The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 16, 1916, Page 5

11 Y ITH RETURNS from the election of November 7 nearly -~ complete, the magnitude of the = Nonpartisan : League victory in North Dakota is being realized. Lymn J. Frazier;, farmer of Pembina county, called from the plow last March ~ by the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League to be its candidate for governor, ' is elected by a majority that will reach nearly 65,000. With returns from three counties missing and sume other counties incomplete, the vote is: Frazier, 80,749; McArthur, -his opponent, 18,866. This is the biggest majority ever given a gov- s election was assured - : maries than his three opponents for the - nomination put together. . - e sige of 1 jori ) s . all that ‘is ' astounding. ea Vi?te on Governor and Supreme Court tically complete on the supreme. court, and all the strongholds of the League's opposition heard from, the latest figures compiled by the Leader on the supreme ‘court show as follows: Robinson, League candidate....44,685 Birdzell, League candidate_....43,703 Grace, League candidate_.__._41,181 Fisk, present justice..... ... .33,643 . Burke, present justice.. . 32889 Spalding, former justice-.__.__29,275 The missing counties and precincts will swell these League majorities. Robin- son, leading League candidate, on- the face ‘of the at - Former Supreme Court Jndg_e Spalding judge, high' man of the opposition, over. Lo 10,000, Grace, who ran - low on the League ticket, is ahead of Fisk, high on the above returns, has beaten L Majorities for lL.eaguers e Fraziei', People’s Candidates for Court and Other Candidates =~ ~ Given Magnificent Indorsement by Voters of North Dakota ' gave-Robinsonv 2 fine vote, though Fisk got the heaviest vote in the county. “The big vote in Fargo against the League carried Cass against League court cans didates. On the whole the League court candidates ran behind in the cities and towns of the state, though they got a better vote in these places than in the primaries, : N ; Returns to date on state officers other . than governor are more or less incom- _ plete because the close race on the presi- dency has led to the counting and tabu- lating of votes in that contest and in local county fights to the neglect of the others. - League candidates for state offices had such big majorities that it was mot >deemed important in the various counties to hurry and report it. However, it is plain that with the exception. of Casey - for state treasurer League candidates for state office have majorities of from 50,000 to °65,000, in most instances getting majorities as big as that of Frazier for THESE IN FARMERS’ TICKET ARE ALL ELECTED The following candjd{ates" .of the Non- ' partisan League have been elected with an overwhelming “vote, the -majorities probably breaking all records in the state: 3 Lieutenant governor, A, T. Kraabel. Secretary of state, Thomas Hall., . State Auditor, Carl R. Kositzky. Attorney general, William Langer. - Commissioner of Insurance, S. A. - Olsness. ; N Commissioner of agriculture, John! N. Hagan. : Railroad . commission, S. J. Aandahl, Charles W. Bleick and M. P. Johnson. .Superintendent of public instruction, N. C. Macdonald. UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE STEEN MAJORITY On the face of the unofficial returns, For State Treasurer ] 522 1660 838 1760 516 T 780 1104 2512 1110 905 717 596 r 660 | 749 with only eight precinets missing, John Steen, present state# treasurer, running “on the Republican ticket, appears to have been reelected, defeating P. M. Casey, Democrat, candidate of the Nonpartisan .League, by less than 600 votes, Up until November 14, 'a week after the election, the two were running practically even in the unofficial tabulation, the latest count then giving Steen only ‘89 lead, with the chance that the missing precincts when heard from would elect Casey. But on Tuesday a mistake of over 500 votes was found in the unofficial McHenry county returns. The discovery, gave Steen 500 more yotes net and seems to bar any chance of Casey eatching up on the official count, unless mistakes of several hundred are found during the official canvass. ; A glance at the returns by countiesy which accompanies, shows that Casey got splendid majorities in most of the strong League territory, but lost all the counties where the big cities or towns are located, with the exception of Ward county, in which Minot is located. A compilation of some 500 strictly rural precincts in which the League is organ« ized shows that Casey in these precinctg got twice as many votes as Steen, bu his Jead in the country was wiped out by the heavy vote against him elsewherey Casey carried his home county, Ran«- som, and Steen his home county of Pierce. Some banner counties- carried for the League candidate were Bottineau, Casey’s. majority - over 1700; Ransom, Casey’s majority 400; Rolette, Casey’y majority 400; Towner, Casey’s majority, 800; Walsh, Casey’s majority 700, The counties with the big towns were the ones that piled up the majorities against Casey. Cass and Grand Forks knifed the farmers’ candidate, and so did Morton. Ramsey, with the Devils Lake vote, went heavily for Steen. Richlandy with- Wahpeton, went against Caseys Stark, with Dickinson, turned down the farmers’ man, as did Burleigh, contains ) ing the city of Bismarck. On the other hand - Ward county, containing Minofy went for Casey. o 1 ' VAN METER STUCK ‘Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - . Inclosed find the election returns of -, Van Meter township, Dickey countyy You will see that Van Meter did nof forget to stick, Also that political party, lines ‘were forgotten. There are only seven or eight Democrats in the pre< cinct but Casey. got 36 out of 89 votes Hurrah for the Leaguel SRR f * A.. D, BABCOCK, "WANTS ASSESSORS TO MEET Editor Nonpartisan Leader: S It seems that the farmers over thy state of North Dakota are displessed - withthepmsentlchednleform 1 would suggest that the assessory . 1o be elected at the coming election, ag . many as possible, meet at the Tri-staty convention at Fargo and formulate schedule to. submit to: the tax commiigs: . sioners, or for them to assess by whether: winter: is” the time to ”~