Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — HARRISON IS CHOSEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARRISON IS CHOSEN.

Democratic Candidate la Re-Elected Mayor of 111 iraco. Carter H. Harrison was re-elected Mayor of Chicago Tuesday. His plnrality was 3SJSM. Except the Twelfth. Twen-ty-fifth, Thirty-first. Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth, he carried every ward in Chicago, and even in these he ran Mr. Carter so Hose a race that the Republican pluralities were «-iit down to insignificant figures. Republican wards like the Third. Fourth, Eleventh. Thirteenth. Fourteenth. Twenty-first. Twenty-third and Twenty-eighth, which are counted on

to swell the party total, swung into the Harrison column. The entire Democratic city ticket was elected. Harrison** total vote was 146.042; Mr. Carter’* 107.192. and ex-Gor. Altgeld’s 45,404. The grand total of votes cast far all mayoral candidates was 299.700. It was one of the quietest election days in the history of Chicago. There was no occasion for brawling or fighting or intimidation of voters, even if anybody had been so inclined. Complaints of infraction of the election l#w* were singularly few Intense interest in the election, supplemented by the finest election day weather Imaginable, brought out the heaviest vote ever cast in a Chicago city election. Comparison with the vote of two years ago shows that the Harlan vote was split almost equally between Harrison and Car-

CARTER H. HARRISON.