Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-07
SOME WARM CONTESTS
Legislative Contests In Iowa
We're Marked by a Number
Of Surprises.
New Senate Will Have Thirty
nine Republicans and Eley-
en- Democrats.
House Will Be Composed Of
Eighty-seven Republicans,
Thirteen Democrats.

on the pluralities in other counties show
that A. B. Cummins plurality over I. J.
Phillips Will be about $4,000 1t may sc
larger, 1t being maintained in some
quarters that the missing counties viii
bring the plurality up to 10000. The
populist and socialist vote vas light. but
the prohibition vote aggregates between
| 10000 and 10000.
The contests for members of the legis-
lature preceding the election We're eN-
tremely warm in many districts of the
state, and their outcome was marked
by number of surprises. On the whole
the republicans have made decided
gains The new senate will contain thir-
ty-nine republicans and eleven demo
Gratis. The senate of the Twenty nth
general assembly contained thirty -four
republicans and sixteen democrats. The
new house Will contain eighty-seven re-
publicans and thirteen democrats. The
house elected in 1899 contained eighty
che republicans and nineteen democrats.
The democrats had a net loss of four
senators, and suffered a net loss of six
members of the house.
Senatorial elections were held in
twenty-one districts. The democratic
senators who We're elected were five in
number. In each of these instances the
present senator was reelected. The list
reelected consists of Senator j. NJ. En-
inert of the Cass-Shelby district. John l..
Wilson of Clinton, Fred N. Smith of Des
A. Lyons of the Howard Winneshiek
district.
The five districts heretofore repre-
scented by democrats in the senate in
which the republicans elected senators
Tuesday We're: The Henry Washington
district, where Senator Albarson was de-
feated by j. A. Young; the Wapello dis
trict, where Senator McIntire was de-
feated by Capt. S. IL. Harper; Jasper
county, where A. NJ. Harrah was de-
feated by Fred l.. Maytag; Dubuque
county. wrere Crawford, the republican
candidate. was elected over Senator
Thomas F. Nolan: the Crawford Harri-
SOM Monona district, where r. l.. Hogue
defeated John d. Carey OF Denison, the
democratic candidate.
The democrats lost representatives in
Crawford county. in Henry. Plymouth,
Clayton Muscatine, Fremont. Harrison.
one in Dubuque and one in Scott. They
gained representative in the Ida
Monona district, where w. c. Whiting
was elected over DR.. Griffin, the repub-
lican candidate, and in Shelby, where
Herbert the democratic nominee, WAS
elected over Korth, the republican. An-
other gain was made in Allamakee,
where Robert Hufschmidt, the demo-
cratic candidate, was elected over the
republican nominee. owing solely to the
efforts of the republican county central
committee to keep Hufschmidt's name
off the ballot, resulting in the recent
contest before the state election board
In the Cass-Shelby senatorial district
there was a contest that attracted in
terest thruout the state between Sem
ator j. NJ. Emmert and James e. Bruce,
the republican member of the state
central committee from the Ninth dis
trict The returns show the election of
Emmert by seven votes. He received a
plurality of 81 votes in Shelby county,
while in Cass county Bruce had plu-
rality of "a votes. 1t is expected an
election contest before the senate will
result from this fight.
The following was the vote for Bax-
ter the socialist nominee, by counties:
Cherokee, 2; Warren, 5; Montgomery,
1: Palo Alto s; Madison, 81; Clay, /;
Blackhawk, 10; Bremen, 3; Boone. los;
Muacatine, &c; Cerro Gordo, 8; Dickin-
son. A. Linn, 1oe; Fayette, 9; Des
Moines 241; Grundy, 1; Pottawattamie,
40: Buchanan, POI; Lucas, Al: Buena
Vista, 4; Iowa, q; Mahaska, SO: Adair.
10; Cass 10; Lee, As; Scott 1872; Polk,
II.
The following was the vote for We'll
Ter, the populist nominee: Cherokee, i;
Warren, 10; Palo Alto, 4; Madison. Al:
Clay, 2; Blackhawk, 6; Bremen, a;
Boone, 1; Muscatine 3; Cerro Gordo,
IA; Dickinson, 3; Linn, 10; Fayette, 3;
Des Moines, 81; Pottawattamie, 81; Lu-
cas-, 4; Buena Vista, 5; Adair, 8; Cass.
10; Lee, 10; Scott, Z; Polk, Z.
In the Shelby representative district
the democratic candidate. Herbert, re-
ceived 1862 votes to 1855 for korth, the
republican candidate.
One of the surprises of the state was
in Crawford county, where Hugh Ian
gan, of West Side, the republican candi-
date defeated w. A. Davie. of Dunlap,
the democratic candidate, by a vote of
1891 to 1922.
The reports that reached the repub-
lican state central committee yesterday
told of an unprecedented democratic
disaster in Dubuque. p. w. Crawford.
the republican candidate for senator de-
feated Nolan. Henry r. Keagy. repub
lican, defeated j. A, McAleer democrat,
one of the representatives from the
county in the Twenty eighth general
assembly. The democrats elected A. r.
Frudden as representative. In addition,
the republicans elected two supervisors,
a sheriff and treasurer. Figures on the
extent of Nolan's defeat and that of
McAleer are rot yet at hand.
The reelection of Senator d. A. Ly-
ons. of Cresco, in the Howard Winnie
shiek district. was source of some sur
prise. The republican candidate was E.
P. Johnson of Decorah Yesterday af-
ternoon message was received here
showing that Johnson was defeated and
had given up the contest.
In Iowa county, John Hughes. Jr.. of
anti-pass fame, was reelected by
plurality of % votes.
There was sensational vote in Palo
Alto county, where Cumnins had q
plurality OF 371. while Powers, the
democratic candidate for representative
ran 603 votes ahead of his opponent,
Cheney. However. Cheney had heavy
plurality in Clay county, in the same
representative district. and was elected.
In Harrison county, Fling, the repub-
lican candidate, was eected over Kirk
wood by 1929 TO 2,433 votes.