The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-02

ELECTED
AS MAYOR
Republican Candidate Wins
Out in Three Cornered Race
for Control Of
Chicago.
Is HIS SECOND TERM
Only 1900 Votes Ahead Of Demo.
cratic Candidate, with Total
Of eas,ss1 Votes
Cast.
is HIS SECOND TERM

[United Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, April 2.-William Hale
Thompson. republican, was the VIC
tor today in his race for reelection
as mayor Of Chicago. He defeated
Robert M. Sweitzer. democrat, in yes
terday's election by 1850 votes.
Maclay Hoyne, independent, ran
third, falling 129,390 votes behind
|Sweitzer.
Thompson, reelected for his second
term, was given 1883 votes as
against 240, ,28S for Sweitzer. Thomp-
sons vote from the men was 159,S63
and from the women, 98,025. Sweitzer
was given 147,248 votes by men and
y93,040 by women.
John Fitzpatrick, candidate of the
new labor party, received 54,4b7
votes, and John M. Collins, socialist,
3,105. Adolph Carm, socialist labor.
received 1,751 votes.
OF the total vote cast, 6SS,38l,
Thompson received 3S percent, SWEET
zer, 81 percent; Hoyne, 16; Fitzpat-
rick, 8, and Collins, 8. The regis
tered vote amounted to 729.997.
Eighty-nine percent Of the registered
vote was cast.
The liquor question went to the
"wets" by 247,22s votes. The 'drys"
had made no fight, asking why "a
dead issue" should have been re-
yived.
Bonds of s11,3oO,oOo for city i'm
provements were voted by comfort
able majorities.,
Mayor Thompson gave out a state
ment in which he predicted ma
tional republican victory as a result
of the Chicago election. The vote
here, he said, was a protest against
national democratic misrule and a
vote of confidence in republican man
agement."
The defeat Of Fitzpatrick, labor
candidate who had predicted the
party would draw a vote of 100000,
also meant defeat to the list of labor
candidates for aldermen. judgeships
and other city offices. The vote of
54,467 given the party, Fitzpatrick
said. meant permanent place IN
politics In the future for labor.
Hoyne's vote of 110,S98 was con-
sidered by democrats as consisting
mostly of democratic votes which If
Hoyne had withdrawn, might have
elected Sweitzer over Thompson.
Mayor Thompson's largest ward
plurality was accorded him in the
so-caIled black belt where he re-
ceived II, ,4O2 votes over Sweitzer and
where a negro alderman was elected.
The election was the second in
which Sweitzer and Thompson had
been opponents. In 1915 Thompson
defeated Sweitzer by LAT, ,4F votes.
With Thompson's election ten re-
publican aldermen gained seats in
the city council chamber. while four
sitting democratic aldermen were de-
feated
The last hours of the election were
marked by thousands of persons
f1ocking into the loop district to hear
the returns. In front of every news
naper office traffic was blocked for
hours while uproarious spectators
watched the bulletins.
Socialists Routed.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April $50
cialist municipal candidates in Mil
waukee were completely routed by
non-partisan- candidates in yester-
days elections, returns today showed.
Every office at stake was captured
by non-partisans over their only
rivals, the socialists. They elected
five school directors, six judges and
a municipal clerk. The majority in
every case was practically two to
one.
Vets Gain at Election.
MADISON, Wis. April 2-"Wets"
today had regained ground lost in
previous elections In Wisconsin
towns and cities. In yesterdays
vote on the question: Madison. the
state capital, Superior, the second
city. and Ashland, Beloit, Edgerton,
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