Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1915 — WILSON MEN ALARMED AT CHICAGO RESULT [ARTICLE]

WILSON MEN ALARMED AT CHICAGO RESULT

Landslide Has Set Them Thinking and They Can See What Will Occur at the 1916 Election. Washington, D. C., April B.—Accounts of the landslide for Thompson in the Chicago mayoralty election and of the defeat of democratic by republican candidates in scores of other cities proved the most disheartening political news to the Wilson administration since the congressional and state elections last fall. Fears that the revolt against democratic policies disclosed by the conspicuous republican victories last November is spreading and apprehension that the result of the municipal elections Tuesday portends disaster in the presidential and congressional campaign next year are entertained by democratic leaders here to a degree they dislike to admit. The first tangible result of the discolsure of political conditions by the Chicago, St. Louis and other municipal elections was the presentation of an appeal to the president by several of his advisers to take the stump this summer in defense of his administration. He was urged to visit the San Francisco exposition in July and to make as many speeches as possible going and returning. The political steering committee, which advised this course, fears that unless heroic measures are adopted at once to stem the tide of reaction in favor of the republicans, it may be too late to recover the lost ground next year. , The president took the question under advisement. At the White House it was stated that some time ago Mr. Wilson promised to visit the Panama exposition during the summer if public business should permti his absence from the capital. President Wilson received the returns from the Chicago election Tuesday night and examined with considerable care yesterday the figures and the explanations of the Thompson victory emanating from various sources. It was learned that the president was visibly disappointed by the defeat of Sweitzer, but he declined to comment upon the Chicago or other municipal elections.