Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-14 | Page 1 | Hy Johnson's Popularity is Big Surprise

More Than 45,000 Voters I m- I' Write in Calif orntan's Name 9 on Primary Ballots 1 W ROOSEVELT RECORD IN I B ILLINOIS SURPASSED I R" Lowden Captures His Home I State by Substantial Majori- 1 V ty Women Vote I M CHICAGO. April 14. According to I ? latest returns today. Governor Frank I K. 0. Lowden, of Illinois, won the Repub- I . lican presidential preforehce primary! 1 in his home stale josterday by a plu-. B V rallty of G 4.574 on returns from all bull 9' 430 scattered precince3, although Gen- W m eral Leonard Wood carried Cook coun-. 1 R y (Chicago), by 27,443 and. Senator! K Hiram Johnson, of California, whose y name had to be written on the ballot, lj SXirprlsetl political leaders by. running! M up a vote of 45.J&3. iricluUns,4p.8Sl, In j K; Gook county, Thereiver.e ''no" Demd- .-oratie-n'dUUvteeouthe-.iickct but 41 i nimihpr nf names were written in by a IU fijw hundred voters. i Mayor William Halo Thompson, of i! Chicago, Republican national commit- tfjj " leeman for Illinois, carried eery ward vl except one, for committeeman, thereby nil gaining complete control of the Cook' Jm ' county organization for four years. j Few Women Vote. I R While less than half the vote in the Ia state was cast, and only a sixth as $ many women as-men went to the polls, fi; feminine thrift added to the pluralities1 1 by which four bond issues for ?34,000,- jj 000 for municipal improvements were fl defeated in Chicago. On the primary candidates the proportion of women to B men was about the same for the two M leading candidates, fit General Wood, the only candidate to W make a campaign in the state, carried m McDonough, Alexander and Pulaski jjfl counties in addition to Cook, but all 3j the other OS counties went to Gover- 5J i nor Lowden, who, on the incomplete 1 unofficial returns, scored a majority 3 w "of 19,381 over Ills opponents. The gov- jj . ornor rolled up a vote downaLitc that reached a margin of as high as 7 to f 1 in one or two counties, bringing him j I to the Cook county line with nearly I 100,000 lead over General Wood. I I Surprise of Primary. f The surprise of the primary, nceord- t ing to supporters of both Governor I j Lowden and General Wood, was the j large number of voters who wrote in the name of Senator Johnson, who had I made no speeches In Illinois and hao. no organization. Supporters of both I regular candidates asserted that the vote hurt their candidate to the bene- fit of the other. Never in Illinois orj possibly national politics had so many voters voted a slicker ticket. The1 & largest previous spontaneous vote re corded in Illinois was that for Theo- dore Roosevelt in 1916 when some 21,- , 000 votes were written In for him. In Chicago, where the bulk of the John-U John-U son vote was cast, the Joh"nson vote showed a smaller percentage of wo- men than that for Governor Lowden or General Wood. The leaders polled about one-sixth as many female as male votes while tho Californian poll- l ed only one-seventh as manv women U as men. I y Men and Women. I T Tho woman vo.te downstale for Johnson was not counted separately. I , The figures from 52C0 .precincts out of I j 5590 in the state, including all 2446 in ' suits 0Unty' showed tho' followillt? re- Lowden: Men, 190,480; women, 32,-o02; 32,-o02; total 222.9S2. Wood: Men, 134,665; women, 23,-43; 23,-43; total, 158.40S. Johnson (Cook county): Men, 35,-516; 35,-516; women, 5365; (downstale); Men, and women, 4312; total 45.193. (.0 th.e district delegates elected to the national conventions, all the Demo crats wore uninstructed, while 35 of the Republicans -were pledged to Low-fU,ran Low-fU,ran H3,unpledseu- One of tho unpledged un-pledged delegates in the 10th district I (Colc county) hud announced fhat ho U n,nULn SUp-,P,0l't SQntov Johnson, and r the other 14 Avere idherenls of Mayor SS?SfmK Th, olKht delegates at l!f 1 ? BeIectcd at tho state con-j con-j vention later.