Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — ALLEGED PRO-HUN RE-ELECTED [ARTICLE]

ALLEGED PRO-HUN RE-ELECTED

Mayor of ChicM'i »■ Election I*>t Tuesday—Council Democratic. The mayoralty election tn Chicago Tuesday resulted In the reelection of William- Hale Thompson, Republican and alleged proGerman, by a plurality of about 17,000; that is, Robert M. Swettxer, Democrat, received about 17,000 fewer votes than Thompson, while Maclay Hoyne (Ind. Democrat), ran third. The two socialist candidates received about 24,000 votes and the labor candidate 64,000. On the ■•wet” and "dry" proposition the city voted wet by a majority of 247,000, of which wet votes the men cast 266,529 and the women 124,731. There were but G 7.707 dry votes cast by the men and by the women. Four out of five men and three out of every five women voted wet. The Democrats elected the city clerk and city treasurer and will have a substantial majority over the Republicans, the Democrats having 45 councilmen to the Republicans 25. A pleasing feature of the election was the defeat of every socialist candidate for councilman, less than 25,000 socialist votes beihg cast, against over 65,000 only last fall and 102,000 two years ago.