Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-05
CarterIH Harrison Z 'ltlr 20 !.
Elected in Chicago.

Chicago. April 4.---tartrr II. Harri-
son, Democrat. mayor ot chicago from
1897 until 1905. and son uf Garter II
Harrison who WAS asSasSiuated while
mayor in 1872 was elected mayor for
the fifth time today Ike defeated
Prof. Charles T.. Merriam of the t'ni-
Versity of Chicago Republican b.
I1,0S2 votes. Harrison's total Not"
was 11I.35S.
The election Was d complet" Dem
ocratic victory. The election Of +.
II. Conroy for clerk and Henry stuck
art. city treasurer is conceded. although
ii count af their vote has not beer
completed.
Tie Democratic majority of tn" city
council was increased by a dozen mcul-
bers. Milton J. Foreman, one of thn
leading Republican members of the
council, who had served for i6 years,
was defeated by Albert Tcarney, Dem
ocrat. president of the Three | Base
hail League.
Mr.. Harrison received the rctnrns
at his home. When thu resul. no
longer was in doubt he issued a state
ment expressing his gratitude to tn"
voters and partly defining his policy.
He said:
Government improvements such az
the subways, the unificaton of the
transportation service AMI other prob
lens will be under consideration in
the Immediate future and men of
broad minds will be needed properly
10 solve them. The settling of IA price
TO be charged for gas as we'll as the
regulation of the rates charged by the
telephone and electric light companies,
VIII also come up at an early date
1t is, of course, an impossibility
To stamp out vice in a great commu
nifty. The police can hold it in check.
however. and the police will hold it
in check for the coming four years
My father held the office of mayor
for four successive terms, was our
two terms ana then was Reelected.
BY a singular coincidence that is ius;
the history of my public service Hon
ofed as ! have been. / shall do my |
leVel best to give an administration
that will show the confidence of my |
FELLOW citizens not to have been mis-
placed" |
In conceding his defeat Prof Merriam |
said:
am satisfied with the fight we have
made We have presented the issues of |
decent, honest, economical and progress |
sive government squarely to the voters in |
a way that cannot fail to help conditions |
The battle must be fought, not once but |
many times, and in the long run it Will |
prove successful. l wish TO thank nv
many friends who have Loyalty supported |
me with their time. money, eloquence
and enthusiasm. | congratulate Mr.. Har-
rison on his victory and wish him well |
in his administration
scrutiny of the returns by wards and |
precincts shows that Prof. Merriam got |
nearly Z per cent. fewer votes than J
Friend Busse, Rep, got four years ago
whereas Harrison ran over Il per cent
ahead of the figures attained by l.. +.
Dunno, Dem. at that time. The vote
reached above 10000. which is approxi-
mately 25,000 more than the record at the
last previous mayoralty contest.
Despite this. both sides agreed that
Merriam lost because the silk stocking"
wards failed to show the strength that
had been expected from them in favor of
Merriam.
Harrisons eight years of service in the
|
his opponent had counted on. Also his
promise of 70-cent gas is said by his man
ayers to have had great influence with the
West Side wards. where he showed uneX
pected gains.
Failure by the Dunno Democrats and
those included in the camp of Roger c.
sullivan TO forget party lines and vote
for Merriam was given by the latter's
managers as the basis of the Republican
defeat. Merriam made a special appea,
TO these voters to support him instead Of
Harrison, with whom they had an espe
cially bitter fight in the primary election.
There were three annexation propositions
before the voters. Those for Oak Park
and the town of Cicero failed to carry in
those towns though voted for heavily in
Chicago. The village of Morgan Park
decided to come in after years of opposi-
ton.
a feature of the campaign was the vote
poIed by the Socialist party. The vote
in the precincts first reporting indicated
that the vote would reach 1900 a gain
of II 600 over the vote of four years ago.
on the other hand the prohibition vote
which was 5S75 four years ago dropped To
81. ,l,;.