Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET SWEEPS
THE STATE OF WIS
CONSIN.
M'GOVERN ALSO ELECTED,
Independent Republican Wins His Re
Election from His Oppo
nent

! MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. THE
/ entire Republican state ticket was
/ elected by plurality Of from $4,000 to
! $4,000 at the election Tuesday nOtwith-
/ standing the unusually light vote in all
! parts of the state. Nine out Of the
/ eleven congressmen-elect are Republic
] ans, loss of one The state Senate re-
! mains about the same same is it was,
I two Democrats in the last Legislature
I being succeeded by Republicans and two
Republicans giving way to Democrats
/ The Assembly is Overwhelmingly Repub-
/ lican.
Social Democratic Gains.
/ The Social Democrats have increased
! their representa- ton in the Assembly
from four members to five. The Demo
| Gratis have lost uhree or four districts and
! their minority Of eleven in the last ses
| sion has been reduced by the defeat of
!. Joseph NJ. Crowley and Thomas Ram
! sey in Milwaukee and Peter j. Cleary IN
EIroy, with gains in Calumet, Crawford
and Eau Claire counties. however.
Babcock Is Defeated
Joseph w. Babcock was defeated in
] the Third congressional district by !.
/ w. Murphy of PlatteviIle. Mr.. BabCOck
| has for the past few years been ma
tional character and his defeat will be
] ueIdIueu all over tIe CouIlIIy.
Connor Is Cut.
w. d. Conner, the chairman of the
t state central committee and candidate
/ for lieutenant governor, was cut but
slightly throughout the state as the
result of having incurred the displeasure
of La Toilette.
La Toilette Victorious.
The defeat of Congressman Babcoch
: II, 40,
and the election of two of the four Mil
Waukee county Assembly candidate in
| dOrced by the Junior SENATOR together
| with the election of the independent can
didate for district attorney III milwaukee,
county, Are the victories which can be
| credited to MIR. La Toilette.
Changes in Legislature.
The Democrats lose one senator in
/ Samuel Randolph, who is succeeded by
| q. G. Sedgwick of Manitowoc, and one
in Ernst Merton of Waukesha who is
succeeded by Henry Lockney, republic
an. The Republicans lose Zadoc L.
Beach of Whitewater, who is succeeded
| by John A. Lakewood, Democrat with
the possible loss of one member in the
Twenty-seventh district where Martin
| L. Foley was nominated in place of
George Wylie. The returns have not
shown yet whether he or Charles l..
Pearson of Baraboo is elected.
How Assembly Stands.
The Assembly will consist of eighty
six Republicans. nine Democrats and five
| Social Democrats. At the last session
there. were eIghty-fye Republicans,
eleven Democrats and four Social De-.
ocrats.
To Joseph A. Domachowski. the mem
Der of the Assembly from the -Four
teenth ward, belongs the distinction of
| being the only Democratic member of
| the Legislature from Milwaukee county.
At the last session, Joseph Crowley of
the First district and Thomas Ramsey
of the Sixth district accompanied the
Pole from the Fourteenth ward but
next winter the man from the Four
teenth will have to uphold Jeffersonian
principles at the state house for the en-
tire county.
How Stafford Won Out.
The final returns for the Fifth con
gressional district are as follows: Wau-
kesha county: Stafford, 1889; Donnelly,
2517; Welch, 451, total Milwaukee
county; staf ford, 1881; Don DonneIly,
1913: DonneIly S045; Welch, 1927. Stat
ford's plurality over WEIGH, 1896; over
Donnely, o1lS.
Garry All but Seven Counties.
At the Republican state headquar-
tiers it was claimed that the Republican
ticket had carried every one of the
seventy-three counties in the state ex-
cept jefferson, Dodge, Ozaukee. Wash
ington, Calumet, and possibly Marathon
and Kewaunee Reports from Green
Lake county which was claimed by the
Democrats We're to the effect that it Is
in the Republican column.
Democrats Gain Five
Late returns this afternoon indicate
Of of II h
licans. five Socialists and sixteen Demo
Gratis. a Republican loss of six members,
a Socialist gain of one and a Democratic
gain of five Daniel Curtin of Calumet,
Republican, was defeated, as was VI
rich Moeklin of Sheboygan, George L.
Scott of Winnebago and Charles Nc
Arthur and Christ Saugen of the First
and Second Eau Claire districts. August
Dietrich of the Nineteenth ward of Mil
waukee was defeated by Rev. Carl ID.
Thompson, a Socialist.
OF the Republican members-1lect. thlr-
ty-nine of those who voted for Common
for state chairman at the Madison con-
vention were elected, while thirty-Sey-
en- of those who voted for w. II. Dick
for chairman. who was favored by Sen
ator La Toilette, were elected. Eleven
of those who voted for Conner were de-
feated and seven of those who voted for
Dick were defeated. OF the seventy
nine members of the assembly elect. it
is believed that the thirty-seven of them
who voted for Dick for state chairman
will vote for Herman l.. Ekern of Trem-
paleau for speaker, while the thirty-nine
who voted for Connor will likely sup
port Edward lie Roy of Marinette for
speaker. This indicates close race for
The office, with the likelihood of Il pretty
scramble before it is settled.
Congressional Winners.
The congressional winners are:
First district-H A. Cooper, Rep.
Second district-John NJ Nelson, Rep.
Third DISTRICT. w. Murphy, Dem.
Fourth district-W. J. Cary, Rep.
Fifth district-W. II. Stafford. Rep.
Sixth district-Charles H. Weisse, Dem.
Seventh distrct-John ]. Esch. Rep.
Eighth district-James Fl. Davidson, Rep.
Ninth district-E. A. Morse, Rep.
Eleventh district-John ]. jenkins. Rep.
McGovern's Plurality Is 140.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. IF. T.
McGoyern's election was assured at
o'clock when final returns were received
from Cudahy. McGoyern'S plurality is
140, the total vote for him being 1910.
Thiel received 1920, and Boden 14,OS3,
and Schwefel 1889.
There were fewer than So 900 votes
cast in the county as against I0,324 two
LA TOILETTE GOES WEST.
Senator to Deliver Lectures on the Pa
cifc Coast.