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Show REPUBLICAN PRECINCT WORKER I FIRED UPON BY ATTACKERS I WHO ESCAPE IN MOTOR CAR I Factionalism, Religion and Ku Klux Klan Bitter Issues; Nation at Polls Picking Candidates Candi-dates for Local and National Offices CHICAGO, Nov. 7. Violence in connection with the election broke out early today in Chicago wh:n J. H. Clancy, a Republican pre-cuict pre-cuict worker in the Eighteenth ward, wa3 fired on as he was leaving home None of the shots took eflect and the attackers escaped in t motor car from which three men fired several shots. ..I mess has marked tl' campaign UBS i for fook county offices In which Inn ! Republican factionalism, rellsdon and oven, to a small extent, the Ku Klu Klan, have been Injected as Issues- IjH While the .ntlrc Republican counW 1 ticket has been endorsed by Mayor Thompson and Attorney General Kl-ward Kl-ward J. Bruhdage, bitter political ' enemies, beneath tho surface factloa-allsm factloa-allsm has been reported to have con-tlnued con-tlnued Its strife. The political skirmishing also hat been severe in connection with '.he legislative contests In which the Rn- H publican factli n controlled by Mayor M Thompson end io ernor Small are battling for control of tho legislature jIH and the beer and wine referendum has 'II aroused some feeling, although gener-ally gener-ally the prohibition organizations have openly declared for ignoring the re.'-Srendlrm, re.'-Srendlrm, asserting It Is Illegal and III Of no value and cannot nullify prohlbl - |