Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-11-07
CHICAGO PRECINCT
WORKER FIR { D At
BY TRIO IN AUTO
FIRST DISORDERS ARE REPORTED
FROM STRIFE RIDDEN CITY,
ku kLUx KHAN SAID TO HAVE
HAND IN VOTING.

Chicago, Nov. Violence In con.
nection with the election broke out
early today in Chicago, when j. II.
Clancy, a Republican precinct worker
In the Eighteenth ward was fired III
as he was leaving his home None of
the shots took effect and the attackers
escaped In motor car from which
three men fired shots.
Bitterness has marked the cam
paign for Cook county offices, in which
the Republican factoualiSm, religion
and even to small extent the ku
Klux Khan have been injected as Is
sues. While the entire Republican
county ticket has been indorsed by
Mayor Thompson and Attorney Gen
eral Edward j. Brundage. bitter po-
litical enmies, beneath the surface
factionalism has been reported to
have continued its strife.
The political skirmishing also has
been severe in connection with the
legislative contests in which the Re
publican faction controlled by Mayor
Thompson and Governor Small are
battling for control of the Legislature,
and the beor and wine referendum has
aroused some feeling, although gen
orally the prohibition organizations
have openly declared for ignoring the
referendum asserting it is illegal and
of no value and therefore cannot nrl-
lily prohibition.
Birmingham, Ala. Nov Rain
and unsettled weather in many sec
tions OF Alabama prevented a rush 70
the polls during the early hours OF
voting, but observers predicted rec
ord vote If the promise of clearing
skies materialized. Interest centered
in the race for congress in five dis
tricts where the two major parties
made sharp fights.
Guard Polling Places.
Chicago, Nov Police operatives
from the offices of the states attorney,
sheriff and United States marshals,
private detectives and paid guardians
of the ballot box watched to prevent
fraud at the 2,344 polling places in
Chicago and Cook county today.
II was estimated that the guards
placed at the polls by the authorities
and political party managers would
number $4,000 when reinforced by
school teachers, who said they would
aid after classes were dismissed.
Party chieftains estimated vote
OF about 725,000 in Chicago with an
additional 100000 In the country towns
of Cook county.
Illinois elects a state treasurer sup
erintepdent of public instruction, three
university trustees, rs district con-
gressmen, two congressman at large
for full terms and one for the unex-
pred term of late VIM. L. Mason, %
state senators and l51 members of the
lower house of the general assembly.
Snow in South Dakota.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. Snow
greeted voters in some sections of
South Dakota today, but for the most
part the sky was clear, with biting
wind blowing.
Harding To Get Returns.
Washington, Nov. 7.-Elections over
the country today had their reflex in
Washington. In every government
department there were vacant places
several members OF the cabinet and
many under officials and employees
having gone home to vote. The exc
dus this year. however, was not as
great as usual as an increasing num-
Der voted by mail.
Having registered his choices I'M
this manner President Harding was
at his office at the usual hour with a
full day ahead. He had all the latest
forecasts of his party lieutenants and
as the day wore along received scat
tering reports from the actual ba.-
loting.
Tonight he was to get the results
in his study as rapidly as they could |
be received at the executive officers
over an Associated Press wire and re-
layed to him over the phone by Sec
rotary Christian.
Four members of the presidents |
cabinet remained in Washington OF Il
these Secretaries Hughes, Weeks and
Wallace voted by mail. Attorney Gen
erai Daugherty also voted by mail but |
spent today in Baltimore with Mrs. |
Daugherty, who is recuperating there
after an operation.