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Last week Illinois Democrats and Republicans stormed the polls in unprecedented numbers for the Statewide primaries to pick candidates for Governor. Among Democrats, a vote for Governor Henry Horner's renomination might mean: 1) approval of that official's honest, mildly progressive administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly...
...Chicago the polls opened at 6 a. m. In four precincts boxes were ordered confiscated when found half-filled with ballots before 6 a. m. Three hours later Henry Horner rolled off to the nearest polling place to plunk down one vote for Henry Horner. Other Horner voters, charged the Governor's staff, were being bought off, slugged and kidnapped by Kelly toughs. From their headquarters rushed Horner's brown-clad State troopers to rescue Horner supporters from Kelly policemen...
...real battleground, Mayor Kelly injected religion into it when he cried to some 500 Jewish politicians assembled in the Morrison Hotel: "It will be a sad day in Illinois for the Jews if it is apparent in the face of the election results that the Jews voted for Horner because he is a Jew. . . . When Henry Horner was nominated in 1932 the Irish went to the front for him and they battled side by side with the Jews to elect him. Now we're fighting Horner. ... I don't want anything I'm telling you here...
...That Horner would carry downstate by a huge majority no one doubted. His managers claimed his downstate majority would roll up to 300,000, but the question was whether 300,000 votes, or any majority from downstate, could match the Chicago machine's efficient vote-making equipment. Dispassionate observers believed that the machine could count 300,000 votes by the "endless chain system'" alone. This device requires the theft of only one blank ballot by each precinct captain and absolutely insures that all votes bought are delivered. The blank ballot is marked and given to a hired voter...
Against such odds there was doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under...