GETS HIS QUIETUS.
“ BIG BILL” DEFEATED.
IN MAYORAL ELECTION. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright CHICAGO, Wednesday. Anton .J. (‘‘Tone”) Cermak, former Bohemian coal mine mule-driver, has administered to Mr W. 11. 1 (‘‘Big Bill”) Thompson what apparently is the worst beating ever received by a Mayoralty candidate in Chicago. Mr Cermak won the election, in which a record number of ballots were cast, by approximately 200,000 votes. • Mr Thompson failed to do as well as was expected, even in sections in which lie hoped to find most favour. The results also have considerably strengthened the- State power of the Democratic Party. The election was quiet- and devoid of all disorder, except for a few minor list lights. Mr Cermak, whoso candidacy was markedly dignified compared with Mr Thompson’s, takes office on Friday. He will “clean out the City Hall,” and remove from there, as far as possible, all traces of “ Thompsonism.” The new Mayor is 5S years of age, and was born near Prague. lie was brought to Chicago at the age of one year, and has earned his own living since he was eleven.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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