The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-14
GENERAL TAKES COOK co.
IN THOMPSON TORNADO;
JOHNSON VOTE SURPRISE
Governors Preference Established With 43O Pre-
cincts Still Out; Chicago Mayor Carries Every
Ward but One for Committeeman
BULLETIN,

BULLETIN.
Chicago. April 1i.-With
1924 ont Of $3.50 precincts in
Illinois. including Cook county.
heard from, the preferential
presidential vote stood:
Lowden. 2s6,G46.
Wood. 15S,
Johnson, 1868.
This gives Governor Lowden
a new plurality Of eS,23
Chicago, April 14.-According tc
latest returns today, Governor
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois won
the Republican presidential prefer
ence primary in his home state yes
terday by a plurality Of 64,574. on
returns from all but 430 scattered
precincts. although General Leon
ard Wood carried Cook county (Chi-
cago) by 27,443, and Senator HiraI1
Johnson of California. whose name
had to be written on the ballot.
surprised political leaders by ruu-
ming up vote of 45,193 votes. ia
cluding 40,SS1 in Cook county.
There were no Democratic candi-
dates on the ticket, but several
names we're written in by few
hundred voters.
Thompson Sweeps Chicago.
Mayor William Hale Thompson
of Chicago, Republican national
committeeman for Illinois, carried
every ward except one for COM
mitteemah, thereby gaining COM
plete 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 pluralities by which four
bond issues for S34,0OO,OOO for
municipal improvements we're de-
feated in Chicago. On the primary
candidates, the proportion Of wom
en- to men was about the same for
the two leading candidates, but on
the bond issues, the female per-
centage ran much higher on the
negative vote.
Where Wood Leads.
General Wood, the only candi-
date TO make a campaign in the
state, carried McDonough, Alexan-
der and Pulaski counties in addi-
tion to Cook, but all the other 9S
counties went to Governor Low
den, who on the incomplete unof-
ficial returns scored 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
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 supporters of both Gov
ernor Lowden and General Wood
was the large number Of voters
who wrote in the name OF Senator
Johnson, who had made no speeches
in Illinois, and had no organixa-
ton. Supporters of both regular
candidates asserted that the John
son vote hurt their candidate To
the benefit of the other. Never in
Illinois or possibly national poll
ties had so many voters voted a
sticker ticket. The largest previous
spontaneous vote recorded in llli-
nois was that for Theodore RoOse-
welt in 1916. when some 1000
votes were written in for him.
Fewer Women for johnson. -!
In Chicago, where the bulk Of
the Johnson vote was cast, the
Johnson vote showed smaller
percentage of women than that for
Governor Lowden or General Wood.
The leaders polled about one-sixth
as many female as male votes
while the Californian polled only
one-seventh as many women as
men.
The woman vote downstate for
Johnson was not counted separate
ly. The figures from $3.50 pre-
cincts out of $3.50 in the state, in
cluding all 2,44s in Cook county,
showed the following results:
Men Women
Lowde1 .190,4sO :2,502 222.sS:
Wood -. .134,665 23.743 i58.405
Johnson =. 35,516 5,365 4s,i9S
OF the district delegates elected
to the national conventions. all the