Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — LOWDEN WINS IN ILLINOIS [ARTICLE]

LOWDEN WINS IN ILLINOIS

c '”■ 'V _ v ? ■- < ■ / WOOD CARRIES COOK COUNTY, JOHNSON IS POOR . THIRD. Chicago, April 13. — Governor Frank 0. Lowden carried his home state today on the face of incomplete and unofficial returns in the republican presidential preference pnmaiw with Major General Leonard Wood second, and Senator Hiram W. Johnson third, the latter’s name being written in by the voters. Return* from 4,256 precinct* out of 5,690 in Illinois, gave Lowden 203,659, Wood 136,428 and Johnson 37,028. These returns were from 99 connties ont of 102. General Wood carried Chicago and Cook county, but Governor Lowden’s vote in the state outside of Chicago gave him a lead which progressed steadily with the counting of the returns. Only the name* of Wood and Lowden appeared on the ballot. Senator Johnson’s strength was in Chicago where most of his votes appeared. Herbert Hoover’s name ’al»» peered on snme of the rmniha lican ballots. ' Thqre were no democratic primary candidates for president, but the names of a half a dozen democrajs were written in the ballots in scattering returns.

Women Vote A*. Courtesy. Governor Lowden and General Wood were the only candidates who made any ’ speaking campaigns in Illinois. ’ Women cast a courtesy vote in many counties, and in some places the election clerks failed, to separate men and women ballots. The women’s vote, however, was so comparatively light as not to effect the result and it was divided in much the same ratio as the male vote. The vote received up to 10 p. m. in the districts where Lowden* delegates were contesting with delegates who signified that they had no preference, showed the Lowden men leading with one exception, in the tenth district. Hard ’ Boiled In Chicago. • In Chicago, where the presidential preference primary was combined wi.th an election of ward committeemen, the kidnaping of election judges and workers, shootings, sluggings and other .acts of violence marked the balloting. Complaints of frauds, from intimidation of voters to marked ballots, kept the police and election commissioners* officers busy thruout the day. In one precinct 2,00 feet from the polling place, an unidentified election wori&er was shot after a quarrel. -The wounded man was spirited away before the police arrived. Seven shots were fired during the clash. Mayor William Hale Thompson, republican national committeeman from Ulinois, gained full control of the republican county organization for the next four years through the election of ward committeemen having his. backing. >