Show ON In ELECTIONS tI Chicago Chronicle From Fromn the results re of oC the lie election n a alesson lesson Jn may be learned of ot the Iha highest value In the future tutule Assaults on the good name find and fame of at Chicago by Its own citizens denouncing it as ns a pest pesthole hole of ot disease a II den of ot crime unsafe for Cor strangers to enter and Ind ua liS bunk bank bankrupt rupt not aid any nn candi candidate hate date do to or party seeking the votes oles of C the ho people It 11 Is 18 not popular to slander tho city ell where we live The he vote ot slun a that no large class of ot voters believe the calumnies of ot the campaign Philadelphia North American Notwithstanding his radical views on ona onn a n number of subjects that hat men Of ot wealth usually consider It dangerous to have discussed Mr Johnson received O Ohis his strongest support from tram the do elements In Cleveland C Ills His m theory theO that all nil taxes should be laid on land hand values and that the tho people should own public utilities no doubt caused them tn to shako shake their th lr heads but they the know him hini for an able and sincere man and atul saw sa that he readily refused to play the lOIn dem demagogue n ogue for tor the sake of ot votes yote Cleveland Leader Tho rho cause of at tho the defeat of oC William J 1 JAkers JAker Akers Aker for Cor mayor of at Cleveland can cnn be bb told In one word or b Tilt ThiC vote vOlo cast cant for tor a o spring election wa at large It 11 Is some remained away awny from the th polls It Il l i It likewise true truo that thousands thou ands of ot Republicans voted for lor Tom L Is Johnson In plain tho the Republicans ot of this city ell have elected a Democrat mayor because they believed that their theil candidate candIda te stood tor lor or the time old machine Philadelphia J Times It Is possible le no doubt to exaggerate the political Importance of ot Johnsons as Ill mayor of ot Cleveland but It will ivill certainly bring to him prominence In the politics of tho the state The elec dec election tion of or n a Democratic mayor In Colum Coluin Columbus hue bus u with the reelection of ot Mayor Jones Jone In Toledo nude addi significance to the Cleveland result A majority of or tho tIme Ohio towns have har gone Democratic In Including many man that hat ore are regarded as Re ne Republican publican strongholds Springfield Republican In Iii all three thrle cafeo Cleveland Colum Columbus Columbus bus bUI and anI Toledo the municipal owner oner ownership ship Issue was uppermost and In nil all three ca the tho hs advocates of the radical policy poll C won This Thill Is la the tho Important and nn evidently tho the determining fact In the elections anti would seem to be Indi Indicative of ot a n growing public Interest In Inthe Inthe inthe the street monopoly Issue h ue and of ot a n growing popular acceptance of tho the claims of oC if the advocates of ot public owner ownership ownership ownership ship AS us the most effective remedy for Cor forthe Corthe the time admitted evils evil growing out of at private veto vate at ownership The fame question en entered lored to n a large extent Into the contests in Chicago and St Louis Louisw Juls New w York World The TM greatest significance of or these elec eke elections He II lies In the demonstration they thoy make of ot the growing hostility the voters voter to the domination domina lion of If corpora corporations corporation tion In municipal affairs and of ot popular popular lar lee dissatisfaction with the gross ITOU lao Ine Inequalities qualities of It taxation DailY Dally News New Mayor Harrison Is II given another term In ollice unquestIonably I as ci a reward for tor Ills hi championship of ot the Inter hater Interests eats ests In matters relating to way wa 1 He lie would have h o been defeated Inevitably hud had a Ii better man manthan manthan than thlin he ht been nominated by the Republicans |