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Show CLOWALOONS Illinois Voters Put Over Thousand Dramshops Out of Business. 46 COUNTIES NOW DRY Eleven Cities Added to List of Victories Sixty Female Officers Elected. Chicago, April S. Women, voting for the first time in Illinois township elections yesterday, aided in closing more than a thousand saloons, adding add-ing sixteen counties to the thirty already al-ready dry and, barring the sale of intoxicants in-toxicants in approximately 200 of the 300 townships in which local option was an issue. Their victory included eleven cities which previously were wet. They were Bloomlngton, Galesburg. Elgin, Decatur, Canton, Freeport, Bolvldere, Monmouth, Kewanee, Lockport and East Galena. Rockford, Matoon and Galva were kept in the dry column No city or township which was dry was lost by tho anti-saloon forces, but Springfield, Quincy, Rock Island, Aurora, Jollet, Alton, Mollne, Dixon and West Galena remained wet. In Springfield a majority of women voted vot-ed for saloons and in Jollot the women wom-en were almost equally divided as to saloons. Many Women Elected. Women elected thirty female township town-ship officers; 26 township collectors; 3 town clerks and a member of the board of education in Springfield. Although seventy-three per cent of the women registered In Chicago took advantage of their newly gained franchise at yesterday's election none of the nine women candidates for city council was successful, receiving receiv-ing only a scattered vote. Alderman John (Bath House) Coughlin, who for a score of years had represented the first ward, won by nearly 4000 votes over Miss Marion Drake, a court stenographer. More women voted for him than for Miss Drake and he won by a 3 to 1 vote. Half Million Votes Cast. The vote in Chicago totalled nearly near-ly a half million. Out of a total of 217,614 women who had qualified, 15S.68G voted. The number of men who voted was 328.9S7; 72 per cent of those eligible. Chicago's new council remained Democratic. Of the new council 40 will be Democrats, 21 Republicans, 6 Progressives and three Independents. Votes of women helped defeat a proposition for a comprehensive subway sub-way system to cost $130,000,000. The subway proposition was lost by 90,-000 90,-000 votes. Another public policy question, ques-tion, providing for home rule iir the regulation of public utilities, was successful suc-cessful by 4000. Five bond issues, totalling 5S.350.-000 5S.350.-000 for city departments and for the county hospital, were defeated by large majorities. One bond issue, providing $350,000 for municipal bathing bath-ing beach improvements was successful. success-ful. The Socialist party had an alder-manic alder-manic candidate in each of the thirty-five thirty-five wards. In most of the wards the Socialist vote was third and In one ward, the twenty-seventh, their candidate took second place. The total vote polled by the Socialist candidates can-didates was 89,900. New York, April 8. Returns early today indicated that tho proposal to hold a convention to revise the constitution con-stitution of the state submitted to the voters at a special election yesterday, was carried by 25,000 votes. There was little interest in the election. St. Paul, April 8. Anti-saloons advocates ad-vocates were elated today over victories vic-tories in most of Minnesota cities of the fourth class, which held local option elections yesterday. Even St. Peter, where saloons have operated for more than 60 years, was swept into the dry column. Kansas City, April 8. Almost complete com-plete returns today showed a large majority for Henry "L. Jost, Democrat, Demo-crat, re-election mayor in yesterday's flection, on a platform favoring commission com-mission government. The Democrats were victors in all but four of the sixteen wards, electing elect-ing besides mayor, comptroller, treasurer treas-urer and two municipal judges, all the candidates for the upper house of the council. Tho non-partisans elected elect-ed four of the sixteen members of of the lower house. Milwaukee, Wis., April 8. Unofficial Unoffi-cial returns today did not change the estimate of last night that gave Mayor May-or Gerhard Bading, non-partisan candidate can-didate for re-election, a majority of $6000 over Emil Seldel, Social Democrat. Demo-crat. The new board of aldermen probably prob-ably will consist of 28 non-partisans and nine Social Democrats. At pres- ent there are eleven social Democrats on the board. Denver, Colo., April 8 Yesterday's municipal elections in the small towns of Colorado were fought out on local issues. In the six coal mining camps where union labor was an issue, is-sue, tho labor candidates were successful suc-cessful In five. Agullar, Louisville, Lafayette, Superior and Eldora. Wal-senburg Wal-senburg elected an anti-labor mayor. Returns received early today showed show-ed that in towns where the wet and dry issue was foremost, the wets won in six and the drys four. The weta carried Manltou, La Jara, Swink, Ned erlaud, Rifle and Ramona. The dryH were victors In Burlington, Akron, Brighton and Grand Valley. Albuquerque, N. M April 8 Re- a a a em caa turns received early today from yesterday's yes-terday's municipal elections showed that Republican tickets led over Democratic Dem-ocratic and fusion candidates. Republican Re-publican victories were reported from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Gallup, Socorro, Socor-ro, and Las Vegas. The Democrats won in Clovis and Roswell and a fusion fu-sion ticket was successful In East Las Vegas. oo |