The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
WAGNER HAS LEAD
OF FOURTEEN VOTES
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trict, received a very handsome vote in
a Republican stronghold.
Summary. eleven precincts out of
twenty-five:
For senator, Dunn, SAB; Knauft, 36S.
For representative, Berg. 269: Gregory,
800; Grout, 14S; Leithauser, 81: Nor
man. 1875 Schoonmaker, 294; Lemon,
SS4; Olson Oem.), S72
In the Thirty fourth senatorial dis
trlct representative Walter Nelson is
an easy winner of the Republican nom
Iilatlon, getting vote nearly equal to
the combined vote of Ryder and Smith,
VINO opposed him. Senator Richard
McNamee unopposed for the Demo-
cfauc nomination, polled a vote greater
thsn the combined Republican poll. In
the representatives districts, McColl
and baltimore in the Third ward are
nominated by default. The same is
true in the Eighth and Ninth wards,
south of the tracks, where Butler and
NILS We're without opposition. North
OF the tracks Jensen beats Van OoSter-
hout for the Republican nomination,
and Aand1an wins out with long lead
IN the four cornered Democratic con-
Sest. Summary
For senator &c precincts out of 90 give
y Nelson $50; Ryder, rs; j. Watson Smith,
446; r. s. McNamee, 1877.
For representative, Z out of precincts,
Third ward, give McColl 2SS; baltimore
For representative 10 out of Is pre-
cincts, Eighth and Ninth wards, give
Mills 542; Butler, 636.
For representative, out of precincts
Eighth and Ninth wards, give Jensen so;
Van Osterhout, As; Fleishhacker, 49;
Greedy, ia; Handlan, 269; Preston, 159;
Fred Rim, 100
The Thirty-f fifth senatorial district
dominates Ives (Dem) and Zimmer-
man (Rep.) by default. The Republic
ans nominate Schurman in the Sixth
and Chinook in the Fifth to the house
by the same easy method. For the
Democratic house nominations Paul
Martin, the incumbent, wins out in the
Fifth over Hardy, and in the Sixth An
thony Yoerg beats Jacob Steiner and
Peter Daily. Summary:
For senator, % precincts out of q give
Ives 1926, Zimmerman 923
For representative, II precincts out of
IA m the Fifth ard-give Martin 420, Hardy
362, Chinook 416.
For representative II out of IS pre-
cincts in the Sixth ward give Younger 235,
DAILY 1S6, Steiner 1875, Schurman 551
1t was demonstrated yesterday that
the public has little or no interest in
the selection of candidates for nomi-
nation to public office under the COM
pick primary election system.
Upon no other ground can the apa-
thy of the voters be explained. Some
thing less than one-half of-fhe voters
refrained from going to the polls
Hundreds of men excused their alb
sence from the primaries with the
Statement:
Il don't see that it is necessary for
me to confine myself to one party to
select the men l want to represent me
or administer the affairs of the county
I'm not ashamed of my politics, but
will not be confined to selecting from
the one ticket"
The efforts of the candidates to
arouse the interest of the public were
Intellectual, and except in those con-
tests where the personal element en-
tered into the outcome and there was
some bitterness in the fight, the at
tempts of the politicians to hurrah
men into going to the polls were quite
wasted.
Completely Scared Them.
The complex machinery of the law
or it's appearance of complexity-had
much to do with frightening away the
voters, and it interfered seriously with
securing returns.
1t was 1890 before the first city
precinct was heard from-the second
of the Fourth ward-following closely
upon the return from North st. Paul,
which was sent in unofficially beating
all the city precincts.
At 1915 only twenty-three precincts
had been heard from, and it was not
possible to figure results from these,
as there was no precedent upon which
to base estimates.
The bitternesses engendered by the
fighting of Republicans forced a larg-
-er vote by the members of that party
than might have been looked for. The
Seventh ward voted early and straight,
and in that other Republican strong
hold, the First, the vote was heavy.
In other sections of the city it is not
apparent that the party had the power
to bring out it's reserves.
Many Ruffled Aspirants.
Nearly one-half of the voting pop
ulation of st. Paul got busy and did
some voting yesterday. The other half
was already busy running for some
thing. All of which accounts for the
fact that the balloting at the prima-
ries was phenomenally light
At any rate, those who did take
their little ballot in hand and march
proudly into booths to exert the ex-
allied duty and privilege of free-born
American citizenship contributed to
the manufacture of more discomposed
aspirants for political honors than
probably was ever left in the wake of
any kind of local election anywhere
Altogether the day was rather fu-
nereaI The weather was good and
brought a nice crowd of girls out, but
the voters We're harder to reach.
town that p e. Murphy's brass band
had driven all the voters to cover, but
it was unverified. For all the enthu-
siasm the tallyho party of noise max
ers seemed to stir, however, it might
as well have paraded in a plumed
hearse.
The Seventh Got MISSY.
Everything would have passed off
lust perfectly lovely but for a single
regretable incident. And it happened
in the Seventh ward, too. If Mr. Wright
had not entwined his fingers about the
naughty beak of Mr.. Osberg and jerk
ed it rudely, st. Paul's model primary
election would have been recorded on
clean page.
There wasn't even q good rough and
tumble fight to break the monotony
About the closest thing to excitement
was the little long distance duel for
points between the corporation attor-
ney's office and the county attorneys
Office over the question of the necessa-
nv number of days man must have
been a resident Of a precinct in order
) to be entitled to vote.
Authorities Differ
Poll officials who appealed TO the
former were informed that thirty days
was the limit, while those who in
-......d or the lattnl, 1ue,.n told that one