Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-01 | Page 1 | Chicago Casting Ballots

CHICAGO CASTING BALEOTS Most Bitter Campaign in fl History of the I HATREDS FLAME HIGH I Heavy Vote of 700,000 I Was Early Fore- I cast. H CHICAGO, April 1 Electors of the I city are balloting for mayor and other city offices today, after a campaign said to have been the most bitter jn I the history of the municipality. With six candidates In the Held for" mayor. ii-partisan, ii-partisan, religious and racial hatreds I flamed inch during the campaign 1 which ended last night with rlbtbt 1 ' scenes in the central district which ' extra police details had difficulty in H ; controlling at times. The candidates lor mayor arc: William Hale Thompson (Republican), (Republi-can), incumbent Robert M. Sweitzer (Democrat), county clerk. Maclay Hoyne (independent Demo-crat), Demo-crat), state's attorney. John Fitzpatrick (Labor), president ! Chicago Federation of Labor. John M Collins, (Socialist Adolph S. Carmen, (Socialist-Labor). A heavy vote in the mayoralty elec-Hon elec-Hon today was presaged by the early -balloting In the first hour and a hnlf j i from 2u to 2." per cent of the vote had j been recorded, according to watchers. I The weather was cool and clear. J A feature of the day was a technical ! strike of more than B score of unions j in behalf of John Fitzpatrick. The I "strike'' was the day only and was to permit "strikers" full freedom to elec jlH , tloneer. j It was the theory of students of lo-cal lo-cal politics that the Fitzpatrick votes would come largely from Democratic ', tu;i r and the vote for Hoyne would J I be largely recruited from that which ( normally would go to the Republican candidate, Mayor Thompson. Women I as well as men ar,e eligible voters and j a total vole of 700,000 was predicted. i Non-Partisans and Labor Party Unite. CHICAGO, April 1. The recently formed alliance between the Non -Par ; tisan league and1 the Chicago Labor I party will make Itself apparent in Chi-eago Chi-eago soon by the appearance of o-operative o-operative stores, it was announced to-day to-day by Morton L. Johnson, secretary IH of the Labor party. jH Mr. Johnson said that there would bo one store in each of the city's thirty-five wards, and that fann pro-j pro-j ducts would be brought to them direct y trom North Dakota where the Non-' Non-' Partisan league is in political control 'and has put many of its theories into practice. Mr Johnson added that he j ; will visit North Dakota next week I for conference with Governor Frazier and A. C. Tov.nley, president of the league. The announcement said that the stores would also serve as labor union headquarters from which strikes would be directed as necessary. I oo