The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-04-08
CHICAGO ELECTS
G. 0. P. MAYOR
ENTIRE TICKET BELIEVED TO
HAVE WON WITH THOMPSON.
He HAS A PLURALITY OF $4,000
zoe, 900 Go to Polls and Establish Rec
ord for City - 100000 Women
Cast 6alIots-Other Elec-
tons Held in Illinois.


Chicago, April 7.-@Nilliam Hale
Thompson was swept into the mayors
chair yesterday in Republican land
slide that is believed to have carried
the entire Republican city ticket to
victory. Robert M. Sweitzer, Demo
cratic entrant, was bowled over in an
overwhelmingly large vote. 1t was the
biggest ever cast in local election.
Fifteen hundred precincts out of
1856 give William Hale Thompson a
lead of 131, 004 over Robert M. SWEET
ger, indicating the election of Thomp-
son by approximately 10000.
The vote In these precincts:
Men Women. Total.
Thompson :. .239,133 133,920 373,053
Sweitzer -. .155,420 s6,629 242,O49
Thompson's lead. ....... 1871 ,004
Estimates are that IS per cent of
the total registration of 769,106 was
polled. or this 100000 votes we're
cast by women, who for the first time
participated In a mayoral election.
The women's vote was an important
factor in Thompson's victory. Re.
turns from 500 precincts indicate that
Thompson received about &C per cent
of the women's vote.
1t Is the belief of Republican lead.
ers that large percentage of the Re.
publican candidates for alderman
were carried to victory with the big
Thompson vote.
The end of the bitterest political
contest Chicago has known in %
years brought results that made even
the most sanguine of the supporters
of Thompson gasp with establishment
The result was the most complete
reversal of form" ever recorded II
Chicago's political history
Springfield REFLECTS Mayor.
| Springfield, H., April 7.-Returns o
the municipal election, which was pre-
coded by the warmest campaign In
the history of Springfield, show John
s. Schnepp, the present mayor, lead
ing Charles Bauman for reelection by
100 votes. Mayor and four commits
sroners are to be elected The re
turns indicate the election Of Frank
H. Hamilton, Roy r. Reece, J. Emf
Smith and Willis J. Spaulding for com
missioners. Spaulding, leader OF the
element opposing Mayor Schnepp and
the state of which Reece and Smith
were a part, is the only member Of
his faction to be elected. City owner
ship and operation of a lighting plant
in competition with the utilities cor
poration was the big issue in the
campaign.
Jones Wins at Bloomington.
In the first election in Bloomington
under commission form Of govern
ment, E. E. Jones, Republican, defeat
ed J.SW. Rodgers, Republican, fol
mayor by 213 votes.
r. l.. Carlock, J. +. Anderson, A. G
Erickson. E. r. Morgan we're elected
commissioners. Mrs. Helen McCurdy
candidate of women, was defeated.
Stanton Township Votes Dry.
Stanton township, the only wet spo
in Champaign county, was voted DIR!
by woman's votes by majority OF 36
There were no saloons in the town
ship but three cold storages" were
in existence. This was the only we
and dry election in the county.
Beall Wins at Alton.
Ex-senator and Stork Mayor Ed
mund BealI, elected mayor third tim'
over Stephen Crawford, ex-mayor o
Upper Alton, in one of the fiercest cam
paigns ever waged in Alton mayor
atty; LOO. Beall ran on a CLEANUP
platform.
Saloons were the issue in Gridle,
county, Bloomington voting to remain
dry. All other towns dry and issu
was not brought up.
/ G. o. p. Victory In Bond County.
The elections held in Bond count,
show a general Republican victory
though IL. A. Hubbard, Republican, Il
Central township, in which Greenvill
is located, was defeated for reelection
as supervisor by w. e. Wise by 6
votes. The board of supervisors vii
remain tie,
Kankakee Votes Wet.
Kankakee was voted wet by ms
jority of $500 out of total vote Q
1000. The women's vote which wa
expected to put the town dry, shove
more than 500 majority wet. Thi
/, was the first fight on the liquor queI
ton in the town In seven years.
Lincoln was voted dry by majorlt
; OF 112 votes.
| Pontiac passed from the wet TO tn
dry column by majority vote OF s5'
Nine saloons are affected.
Vets Win at DanvilIe.
Twenty-six out OF 33 precincts Civ
(, the vets majority of 1000 In Danvill,
Seven city and eight country precinc,
not materially change result. ABBOT
70 per cent of the registration vote