Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-29 | Page 3 | Gunmen Playing Part in Chicago Elections

GUNMEN PLAYING PART IN CHICAGO ELECTIONS Frauds and Violence Are Reported in Windy City Primaries CHICAGO Feb 29 ln In In a primary today the Republican Democratic and Socialist parties vote for thirty-five thirty candidates for forI I aldermen and one candidate for a vacancy on the municipal court bench The weather is clear and cold On the Republican side Mayor Wll Wll- Ham H Hale lale le Thompson and the candidates candidates candidates candi candi- S dates h he is supporting have fought fough hard with the opposition principally in nine wards In which Republican aldermen have opposed the mayors mayor's I policies and now seek tl n The injection of the Rowe Eaton-Rowe salary eal- eal Salary sal Sal- ary any splitting scandal into inlo the primary and action taken by various factions of the wet and dry forces have given unusual inter interest st to the campaign From the Interest displayed and the fact that both men and women will vote it is predicted that the total tota number of votes votes' cast will be close to On the Democratic side the fight is general throughout the city between I the Sullivan and the Harrison-Dunne Harrison forces forces' I Fear Far of frauds and violence in S some wards caused the election authorities to requisition the services of extra de details details details de- de I tails of police pollee this morning Two hundred private detectives have been employed to watch the polling places Ten automobiles were kept in constant constant constant con con- stant use rushing detectives to points where fraud and violence were r rc ported Joseph Prendergast Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate for alderman in the Twenty-first Twenty ward warned election commissioners that murder would be done unless unless' his assistants c couk ul get more protection In ilI certain pre pre- Harry Nadel adel Prendergast's lieutenant reported that four gunmen In one precinct crowded him into a a corner and said they would blow him up if he did not disappear Ho He de departed departed departed de- de parted he said