A two-to-one victory was what newspaper straw polls last week indicated Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1) the straw-polling journals (the Tribune and Daily News) were noisily campaigning for Nominee Cermak; 2) Thompson henchmen would not fool with ballots that did not count; 3) the city's "best people" now supporting Nominee Cermak might go...
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