The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-10
Runs Away from Princeton
Man, Showing at Least
$4,000 Majority in I.
Cook County
Alone
ROOSEVELT WINS BY
TWO TO ONE VOTE u
THROUGHOUT STATE
Early Returns Indicate That
Governor Deneen Has Won "A
Easy Victory for Third
Nomination Over His
Two Opponents

CHICAGO. April s.-Champ Clar1
has swept the presidential primart01
of Illinois.
The Missouri candidate for thG#
Democratic nomination for Presidents
will carry Cook county by apparentla II
$4,000 majority.
Early returns Indicate that he WIN
get nearly rs large plurality down
State. He will have the eight deJoN
gates at large to the Democratic naesS
tional convention, and from the eArlX8
indications, forty OF the fifty dtstric4 4
delegates at least. M
Theodore Roosevelt has swept the
Republican primaries most decisive1y3ss
His probable plurality In Cook county,
will be $4,000 for the delegates a&sss
large. Also tho indications are that
he will get the district delegates foes
seven of the ten Chicago districts
with chance to get them from misc
of ten districts.
Taft Beaten Two to Ono.
Down State he has run ovo4 4
from scattering counties show that hoI 4
is beating Taft from to to IS o. Il
i. and that he may carry all nfte1W u
districts.
Senator Shelby M. Cullom has beam
beaten for the Republican indoruo.
ment for United States senator. Af1Sr
more than half a century OF pub Ic
service. at the age Of eighty twov@earI
he seems to have lost a politica. On
test-the first he has ever lost. LaM-
renee Y. Sherman Is the victor.
Denccn Scores Easy Victory.
Governor Charles s. Deneen seems
to have scored an easy victory, s0rs
his third nomination al Republics
candidate for governor. His estim IT,
ed plurality In Cook county Is from
almost as great as that Of Len Small (
and John E. Wyman combined.
Samuel Alschuler and Edward r..
Dunno in the Democratic fight for
governor are having a close. hard
fight. Dunno will probably carry
Cook county by $4,000. But Alschuier
seems to have the lead down the Stats
that will cut down DUNES Cook
county advantage. N
Machines Go Down.
In Chicago two malodorous polit1.5
cal machines seem to have been sent
to the scrap heap for. good-Roger G.
Sullivans socalled Democratic mo-
chine and its dose kinsman. tho
Lorimer's Lincoln League.
The united progressive Democrats
have elected two-third Of precinct
committees OF the county. They have
won everywhere except In the stoe3E
Yards district There the Dunno Sulli@
van alliance Won out
The whole Sullivan slate Of county
candidates has apparently gone into
80 gutter with the machine thax
backed It The harmony Democrats
from the early returns have won
everything.
Very few returns for county o6lsS
GERS are yet In. but the decisive beat
ing OF the Sullivan machine indt-@
Gates what has happened. And such
returns az are In bear out that pre-
diction.
Maclav Hoyne. the harmony cand1<
date for the nomination for states
attorney. seems to have beaten the
Sullivan pair. Kelly and Devina de-
cisively. N
Peter Bartsen for President Of tho
county board. has v'-dtcatst himsel3
"a sar- 30 tho ears.y resarn~ show
lorimer siate Beaten. s
The Lcrimer Republican SLATE e
seems to have suffered the same fato|
as the Sullivan ticket-that q Il ~
arnarertly beaten from top to bottom
with this exception OF Jos~nh p. nt9Ss
well for circuit clerk. and William HA1os
Thompson for board Of --view.
The election judges and clerks couAS
ed the vote for precinct committo4SS
men. and then went to the heads ~
the various tickets-president. Nose
ernor. etc.--so returns for all ;ccunt
officers ore vey slim.
Clark Miles Ahead. II
The vote for Clark. the Demorrat34a
Mp II lsrsesof' ?eo shrdiu MHRDLHs
candidate for President. II the me-
notable that has ever been Given 49,
GO atdste under such circumstanex4ER
The first precinct reported told tnes
story. It was the twerty-fourth pre-
c'-ct Of the twerty-third ward. MM1R
It rave Clark forty-four votes 10 Mn5
teen for Wilson.
After that the ratio never fell. 64ya
increased and soon became four -
one When 473 precincts Of the l.AoA$
in Cock county had rernrted the vn14s
was Clark. s9.251:: WILSON. ffe
When sa3 precincts were In the v0tqKN
was Clark. 44345: Wilson. 13.S11r
virtually the heures Of the hr-t No.
cinct heard from. multiplied ~ A n
The Clark victory was suveA0 -
over the city except In the Hyde - +
region, where the University X
Chicago IL located. The returns t. +
tabulated by districts indicsted
barest possibility +~,t the Priuc1e4
for tho Second conversational dseeHt
hecause OF tho silk stoking vote a
Csvth ard Seventh ws~Hs but SO w
Of tho Eighth and Ninth wAr6l
rlnroet certainly Ovefc0M1 y t9okSA &aI
/, Park lead Of the collegjans
In tho democratic CONTEST ~ r.! ~
erncr the Sullivan foreea
tho strength they cculd n!1ss
| Dunno In chicago anA heapA4 sS
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