Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-12
big Bill" Thompspn Dc.
feated in Senatorial
Primary.
MCCORMICK CHOSEN;
PLURALITY $4,000
Thompson Carries City Of Chicago BY
Reduced vote-Yatss and Mass0
Nominated For consressSnsn a
large-Cannon and Mann Re.
nominated Without oppositior--chi-
easo Polls Only One Third Of Nes'
NAL Vote,

Chicago, sept i-'-F'Vu"' ''
mick. republican, congressman al
large. will contest the Illinois SENATOR
rship this fall with James Hamilton
Lewis. democratic incumbent.
Mccormick vas nominated mt yester-
days primaries 10y "a plurality OF SA.oo0
on the basis Of retarns available to-
day oper Mayor William Hale Thomp-
son. of Chicago and Congressman Ed
mond Foss.
With reports in from l,7l9 precincts
out of 1913 outside Of Cook county
(Chicago) Mccormick had a plurality
! outside the n,ttropolisS estimated at
, $4,000.
Mayor Thompson carried the city b.
l6, 700. fewer than one third the nor
mai number ct voters going to the
polls. Unofficial returns showed the
vote in Chicago to DO only about l3S,-
900.
| Foss poHed only $4,000 votes Ia Chi-
! cago, but was close to Mayor Thoanp-
son downstats.
| Yates and Mason For cs~osssA
! Former Governor Richard Yates and
William E Mason. incumbent were
! nominated by the repuolicans fcF
! congressman at large. altho Mason had
been opposed because OF his alleged
attitude toward the war.
They will contest the election with
NJ. II. Cleary and w. T.. Williams.
| nominated by the democrats.
Another conGressi onal candidate
whose opponents attacked his war rec
ord in congress was Fred A. BrittHh.
republican, out he's carried the Ninth
district over Fletcher Dobyns nearly
> to Il.
The minority leader OF the house.
James r. Mann. OF the Second congres-
sional district was nominated for re-
election without opposition. as was J0-
scph G. Cannon. OF the Eighteenth
! district
) Mr. Cannon is seeking his twenty
y second term IN congress and will be
opposed by only one other candidate, q
socialist.
Loyalty Issue Foremost.
! What Thompson's managers can not
explain. even among themselves. is
what became OF the 2S5. 900 voters who.
| 1t was claimed. had signed pledge cards
to vote for the mayor, rain or shine.
Their last analysis is that these
pledged voters did not turn out under
the storm OF rain that marked primary
day.
Summaries If Mayor Thompson's vote
in Chicago show that he ran particu-
larry strong in the German American
wards. McCormick's managers raised
ths contention uproariously, therefore,
that the loyalty" issue had won the
contest for their candidate.
THAT was tho sole issue on which
the battle was fought. and Mayor
Thompson's subterfuges failed to get
away from it. asserted Republican
County Chairman Homer A. Galpin.
who was associated with the Brundage
combination.
Legislature TO Be Dry.
Analysis OF what returns were nj
hand last night indicates. that the pro-
hibition amendment to the federal con-
stitution will be ratified by the Fifty.
first general assembly. which meets -
January.
Tho lineup on both sides appears
to be such that, regardless OF whether
the democrats or the republicans con-
troll the next house. the Illinois legis-
laturc will be safely dry.
N II may be said with certainty that
the anti-liauor majority in the senate
will be overwhelming. Information re-
ceived by F. Scott Mcbride. superin-
tcndent Of the Anti-Saloon League. led
him TO predict a dry showing In the
upper house after the November cleo.
tion Of fromNs2 to 81 votes A major.
ity Is rs. Twenty one OF the holdover
senators are counted al drys. Wet
leaders have conceded Ehat they have
no chance Of capturing tlAat branch.
Battle for House cowe5sl.
The great battle yesterday was for
control OF the house. In the Fiftieth
assembly the anti-aa1ocn forces were
seven votes short Of the number neces.
1 sary to submit statewide prohibition to
tho people on referendum. IN t::sssa
past eighteen months, however. there
has been an Increase Of dry sentiment
and political strength inside the demo-
cratic party downstate, as demonstrate
ed by local option elections.
4 Yesterdays returns show that thS
Anti. Saloon League took utmost adj
vantage Of this conditions. Nominations
were maneuvered In some districts In
such manner that the drys could not
lose. no matter which way tho 90
jumped.