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2- Section 1Chicago Tribune. Thursday. November 9. 1972Has No CommentA Bitter HanrahanWon’t Concede LossBY ROBERT EN5TADA btUer Edward V. flanxa-han went back to hi* job a* slate's attorney yesterday still refusing to concede he has only one month left in office.Hanrahan declined to meet with reporters to discuss hit defeat Tuesday by Republican Bernard Carey. Hh secretary said her boss would have no com meat.Hanrahan encountered reporter! as he left his office in Criminal Courts at noon yesterday but had little more to say than hello. He said if he has anything to say about the election he will say k later.Nearest to ConcessionThe closest Hanrahan came to making a concession was a statement he made before a teary throng of supporters late Tuesday in his campaign headquarters. He said:*T have always believed in what I've done and I’ve always said exactly what I believed. I've tried not la trim. I've tried not to romance anybody. cither any individual or any medium . . .••We will await the results later in the night or early morning and abide by them with the best grace we have.As final results showed Carey beating Hanrahan by more than 100.000 voles, it became apparent that Hanrahan was defeated by one of the tough est men be knows—Ed Hanra han.Support* D'ArcoHanrahan may have ruined his reekrebon chances by two incidents that occurred In the closing days ef the campaign, one concerning John D'Arco and the other concerning the wde of his opponent Tbe D'Arco incident began when Hanrahan last week visited a meeting of the 1st Ward Democratic organisation and exchanged statements of support and affection with D’Ar-a. the ward ! Democratic committeeman who often has been Unked with the Mafia. Hanrahan's backs lapping of D'Arco nuy have tarnishedthe stale's attorney’! image of an upright public servant.About 50,000 reprint of newspaper columns on the D'Arco-Hanrahan embrace were distributed by Carey supporters in the suburbs over the weekend. Hanrahan had hoped for a big vote in tbe suburbs because of his involvement in the Black Panther raid case. That support did not material-iseHanrahan Fires 2Aides After DefeatThen came the encounter with Mary Rita Carey, after a radio program Sunday night. Hanrahan was said to have told Mrs. Carey her husband was •'a disgrace.'’ a remark that angered many who believe such com meets hit below themHanrahan's radio and television appearances in the last week of the campaign may have also hart bun. He lost his temper frequently while on the air.Hanrahan admitted he sometimes rubs people the wrong way as be stood before hi* j supporters Tuesday thinking them for their confidence and wort•TO apologise to those of my fr.ends and supporters tor any uneasiness or discomfort my manner or method may have caused them.'’ he said.Tru*w nmm Sf N*## w*1.r»Defeated to hit bid for re-election. State's Ally. Edward Ifaarahan hurries silently past reporter* at hr ka*r» Criminal CnurU Baildiog.Carey Is Only RepublicanOffice Winner in CountyBY FRANK UL.VTCtJronflAUho the Democrat* last the crucial race for Cook County stale's attorney, thoy managed to hold onto the three other county olficei up for election, two of them by narrow margins.Bernard Carry. 31, won his first elrftivc office Tucvday with a stunning upset of incumbent Edward V. Hanro-han Final unofficial vote totals were 1.1£7.072 for Carey la 1,031,660 for HanrahanSwearing lt;n Dec. 4 Whereas the other three Republican candidates trailed their Democratic opponents #n the city by nearly two to enei margins. Carey ran only about1 TO.cnu votes behind Hanrahan in Chicago and swamped him by more than a rjo/joo vote plurality in the suburbs Carey, tbe only nonincum-bent to bo elected, will be sworn in Doc. !. Ironically that b exactly three years to the day from the fateful early iCKl volet. Sklodowski. an cx-preiidrm of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association, was making his first bid for pobhcofficeBernard CareyMinor Candidates Get Few VotesWASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI1 -Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace captured 13 per cent of tbe popular vote in his third party bid for tbe Presidency four years ago, but minority party candidates fared much worse this year.John G. SchmiU, lame duck California congressman took upWallace** American Party standard. bat he received only about i per cent of the popular vote. Eves so, Schmitz ran the strongest of nine other candidates.It appeared Schmitz, a member of the John Birch Society, was winning the votes of only the hard-core radical Right. On the Left. People s Party cmdi-date Dr. Benjamin Speck failed to vrin even 1 per cent of the vote be hoped for in the 10 states In which he was on the ballot Spodc said during the campaign his goal was not to win large number* c? votes but lo build the franc*t*k for the gradual development of a major party on the Leftmornmg raid by state’! attorney'* police on a Black Panther apartment which subsequently led to the indictment of Hanrahan and 13 others. They were later found innocent of all chargesHold Patronage PortThe Democrats had no trouble hanging onto the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court, a much coveted patronage plum of more than 1,309 political jobs.Incumbent Matthew Dana-her, a neighbor and longtime crony of Mayor Daley, rolled up a total vote of 1,143.-638. the largest of any Democratic candidate polled in the county, lo win a second term.His Republican opponent. Robert L. Sklodowskt. 37. a Park RWge attorney, receivedItace to the Wire The race* for the two other county offices, recorder and coroner, went right down to the wire.Tbe Republican rtuUengrr, Lucy Rcum of Oak Park, was defeated by incumbent tecortier Sidney Olsen by a Kant margin o! a.ow votes out of nearly 2 million cast The totals were 985.467 for Olsen to 983.95! for Mrs. I P^amOlsen lias been recorder since IMMrs. Rcum was a delegate to tbe CocutituDooal Convention, who in 1W9 led tbe ticket of candidates in the 2d District.Tbe race for corooer was won by incumbent Dr. Andrew j Toman who cdgW his Republican challenger, Donald Mu-lack. by t.037.433 to 358531 Dr Toman was elected to hh fourth and last term.Voters approved, by more •than a five to one margin, a J proposal to abolish the office of coroner, effective Doc. c, I 1978. and replace it with an appointed medical examiner. The final tally on that question was 879.181 to 153,785., Both Dr. Toman and Mul*k «up-j ported the abolition of tbe office.
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