Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1920 — ILLINOIS PRIMARY LAW IS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTION’L [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS PRIMARY LAW IS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTION’L

Springfield, Hl., June 16.——The state supreme court today held the Illinois primary law unconstitutional. ' t The validity of the primary Section law, which was passed by the state legislature in 1919, was attacked by attorneys for" William Fox, convicted in Chicago of fraudulent voting in the primary election held April 13, 1920. The case was brought to the supreme court on a writ of error. The decision throws state central committees of the political parties and all county central committees out, and reinstates old committees elected under the old primary law now revived. It dislodges the Mayor Thompson faction in Chicago and returns to power the Deneen-Brun-dage forces. Elsewhere it upsets plans for special elections.