Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-03
IN THE BADGER STATE
Both Partieg Gain Election
Of State Ticket.
FIGHT HAS BEEN HOT
DEMOCRATIC GAINS IN LEGIS-
LATURE ARE LIKELY.
However, Republican Majority Will
Be Enough to Insure Return
Of Senator Spooner.
FIGHT HAS. BEEN HOT
special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis, November 3-Gov
La Toilette closed his stumping tour Satur.
day evening In this city.
Many social democrats will vote for La
Toilette because of his courageous stand
on the leading questions Of the hour. L is
common assertion among democrats that
the republican platform has a democratic
ring, while the platform upon which the
candidate Of their party has made his
campaign is a mass of platitudes assembled
for vote-catching
Mayor Rose is now working with charac
teristic vigor in Milwaukee county and will
probably make speeches up to the last
moment. There is shadow of doubt stalk.
ing among the republicans, despite the.l
claims of comparatively easy victory
Party lines have been so badly broken by
factional strife within their own party anc
by dissatisfaction over Rose and his plat.
form among the democrats that stimayes
as to results and pluralities are largely
guess work.
Chairman Bryant Estimate.
As close republican. observer put it to-
day, 1t Is almost as safe to say that Gov
La Toilette will be reelected by 10000 plu.
rality as to put the figure at half that
aggregate; but there is feeling that the
governor will win by from 10000 to 5000
Chairman Bryant of the republican state
central committee estimates that the otueI
candidates on La Follette's ticket will have
pluralties nearer $4,000 than 10000. Tht
governor will be cut to some extent, but his
losses will be offset by the votes of many
democrats.
Chairman Warden of the democratic state
organization places Roses plurality be.
tween 10000 and 10000, but Rose himself
predicts 25,OOO. There will be some demo
cratic gains in the legislature, but that
body will be still strongly republican and
will send John c. Spooner back to the
United States Senate for another term
The congressional outlook is unchanged
The result of the balioting will probably be
ten republicans and one democrat, although
the republican candidates in the fourth,
fifth and tenth districts will be closely
pressed :, Al
Congressional Outlook.
Representative Often of the fourth district
says he is. satisfied he will be returned,
while John F. Donovan, his democratic OPP
ponent, predicts his own election by 1000.
William H. Stafford, sthe republican can
didate in the fifth district, expects to be
elected, but ventures no figures. Henry
Smith, his democratic opponent, predicts
that he will beat Stafford by 5000. 1t Is
probably true that Smith will make a
strong run, although the district Is, nomi-
nally republican, and doubts have been ex-
pressed by republicans as to the outcome.
The latest from fhe. Sixth district, which
in the new apportionment was conceded to
the democrats, is that Secretary of State
Froehlich, the republican candidate, has
made strong canvass among the German
voters. who are numerous in the district,
but Froehlich's friends are not sanguine.
Tenth Close District.
The other close district is the tenth, where
Burt Williams, a popular young democrat
of the city of Ashland, is pushing Repre-
sentative Brown very hard. The republicans
are not at all sure that they are going to
win out, although the district ought to be
republican.
All of the other districts are safely re-
publican. Henry A. Cooper will be re-
turned from the first district. H. c. Adams
will take Dahle's seat from the second.
Joseph w. Babcock will stay from the
third. John ]. Esch will continue to repre-
sent the seventh. J. H. Davidson will GO
back from the eighth. E. S. Minor will
hold his seat from the ninth and John J.
Jenkins will represent the eleventh.