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Show CHECKSJNSURGEHCY 8PEAKER CANNON'S COURSE EN-DOR8ED EN-DOR8ED BY VOTER8 AT THE ILLINOI8 PRIMARIE8. The Progressives Were Victorious In Three Out of Twenty-five Congressional Congres-sional Districts. Boutell, Stand-Patter, Stand-Patter, Defeated. ' Chicago. Insurgents were victorious In three out of twenty-five congressional congres-sional districts of Illinois in the primary pri-mary (election Friday. Henry 8. Boutell, stand-patter Republican, Re-publican, who has represented the ninth, a Chicago district, in congress for twelve years, was defeated by Frederick H. Gansbergen, who conducted con-ducted his campaign on an out and out Insurgent platform. Gansbergen was supported by the regular Republican Repub-lican organization. In the eleventh district Colonel Ira C. Copley, the first man in Illinois toj come out as an Insurgent candidate, JOSEPH Q. CANNON. Congressman from Eighteenth District Dis-trict of Illinois. won the Republican nomination over George W. Conn, who classed himself as a progressive conservative. This seat now is occupied by Howard M. Snapp, a stand-patter. John C. McKcnzie secured the Republican Re-publican nomination in the thirteenth district, after a spirited contest with Reuben R. TifTany. Both McKenzle HENRY 8. BOUTELL. Congressman from Ninth District of Illinois. and Tiffany denied affiliation with the stand-patters, McKcnzie making his campaign as a progressive, while Tiffany Tif-fany exhibited slightly more radical vlewB an called himself an insurgent. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was renominated re-nominated In the eighteenth district by a majority closo to 6,000. Ho was opposed by Henry B. Downs, an insurgent insur-gent of his own city. |