The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-31
BOTH CLAIM BIG
VICTORY At POLLS
MANAGERS or DUNNE AND BussE
PREDICT THEIR ELECTION BY
LARGE MAJoRlTiEs.
TRACTION Law FIGHT
Is Also Slated for Victory by Non.
Partisan League--city May Gain
Control of Car Lines-Ba
Guns Fired.

Chicago, March 30.-This was
claim day in Cbicago's mayoralty
campaign and tonight the managers
OF Mayor Dunno who is seeking re.
election on the Democratic ticket,
and Of Postmaster Busse, the Republi-
can candidate, are both predicting
their election Tuesday by large plu-
rality.
James Reddick. chairman of the
Republican committee tonight esti-
mated that the total vote will be In
the neighborhood of $4,000 and on
that basis he estimates that Busse's
plurality over Dunno will be $4,000.
w L. 0'Connell chairman, of the
democratic committee and manager
OF the Dunno campaign tonight de-
clared that Mayor Dunno will be re-
elected by $4,000 majority"
Victory for Traction Ordinances
victory for the traction ordi
nances passed recently by the city
council against the protest of Mayor
Dunno, was predicted tonight by the
leading Officials Of the several non
partisan organizations that have been |
erusading for the measures during |
the campaign. Mayor Dunno vetoed
the ordinances because they did not
provide immediate municipal owner.
ship of street railways
Should the ordinances receive the
approval Of the voters Tuesday the
city will practically control the sur
face lines as the measures provide
for 20 year franchises with the city
having the privilege Of pufcha ing
the lines after giving six mouths
notice the money paid to be $4,000. 4
G0). II
The ordinances also provide for i'm.
mediate rehabilitation of the systems !
under the supervision of the city en-
sineer. universal transfers through /
out the city. through routing OF cars. I
the books Of The company to be open 4
To city officials and the city to re- {
ccive 55 per cent OF the net receipts 4
of the earnings of the lines. o
Bitter Campaign Nears End. ]
Both sides in the mayoralty cam. 7
paign have brought out their heavy e
artillery. Several hundred meetings c
have been held throughout the city in 0
The last twenty-four hours, and all F
were largely attended. 7
The most pretentons meeting was d
1t the Auditorium. under Republican
auspices. The chief speakers were cl
Governor Deneen, who came up from II
Springfield to take an active part in =
he campaign for Fred A. Busse. the
Republican candidates. Lieutenant
Governor Sherman, Attorney General 4
William n. Stead, Mayor Becker, OF
and Rev. J. Wesley Hill.
y Brooklyn. N. ", also made ad-
Iresses. All Republican speakers at.
acked William r. Hearst.
The Democratic speakers were all
pcal men. but they repudated the
harges brought against Mr. Hearst
With energy, declaring that he Is in
pired only by the desire to give the Pt
ity good government and an i'm
rovcd street car system.
The judges Of the municipal courts,
.ho for several months have beoa
fotestlng against what they have
allied a 100 free use of the pardoning
over by Mayor Dunno, have in. pr
ructed the police department that orr
arrarts. whenever possible. shall be pir
Ought under state laws instead of l9l
ty ordinances in order TO deprive tho
ayor Dunno of ali chance to pardon all
en- who may be convicted. Ian
Labor Men Are Divided. tri
A circular. signed by a number of
ointment labor leaders, who urge the
cir members TO vote against the tina
rect car ordinances which we're the
ssed by the city council over the cen
to of Mayor Dunno was issued to OF
". II is asserted in the circular rec
at the ordinances are drawn in the Tn
terest of the corporations. and are and
sinst the welfare Of the city. teri
Several prominent labor men. how 9th
er. are enlisted on the side of the 7
'publicans and Cornelius p. Shea. upo
esident OF the TeamsteTs' Union. is in ,
ardent worker in the Republican pin
crest. nuh
Mayor Dunno today predicted that law
viii be reelected by a plurality OF bec
200. The Republicans claim about m,b
many in tlcir estimate Of Busse's tbe
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