East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-04

LiSht vote in Merrlams Territory In
dicate Victory for Harrison
Nearly 100000 Voters Have Regis
tered for Today's EIection-Heavy
Rain Prevents Early Voting at
Polls.
Chicago, Illinois. April 4.-With
Carter H. Harrison, the DEM
ocratic entry, a slight favorite over
Charles B. Merriam, who is riding the
G. o. P. elephant, the race for the
Chicago mayorality stakes will be de-
cided today.
light voting in the fashionable
residential districts of the city where
Merriam is the strongest early today
make it seem probable that Harrison
Will win. A downpour of rain pre-
vented an early voting, injuring Mer-
rams prospects. The polls of the
first ward are guarded to prevent any
clashes
Nearly 100000 voters registered for
today's election, and while a rigid
revision by the election commission
reduced the total by many thousands
It is expected that a vote of over
100000 will be rolled up before the
polls close this evening.
Later in the day the voting in
creased in the residential wards, and
the hope of the Merriamites revived.
Many minor disturbances are report
ed in several precincts but were
quickly ouelled.
The candidates this year were nom
i14o
primary election Harrison secured
plurality of only 1857 over former
Mayor Edward P. Dunno and Andrew
j. Graham, the Sullivan candidate,
who also aspired to the democratic
mayorality nomination. Merriam the
republican nominee, swept the city
with a plurality of over $4,000.
Harrison's platform calls for the
strict regulation of gas, telephone and
other public utilities which are al
legged to have filched millions from
the pockets of Chicago people by
charging eXtortionate rates. The re-
duction of the price of gas from So
cents to 20 cents per 1000 feet is one
OF the boons promised the public by
the Harrison adherents
While the political wiseacres hold
that Harrison is almost certain to be
elected, it is generally admitted that
the result will probably be close. Prof.
G. E. Merriam, the republican nomi-
ice, has been attacked in some quar-
tiers because of his former affiliation
with the prohibition party. and the
vote of the personal liberty" element
will be solidly against him.
The renowned Hinkey Dink Kenna.
Chicago's famous First ward alder
man, is candidate for reelection.
having been renominated by an over
whelming vote. The campaign which
closes with today's election has been
a bitter and turbulent one. marked
by numerous fights and stabbing and
shooting affrays \ greatly increased
force of police. detectives, deputy
sheriffs and special officers are on
guard at the polls today.
Harrison, the democratic candi-
date, is the son of Carter Henry Har-
rison, who was five times mayor of
Chicago and who was killed by an as
sassin in 1898. He has already serv-
ed four terms as mayor, between 1897
and 1905, and if elected today will
come up to the record of his father.
He is Yale graduate, a LAWYER. and
for several years was editor and pub
Usher of the Chicago Times. In the
present campaign he has had the un-
qualified support of William Ram
dolph Hearst's Chicago papers, and il
has been intimated that if he is sue
cessful he will start boom for the
nomination of Heart for president
next year In other quarters it is as
serted that Mr., Harrison is himself a
receptive candidate for the democrat
ic presidential nomination.
1t is pointed out that with Harrison
IL the mayors chair the democrats
OF Cook county, controlling one-halt
the delegates to the state convention
would be able to capture most. II not
ALL of the delegates to the national
next year.
Charles Edward Merriam. the re-
publican standard-bearer in todav's
election s professor in the Univer-
Sity of Chicago and alderman from
the Seventh ward He was born in
Hopkinton, Ia, in 1874, and is a grad
uate of the University of Iowa and
columbia University, and studied two
years in Berlin and Paris. He is the
author of several works on political
economy and municipal affairs. and
year ago was appointed a member Of
the Illinois tax commission.
The most notable monuments in
Elmwood cemetery Memphis. were