The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-04-09
CHICAGO SWEPT
BY REPUBLICANS
Heavy Vote In Favor Of Tax
For Sanitarinrl.
POWELL'S Big PLURALITY

Lorimer Wards on the west Size.
Proposition For Annexation OF
Evanston and Cicero Has Majority
of Favorable Ballots In the Big City.
Election Is a Quiet One.
Chicago, April Isaac N Powell
was elected city treasurer by a plu-
rality of over $4,000, according to re-
turns at hand.
This is the biggest plurality given
Republican in recent years.
Jacob II. Marks, Republican candi-
date for city clerk. ran far behind
Powell. He was opposed in the Lori
mer wards on the west side, aud
Frank D. Connerys personal popular
ity won him many votes.
Latest returns give Connery 114.29S
votes and the victory. Marks total
was 1G7 1903.
Sanitarium Proposition Wins.
Chicago will have tuberculosis
sanitarium.
The proposition to spread a tax for
the establishment of tuberculosis
hospital was carried by sweeping
vote. and proved one of the popular is
sues on the little ballot.
The early returns indicated that the
proposition had carried by several
thousand, the vote being especially
large upon it.
The proposition had many oppon-
ents, but these were swept aside by
the flood of votes that poured in in
favor of the tax, which is not to ex-
coed one mill.
1.-The little ballot became the big
ballot said Health Commissioner
Evans triumphantly. There was more
interest in the little ballot than in the
large one, | believe"
The proceeds of a one mill tax in
dollars would mean 100000 for Chi
cago annually. A sanitarium, it is
planned, will be built with the result
of the first years tax.
After that the tax will he used fo~
maintenance and extensions. Any
other city of Illinois can secure a
tuberculosis sanitarium by the same
method.
AIdermanic Situation.
1t was known before half of the re-
turns were in that the Republicans
would control the aldermanic situa-
ton. There were some close con-
tests. In the Third ward a hard bat
tie was made against Colonel Milton J.
Foreman but he was victorious by a
comfortable margin.
The following aldermen were elect
ed:
First ward, Kenna; second, Hard
ing; third, Foreman; fourth, Daley;
fifth, Sheahan; sixth, Long; seventh,
Merriman; eighth. Emerson; ninth,
Egan; tenth, Scully; eleventh, Cutler
ton; twelfth, thinner; twelfth, Ger
maxi thirteenth, Fulton; fourteenth,
Lawley; fifteenth. Zutpatel; sixteenth,
Kunz; seventeenth, Sitz; eighteenth,
Brennan; nineteenth, Powers; TWEEN
tieth, Stewart; twenty-first, Taylor;
twenty-second, Bauler; twenty-third,
Hey; twenty-fourth, Krumholz; TWEEN
ty-f1fth, Dunn; twenty sixth, Lippe;
twenty-seventh, Capp; twenty-eighth,
Littler; twenty-ninth, Mueller; thir-
tieth, McInerney; thirty first, Kearns;
thirty-second Fisher; tn 3
Reading; thirty-fourth, Ryan; thirty.
fifth, Clark.
New Trier township, including Crosse
Point and all other towns between Chi
cago and Waukegan, voted in favor Of
closing the saloons.
Election a Quiet One.
Generally speaking the election was
quiet one.
Peter Debolt, bartender in the en-
ploy of Lipsictz & Gordon, saloon
keepers, 403 State street, was arrested
for keeping the saloon open on cleo.
ton day.
In the Twenty-second ward there
was a clash between supporters of
rival candidates. Rocks were thrown
and several shots fired before police
men scattered the belligerents. No
one was injured.
The proposition to make Evanston
part of Chicago was carried in the big
city, but in Evanston it was defeated.
Cicero, too, voted against annexation,
although Chicagoans voted to make
this community section of the big
city.
A feature of the election in Evanston
was the issuance of an order by W. A.
Dyche, business manager of the North
western university, calling the atten-
ton of the students to the recent ue-
cision of the Illinois supreme court,
forbidding students to vote unless they
were earning their way through the
university and intended to become per-
manent resident of Evanston. AS q
result of the ruling not more than
thirty students cast ballots.