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Show CHICAGO IS REPUBLICAN. Made a Clean Sweep With the Exception of Two Candidates. Chicago, Nov. 4. With the exception of two candidates, the complete returns show that the republicans made a clean sweep of the city and county. The two exceptions are L. M. Cooley, democratic candidate for drainage frustee, and Babcock, democratic candidate for county superintendent of schools. For the first time in many years the republicans secure absolute control of the county board, not a single democratic candidate pulling through. The republican republi-can majorities range from 3000 to 10,000, as against 897 at the last county election, ' Complete returns from nearly every precinct pre-cinct in Cook county show the entire republican repub-lican ticket elected yesterday. The republican republi-can candidates for county commissioners in the city districts appear to have received majorities varying from 7000 to 14,000. The only democrat elected was Lyman E. Cooley, drainage trustee, who comes -in as a minority minor-ity representative. The significant feature of the election is that nearly every man indorsed in-dorsed by the American "Know Nothing'' association appears to have beenelected- |