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's candidate....
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