River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
Primary Election in the City

Comparatively little interest was
manifested by the voters in the city
in the primary election Tuesday,
less than half of those qualified to
vote taking the trouble to go to the
polls. Less than 230 of the SOC
voters of the city cast their votes.
But few ballots were cast that were
not in some way defective, that is,
but few voters marked against the
name of candidate for each office.
Some voted only for candidates for
state offices; some only for those
seeking a county Office; some voting
for only part of either. In some
instances the ballot was a blank
no mark being made against any
name.
Few votes were cast for other
than the Republican ticket.
Following is the vote for Repub-
lican candidates as nearly correct
as we were able to secure the re-
suit, the returns being sealed as
soon as the votes were determined:
For Governor-Davidson received
13l votes-13 in the 1st and 118 in
the I'd precinct; Lenroot As in 1st
and So in I'd precinct. For Lieu
tenant Governor Conner had ITO
and Strange 80 in the whole city.
For Secretary of State, Frear had
90, Froehch SO and Houser %. For
State Treasurer, Dahl got II, How
land 9, James s, Kempf 43 and
Thomas 81. For Attorney General,
Gilbert had II, MCGEE Is and Ing
alls 81. For Congress, jenkins had
l43 and Kinney IA. The above
figures include the first ward.
For county officers for Pierce
county-2d, Sd and 4th wards-the
vote was: For Member of Assem-.
bly,, VIM. Kay received SO votes and
A. c. Sanford 81. For Sheriff,
Bunce has 7, Gilmore 81, Larson Z,
Maier %, Murphy, 81, Robson 48
and Sundby 2. For Treasurer,
Bergseng had IS votes, Churchill
Is, Johnson "a, Tobias, "a and u
vim 2. For Clerk of Court, Spinney
Ono opposition) 129. District Atty,
Thompson Ono opposition) lis.
Register of Deeds, Kendall "a,
Swanson "a, Walsingham 81, War
rem 40. For Surveyor, c. w. Jen-
son had "a votes and B. R. Eaton
had 6.
In the first ward county officers
were voted for thus: For Member
of Assembly, Adolph Johnson re-
ceived 10 votes and Louis Nagler s..
For County Clerk, H. S. Offerdahl
had Is votes, and for Treasurer, E..
C. Anderson had Is votes-neither
having opposition. For Sheriff,
Nels Sonju had 20 votes and Alfred
Halverson 8. For Clerk of Court,
w. F. Behrens had Is votes and G..
L. Lamport 2. For District Atty,
S. ]. Bradford had 10 votes and H..
H. Dean had 7. For Register of
Deeds, w. S. Fleming had IL votes
and J. E. Hart S.
There were four tickets-Demo-
cratic, Prohibition, Republican and
Social Democratic.
There were less than half dozen
Democratic ballots cast in the city,
four Prohibition and three Social
Democratic.
In the Town of River Falls Ill
votes were cast, of which number
2 were Democratic, and S Prohibi-
ton. Davidson had 48 votes and
Lenroot 10; Frear had 81, Froelich
8 and Houser IL; jenkins %, Kin
ney ~; Kay A, Sanford If; Berg
seng A, Tobias AZ; Robson A, Gill
more Is, Murphy Is; Walsingham
46, Kendall Is, Warren 10.
In this county Davidson has 1859
and Lenroot 997; Jenkins has HOS
and Kinney 1853. For county Off
GERS the following seem to have
been nominated :assembly-William
Kay; clerk-O. j. Hohle; treas
Theo. Tobias; sheriff-Rob, Robson;
clerk of COURT. G. Spinney; dist.
atty.-Geo. Thompson; register
w. w, Walsingham; surveyor-C.