immediate rehabilitation
| of the lines; six months notice being
necessary of the city's intention to
acquire the property. The ordinances
| also provides for universal transfers
| thruout the city, scent fare and So
per cent of the net revenue of the
company to be paid to the city. The
fight for and against the adoption of
these ordinances have been exceed
| ingly bitter They were carried yes
terday by a majority of about 10000
votes.
The vote yesterday showed a de-
cided reversal of public opinion on the
question of municipal ownership COM
pared with the last mayoralty campaign
two wears ago. At that time Dunno
received 163.1S9 votes against 1851.
for John M. Harlan, the republican
leader. The prohibitionist ticket re-
ceiyed 1924 votes and the socialist 3d.
0s4. This year the republican vote
was close to 165.0O0 and that Of the
democrats was close to 143,000. The
prohibition ran slightly above that of
two years ago, while the socialist vote
fell off heavily, it being more than
10 600 less than that of the last city
election.
Campaign Was Vicious.
The campaign has been one or the
most vicious the city has ever known.
Charges and counter charges have 'een
hurled back and forth, the personal
lives of the candidates have been held
up 10 the public and thruout the en-
tire campaign speakers on both sides
have indulged night after night in the
trades that were filed with invective
and abuse.
The disagreeable features of the
campaign. which became so pro-
nounced in its latter part, commenced
when Mayor Dunno circulated petit
ton for referendum vote on the trac-
ton proposition at the present election.
He and his followers announced that
thew had secured $4,000 signers to this
petition, $4,000 being necessary to place
the matter before the voters. Charges
were made by the republican party that
thousands Of these names had been
forged and that the list had been
padded in every conceivable fashion.
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 the feeling became more bit
ter and more intense.
Hearst Enters Fight.
William R. Hearst came personally
from New York to take part in the
campaign and brought with him his
ablest cartoonists and editors, His pa
pers were the only publications in the
city supporting Mayor Dunno, all 9TH
er newspapers being for Busse and the
ordinances. The fight between the ed
itoria departments became so energet-
ic that the actual issues OF the cam
paign We're for some time completely
lost sight of. The papers favoring
Busse made much of the party cry
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