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Show OXGRESSMAN JAMES I R. MANN of Illinois, who has been renominated by an enormous majority. fl 1 1 v " . iM , -i a- m 'Ul- I i. h r-r' i STALWARTS CHOSEN BY ILLiOiS G. 0, P. Frank" O. Lowden for Governor; Gov-ernor; Leader Mann Receives Re-ceives Big Majority. CHICAGO, Sept. 13. Sweeping victories for Governor Edwa-rd F. Dunne, Democrat, Demo-crat, and former Congressman Frank O. Lowden, Republican, for' their respective parties' nomination for governor; the apparent ap-parent defeat of former Senator William Lorimer for a Republican r-ongressional nomination and several close tights for congressmen characterized the Illinois primary today. Returns at midnight indicated the nomination nom-ination of Governor Dunne by a plurality over William B. Brinton that might reach 150.000. With three-fourths of Cook county In, Dunne had a plurality of 43.000 in Cook county. He was running 2 to 1 over Brinton down-state. Lowden's plurality plu-rality over Morton D. Hull of Chicago, in the Republican fight, was almost as large. He had about oO.OOO more than Hull In Cook county, and claimed he would win down-state by 100,000. On the face of incomplete returns from the Sixth congressional district, I.orimer had been defeated by about 1000 votes by Arthur V. Fulton. Shortly before midnight the election commissioners received re-ceived a report of trouble at one of the precincts in this district, in the Eighteenth Eight-eenth ward, Lorimer's former stronghold, where, it was said, certain of the ballots are to be recounted. Detectives were sent to the place. Lorimer, earlier in the evening, announced that his own incomplete incom-plete returns showed the vote decidedly .close. , Med 111 McCormick, former Progressive, was leading the Republican candidates for congressman at large, with former Senator Sena-tor William K. Mason second and B. M. Chiperfield, Incumbent, a close third. McCormick Mc-Cormick had l-f.Sio. Mason 9747 and Chiperfield S12f in 237 precincts in Cook county and 262 scattering precincts out of 53fif precincts In the state. Congressman Congress-man William Klza Williams of Pittsiield and Everett Jennings of Chicago had an apparently safe lead for congressman at large on the Democrat Ic ticket. Nomination ' of . Congressman James Mann, Republican house leader, by a big plurality over the Rev, Melbourne P. Boy n ton. a minister, and the apparent defeat of Congressman Jamef T. McDer-niott, McDer-niott, Democrat, by Alderman Charles Murrln, were features of Chicago congressional con-gressional primaries. About 210,000 men and approxinia teiy 60. 000 women voted in Chicago, it was estimated. This was approximately one-third one-third of the total vote. There wore few disturbances nt the polls, although several sev-eral arrests were ma.ie. AUhonc-h n hot prr-rampnigi fiht was waned n train st him. t 'n-.tressiiian Ira C. Copely, Republican, wbr renominated hy a heavy plurality in i he K! eve tub district, dis-trict, early returns shmved. Martin B. Maiden. RepuM:. -m congressman con-gressman from the First district, has 1'cen nomina ted :mai n 1 iy a sa tV ma -.iort.y. as has George Edmund Fos, Republican, Re-publican, in thn Tenth d-.strt. ("nr. crewman crew-man W. W. Wilson. i-MH!nl;,'nn. has won nomination in Ihe Tiiird district hy about piurali! y. |