The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 5

Wisconsin Blaine Winner for Governor by Plurality - of 100,000 ' OHN J. BLAINE, Republican, nomi- nated by the Nonpartisan league and indorsed by the La Follette and other progressive forces, was elected gover- nor by a plurality that promises to reach or pass the 110,000-mark. With 1,988 precincts out of 2,425 reported Blaine had 313,- ~132 votes to 209,496 for McCoy, anti-League Demo- craf. e P George F. Comings for lieutenant governor and Elmer S. Hall for secretary of state, also indorsed by the League, also were elected by tremendous ma- jorities. The following congressmen, indorsed by the League on the Republican ticket, also ‘are winners: -~ First District—Allen Cooper. Second . District—Edward Voight. Third District—John M. Nelson. - Sixth District—Florian Lampert. Seventh Distriet—Joseph D. Beck. : Democrats indorsed by the League in the ninth and eleventh dxst?cis were defeated in the Repub- lican landslide. | In spite of the tremendous Republican vote James Thompson, backed by the League and La Follette forces, ran a neck-and-neck race with Lenroot, anti-League Republican, for United States senator. Leaguers and progressive Republicans together will be able to control the lower house of the next legislature and will have strong representation in the senate. - : The Wisconsin victory was won in the face of a storm that kept thousands of farmers’ wives away from the polls. Anti-League interests attempted to throw Re- publican votes to McCoy for governoy. At the same time the League and La Follette forces refused to support Lenroot, the Republican nominee for United States senator. i That the Wisconsin result wagsdue to the League and La Follette forces is shown by the fact that Blaine’s majority will be four or five times as large as Lenroot’s: : £ OFFICIALS WE ELECTED United States Senator—Doctor E. F. “Ladd in North Dakota. - Governors—Lynn J. Frazier in North . Dakota ; John J. Blaine in Wisconsin. Representatives in Congress—James H. Sinclair in North Dakota; O. E. Kel- ler in Minnesota \ Allen Cooper, Ed- ward Voight, John M. Nelson, Florian Lampert and Joseph D. Beck in Wis- I consin. Two others in doubt. Legislators—In Wisconsin, Minne- “sota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne- braska, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Washington, with numbers increased in nearly all these states. State officials other than governor— In North Dakota and Wisconsin, North .Dakota Fraiier Re-Elected—Ladd Goes to United ! States. Senate : gem| OVERNOR LYNN J. FRAZIER has been re-elected with a larger majority than he had at the primary, Doctor E. F. Ladd has been elected United States senator by a two-to-one vote, and Congressman James H. Sinclair has been re-elected, on the basis of practically com- plete returns for these offices. Returns have not 'yet been compiled for other offices, but it is known that Congressman John M. Baer, running as an- independent, was beaten by the Republican landslide. ~ Baer, however, got a tremendous vote and carried Grand Forks, the home of his opponent, O. B. Burtness. The victory of Governor Frazier is remarkable in view of the fact that woman suffrage added more votes in anti-League territory, the towns and cities, than it did in western North Dakota, the League stronghold, where a large number of the farmers are bachelors. Bad weather in somé rural sections - also kept farm women from the polls. Montana . Wheeler Polls Eighty Thousand Votes but Is Defeated : The Republican landslide and attacks of old gang Democratic politicians resulted in the defeat of League candidates for governor, other state offices and congress. In 1,252 of 1,482 precincts B. K. Wheeler, League candidate for governor, got 66,877 to 101,210 for Dixon, Republican. In 874 of 471 pre- cincts in the first congressional district Bruce Wat- son, Leaguer, got 24,000 to 83,000 for McCormick, Republican. In 772 out of 1,011 grecincts in the second congressional district M. McCusker, Leaguer, got 29,000 to 53,000 for Congressman Riddick. Missing precincts will increase the League vote but not sufficiently to overcome'the Re- publican lead. . Wheeler’s total vote will reach 80,000. “He ran far ahead of Cox. Nebraska 4 Republican’ Landslide Defeats the - League Candidates . A Republican landslide carried League candidates, running as independents, to defeat in the election. Harding’s majority in the state will be 125,000, but McKelvie, Republican, though re-elected as governor will win by less than 20,000, as the result . of League opposition. For governor 1,375 precincts out of 1,877 in the state gave MeKelvie, Repub- lican, 120,156 Moorhead, Democrat, 103,- 727; Arthur G. Wray, League, 68,889. ' ‘Missing precinets, in country districts, were expected to add largely to Wray’s vote. i _ League candidates for lieutenant gov- ernor and attorney general ran behind Wray. Mrs.: Marie Weekes, running for congress as an independent, with League support, got a big vote but lost. g Fourteeen League candidates were elected to the lower house of the legisla- ture amd two to the senate. - 4 At left, Joseph D. Beck, who defe Governor Frazier carried the home precinct of J. F. T. O’Connor, opposition candidate. The state senate has a safe League majority, but the composition. of the lower house, on early re- turns, was uncertain. Governor Frazier’s total vote is expected to ex- ceed 115,000 and his majority is estimated at 10,000. John N. Hagan and William Lemke, according to early returns, will haye even larger majorities and the League will thus control the industrial commis- sion which has charge.of all state industries. Congressman Sinclair’s majority in the third dis- trict was so overwhelming that nmo attempt was made to complete the count. In the second congres- siona district Ole Olson, Leaguer, running as an independent, was only slightly behind Congressman Young, Republican, and may win. - TWO WISCONSIN CONGRESSMEN- | — of the Esch-Cummins la?;- _At right, Edward Voight. ; PAGE FIVE ed Congressman J;)hn J. Esch, author Minnesota Shipsteadboubles Previous League Vote but Loses : 7| ONPARTISAN league candidates for - state office went down to defeat under the Republican landslide but polled a tremendous vote. Doctor Henrik Ship- stead, League candidate for governor, received a total of more than 260,000 wotes. . This is by far the largest vote ever polled by a League candidate. Two years ago at the pri- maries Lindbergh, League candidate for governor, polled 150,000, while at the general election of 1918 Evans, Leaguer, polled 110,000. Shipstead’s vote in the primaries this year was' 125,000. Shipstead carried a majority of the wards of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, but the enormous vote of the “silk-stocking” wards in both cities gave a big lead to Preus, steel trust candidate. As at the pri- maries the steel trust vote of Duluth and the iron ranges in northern Minnesota went heavily to Preus. This lead would have been overcome, under nor- mal conditions, by the increased country vote. But the country vote was abnormally small. Rain fell steadily over half of Minnesota for 36 hours before the polls opened and country roads were impassable - seas of mud. In other distriets snow had fallen heavily. The result was that the anti-League vote of the small towns carried county after county for Preus which had gone to Shipstead in the primary. The seventh congressional district, in which Rev. 0. J. Kvale won over Congressman Volstead in the primary election, was directly in the path of the big storm. The result was that Kvale lost by a small margin. On the other hand, in the city of St. Paul, where voters were able to go to the polls;~€Congressman Oscar E. Keller, with League and labor support, was re-elected by a majority of 14,000. e In Duluth Congressman W. L. Carss, indorsed by the League and organized labor on the Democratic ticket, while hard hit by the general Republican landslide, was running a neck-and-neck race with Larson, anti-League Republican, and official returns may be required to settle this contest. The League will have approximately the same representation in the legislature that it had two “years ago. Pl - Colorado : “Crooked Work of Republican Gangsters De- feats Collins Crooked work on the part of Republican politi- cians, aided by the Republican landslide, was re- sponsible for the defeat of J. M. Collins, League candidate for governor, indorsed on the Republican u ticket. Although the Farmer-Labor party announced that it would help the League instead of opposing the organized farmers, Republican workers induced a . man named W. P. Collins to file as Farmer-Labor candidate for governor to deceive farmer voters, With Shoup, oil millionaire, running for governor, and Nicholson, mining million- aire, running for senator, Republicans had unlimited funds and used as high as 15 paid workers in Denver precincts. The lead thus secured in the city could not be - overcome by country precincts which, however, gave Collins and the res} of the ticket a tremendous vote. s .~ Idaho : Landslide Carried State for Repub- lican Ticket - The Republican landslide buried both League and Democratic' candidates in Idaho. In 605 precincts of 825 in the state Fairchild, League candidate for governor, got- 18,275 votes to 31,643 for Walters, Democrat, and 61,956 for Davis, Republican. Senator Nugent, Democrat, indorsed by the League, got 51,677 to 62,- 006 for Gooding, Republican. Whitaker, Democrat, indorsed by the League for congress, got 21,954 votes in 811 pre- cincts out of 43b, to 87,208 for Smith, Re- publican. Four hundred and thirty pre- cinets give Bates, Democrat, indorsed by the League, 28,924 votes for attorney (Continued on page 15) RN s SO