The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-08
COME OUT
Vote IS Per Cent Of Registered
Strength in Chicago.
Fail to Elect Any Candidate
From Their Own Ranks.
B. H. JOHN WINS BY 1000
New Voters Swat the Saloons
Throughout the State.

Dry Territory Is Largely In
creased by the Returns.
Chicago, April 8-Although 20 per
cent of the Chicago women eligible to
| vote. took advantage of their newly
| gained franchise at the municipal cleo
ton, none Of the nine women candi-
dates for membership in the city coun-
Gil was successful The women candi-
dates received only a scattered vote.
! Alderman John Oath House) Coughlin,
who, for a score Of years has repre-
scented the First ward. won by nearly
1000 votes over Miss Marion Drake. q
court stenographer. who made spec
tacular opposition. Miss Harriet Wit
tum. head resident OF the Northwestern
i University settlement, went down to
defeat before Alderman Stanley s.
| Walkowiak. in the Seventeenth ward.
The vote in Chicago totaled nearly q
half million. Out OF a total Of FL. 614
! women who had qualified, 158. 686 voted.
The number Of men who voted was
32S, 1897, u per cent. of those eligible.
Although it was not as great as they
had expected, suffrage leaders ex-
pressed themselves as highly pleased
with the interest shown by the wom-
en-. Chicago's new council will be over
! whelmingly Democratic. as it has been
for several years.
| OF the successful candidates only 16
served in the last city council. OF the
new council 40 will be Democrats. 81
Republican. six Progressives and in
dependents. Votes Of the women de-
feated a proposition for comprehen-
sive subway system which had been
planned ut an estimated cost OF $l3O.-
100000. The subway proposition was
lost by a majority of 10000 votes. An
other public policy question providing
for home rule in the regulation Of pub
lie utilities was successful by a ma
jority Of 1000. Five bond issues total
ing So 350. 900 for city departments and
hospital were defeated by large ma
jorities.
, One bond issue providing for $780,
900 for municipal bathing beach i'm
provement was successful. Propositions
aldermen, the city clerk and the city
treasurer and for the revision OF the
municipal court act. failed.
The Socialist party had an alder
manic candidate in each Of the IS wards.
In most of the wards the Socialist vote
was third and in one ward, the Twen-
ty-seventh, in the northwestern part
Of the city their candidate took second
place. The total vote polled by the
Socialists candidates was $1,000.
The State at Large. -
Women voting for the first. time in
Illinois township el.ctions demonstra-
ted their power Tuesday by closing the
doors Of more than q thousand saloons,
adding 16 counties to the 80 already
dry and barring the sale Of intoxi-
cants in approximately 200 Of the 300
townships in which local option was an
issue.
Their victory included eleven Of the
larger cities Of the state which until
the votes were counted, were wet ter
ritory. They were: 4
Bloomington, Galesburg. Elgin. De-
catur. Canton, Forest Park, Bellevidere.
Monmouth, Kewanee, Lockport, and
East Galena. Rockford, Nation and
Galva were kept in the dry column
by women's votes. No city nor town.
ship which was dry before the election
was lost by the anti-saloon forces but
the cities Of Springfield, Quincy, Rock
Island, Aurora, Alton Moline, Dixon
and West Galena remained wet.
Complete returns from country town.
ships and from more remote sections
Of the state were not available but de-
tailed figures of the vote in 81 town
ships placed the women's vote at 40.681
dry and 18.181 wet, showing that in
those townships approximately 80 per
cent of the women voters favored the
antt-salOon ticket Where accurate fig
ures were available the mems vote was
shown to be about one-eighth greater
than the women's and to have been
divided into approximately 60 per cent
wet and 40 per cent dry.
In addition to their victories over the
saloons the women elected 30 women
township officials: 26 township collec-
tors; town clerks and one woman
member of a city board Of education.
Mrs. Mary L. Morrison of Springfield.
Had High Hopes.
Anti-saloon leaders hoped to win
In 80 per cent of the townships. After
the returns were announced, F. Scott
Mcbride, superintendent of the anti
saloon league, declared that he was
more than satisfied with the result.
Not a city nor township which was
dry has gone over to the enemy" he
said. land our victories have been
many. This election will hasten leg
islatfon. curtailing the liquor selling
in the state"
The 16 counties added to the list of
80 already dry are: Boone, Brown,
Christian. De Kalb. Dewitt, Fulton,
Henry, Jersey, Knox, Livingston, Ma
con, Mclean, Shelby, Stephenson,
Warren and Winnebago.
Women Vote Wet i'm Springfield.
OF the near-dry counties resulting
from the election 10 Daviess and
Whiteside have each one wet city,
West Galena and Fulton respectively.