Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-16
PARTIAL COUNT
Of VOTE SHOWS
L0WDEN FORCES
RUNNING BEHIND
Incomplete Returns Show
"Big BilPS" Candidates
Leading For Nominations
On G. 0. P. Ticket.
LEWIS FOR GOVERNOR
RUNNING SWIFT RACE
Attempts Made to Steal Bal
lot Boxes; Precinct Cap
tains Are Carried Off BY
y, Gangs in Automobiles.
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Chicago, Sept. 15.-Tickets head
ed by Len Small of Kankakee, for
governor and Congressman Frank
Smith OF Aledo, for United States
senator, and which had the support
of Mayor william Hale Thompson,
were leading for the republican
nominations in today's Illinois pri-
maries in early returns.
Cook county in early returns
gave the Thompson faction a large
majority over the ticket headed by
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby for
governor, and william B. Mckinley
for senator. supported by Governor
Lowden, but down state Oglesby
had lead on scattering precincts.
One hundred and fifty-nine pre-
cincts outside Cook county gave
Oglesby, 9,S5T; Small, 1854,
In Cook county, Small, in returns
from $40 precincts had 26,979|
votes against 12,208 for Oglesby,
giving him S4.SS3 in 499 precincts
in the state against 22,0S3 for
Oglesby.
For senator, Smith was leading
Mckinley by approximately 1900
in 447 out of 5,637 precincts in the
state.
Reports from 122 down state
precincts gave Mckinley a lead of
about 1000, but Smith polled big
majority in first returns from
Cook county.
On thewdcmocratic side, Senator
James Hamilton Lewis led his OPP
ponent, Barratt OHara, for the
gubernatorial nomination by about
five to one in early returns. Two
close races developed, however,
Maclay Hoyne, seeking third
term as states attorney for Cook
county was running behind Michael
Igoe. Robert II. Burke Of Chicago
and Peter A, Waller of Kewanee,
were within a few votes of each
other in returns from $40 precincts,
including ten outside Cook county,
for the democratic nomination for
senator.
Although one man was killed,
half dozen kidnapped and a score
injured in fights around Cook
county polling places. election off
cials tonight declared that the
the election had been "compara-
lively quiet and that disorders had
not been so great as they had |
feared.
Charges that the assailants In
most cases were Thompson adher- |
ents, brought statements from the |
mayors faction that many of the |
1000 special deputies sworn in by |
Sheriff Peters, a Lowden adherent, |
were ex-convicts and that they had
started most of the fights. Sheriff |
Peters said that a few dis
reputable characters might have |
been included among his deputies
but that they were discharged as
soon as discovered.
Michael Fennessy, precinct work |
er killed, was shot by a policeman, |
who said Fennessy drew a gun.
Two Women Bruised.
Two women were bruised badly |
when they attempted to help Ser
geant John Coyne quell disturb
ance in one polling place over
charges of repeating In the vot-
ing. Coyne was seriously injured
and the women knocked to the |
floor.
Several unsuccessful attempts to
steal ballot boxes were made and
two precinct captains were included
among the men kidnapped, in each
case by gangs in automobiles.
With one-third of the Chicago
returns tabulated all candidates for
offices in Cook county, who had the
support of Mayor Thompson had
large leads.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon lead on
early returns in the eighteenth con-
gressional district. With fifty-six
out of 211 precincts in, he had s.
562 to 1875 for K. b. Cooley.