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Show IW ILLINOIS )ONS TO CLOSE ?rll S. Women voting for In Illinois township oloo aided in closing more d saloons, adding slxtoen : thirty already dry and c of intoxicants In up-of up-of the son townships In on was un issue, included eleven cities ' wero wot. They were a csburg. Elgin. Decatur, rt. Bfilvlderc. Monmouth, iport and East Galena. Jon and Galva were kept lownship which was dry ie anti-saloon forces, hut ncy. Hock Island. Aurora. Mollne. Dixon Hnd West '1 wet. In Springllehl a omen voted for saloons, the women were almost, as to saloons, ship Officers, fl thirty romalu township' -six township collectors. s and a member of tho ton In Springfield. Dor cent of the women Hcago took advantage of Incd tranchlse at yester-clcctlon. yester-clcctlon. none of the nine tcs for city council was vlngonlya scattered vote. (Bathhouse) Conghlln. ' of years has represented won by nearly -1000 votes in Drake, a court stenog-konicn stenog-konicn voted for him than and ho won by a a to 1 Chicago totaled nearly a ut of a total of 217.614 '1 qualified. lf.S.USfi voted, men wi,o voted was r.L'S,-of r.L'S,-of thocc eligible. " council remained Domo-ncw Domo-ncw council, forty will be inty-one Republicans, six 'd three independents, on helped defeat a propo- i'nrtororcoast7i?oravu syy ccssf.,1 bi! ? 4000 " f ,,,II,ly W!, su- vMl 'thii 1,1 onte wan, the Twenty-Vo,.I Twenty-Vo,.I Vn,lnclr -andldate took nil P ace The total vote polled by the sn c,i st randhlates was OT aoo rw,e town.Hh,P i Provlslo. 'ono of the c? or a Mt. low")PS oiitsldo of t o. n iRht to linOT Whlrh Ya? ,ePrd last in.2 . , wmplctc returns to have T r WcL hy il Jority of SS3 tmvnshl.J wvenv-aoven saloons In the iiiim .m.'AfU ,nrRC ai""onient park, u , inl ,.r 1u,nmVr Burdens and road-houses road-houses m which liquor is dispensed. Drukker's Victory. PATERSON. .V. .T., April S Almost 4?m,P. ?itC !;?tlIr'is from the election In th fl5i-.P I Nev JersPy congressloruil dlH-IiMday dlH-IiMday sho.wcd that Dow II. Dmkker. Uepubllcan defcate.l Jnnios O'Byrne nftftnocr?1, by-a Prnllty of more thai oOOO votes. O'Byrne had been strongly b!viC'1 'VV, 3'rWt UMlHon. Drukker tariff Taw cs,,"pa,BM ''Kflst the new. Drukker received 10.G20 votfs and O Byrno G240. while Dcmarest. Socialist. U1 C.03e ll,Irt.1 w,l, r,or's- Whitehead. SSf'018 received only Cll votes. In 1312 Roosevelt carried the district, by 891 votes. Democratic leaders today refused to accept ac-cept the result as a repudiation of tho administration. ad-ministration. They asserted that the reapportionment re-apportionment of 1912. which divorced Passaic from Bergen and Sussex counties and made it a district bv itself, left a normal Republican plurality. They said the election of the congressman, Robert C Bremner, a Democrat, in this district was a personal success and accounted for Drukker s victory on the same ground. Preacher Runs Second. TACOMA. Wash., April 8. Complete returns re-turns from yosterday's municipal primary al1"ivJ.yial A- v- Fawcett polled a plurality or 21o.. votes over C. V. W. Stoovor, a cierKyman, In the mayoraltv race. Homer T. Bone, Socialist, was third. Fawcr-tt and btoover will be the opposing candidates candi-dates in the regular election April 2J. the situation resulting from the primary pri-mary Is analogous to that In Seattle recently, re-cently, when lllram C. Gill was elected mayor by a large majority after he had onco been recalled from that office and later defeated In an ntte.mpt to regain it. Pawcctt, who polled the high vote ves-tprday, ves-tprday, was recalled threo years asro from the mayoralty of Tacoma. Local Issues at Denver. DENVER, April S. Yesterday's municipal muni-cipal elections in tho smull towns of Colorado Colo-rado were fought out on local Issues. In the six coal mining camps where union labor was an issue, the labor candidates were successful In five. Agnilur. Louisville, Louis-ville, Lafayette Superior and Eldora-Walsenburg Eldora-Walsenburg elected an anti-labor mayor. Returns received early today showed that In towns where the wet and drv issue was foremost, the wets won in six and the dryB four. Tho wets carriod Manltou, La Jara, Swlnk. Nederland, Rifle and Ita-mona. Ita-mona. The drys were victors in Burlington, Burling-ton, Akron, Brighton and Grand Vallev. Underwood's Majority. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April S. Returns tonight indicate that Oscar W. Underwood's Under-wood's majority over Congressman Richmond Rich-mond P. Hobson In Monday's Democratic primaries for nomination as United States senator probably will reach GO.000. B. B. Comer has a decided lead over Charles Henderson, with whom he will contest for the nomination for governor in a second primary May 11. Frank S. White defeated his opponent for the short term in the United Stutes senate. In the Third district Congressman Henry B. Clayton's majority over H. B. Stegcl, his opponent, will reach nearly 1000. Democratic Victory. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April S. Almost completo returns today showed a largo majority Tor Honry I,. .lost, Democrat, re-elected mayor In yesterday's election, on a platform favoring commission government. gov-ernment. Tho Democrats were victors in all but four of the sixteen wards, electing besides be-sides the mayor, comptroller, treasurer and two municipal Judges, all the candidates candi-dates for the upper house of the council. The nonpartisans elected four of tho sixteen six-teen members of the lower house. Fusion Unsuccessful. ALBUQUERQUJ5. N. M. April S. Returns Re-turns received enrly today from yesterday's yester-day's municipal elections showed that Republican tickets led over Democratic and fusion candidates. Republican victories vic-tories were reported from Albuquornuo, Santa Fc, Gallup, Socorro and Los Vegas. The Democrats won In Clovla and Ros-well. Ros-well. and a fusion ticket was successful In East Ias Vegas. Socialists Save One. MILWAUKEE, April S. Complete rc-turnf rc-turnf from yesterday's municipal election elec-tion give Mayor G. A. '13a ding, nonpartisan, nonparti-san, a majority of Saot over Emll Seldcl, Social-Democrut. Badlng received 37,701 and Seldcl 20,147 votes. Mnvor Badlng will he backed up with a board of aldermen, consisting of twenty-nine nonpartisans against eight Social-Democrats, , , The Social-Democrats won one of the chief city ofllces, that of city attorney. Wets Make Gain. OMAHA. Neb., April S. Local option elections over Nebraska, according to reports re-ports received last night, resulted in seven changes from wet to dry, arid nine changes from dry to wet, in 110 towns reporting. , , , , , Tho wots made the gain of Ord, Greeley Center, Comslof k, Republican City. Alma, Wilcox, St. Paul, Albion and Roca. The drys gained Arapahoe, Bancroft, Rushvllle. Callaway. Emerson, Fall City, Humboldt. Hlckmnn. Ewing. Lexington. Ogallaln. Red Cloud. Superior, hllvur Creek Thurston, Wolbach and Vihoo. Sundav baseball scored a notable victory. vic-tory. Fifteen towns voted in its favor and live against. Went Behind Returns. HARTFORD, Conn.. April S. Because of an ullcged flaw In a voting machine. Joseph H. Lawlcr, Democrat, wtis declared de-clared elected mayor tonight by the moderator of the city meeting, although on the face of the rotuniH of yesterday s election Mayor Louis R. Ch ene Republican, Repub-lican, was returned to office by aixt -tour votes. Drvs Win in Minnesota. ST PAUL. Minn., April 8. Anti-saloon Anti-saloon advocates were elated today over victories In most of the Minnesota cities of the fourth clues, which held local option op-tion elections yesterday. Lycn St. I c-ter. c-ter. whore saloons have operated for more than sixty ycartf. -was swept into the dry column. |
