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Show CREICER OUT IN THE COLD. Tb. Keu!t of tha lie... nt (.'blraifo Election at Laiiifth Finally A nnounceil. Chicago, April 1H. Hemstead Washburn Wash-burn (republican) is elected mayor by 3s!) plurality. An unexpected surprise was the heavy gain made by Kern, j democratic candidate for city attorney. J in the last few wards canvassed. The gain was so great that it elected him by a plurality of 1172 over Richolson (republican) (re-publican) whose election heretofore had not, been questioned. Kiolbrssa, democratic candidate for citv treasurer, was successful by a plurality plu-rality of 4258, his triumph being due to a strong combination ol Irish and Polish Pol-ish and dissensions among the Ger-, Ger-, mans. Van Clove, (rep.i, for city clerk, led los ticket with a plurality of over 5000. Mayor Creiger, in an interview with the represent ativs of a democratic pa-pe'- this evening, when asked what he is going to do, said: "I am going to be, first and ahove till things, a democrat. For the next two years I am going to saw wood to help save the state for the democracy in 1W2. The great, and only difficulty is the deadly wi rk of traitors to the party." |