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    "ocrText": "BY PRESS OF THE NATION\nCalumet World\nNo Murders\nNo Scandals\nNo Suicides\nNo Divorces\nNo Deaths\nALUMET'S GREATEST BOOSTER\nCALUMET WORLD, MAY, 1928\n8 Pages\nPrice 5c-May, 1928\nPOPULATION ESTIMATES\nNATION'S PRESS HAILS\nBIRTH OF A NEW CHICAGO\nCONGRATULATES CITY AND STATE\nON PRIMARY\nEditorial comment by papers throughout the country on the\nIllinois primary result follows:\nNEW YORK TIMES-The political revolution in Chicago\ncame as a surprise to most political observers. They had feared\nthat the city was disgraced but not ashamed. The people were\nnot saying much, but they ware framing a mighty resolve. Not\nfor years has a municipal election been so wholesome and re-\nfreshing. It testifies to the ability of the voters to pierce through\npolitical shams and humbugs.\nNEW YORK WORLD-The primary in Chicago was a vic-\ntory for decency. The outcome gives one a pleasant feeling.\nThe whacking majorities are clear evidence that the Illinois\nRepublicans were disgusted with the shameless graft, idiocy,\nand violence of the gangs who were in power.\nNEW YORK EVENING SUN-Oniy one thing could have\nmade the Republican primary in Illinois more satisfying. If Big\nBill Thompson had only been running for mayor! As it is, his\norganization received a tremendous licking. Thompson said that\nhe would resign the mayoralty if Crowe lost. It is too much to\nhope that this promise will come true.\nNEW YORK EVENING WORLD-The primary election\nresults will cheer the friends of decent government througout\nthe country. It cannot but prove to be a great day's work for\nChicago ultimately in the housecleaning line.\nCLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER-When Chicago gets\nready to give the plunderbund the bum's rush it surely does it\nwith a will! No half way measures; not by your lives. Just\nwhang! And the thing's done. We can think of no finer spec-\ntacle in the whole wide world than this delayed chastisement of\nthe balloon faced Bill and his buffoonish satellites.\nWASHINGTON STAR-In Illinois the brooms were used\nyesterday. Illinois politics-and more particularly Chicago poli-\ntics-had become a stench in the nostrils, a challenge to govern-\nment. The results in the primary elections yesterday restore\nfaith in the American system of government.\nST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS-The Republican voters of\nIllinois have cleaned house, unaided by the marines, and they\nhave acted with convincing decision. Thompson has been thrust\ninto a very small niche as a factor in national politics and the\npeople of Illinois have reduced Frank Smith from a national\nissue to a nonentity. For all this they are to be congratulated.\nDETROIT FREE PRESS-Th outcome of the Illinois\nprimary has a significance the whole country will understand.\nIt is a notice that the decent people in Chicago are fed up on\ncheap demagoguery and pseudo-patriotism. In due time Chicago\nis going to have a new mayor who will devote less time to fight-\ning King George and ousting competent school superintendents\nand more time to fighting lawlessness and crime.\nSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE-The objection to having\nChicago's elections dominated by bombs and its every day affairs\nsuperintended by gunmen with machine guns was an important\nfactor in the election. The voters did what they could in one\ninning. Small, Crowe, and Smith-three strikes and Big Bill\nis out.\nINDIANAPOLIS NEWS-The redemption of Illinois and\nChicago are heartening to all lovers of political decency. As\nThompson was actually beginning to branch out in national poli-\ntics, it is well that he should have received this smashing blow.\nST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT-Illino has redeemed\nitself. It has declared that public plunder, bombs, organized\ncriminal gangs in alliance with public officials, elections that\nthwart the will of the people by fraudulant votes and armed\nintimidation, must end. The spectacle of a governor compelled\nby a Supreme court to restore to the treasury a great sum; of\nan unparalleled reign of lawlessness apparently aided and abetted\nby political iterference of politics in the administration of the\npublic schools-these aroused the people of Illinois to action in\ntheir own defense.\nST. LOUIS STAR-The rank and file of Republicans in\nChicago and the state rose in their wrath yesterday and proved\nthey are more honest than their party's leadership. Voters, out-\nraged by terrorism in the metropolis and open mismanagement\nat the state capital, have taken the first step in house cleaning.\nGovernment in Chicago and in Illinois has been a stench to the\nentire nation: but no more of a stench than the doings of the\nOhio gang at Washington, or Republican rule at Indianapolis.\nKANSAS CITY STAR-There is a God in Israel. American\ndemocracy is sometimes criticized as a sham on the ground that\nit expresses the will of the politicians, not of the voters. Its\nstrength is that in a crisis, the democratic system does express\nthe voters' will, and the politicians are swept aside. Yesterday\nthe Republican voters of Illinois cleaned house. Bully for Illinois!\nver\nCINCINNATI TIMES STAR-The result of the voting will\nork\nbe received with gratitude and relief by decent people all over\nier:\nthe United States. The American people make a lot of mistakes\nin politics, but when it comes to a time of real crisis, they are\nt a\nreasonably sure to think straight.\nthe\nBOSTON HERALD-Chicag is fundamentally as sound as\nwith\nany other city in the United States. It has simply grown a little\nfaster than the rest of us. In time a decent civic spirit, the seeds\nof which are in every civilized community, will take root and\nthat\nsprout.\nbout\nWASHINGTON POST-The primary brought results that\nare gratifying to the entire country. It was a mighty blow for\nin-\nthe restoration of law and order in Chicago and throughout the\nstate. The voters seem to have been aroused from their apathy\nto the extent of trying to select officials who will make some\nheadway at suppressing crime.\nd to\nLOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL-Chieago and Illinois\ncosts.\nhave made a good job of it so far. It required a great deal to\nbring Chicago to its senses. The Illinois election is a signal\ndemonstrationof the fact that a long suffering and long com-\n00.\nplaisant people, once aroused by the excesses of gangster rule,\nare invincible even against the arts of the most desperate crooks\nand ruffians."
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