CHICAGO POLLS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1930, Page 5

CHICAGO POLLS

LIVELY ELECTION SCENES

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this day at LI a.in., NEW YORK, April 8

Tlie penchant of the city of Chicago for violence in elections was given full play to-da.v, when between two and three million voters of Illinois went to the polls in the Republican Primary election to choose the Party’s Federal Senatorial nominee, 'flic choi.e lies between Mrs Ruth McCormick, whose lather and husband have been United States Senators, and who herself is now a member of Congress, and Senator Charles Deneen, who defeated -Mrs McCormick’s husband six years ago for the same nomination.

The* campaign, which wa.s extremely bitter culminated in Chicago to-day with an attempt to kidnap an alderman, one case of shooting and one of bombing. Reports of gangster raids and other instances of lawlessness were also received. Seven men brandishing pistols crowded an alderman’s automobile against a kerb, hut the police interfering saved the official and captured three of his assailants.

State Attorney Swanson threatened that indictments would follow if the police, under control of Thompson, showed partiality in enforcing the election laws. Charges were made that 50,000 fraudulent names had been registered for voting and the report all day long from “bad land” vlarcls of Chicago indicated strong arm methods were playing their usual part.