Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — Illinois For Hearst. [ARTICLE]

Illinois For Hearst.

Out of a total of 489 delegates in Cook county W. R. Hearst Monday secured 334. These, in addition to 325 delegates for Hearst already elected in the state outside of Cook, bring the Hearst total within twenty-five votes of the number necessary to csntrol the Illinois state convention. Mayor Harrison led the fight against Hearst in Chicago, and hie overwhelming defeat will probably lay him on the shelf, politically, for some oome,