Green's 43%

The Chicago edition of Thomas Edmund Dewey is Dwight Green, 42, stocky, grey, energetic. He helped jail Al Capone and tried Old Sam Insull. Last week, Dwight Green got more votes for Mayor (638,068) than any Republican candidate in history.

That was not enough to blow down 62-year-old Edward Joseph Kelly, six-year Mayor of Chicago and co-Boss of the Democratic machine. Without once using the word "Green" during his entire campaign, Ed Kelly collected 822,469 votes, which were more than anyone of any party had ever polled in a Chicago mayoralty election.

Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois.

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