Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-04-11
A CATHOLIC HOLIDAY
GIVES IT AS ONE
CAUSE OF HIS DEFEAT.
AND EXPRESSES OTHER VIEWS
ON THE ELECTION.
Total Vote in the State Unusually
Light, Being About Three Fifths
of Il Full Note-ln Dane County
1t is Very Close IL Two-ThiriS.

Lancaster, Wis, April :. In an in,
tcrvhw Judge ClemcutSon Saidsthat he
was still Of the opinion that Winslow
is elected by small majority. but
that late returns We're SO favorable
thar the majority would be very small
if not entirely wiped out. He said
that the vote of milwaukee, was the
grclteSt disappointment to him and
he cXpla inS the result there in part be-
cause his supporters there were the
working pople who could not con-
vcniently get away from their lahorS
while the polls were open, while the
men of leisure who could be influenced
by such men as QuarleS were able to
vote wherever they pleased. He he
licveS. too. that the action taken by
the republican committee injured him,
because of the opportunity 1t gave the
WinSlow men to cry partisanship and
ALLEVIATE the support of such papers
as the llrrold and Grrmanm The
fact that election was Catholic hol.
lday and that Catholics all over the
state had been circularizcd To support
WtnSlow materially affected the re-
suit. Jddgc ClemcntSon is proud of
his support in his own circuit and also
of the fact that the campaign ON his
part was honorable and open, but
that not So much can be said for the
methods of the other side He con-
SidcrS is diSrcputablc for men who
pose as managers of Il highly moral
non-partisan campaign to descend to
the methods which the promoters of
Winslow's candidacy adopted such as
employing the democratic machinery
to stir up partisan and religious pre-
JUDGES.
The Majority Grows.
milwaukee,, April 7.-Complctc cleo
ton returns have now been received
from counties containing more than
ninetenths of the voters in this state.
Most of these returns are the result
of the official canvass. They give
WinSlow Il majority of 1856. Partly
estimated returns from the other coun-
ties reduce the majority to about
1000 but it may exceed 5000. The
vote is very light. but not unusually
light for Il judicial election. 1t is
about thrcc-tifths as large MS the vote
east last fall, which was the greatest
in the states history.
The most notable feature of the
election is Judge WinSlow'S strength
in his home circuit. Every county
in his old circuit is republican. Last
fall it gave Upham plurality of 4,31I.
Now 1t gives Winslow ma iority of
1870 or a chance of S,9S4 votes, In Il
small circuit. To equal this home on
d0rSCmcnt ClementSon must have
shown gain of 1895 majority over
the vote last fall. his circuit having
about 80 per cent, greater population
than Winslow'S. Instead of this his
vote shows n gain of but 4,2O4, and
that. too, while he has been holding
court in the circuit up to election
day, while Winslow left his circuit
for the supreme bench several years
dSD' 'N'lll'IllSOll IlIuIbllIf III MS
home circuit is nearly 5000. Last fall
the circuit gave nearly 1000 republi-
can majority. Official returns re-
ceivcd from Wood county show that
WinSlow got a majority of 721 in
stead Of anything from nothing up 10
100 as estimated.
In Dane County
The official returns for Dane county
show Winslows majority t. be 920.
1t is coincidental that the correct Mad
iSon city returns. $50. comprise the
whole of his majority and % in ad-
dition. The total vote in the county
was 9,7S2 The total vote Of the
county for governor last fall was a.
94S, or 5,166 more than for judge
this spring. In other words only n
tritle more than two-thirds Of full
vote was polled. If the stay-at-home
vote Is equally great I'm other coun-
ties the total vote of the state will not
exceed 275,0O0, whereas last fall 1t
was 1924. An analysis Of the vote
will almost certainly disclose the fact
that the stay-at-homes are very largely
republicans. whose apathy was no
doubt due TO dissatisfaction over the
obtrusion Of politics into judicial
affairs