Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-07
CHICAGO REPUBLICANS
CARRY ALL BEFORE THEM
Their Candidate for Mayor Is Swept
Into Office by Veritable
Landslide.
HAS PLURALITY OF 125,OOO
HAS PLURALITY OF 125,ooo
Democratic Color.Bearer Never in
Running From Time Returns Be-
gin to Come In-AIore Than 2OO,-
600 Women Cast Their Ballots.

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CHICAGO. April 6.-In the most ex-
citing election Chicago ever has had.
William Hale Thompson, Republican,
was elected Mayor OF Chicago to-day
by plurality of about $4,000.
Robert NJ. Sweitzer. the Democratic
candidate. never was in the running.
The vote was n veritable Thompson
landslide. He took the lead from the
moment the first returns were received.
and never was headed.
| Wards that usually could have been
counted upon to give any Democratic
candidate good plurality went for
Thompson.
In the thirty-fve wards Of Chicago
there were eligible to vote 76s,106 men
and women. Early returns showed that
more than S5 per cent OF the registered
vote was cast, The total vote was
| moro than 100000.
Moro than 100000 women cast their
ballots during the day. and the votes
OF the women played no small part in
the triumph Of the Republican candi-
GATE. thompson received strong sup
| port from the women In almost every
ward in the city.
OTHER REPUBLICANS
ARE CARRIED IN
The election OF Thompson by such n
decisive vote means that the entire
Republican city ticket. in all proba-
Dlllty. has been elected. The other
| candidates on the ticker are:
charles II. Sergel. for city treasurer.
John Siman. for city clerk
Hosea w. Wells. for associate tudpe
or the Municipal Court to MI n vacancs
The next City Council will be Demo
cratic. despite the landslide which car
ried Thompson into Office Returns not
only indicated that those Democratic
aldermanic candidates who were con-
ceded victory had won their wards. but
pointed to the election of several who
mad been placed In the doubtful column
throughout the campaign the Thomp-
son managers based many of their
arguments to voters on the assertion
that business and labor condition.
throughout the country presaged a
Republican victory.
ABOUT SO per cent OF the three-uuar-
ters OF million votes registered was
cast. According to election officials
this set a record
Some wards hitherto considered
s.rohsiy Democratic were carried by
the Republicans, and Sweitzer's own
Sweitzer and his managers conceded
the election to the Republicans earI,,
In the evening.
WILL. DRIVE THIEVES
OUT OF CHICAGO
In a speech to crowd OF his fol.
lowers tonight. Thompson said:
My first official move Will be to
nave my chief OF police drive the pick
pockets and thieves out of Chicago"
Political writer's were divided TO-
night as to the cause OF Thompson.s
sweeping victory in an election which
al the best, was expected to be close
lhe returns indicated the total Social
ISL vote would not exceed 10000. The
iroh1bition party candidate ran far he.
hind the Socialist candidate
thompson was born In Boston Z,
| 1865. and was brought to Chicago bv
ms parents the following year. In a
oiosraphlcal sketch which he issued
prior TO the election. he said that as q
boy he sold newspapers and later went
10 wyoming and worked as cowhov
ana brakeman. He received much
OF MS education in the public scboo,.
ana later entered Yale University. He
IL n dealer In real estate.
CHARLES III. HElNTZEMAS
WINS REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS
BALTIMORE. MD. April 6.-In the
primary election here to-day for civ
ounces Charles II. Heintzeman was
nominated as the Republican candidate
Tor Mayor defcot;nr So.,