Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-18
RESULTS OF ILLINOIS
PRIMARY ELECTION
Governor Charles s. Deneen Wins
GubernaforiaI Nomination Over
Richard Yates.
oGLESBY Is his RUNNING MATE
Magic of Name Gives Adlai E. Ste
venson Victory OF the DEM
ocratic Ticket.

Charles 5. Deneen won the Republic
an nomination for Governor in tie
State primary election. Richard Yates.
although he lost. made a gallant fight
Adlai Z. Stevenson carried away the
hOnors in the gubernatorial fight on
the Democratic side. From the early
down-State returns he seemed to have
swept all counties outside of Cook. Col.
James Hamilton Lewis was apparently
second in the fight. He made a run
away race in Chicago, defeating all the
other entries by about 1900 John P.
McGoorty was close up to Lewis for
second place, and Douglas Pattison was
fourth
In the fight for States Attorney nom-
nations in Cook County John E. w.
Wayman, by tia aid of the United So
eieties defeated John J. Healy ON the
Republican side. On the Democratic
ticket William f. Dever locked horns
with Jacob j. Kern and gave him
neck-and-neck race, so far as the early
returns showed. Kern was ahead, how
ever
Deneen carried both Chicago and the
down State counties, taking the latter
as a whole. Ills majority in Chicago
proper, as it is now figured. was 4,391.
Returns Come I'm slowly.
The returns from the primary election
came in with exasperating slowness. 1t
was expected that they WOULD be late,
but apparently judges and clerks found
the task of counting even more difficult
than was thought From down the
State particularly the early reports
were extraordinarily vague. Reports
from many of the counties in the south
end of the State Indicated that the
complete returns would not be available
until the rett ras were officially can
vassed by the local boards. The vote
in the cities was taken as a basis upon
which to estimate the probable vote of
the county. In the remote districts the
/ work of counting the ballots was I'M
usually slow, and the judges and clerks
We're dilatory in reporting the results
to the county clerks. The estimates on
such precincts are conservative, based
upon a thorough knowledge of condi-
lions by leaders right ON the ground.
and it is thought the small portion Of
belated returns will make no material
| change ia the results.
stevenson's victory Complete.
| On the Democratic ballot former
Vice President Adlai e. Stevenson
won the nomination for the governor
ship. He did it by his down State
| strength, and the fact that he was the
one man remaining with what is left of
the Democratic party who was widely
known. Colonel James Hamilton
Lewis had the distinction of being the
runner-up for the Bloomington sage,
with a scattered field behind Colonel
Lewis swept Cook County before him
and rolled up plurality of more than
| 1000 on his competitors, but the
strength of the former Vice President
was too great down State for the Chi
eagoan. The closeness of the Repub-
lican race and the general lack of in
| tereSt in the Democratic campaign
were among the causes tending to pre-
vent an accurate estimate being given
on the Stevenson plurality, as the ear
ly returns came in. All through the
State the Stevenson boom swept. In
some parts McGoorty and Lewis of the
Chicagoans made fair showirgs md
Douglas Pattison had a fair show of
strength, but not sufficient to put Ste
yenson's lead in danger.
Close on second Place.
The early returns indicated that it
was a close race between John G. Ogles-
by and Colonel frank L. Smith for the
nomination for Lieutenant Governor.
With over half the counties still to be
heard from, Oglesby led Smith by a
! plurality of 1915, the vote standing a.
81 for Oglesby and 1876 for Smith.
The incomplete returns indicated that
James A. Rose was far ahead in the
race for Secretary of State For Clerk
of the Supreme Court on the Republic
an side, Christopher Manner was in the
lead. the incomplete returns giving him
plurality VI -U,OVV over EugdT 4.
Davis
While Yates went down. the ma ority
of his followers saved themselves. so
far as denominations were concerned.
| Congressman Lorimer won his district.
| Speaker Shurtleff also won. and so did
| Congressman Foss, but for Congress
and not for the United States Senate.
The chief interest of the day conferred
In the fight between Governor Deneen
and his predecessor, Richard Yates.
More bitterness, more energy, and posi-
bly, more money were put into that ca-
test than ever went into similar one.
The total vote polled by the two rivals
| for first place on the Republican ticket
reached close TO $4,000. That was
the outside figure placed by those who
guessed on the contest and it is almost
double the primary vote of two years
ago
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.