The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-04-04
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Incomplete Returns Give
Judge Dever 100000 Ma
jority Over Lueder
for Mayor.
Polling Is Very Quiet

Chicago, April 3.-Judge William
E. Dever, democrat, was elected
mayor OF Chicago today by plurality
of more than 100000 votes over Arthur
c. Lueder. republican. in one of the
quietest elections in the city's history.
Into office with him went a democrat
city clerk and democrat city treas
urer.
With unofficial returns from $50
precincts OF 2.051. Dever had a lead
Of slightly over 100000. the figures
being:
Dever. 323.505; Lueder, 922,493;
William A. Guinea, socialist. 32,0s5.
With but 400 precincts missing, It
was estimated that slightly less than
700. 900 of Chicago's 905, 900 voters had
gone to the polls.
Elections Quiet.
While the election was quiet, 1t set
a record in one respect. Less than
30 minutes after the polls closed, the
trend was to be seen with the first
return and an hour after the polls
closed it was definitely known that
Judge Dever had won.
While Judge Dever has rolled up
an immense plurality, it will not
reach the record made by Mayor VIII
liam Hale Thompson in 1915. when
he won by 147.477 votes. In 1919.
however. Thompson's plurality was
cut to 21,G22 votes.
The withdrawal OF Mayor Thomp-
son from the race prior to the Feb
ruary primary robbed the campaign
of what was expected to be one OF its
main issues. the merits OF the Thomp-
son administration. Mayor Thompson
withdrew from the race for a third
term after anti-Thompsion republican
factions had. formed a coalition and
selected Lueder as a standard bearer.
Mayor Thompson and hts organization
took no active part in the campaign,
and the man to which the support of
the organization would go had been
problematical.
Charge Thompson Support.
Today. at republican headquarters.
leaders charged that Mayor Thomp-
sons organization had swung almost
solidly to the support Of Judge Dever.
Judge Dever was horn in Massa-
chusetts in 1852 and came to Chicago
in 1887. being later admitted to the
bar. He served several terms as al
derman, and In 1910 was selected q
judge of the superior court OF Cook
county. being reelected in 1916 and
again last June. He had also served
as presiding Justice in the main ap-
pellate court for the northern district
Of Illinois. The campaign, like the
election, was quiet and aroused little
of the interest that has been mani
Tested in former elections. The two
candidates made a business admins
tration for the city their chief cam.
paign cry. Little of the personalities
Of former elections entered into the
campaign.
The lack Of excitement was mani
Test in today's voting. Despite bad
weather. the voters went to the polls
early and il was estimated that over
60 per cent of the vote had been cast
before noon. While there were a few
reports of disorder. including fights,
sluggings and kidnapings Of election
watchers, and each side preferred
charges Of Illegal voting IN certain
precincts. the election was unusually
free from the many acts OF lawiess.
ness that have characterized elections
in other years.
q. q. p. Elects Congressman.
While the democrats took the
honors In the city election. the re-
pnblicans Were winners I'm the election
IN the second congressional district
TO I'LL the vacancy caused by the
death OF Representative James r.
Mann. Morton ID. Hull. republican.
had a lead OF over $500 with IT'S
precincts out OF ass reporting. The
vote from these precincts was: Hull.
28.sS5; Barratt o'Hara, democrat.
20.199. Seymour Stedman. socialist.
-11ad 1868 votes.
One OF the surprises OF the may.
orally campaign was the vote given
to William A. Guinea. socialist candi.
date. who II WAS estimated would get
close to 10000 votes. the largest vote
the socialists have mustered before
being in the neighborhood OF. $4,000.
Besides the mayor, city clek and
treasurer. 20 aldermen were also
elected today on q nolipartisan ticket