Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-14
Governor Has Majority
Over All Candidates in
Preference Primary.
LEADS GENERAL
WOOD OVER $4,000
Surprise Of Election Was Large vo'e
Given Senator Johnson, whose
Name Did Not Appear on oa''''
and Who Made No Campaign IN
, Il,jnois-Wood Carries Cook ana
Three Other Counties.
BY Associated Press.

BY ASSOClaIeu IlSSS'
Chicago, April 14.-According 70
latest returns today, Governor Low
den, OF Illinois, won the repuoiicai'
preference primary in his home state
Yesterday by plurality of 64,ST4 On
returns from all but 4So scattered
precincts, a,tho General Wood car
ried Cook county by 24,443, and SEN
otor Johnson, of California, whose
name had. to be written on the pai-
lot. surprised leaders by running Up
a vote of 45,193 votes, including 4o'-
8s1 in, Cook county. There were no
democratic candidates on the tickets
hut a number, Of names were writ
ten in by voters.
Mayor William Hale Thompson, OF
Chicago, republican national commit
teeman for Illinois, carried every
ward but one for committeeman
thereby gaining control of the Cook
county organization for four years.
Women Defeat Bonds.
While less than half the vote IN
the state was cast and only a sixth
of the women voters went TO the
poIIs, their thrift was shown when
thirty-four bond issues in Chicago
were defeated.
On the primary candidates the
yproportion of women to men was
,ahout the same for the two leading
fcandidates. but on the bond issues
the female percentage ran much
higher In the negative vote.
General Wood. the only candidate
to make carpaign in the state.
carried McDonough, Alexander and
Pulaskie counties In addition to
Cook. but all the other ninety-eight
counties went to Governor Lowden,
who. on the incomplete unofficial
returns. scored q majority of 1881
over his opponents.
The governor oiled up a vote
down state that reached a margin as
high as seven to one in one or two
counties, bringing him to the COOK
county line with nearly 100000 lead
over General Wood.
johnson Vote Surprise.
The surprise of the primary, ac-
cording to political leaders, was the
: large number Of voters who wrote
the name Of Senator Johnson. who
had made no speeches in Illinois and
had no organization.
Supporters of both regular candi-
dates asserted that the vote tor
Johnson hurt their candidate to the
help Of the opposing candidate.
The largest spontaneous vote re-
a. IL o. IN,
Theodore Roosevelt when some 49,
900 votes were written in for him. In
Chicago, where the Johnson vote was
largest, the vote showed q similar
feminine vote for the Californian.
The women vote for Johnson DOWN
! state was not counted separately.
Results In Detail.
Tho figures from $3.50 precincts
out Of $3.50 In the state. including
all 2,44s In Cook county, showed tho
following results: :
Lowden-Men. 1so.4so, women, 3D.
500; total, 222,o82.
Wood-Men. 1s4.ss5, women, 2s,-
743: total. 1BS,4os.
Johnson-Men, Sb.6ls; women. s.
365; total men and women, 43012
(down state); total, 49,193.
OF tho district delegates elected
to the national conventions all the
democrats were uninstructed, while
thirty-five Of the republicans were
pledged to Lowden and fifteen ran as
Y unpledged.
One Of the unpledgsd delegates in
the Tenth district (Cook county, had
4 announced that he would support
Senator Johnson, and the other four
teen were adherents Of Mayor
Thompson.
The eight delegates At large will
be selected at the state convention
later. & n
johnson Gains Z Delegate. S
Latest figures today in the election
or republican national convention
delegates gave the following; Low
den preference delegates, a.; no
4 preference, 10.
One OF the mon who 6led as un-
instructed has announced he will
support Senator Johnson.
Hiram Johnson made q strong
showing In number Of counties OUT
side Chicago as well as in Cook
a county. IN Will county ile received
1877 votes from nifty eight precincts,
In MoHenry $50 from twenty four
Y precincts. IN Lake 4Sl from thirty
three precincts. In Bureau IA from
thirty-hye precincts.
Later figures from 99s precincts
ln,,taide Of Cook county gave Johnson
6.71s votes.
Latest Figures.
With 1924 out OF $500 precincts
In Illinois heard from the preferen-
tial vote stood: Lowden, 226,646;
Wood, 15S. .42s; Johnson, 1860. /.
Safety Deposit Boxes Robbed.
By Associated Press.
Creston, april IA. The door TO the
" vault containing the safety deposit
boxes OF the bank at Cromwell, five