Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — ELECTIONS IN MANY STATES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELECTIONS IN MANY STATES

Results at Polls Monday and Tuesday. LOCAL ISSUES INFLUENCE. Carter H. Harrison Elected Mayor of Chicago, Kolla Wells Mayor of St. Louis —Prohibition the Issue In Many Kansas Towns —Election Figures. Carter H. Harrison was elected mayor of Chicago for the third time Tuesday by a plurality over Elbridge Hanecy of 28,257. The total vote was 296,596 out of a registry of 400,166. The number of voters who failed to go to the polls was 103,570, or over onequarter of the electorate of the city.

All of the remaining candidates on the Democratic city ticket were elected along with Mayor Harrison. In fact, Charles F. Gunther, the candidate for city treasurer, ran better than the mayor, 'his plurality being 33,376, or 5,119 more than that given the head of the ticket. Of the two other candidates both William Loeffler, elected city clerk, and Andrew Ryan, city attorney, suffered severely, and although they have safe pluralities, they are not large ones. Oscar Hebei, the Republican candidate for city attorney, heads his ticket.

CARTER H. HARRISON.