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Show ICAGO CASTS D DEMOCRATIC VOTE l f IGE DEVER ELECTED MAYOR , 3VER REPUBLICAN CAN. D I DATE BY 103,748 l I 7 -allty Qlven Dever Is Largest In Vf Ity's History Except Thomp- d sen's Victory, Returns Show . ', Democrat Council llcago. On tho lop of n Demo. Ic landslldo, William E. Dover, L ;o of tho superior court, was car. Into tho ofrico of mayor, succeed. William Halo Thompson, retiring J r serving eight yoars for tho lto- llcnn party. Tho nvalancho of is that gavo Judge Dover the big. & plurality In tho city's history, "fl i ono exception, that received by 'or Thompson in 1015, also placed rflco Democratic candidates for II I clerk and city treasurer. jJ nofflclal returns of Tuesday's tlon, complied by a nows gathor. PI agency, gnvo Judgo Dover n total rfi i of 887,001 and Arthur C. LuedcK I ubllcnn mayoralty cnndldato and lor postmaster, 'Sll.'l. i tho only congressional election T0' ho stato a special call to fill the ' incyln tho Second Illinois district ted by tho death of Congress, i James It. Mann, tho Republicans a victorious. Morton D. Hull, Phy lor state senator, defeated Bnrrntt i nra, Democrat and former lieu-mt lieu-mt governor, by tWWO to 42,403. irdlng to unofficial figures. Ithough tho old city council was, mratlc before the primaries of Qt ruary 17, In which thirty aldor- i were elected, and Tuesday's Tutj lion, naming the remaining twen- a j, tho party Increased Its strength. agVl teen of tho aldermen elocted moc 3 Democrats, giving tho party l, ty.soven aldermen as compared rje(j i tho Republicans' thirteen. nr |