New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
SHERMAN DENIES
SULLIVAN CLAIM
Illinois Senatorship Still
in Doubt, Though Demo
crat Seems to Lead.
In Tclegrarh 10 ~ TrLbune.

! Chicago. Nov. 3.-Roger c. Sullivan
has carried Cook County for United
States Senator by $1,000, according to
an estimate made by the City Press
/ News Bureau at p. m.
| Mr.. Sullivan himself in a state
ment declared that his lead over his
opponents i'm the county would be
/ from 10000 to 10000 votes.
Reports from scattering precincts
outside of Cook County indicated that
the Progressive vote for Raymond
Robins had been decidedly far below
/ that cast for Theodore Roosevelt IN
1912, and that Lawrence Y. Sherman
was running ahead Of the Taft vote
in the same year.
: On the basis Of these reports, the
Democratic campaign managers de-
clared that Mr.. Sullivan's lead IN
/ Cook County means his certain cleo
ton on the total state figures, with
Sherman second and Robins third. The
Republicans deny this and claim later
returns will show Sherman elected by
a plurality of 10000
The first nineteen precincts outside
of Cook County gave Sherman I6l.
Sullivan $50 and Robins 1926. The
same precincts in 1912 gave Wilson
COL. Taft SIS and Roosevelt 1914.
Lawrence Y. Sherman and Roger {.
Sullivan each made equally strong
claims at midnight that he had been
elected.
Sullivan made his claim personally
at his headquarters and asserted he
had won Cook County by $4,000, but
that Sherman's downstate plurality
would decrease that figure by 10000.
Chairman Kinney, for Senator Sher-
man. said at 1880 o'clock that Sher-
mans down state plurality will be 3d.
000 sufficient 10 overcome Sulliyan's
Cook County plurality OF not 10 eX-
coed $4,000 and giving 70 Sherman
safe plurality and the election.
Raymond Robins, the Progressive
nominee. ran third in Cook County and
third down state. At midnight the re-
turns showed he had carried one
county. His defeat was conceded by
Medll Mccormick at s o'clock. On the
face of the police returns as they were
compiled until 80 o'clock Sullivan
had carried Chicago by about $4,000.
The Associated Press at 1880 o'clock
issued summary of 1865 precincts out
Of 2,78S in Illinois, outside OF Cook
County, which gave Sullivan 23,O6I,
Sherman 35.S5S and Robins l6,O9S. The
Associated Press issued "A statement a
few minutes later, figured on estimated
pluralities from fifty-eight counties
out of 10l in the down state. rms
set of figures gave Sherman net plu-
rality of $4,000 over Sullivan in these
counties.
On the basis of the precinct figures
Sherman's down state lead would be
indicated by $4,000, sufficient TO over
come Sullivan's Cook County plural
ity.
On the basis of the county estimates,
Senator Sherman's down state plural
ity will not reach much above the co.
600 mark.
It seems certain that the Republican
state ticket has won in its entirety,
probably by a plurality ranging around
the $4,000 mark. This would mean the
election of the Republican Congress
men-at-L Large, State Treasurer, State
Superintendent of Public instruction
and Clerk of the Supreme Court.
This carries along "Uncle joe Can
non in the Danville district; William
/ b. Mckinley, in the Champaign dis
trict; William A. Rodenberg, in the
East ST. Louis district; Charles +.
Fuller, in the Belvidere district; John
/ c. Mckenzie, in the Freeport district;
/ John A. Sterling, in the Bloomington
district, and probably Frank W. Shep-
herd, in the Aurora district. The cleo
ton of Frank +. Abbey, Republican, IS
claimed in the Rock Island district, and
of George a. Seller, Republican, in the
Peoria district