The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-16
SPEAKER CANNON
NOMINATED AGAIN
H is Iii moi S District
. Would Return Him
to Congress.
PRIMARY VOTE
is VERY LIGHT
George E. Foss, Chairman Of
Committee on Naval Affairs,
Running Neck and Neck
With Progressive Oppo-
nent, and May Suffer
Defeat.

Chicago. ILL.,, September 15.-The nom
ination of Speaker Joseph g, Cannon
for reelection to Congress and the
neck and neck race that Congressman
George e. Foss Is running with his
Progressive opponent, as indicated in
early returns, were features of to-days
primaries In Illinois.
Speaker Cannon. rs shown by re-
turns up to midnight, carried Yermil-
lion county by primary plurality of
about $500 compared with an election
plurality Of 1866 two years ago. While
the returns are incomplete, Mr. Can
mons plurality apparently viii go
above $500
The returns in no county are COM
plete. but that the Speaker has car
ried every county in the district seems
certain. Kankakce county, II the
present ratio keeps up. Will give him
100 plurality: Iroquois, 200: Edgar.
1000: Clark, 1,400: Cumberland, 400.
The vote throughout the entire dis
trict was heavy.
The vote cast in the congressional
districts in Cook county (chicago) was
remarkably light, not more than a
quarter OF the vote on the registration
books being polled. The down. State
vote was much heavier.
Early returns indicated the nomina-
ton of Lee O'Neil Browne for re-elee.
tion to the State House of Representa-
tives, and also that OF E. G.. Shurtleft.
Republican Speaker OF the House,
against whom a determined factional,
! fight was waged. Browne was recently
acquitted of a charge of having hribed
a State Representative to vote for VIII
liam Lorimer for United States Senator.
Coun Defeated.
| ination of Ira 6. Copley by. the Repuo
Ilicans OF the Eleventh Congressional
District over George w. Conn. 81. The,
hight, in this district has been one OF
1.-The flercest in the state. CcGn rs SAID
TO have been backed by the "standpat.
ers," while his opponent declared him
Iself Progressive.
| The defeat OF II. s. Boutell after
| many years In Congress. by Il. H.
tGansbergen who announced himself as
a Progressive, caused little surprise
locally. The Regular Republican or
ganization refused to indorse Boutcll
Lon the grounds that his record as a
"standpatter' would insure Democratic
success il he were nominated. Cans
bergen ran about 1000 ahead of him
| The closeness OF the fight In the
Tenth District came as a surprise to
most students Of the campaign. While
Mr.. F,oss, who is chairman OF the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, has always
voted with the regulars at Washington.
| he stated during the campaign that he
had informed Mr.. Cannon that he felt
free to reserve his Judgment as to how
he should vote in the next Speakers
contest.
G. p. Englehard campaigned on an
unmistakable Progressive platform and
attacked the present Congressman on
his record on the tariff and as a sup
porter OF Cannon. Forty-three pre-.
cincts out of 147 in the district gave
Englehard 1,os2 votes. against 1911 for
!, Mr.. Foss.
No Opposition.
In number of congressional dis
tricts outside Cook county there were
no contests among the Republicans and
Democrats. and the following were
nominated without opposition:
Twelfth District-Charles e. Fuller
| (Rep0, incumbent. sf
Thirteenth District-Henry %. Dixon
| (Dem).
Fourteenth District-James McKin-
ney (RepD, incnmHent
Fifteenth Distrlct-Albert f. Berg
land lDem); George w. Prince (Rep),
incumbent.
Sixteenth District-Claude w. Stone
lDem) Joseph v. Graf (Repo, tncum-
Seventeenth District-Louis Fitzhun-
ry (Dem); John A. Sterling CRep), in
cumbent.
Eighteenth District-william i. Gun
| diff (Dem).
Nineteenth Dtstrict-william B. Nc
Kinley (Rep). Incumbent
Twentieth District-Henry T. Rainey
(Dem), incumbent; James H. Danskin
| (Rep).
Twenty first District-James M. Gra-
ham (Dem.). incumbent; II. Clay VIII
\ son (Rep).
Twenty-second District-Bruce A.
Campbell (Dem); William a. Roden-
| berg tRep.). incumbent
Twenty-thlrd Dstrict-Martin D.
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