The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-18
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With some returns still missing.
there is no longer much room for doubt
| of the results of the several congress
sional contests. The exact pluralities
/, or majorities Of all the successful can
didates may not be known until late
tonight or even later, but the general
results are now apparent.
| Tawney, McCleary, Stevens and
| Fletcher, of the present Minnesota del
egation, are nominated to succeed
| themselves. Two of them, McCleary
and Stevens, without opposition. TaW-
| ney won sweeping victory over Knat-
! void, the administration candidate, in
| the First district, and the majority he
| piled up is a stinging rebuke to Van
SAINT and the part he payed in the
| First district fight.
| In the Fifth district, FIetcIer's VIC
| tory is apparently counterpart OF the
| triumphal march made in the First by
| Tawney. Tawney, in a two-handed
| fight, rolled UP a majority of 1000, and
| in the three-cornered fight in Henne-
pin, Fletcher will probably. on the face
of the complete returns, show plu-
| rality over Hay of something over
5000.
Davis Wins in Third.
Charles r. Davis, of ST. Peter, Is
safely the winner of the Third district
fight, which bristled from seven corr
ners. Incomplete returns from ma
jority of the precincts in the district
indicate that his plurality over Ives,
the administration candidate, will be
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over Whitford, who was at first be-
lieved the winner.
Wilson is close up to Whitford, with
Morrison near enough In Wilson's rear
to make his run good. Reed, of Glen
coe, is a bad also ran. He and Ives did
much better in the way of getting,
outside of their own Immediate neigh
borhoods. Ives was treated to a most
enthusiastic drubbing in Nicollet coun-
ty, where his neighbor, Davis, threw It
into the political dead one at the ratio
of about two to one.
Davis carried Nicollet, Scott and
Sibley counties and in each instance
carried them with sufficient margin to
insure his winning. Ives carried Le
Sueur, Mcleod and Rice counties and
in lie Sueur county made his only
SuOWluS. MOTIlSOn
own county Carver, by a comfortable
margin, but beyond the confines of his
own county, he ran badly. Frank VIII
son took Goodhue away, from DR..
Jones at about two and a half to one
shot.
Fletcher Polls Big Vote.
The Fifth district, from Democratic
viewpoint, has not at any time been
considered in doubt. Lind is nominated
by the expected landslide, the exact
proportions Of which are still unknwon.
The party opposition to Fletcher was
never taken very seriously by the prac-
tical politicians and the results of the
Fifth district primaries were not alto
gether in the nature of a surprise to
the congressional experts who have
kept close tab on the Hennepin situa-
ton and who have turned in to help
'sYour Uncle" 1t is another bitter pin
for the Van SAINT crowd to swallow and
the size of Fletcher's plurality prom
ises to add some gall to the adminis-
tration wormwood.
Senator G. B. Buckman, Of Little
Falls has the Republican nomination
in the new Sixth district, but by not
nearly so large majority as was gen.
orally expected. Foster of Litchfeld,
aided by very light vote, made an
exceptionally good run and carried
three out of the twelve counties. His
majority In Meeker county is probably
about 900. In Douglas county Foster
comes out with about 100. With 200
to the good in Sherburne and nearly an
even break in Benton county. Foster
has pulled down the Buchanan majority
to about 700, or possibly less, o.. the
face Of the complete returs@.
Bowling in Seventh.
Michael J. Bowling has landed the
Republican nomination in the Seventh
district and treated the political tall
ent to genuine surprise. The poll
ticians generally had Bowling staked
to third money, and little of that I'm
the three-cornered fight with Young
and Volstead. Young, who was the
popular choice of the sporting politi-
clans, seems bad third. Volstead has
crowded Bowling hard and the COM
plete corrected returns will probably
show him only 900 or 400 behind.
Young will be 1900 or 1900 to the bad.
Bede had everything his own way
for the Republican nomination in the
Eighth district and fairly ran away
from Edison, the Duluth candidate.
Just to make it good Bede treated Ed