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REPUBLICANS MADE
CH|CAGO'S MAYOR
BY RECORD VOTE
Thompson's Plurality
In Windy City Is
$4,000.
"DRYS" IN GAIN
Anti-License Has Best of it in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Mich
igan and Nebraska.

Chicago, Ill.-Complete returns
from yesterdays municipal election
available today, showed that William
Hale Thompson, republican was ell
ected mayor by plurality of 139,-
o24, the largest plurality ever given
candidate for that office in Chica-
go. Sixty one per cent of the wo-
mems vote cast was for Thompson.
A total of fifty out of 102 counties
in Illinois are entirely dry" today
as a result of yesterdays election.
three new counties, Marion, Frank
jim and Jasper, having been added
to the "dry" column in yesterdays s
local option election.
| Throughout the pre-ei9c'i0n cam
1pa.gn Thompson's managers stated
repeatedly that business and labor
conditions throughout the country
lpresaged Il republican victory.
Women voted for the first time at
q mayorality election in Chicago and
! incomplete returns showed that the
relative percentage OF men and wo-
men votes received by Thompson and
| Robert SweitZer, the defeated demo-
/ cratic candidate, were approximately
| the same.
| About S5 per cent of the three
quarters of million votes register
ed were cast. According to election
officials this would set record.
Republican Landslide.
Some wards hitherto considered
strongly democratic were carried by
the republican candidates and Sweit-
zer's own precincts in the heart of
| one of the west side ,aocratic
strongholds was carried by lhomp-
son.
Sweitzer and his managers con-
ceded the election to the republicans
early i'm the evening and left their
headquarters. Before going home
Sweitzer sent his successful rival Il
telegram in which he said: Con
gratulations on your victory. 1t was
conclusive.
In a speech to a crowd of his fol-
lowers Thompsn reiterated one of his
prediction pledges.
My first official move" said
Thompson will be TO have my chief
of police drive the pick pockets and
thieves out of Chicago"
Il go to the mayors office abso-
lutely free, owing no obligations to
any faction. This is not to be a poll
tical administration in any way.
shall lask the biggest men in Chicago
to become members of my cabinet,
/ even though their salaries as officers
will be small.
Credit for the Republican victory
is given to the women voters by the
wife of the mayor-elect. Its a
woman's victory she said
Political writer's We're divided as
/ to the cause of Thompson's sweeping
victory in an election which at best
was expected to be a close contest
In an interview yesterday Mayor Can
ter II. Harrison, who was defeated
when he sought to be renominated
for sixth term, declined to say how
he would vote, although the Harri-
sons have been democratic leaders in
/ Chicago for generations. Many were
inclined to believe this indicated
their votes for Thompson.
i The city council probably went re
publican, which would be for the
first time in five years.
i The socialist vote apparently was
smaller than predicted by party lead
ers. The returns indicated that the
total socialist vote would not eX
ceed 10000. The prohibition party
candidate. John Hill, ran far behino
, the socialist candidate, Seymour SteC
man.
Negro to Council.
For the first time in the histor,
of Chicago, a negro, Oscar De Priest
! nj
Second ward
. "Hinky Dink" kenna, democrat
for twenty years the First ward al
derman, was reelected.
The next city council will consis
of three Democrats. thirty-one lie
2 publicans, two Progressives. thre
Independents and one Socialist.
( "The crooks had better move ou
of Chicago before ! am inaugurated
said Mayor-Eelect Thompson in
\ statement. This town will be clea
of criminals so completely before tn
new administration is many week
: old that the whole world will under
: stand that Chicago is a safe place t
s come to-
.Wets" Gain in Minnesota.
st. Paul, Minn.-Despire the pros
pect of county option vote with
\ a year in many counties cities OF IN
fourth class which voted yesterda
: on the saloon question seemed incllr
: ed to retain their present status an
: if any gains were made it was by tn
n vets"
= Anoka went dry, but charte
d provision would have automatical1
y ousted the saloons on May an
le way.
ID Fairmont, the home OF Frank
w Day. after a most strenuous car
paign in which the "drys" We're lt