Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-14
GOv.L0WDEN WINS
VICTORY IN HOME
STATE PRIMARIES
Has 64,574 Over Gen. Wood,
Chicago's Choice-Johnson
Strength Surprises.

CHICAGO. April 14.-Latest ng-
ures today In the election Of re-
publican national convention dele
gates at yssterday's presidential
preference primary gave the fol-
lowinRi
Lowden preference delegates, -.
No preference, 10.
One Of the men who filed M un-
fnstructed has announced he will
support Senator Hiram johnson.
Later figures from OBS precincts
outside Of Cook county gave john
son SITS votes.
CHICAGO. April 14--According to
latest returns today Gov. Frank O.
Lowden of Illinois won the republican
presidential preference primary in his
home state yesterday by a plurality
OF 64.574 on returns from 81 bat $50
scattered precincts. al.ucuzl MAJ.
Gen. Leonard Wood carried Cook
county (Ch.cayo) by 27.3A3. an, SEM
tor Hiram Johnson ~ California
whose name had to be written on the
ballot. surprised politic,! leaders by
running up vote of 41.l9 Including
4O.sS1 In Cook county.
There were 10 Democratic candidates
on the ticket. but several names were
written i'll by few hundred voters.
Mayor Thompson i'm Control.
Mayor William Hale Thompson of
Chicago, republican national commit
teeman for Illinois, carried every
ward except one for committeeman,
thereby gaining complete control of
the Cook county organization for four
years.
While less than half the vote in the
state was cast. and only a sixth as
many women as men went to the polls.
feminine thrift added to the plurality
by which four bond issues for s34 ,O00,-
defeated in Chicago.
The proposals included $4,000. 900
for street light improvements, $1,000
200 Tor municipal convention hall.
100000 for Parks and bathing
beaches and ss.50o.o0o for bridges.
On the primary candidates. the pro-
portion OF women to men was about
the same for the two leading candi-
dates, but on the bond issues the fe-
male percentage ran much higher on
the negative vote.
Gen. Wood, the only candidate to
make campaign in the state, car
ried McDonogh. Alexander and Pu-
laski counties in addition to Cook. but
all the ninety eight other counties
went to Gov. Lowden, who on the
incomplete unofficial returns scored a
majority of 1881 over his opponents
The governor rolled up vote down
state that reached margin Of as
high as seven to one in one or two
counties. bringing him to the Cook
county line with nearly 100000 lead
over Gen. Wood.
The surprise OF the primary, ac-
cording to supporters OF both Gov.
Lowden and Gen. Wood, was the large
~ nf St-f1 in
nam. of Senator johnson. who had
made no speeches In Illinois. and had
no organisation. Supporters of both
regular candidates asserted that the
Johnson vote hurt their candidate to
the benefit of the other
Use OF Sticker Tickets.
Never in Illinois or possibly national
politics had SO many voters voted a
sticker ticket The largest previous
was that for Theodore Roosevelt in
1915, when some 10000 votes were writ
ten IN for him. In Chicago. where the
bulk Of the johnson vote was cast the
johnson vote showed a smaller percent.
age of women than that for Gov LOVE
den or Gen. Wood. The leaders pofled
about one-sixth as many female a.
only one-seventh as many women al
men.
The woman vote downstate for john
son was not counted separately. The
figures from $3.50 precincts. out Of
$3.50 in the state, including all 2.44S
in Cook county, showed the following
results:
Lowden: Men. 1so.4so women. g.
SOC: total, 222.9S2
wood: Men. 1866; women. a.
74S: total. 15S,40s.
johnson fCook county,, men. 1856;
women. 6.3s5; (down state) men and
women. 4.S12 total. 45,1e3.
OF the district delegates elected to
the national conventions all the demo-
Gratis were uninstructed. while thirty
i've Of the republicans were pledged to
Lowden, and fifteen ran as unpledged
Ono Of the unpledged delegates in the
tenth district Cook county, had an
nounced that no would support sena-
tor johnson and the fourteen others
were adherents of Mayor Thompson.
The eight delegates at large will be
selected at the state convntion later.