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Show M'CORMICK TO RACE WITH LEWIS Major William Hale Thompson Thomp-son Snowed Under by 62,000 Votes. CHICAGO. Sept. 12. Congressman Medill McCormick defeated Mayor William Hale Thompson for the Republican Re-publican nomination for United States senator in today's primary election, according ac-cording to returns from more than half of tho state received up to midnight. mid-night. James Hamilton Lewis was renominated re-nominated by the Democrats. While McCormick apparently Avon the state by a comfortable majority, Chicago returned a plurality for Thompson who had been charged by his opponent with numerous anti-war activities. In the ninth (Chicago) congressional con-gressional district where the loyalty issue also had been raised, Congressman Congress-man Fred A. Britton has been rc-noml-nated on the face of the returns. In another loyalty fight which wen waged for the Republican nomination for congressman-at-large, former Governor Gov-ernor Richard Yates led Congressman William E. Mason and Harry R. Rath-bone Rath-bone of Chicago. With two candidates to be nominated Mason led Yates in Chicago, but was formed into second place by returns from downstato. Later Election Returns. Medill McCormick was nominated Tor senator by Republicans in yesterday's yester-day's primary by a plurality of 52,000 over Mayor William Halo Thompson of Chicago on the basis of returns from 19R-1 out of 2073 precincts outside out-side of Cook county and all but S21 precincts in Chicago. McCormick's plurality outside or Chicago, it is indicated indi-cated is 87,000 while Thompson'c lead in the city is 16,000, with less than one-third of the normal voto polled. Joseph G. Cannon, was unopposed for the renoinination on the Republican Republic-an ticket for congressman in the Eighteenth Eigh-teenth district. Ho will be opposed by a Socialist, P. N. Christensen, in the Eighteenth district in the November Novem-ber election. There w.is no Democratic candidate in the primary. Congressman Congress-man James R. Mann, minority leader in the house, was also unopposed on tho Republican ticket in the Second district. nn |