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Show REPUBLICANS WIN IN CHICAGO. Thompson Elected Mayor and Nearly Half of Council Republican. Chicago. William Hale Thompson was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday by a plurality of 139.3S9. the highest ever given a mayoralty candidate. can-didate. The nearest approach before was in 1S97, when Carter H. Harrison received 79.150 more votes than John Maynard Tarlan. the Republican. The indications are that the next council will consist of thirty-three Democrats, thirty-one Republicans, two Progressives, Progres-sives, three independents and one Socialist. So-cialist. A negro, Oscar De Priest, was elected from the Second ward. It is the first time a negro ever has served in the city council. Women voted for the first time at a mayoralty election in Chicago and incomplete returns showed that the relative percentage of men and women wo-men votes received by Thompson and Robert Sweitzer, the defeated Democratic Demo-cratic candidate, were approximately the same. |