Thompson blamed Ruth Hanna McCormick 's lack of support for his loss at the 1928 Republican National Convention , and he returned the favor during her 1930 campaign for the United States Senate . Thompson had had a longstanding rivalry with the McCormicks . He intensely disliked Robert R. McCormick who published the '' Chicago Tribune '' . U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick was the publisher 's brother , and after his death , his widow ran against Thompson for the vacant seat . Amid growing discontent with Thompson 's leadership , particularly in the area of cleaning up Chicago 's reputation as the capital of organized crime , he was defeated in 1931 by Democrat Anton Cermak . Cermak was an immigrant from Bohemia , and Thompson used this fact to belittle him with ethnic slurs such as : Cermak replied , " He does n't like my name ... It 's true I did n't come over on the '' Mayflower '' , but I came over as soon as I could , " which was a sentiment to which ethnic Chicagoans could relate , so Thompson 's slurs largely backfired
1928 Republican National Convention
1928 Republican National Convention
William Hale Thompson