Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-09-23
CANVASS VOTES
FOR SENATORS
STATE COUNTING BOARD MAKES
PROGRESS ON ITS
WORK.
W. c. OWEN THE ONLY PRO.
Hl5ITIoN SENATORIAL
NOMINEE.

Madison, Sept. II.
The state canvassing board. com.
posed of Secretary of State Frear
Attorney General Gilbert and stats
Treasurer Dahl, completed last night
the Official canvass OF the primary
election votes for the domination of
candidates for state senator. Twelve
districts were canvassed, the three
IN Milwaukee county, one in Rock
ana one in Dane being canvassed in
the counties in which these districts
wholly lie.
IN the second district-Brown and
oconto Timothy Burke was
nominated by the republicans with
0'9FS votes over Theo. A. Pamperin
with 1916 George Dagen was nom
mated by the democrats with 500
votes and Charles Robinson by the
social democrats with I25.
In the tenth district-Pierce and
81. Croix ceunties-Senator w. C.
owen, republican, had no opposition
and got $3.50 votes. He also re-
celved 10 prohibition votes, which
gave him the nomination of that
party, which he will be required to
decline if he accepts the republican
nomination. The prohibitionists made
no other senatorial nomination in the
state.
The republicans of the twelfth dis
trict--Ashland, Bayfield,, Price, Saw
yer, Taylor, Washburn counties-re.
nominated Senator A. W. Sanborn
with 6,775 votes. Henry Lefreinere
was nominated by the democrats with
81 votes.
In the fourteenth district-Outa-
gamie and Shawano counties-Elmer
Lehr received the republican nomin-
alton with 1866 votes over Antoine
Kuckuk with $3.50. George F. Pea
body with 345 votes, received the
democratic nomination.
The sixteenth NATURALIZATION
and Grant counties-nominate John
j. Blaine on the republican ticket
with 1888; r. A. Watkins, demo
cratic, 949, and Robert t. Rose, So
cial democratic, 10.
The eighteenth-Fond du Lac and
Green Lake counties-had contest
for the republican nomination, E. Fl.
Lyons winning with 2,273 over Fred
r. Soper with PISS. The democrats
nominated Bennett Sampson with
1918 votes.
In the twentieth-Ozaukee and She
boygan counties-Henry Krumrey was
nominated by the republicans with
1907 votes; Henry w. Bolens by the
democrats with 1891, and o. E. Dam
row by the social democrats with 40.
Twenty-seeond district-Rock coun-
ty-nopinations were John NJ White
head. republican, and John j. Rior-
dan, democratic.
The twenty-fourth district-Chip.
pewa, ECu Claire and Risk counties
had republican contest, won by ].
W Thomas with 1861 votes over
Charles Macarthur with $3.50. The
democrats nominated ]. j. Auer with
SIC votes.
Twenty-sixth-Dane county-dis-
trict nominations were ]. S. Donald,
republican, and William Fehlandt.
democratic.
In the twenty-eighth district-Rich-
land and Vernon counties-R. H. De
Lap, Sr., was defeated for the repub-
lican nomination by David G. James,
1879 to 3,017. The democrats nom
mated John K. Schreiner with 462
votes.
In the thirtieth district-FlJrence
Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln,
Oneida and Villas counties-Senator
James A. Wright received the ~epub
lican nomination with 4,153, to 1887
for Edward w. Whitson. Matt Staple
ton, the democratic nominee, got
1920 votes.
The thirtylsecond district-La
Crosse and Trempealeau counties
has Senator Thomas Morris, AIS
votes, as republican nominee, and
Peter Gullickson, 126 votes, as demo
cratic nominee.
While official returns from Milwau.
kee and Polk counties will not be re-
ceived by the Secretary of State I'M
til today, the state canvassing board
was able to begin on the canvass of
a large part of the vote of the recent
primary election last evening. The
canvassing board was called together
at an unusual hour because Secretary
of State Frear desires to have the
state senate, congressional and as
sembly vote canvassed at the earliest
moment possible so that he can send
to the nominees the official certificate
as required by law. As the candi-
dates nominated are TO meet in the
platform conventions here next Tues
day it is desirable that the netifica-
ton certificates he forwarded 10 them
at once. 1t was impossible 10 can
vass the votes of the United States
senatorship nominations. or for the
state tickets or any congressional or
legislative candidates in which Mil
.waukee or Polk counties participated.