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cents for the fifth year under the new contract), and when the Council (July 17, ion) 

 set the rate at 75, 70 and 68 cents (for first, for second and third, and for fourth and fifth 

 years) the courts set 80 cents as a temporary rate. In O'Fallon the Socialists on April 

 18, 1911, elected a mayor (281 votes to 277) and 2 of 3 aldermen. 



The primaries of April 9, 1912 (provided for by an act passed at the special session 

 called by Deneen) gave Roosevelt 266,917 votes to 127,481 for Taft and 42,692 for 

 Senator La Follette, and Champ Clark 218,483 votes to 75,527 for Woodrow Wilson; 

 chose Charles S. Deneen 1 again as Republican candidate and Edward F. Dunne as 

 Democratic candidate for governor; named Lawrence Y. Sherman (b. 1858), Rep., as 

 candidate for United States senator to succeed Shelby Moore Cullom (b. 1829), also 

 Republican; and voted down woman's suffrage. The Progressive party nominated 

 (Aug. 3) Frank H. Funk, a state senator, for governor, and a nearly complete state 

 ticket. The opponents of Woodrow Wilson attempted to make political capital out of 

 his failure to repudiate the state Democratic " boss," Roger C. Sullivan (b. 1861). At 

 the November election the vote in Cook county (including Chicago) was for Roosevelt 

 (166,061 votes to 130,702 for Wilson), and the state was first announced for him, but the 

 rural vote was overwhelmingly for Wilson, who received in the state 405,048 votes to 

 386,478 for Roosevelt, 253,593 for Taft, and 81,278 for Debs (who had 34,711 in 1908). 

 Wilson carried 64 counties, Roosevelt 28 and Taft 10. Republican Congressmen 

 Joseph G. Cannon, ex-Speaker, and William B. McKinley, campaign manager for Presi- 

 dent Taft, were defeated, and 20 Democrats (including 2 at-large), 5 Republicans and 2 

 Progressives were returned to the House of Representatives. Dunne was elected 

 governor (443,120 votes), with Deneen second, (318,469) and Funk third (303,401), so 

 that the Republican. (and not the Progressive) party is the " second major " party with 

 official recognition, except in Chicago (Cook county). The Democratic nominees for 

 state office were elected by smaller pluralities than for Dunne. The 1913 legislature 

 with 97 Democrats, 76 Republicans, 27 Progressives and 4 Socialists 2 (the last two 

 groups holding the balance of power), will elect United States senators to succeed 

 Cullom (at the beginning of March 1913 it was in deadlock) and to take the place vacant by 

 the Senate's declaration (July 13, 1912) of the invalidity of the election of William 

 Lorimer (b. 1861), Republican. Lorimer had been in the Chicago water department in 

 1887-93, and was a member of the Federal House of Representatives in 1895-1901 and 

 in 1903-09. His election to the Senate in 1909 was attacked on the ground that he had 

 bribed state legislators. He was first exonerated but finally (July 13, 1912) unseated 

 by the Senate (see UNITED STATES History). The incident was of great importance in 

 the state and national campaign, each party leader attempting to make capital out of 

 the relations of his opponent with Lorimer. In December 1912 Deneen was prominent 

 in an attempt to reorganise the Republican party in the state. The next legislature 

 was instructed (by popular vote, Nov. 5, 1912, on three "questions of public policy," 

 in accordance with an Act of 1901) to submit an amendment for classification of property 

 for taxation, to revise the primary law, and to create a commission for a short ballot. 



Cairo, with the low lands about it, n sq. m. in all, was inundated, the Mississippi 

 breaking the levees, March 25, 1912. 



Chicago City Plan. The Chicago Commercial Club from 1907 to 1909 had a City 

 Planning Committee, which published in 1909 an exhaustive study called " The Plan 

 of Chicago;" later a Chicago Plan Commission was created by the city. Daniel H. 

 Burnham, the aichitect, was particularly interested in this work. The commission 

 estimates that 50 to 75 years would be needed to carry out its plans. The most immedi- 

 ate of its projects is to improve i2th Street an ordinance for widening this street 

 (from 62 and in some places 50 ft. to 108 ft.) was passed by the city council on April 6, 

 1911. Twelfth Street is the south side of a quadrangle planned by the commission. 

 The South Shore Lake Front is to be improved, a Lakeshore Drive being planned from 



1 In July Dcnccn announced that he would support Taft instead of following Roosevelt 

 into the third party. 



2 Contests may slightly change these figures. 



