The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 5, 1920, Page 4

LA campaigning in favor * of the tonnage tak, divided = - ~ceived d higber vote than - fore . election that these . -opposite’ effect. “iron range country, where - chine is equally strong. League Scores 1ctor1es in aneso‘ta’ Supreme Court Justice, Attorney General and Congressmen Nommated—()ther Contests Close—-Complete Vlctory Predlcted in: November REMENDOUS gains were scored - | by the organized farmer and or- ganized labor forces in the Min- nesota primary election June 21.. As this is written' returns are : not complete and the anti-; League daily papers of the Twin Cities are {rying to cover up the important successes of the farmers, but these facts are known: ' i | - George L. Siegel has been nominated for | justice of the supreme court and Tom Sulh-' van for attorney :general. Organized labor has ;penommated Congress- men Oscar E. Keller of St, Paul and W. L. Carss of Duluth, with increased majorities, The organized farmers: have “nominated Rev. 0. J. Kvale for congress in the seyenth" distriet, defeating Congressman Volstead, and’ possxbly have nominated Nels E. Thormodson - in the ninth distriet, defeating Congressman: Steenerson. - With - a number of strong 3 League precincts yet to be heard from, as this 'is written;» Thormodson IS about 400 : votes behind Steenerson. Doctor Henrik Shipstead, League candi- date for governor, has: carried 54 of the 86 counties of the state, but is apparently about 8,000 votes ‘behind Preus, ecandidate-of the aRepubhcan machine and ‘the steel trust. = “Shipstead’s vote and the vote for all other: candldatea represents a tremendous gain over. -the vote of two years ago, when Charles A. Lind- bergh League candidate for governor in the pn-r maries, was beaten by-50,000 votes. 2 3 With this tremendous gam a- complete vxctory for the League in the fall election appears possible. t is again up to the farmers to decide what shall be done. A ‘state convention will be held.in the near future to determme upon plans for the fall cam paign. CANDIDATES FOR LEGISLATURE i WIN IN MANY SECTIONS League and labor candidates for the state Tegis- lature apparently have been - nominated: in- 79" of the 86 counties in the state. As the League earried ‘a majority of the counties in the state and ‘organized labor carried many legislative districts in counties which Preus’ carried for‘governor, this means that a similar votein the fall will electia legislature pledged to the Leagune and labor plat-: form. Captain George H. Mallon apparently is the high man on the League ticket. His vote . probably will reach 140,000.. Mallon re- Shipstead because Frank- son, Ellsworth,: Iverson and Keefe, go-called “in-* dependent”: candidates for’ ‘governor, . drew - heavily from ' Shipstead’s “wvote. . While it .was believed be- candidates would cut prin- cipally into-the Preus vote they appeared to have-the = - The final issue appears to have been the tonnage = - tax. Preus was known as the one opponent of the tonnage tax. He drew a tremendous ‘vote from the the steel trust dominates: political’ affairs, ‘and “also carried Hennepin county’ (Minneapolis) and’ Ram- sey. -county (St. Paul), - where the Republican ma- On the other hand,sShip- stead, * Frankson, . Ells-: worth, ‘Iverson and Keefe, the remaining votg Shlp» { stead received - an over- | ' BELTRAMI ' CARLTON . 5 ’Carver o ' Clearwater - Isanti. MINNESOTA COUNTIES CARRIED BY 4 SHIPSTEA (Names in heavy type. are new countles gamed . since the 1918 primary electlon ) 'AITKIN . -Kandlyohl ,POPE ~Becker - Kittson Red Lake BENTON i KOOCHICHING Lake = LE SUEUR -LINCOLN . McLEOD “Mahnomen - Marshall . Mille Lacs ‘Morrison Nicollet Norman - - Ottertail: ¢ ».Penmngton PINE: T Polk - Renville’ BIG STONE : " Brown ‘,CHISAGO, Clay g .~Traverse DAKOTA - - Douglas - . GRANT - WADENA - WILKIN . WINONA . - 'WRIGHT Kanabec ,r‘whelmxng ma;orlty of the vote favorable to a ton-: {-nage tax, but Frankson, Ellsworth, Iverson and Keefe drew sufficient, votes to make it possible for ,Preus to win. The division of the votes made it “. possible for the steel: trust to gam another tempo-‘ Hary victory. 3 Preus, should }re be elected govérnor, is"counted upon by the steel trust to veto any tonnage tax bill - .that may be passed, in spite of the plank- in the Republican machine. platform call- /ing for a “fair and equltable tonna.gev 3 tax." However, there is no hkelihood that the steel trust’g temporary - victory with - - Preus will do any good, With the issue = | fairly and ‘squarely presented ‘to. the . voters of ‘Minnesota in the fall and the - so-called “mdependent” candidates elimi- nated, there is little likelihood of the ' ‘.state eIectmg' Preus. If, by ‘any chance, he should ‘be elected, it is probable that the League and labor forces ‘in the next - |B Minnesota legislature, back- “ied by an awakened. pubhc o - opinion, will be able to pass ‘a3 tonnage tax bill over his® veto. . - ) Tom Sulhvan, League can- didate for attorney general, . lived up to his: reputation of ; bemg the best campaigner in ' Minnesota. = While ' the “early returns showed Hilton, the ma- ‘cinets cut 'this lead ‘down gradually' . i3 expected that 'the final returms wxll 5 ' confirm this lead and:show Sullivan | ‘ticket. " but in this rdce also a third candidate .- Lund for state treasurer for railroad and warehouss commlsswner, ‘though handicapped by - the greater i r attack npon the Leaguev REDWOOD - WABASHA - WASECA . : Yel. Medicine | Countles m state, 86,,camed by Shlpstead 54 “Tom Sul!ivan. probable winner for. ' y nomin:fion 8s: morney cenernL . chine candxdate, leading; country pre-' ; . and finally -placedithe League candi- date ahead by about 500 votes. It . the same: . safely nommated upon the. Repubhcan,_» and. Meeker. Vollom; League eindliate o secre- . tary .of state, made a splendid race, .. 1,000 votes. t/eirest in the candidates | Government assocxatlon” men were put to work in every small town in the state, to get . into ‘personal ‘contact with the voters and An- fluence them against Shipstead.” publican elimination conventxon, controlled by the steel trust. : Every: resident of the Twin Cxtxes, whose ‘business houses and political ‘headquarters, attacking Shipstead and the rest of the peo- daily papers, day after day, appeared with new lies about North Dakota which the work- of thelr own, were unable to answer. ,LACK OF NEWSPAPER HELP ~ -HURT FARMER CANDIDATBS ; match dollar against dollar with the steel ‘it would ‘have been of no use. Personal uted to a fund to place a half-page advertise- _ ment, telling of his war record and reproducing the- Liberty loan poster printed in the Leader two weeks ago. The St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, the ' St. Paul Daily’ News, the Minneapolis' Daily News and the Minneapolis Tribune refused point blank to % accept this as adveptxsmg' matter, showing thex wvenom'of these sheets. But wlnle the bxtter attacks upon the League and . labor: candidates apparently accomplished som: results in flat in the country i roads the farmers everywhere 10 one.. Pennington :county for Preus.: Isantl county, < with 1,607 votes for Ship- stead and 591 for Preus, did ties which gave better than a -were " Kandiyohi, - #1,083; Mahnomen, 443 to 190; Medxcme, 1,647.t0 822, - One of the ‘most notable features of the election was ‘the swinging of ‘county after county,’ that ‘had voted for Burnquist two _years ‘ago, into the League column: the machine in 1918, turned around and gave Shipstead a lead of ‘600 votes. Meeker county did - Marshall county " beat even McLeod nearly 400 in 1918 it ‘turned ‘around: and gdve ‘Shipstead a lead of 700, a change of more than i Scott county, carried by Burnquist in . i 1918, gave the League almost a ‘two-to-one vote - drewheavily from the ‘country vote . ~and enabled Holm, the machine candi- - this’ tune. Carlton county, also carried by Burn- 500 - In place of being beaten by 600 votes, how-l : ever, Doctor Shlpstead came’ within a little more ¢ . than 200 votes of carrying the county, while Tom Sulhvan, League candldate for\ attorney general;“ force of $50-a-wee’k speakers that were tour-' : ing the state under the auspices of the “Sound R _Flaming banners appeared on the bxllboards A - throughout the state, entitled, “Help ‘Save - ' Minnesota From Socw.hsm i and urging votes for Preus and the other candxdates of the Re- ‘name appeared in the city dlrectory or tele- - phone directory, began receiving letters from. _ ple’s ticket. On top of this the Twin Cities’ ; ~‘ers of the cities, lacking a newspaper organ . : “The workers and farmers were unab!e to o trust. ‘But ‘even had they been able to do so friends of Captain George H. Mallon contrib- the cities and towns they fell : In spite of rains and muddy : . swarmed to the polls and'reg- . istered their votes for demoe-. racy and against the steel’ trust: - Brown county. gave Shipstead 2,172 votes to 710 for Preus, better than three. * gave Shipstead 1,413 to 376 nearly as well. ' Other coun-. two-to-one vote for Shipstead . ‘2,628 to Sibley, 1,454 to 464; Ye_l_fow : “McLeod county; which went for After; glvmg Burnquist a lead of Jackson county, the scene of the bltterly unfaxr. ~trial of President A. C. Townley on Hdisloyalty” = .charges last summer, was one of the blggest ‘sur- - brises to the anti-League machine. Burnquist had - ‘carried the county by nearly 600 votes in 1918 and’ - i ‘the machine counted upon Townley’s “conviction” i mi - #1919 to completely kill the League spmt and mtlm-' 9 ev e Idate the Lieagué sympathizers. d 1abor: candldates by the steel trust‘ id " ‘the : Republi - 3 quist in 1918, gave. Shlpstead 8 lead of more tban oYy