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Show MediSl McCormick Defeats Thompson For Nomination CHICAGO, Sept. 12 Medill McCormick, Mc-Cormick, Republican, will contest the Illinois senatorship thi3 fall with .Tnmos 'PTnmJlfnn T.nwia rinmnnpit In cumbent, having been nominated at yesterday's primaries by an apparent pluarlity of C2.000 over Mayor William Halo Thompson of Chicago and Congressman Con-gressman George Edmond Foss. Mayor May-or Thompson carried Cook county by 17,000, fower than ono -third of the normal number of votes going to the polls, or about 135,000. Former governor Richard Yates and William E. Mason, incumbent, were nominated by the Republicans for congressmen at large, although Mason Ma-son had been opposed because of his attitude toward the war. They will contest tho election with M. H. Cleary and W. E. Williams, nominated by the Democrats. Another congressman candidate who was attacked on his war record in congress wan Fred A. Britten but he carried tho ninth district over Fletcher Fletch-er Dobyns nearly three to one. Niels Juul, congressman from the seventh district whose official attitude toward the war had been questioned during tho campaign, was nominated by a comparatively small margin over M. A. Michaefson, a Thompson supporter. Minority Leader of the House James B. Mann of the second congressional district was re-nominated without opposition, op-position, ns was Joseph G. Cannon of the eighteenth district Mr. Cannon will bo opposed by only one other candidate, can-didate, a Socialist |