The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-04-14
[OWDEN
WINNER OF
PRIMARY
Forty Thousand Voters in
Illinois Write Senator
Johnson's Name on Their
Ballots.
ny GILMAN PARKER

TsTAFF CORRESPONDENT !. N. sERvlcEl
CHICAGO, April 14-Gov. Frank y
a4owden today is the winner of the.
presidential Endorsement OF the repub-
licans Of ILLINOIS. his home state.
His plurality in Tuesdays preferential
PRIMARIES is more than $4,000 accord
ing to the latest returns.
His victory over Gen. Leonard Wood
his nearest competitor, is not . cream
cut one, however. The latter swept
Chicago and the rest Of Cook county
bv a plurality of 1883 votes. surg
ing into victory in this section OF the
state in the heat of one of the most
bitterly fought contests ever staged in
Chicago.
JOHNSON SHOWING SENSATION
Despite the number CT votes roIIed
by Lowden and Wood however. the
big sensation of the day, was the show
ing made by Senator Hiram johnson.
th his name absent from the bal
lots. no less than 10000 voters in
Cook county alone wrote it in as their
choice for president. a result unparal-
leled in the history of Illinois politics.
In the democratic primaries, latest
returns indicate that Herbert Hoover.
Will win by small margin, with Gov.
Edwards, Atty. Gen. Palmer. w G..
AIcAdoo, VIM. Jennings Bryan and
James Halimton Lewis receiving most
Of the remainder of the votes.
In the republican primaries. the re-
turns from 5.24s precincts out of a
total OF $500 precincts in the entire
state show that Gov. Lowden polled
222ss3 votes. Gen. Wood 157,s6s, and
Senator Johnson 43,s26. This gives
Lowden a plurality of 65,11 votes. and
wit hthis as a basis 1t is figured that
complete returns will show him win
ner by more than 10000.
HERE ARE THE FIGURES
The following are complete returns
from the Cook county ten congress
sional districts, which include Lake
rounty:
Candidate Men Women Total
Wood s7.511 1886 105.s77
Lowden ....s4.245 1909 1884
johnson ..,s5.516 5,3s5 4o.s11
Woods plurality in Cook county 27,-
63S.
WHAT THE VOTE MEANS
Gov. Lowden's victory means that
the Illinois delegates of flfty-eight to
the republican convention will be div
ided about as follows. IL all the dele
gates follow the preferential vote cast:
For Lowden. A; for Wood It; for
Johnson /.
Eight delegates at large remain to
be named by the state G.. o. P. con-
vention TO be held at Springfield. May
II. They probably will abide by the
preferential vote and endorse Low
den.
THOMPSON WINS AGAIN
Another powerful actor enters into
the situation. however. IN the sweep
ing victory registered by Mayor Thorn
pson and his city hall machine in
Chicago. The Thompson candidates
for ward committeeman won in all but
one Of the thirty-five wards of the city.
s. landslide. 1t is declared that will in
sure Mayor Thompson the control Of
G.. o. P. political machinery in the
state and his reelection as republi-
can national committeeman.
The returns indicating the mayors
victory were scarcely IN before re-
port was freely circulated by his sup
porters that Thompson would be the
republican "darkhorse" candidate for
the presidency and that the delegates
brought under his control through his
Chicago cleanup would swing for
him at the republican convention