Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-08-13
NOMINEES LEAD. WITH SEVERAL
COUNTIES MISSING REDUCED
TO 1914 STILL FURTHER
LossEsARE TO BE FIGURED
oN-PAINTER AND KNOTT
HOLDING UP WELL.
BALL PREPARES TO sfEUY
PRIMARY RESULT IN COURT
Folk Declares He Intends Fighting
Away ANY Attempt to Respect
the New Primary Law-He
Believes Law Should
Stand As 1t Is.

Without q doubt W. s. Cowherd viii
be the next Governor OF Missouri.
Though the exact majority with
which be defeated his opponents car
not be learned 1t will be only moder
ately large. Ball seems to be second
In the race and Wallace third.
In some Of the so-called country
districts Cowherd has received larg,
majorities, and these come to his alC
effestually to balance gains Lmade oil
him by Ball In the interior Of th,
State. For instance, In Boone county
where opposition to Ball was aroused
because OF bis opinions Of higher edu
cation, the Kansas City candidate rar
far ahead, Judge Wallace taking sec
ond place, and Balls vote amounted
to but a small per cent Of the total
In Randolph, another populous coun-
ty, Cowherd ran far ahead Of Ball.
In Southeast Missouri, Ball has es-
tablished a record which is out Of al
keeping with the anti-primary pre-
dictiens of:his opponents. County af
ter county has been swept by him fol
large majorities. In Northwest Mis-
souri,, In the neighborhood Of hiI
home, the Piker again far outclasset
all his rivals, and when the votes from
these counties, each with Its substan
tial majority, is totaled, and then the
subtraction from Cowherd's city plu
rality made, the Piker's friends fee
encouraged.
No Iconcession Of the election oi
Oowherd has been made by his ST
Louis managers, butsit Is difficult tc
see how the counties TO be heard
from can reduce the urban vote OF
Cowherd.
PAINTER APPARENTLY SAFE.
William n, Painter, Of Oarrolt0n
apparently has distanced all his rivals
In the race Of the Lieutenant Gov
ernorship. The Central Missouri edi
tor yesterday said he had no fears O.
the counties yet to report reducing
bis majority to the point Of danger,
although he admitted that some Of
them we're the strongholds Of his op'
ponents. This race was 80 compli'
Gated, and the votes were drawn to SC
many candidates, that the indications
are the result win be as predicted
from the first, and Mr.. Painter will
preside over the Senate and as Gov
ernor at times in the next four years
| II the Democrats are successful.
The authorship, in all probably, II
won by John P. Gordon, and the St
Louis Court Of Appeals race seems tc
have been won by Judge Q. @. Bland
w. Christy Bryan polled large VOTE
in st. Louis, but the vote received BY
the incubent in the districts outside
the city isDprobably Igreat enough tt
overcome his majority. The race Ii
a close one, and when returns are In
from all the counties the margin sep
arating the aspirants may be a very
slight one.
GRAVES HAS BIG LEAD.
Cornelius Roach has the Democratic
nomination for Secretary of State
having defeated Michael McGrath
whose vote throughout the State wal
not up to the expectations Of the lat
ter's friends. James Cowgirl is named
for Treasurer land Elliott W. Majol
for Attorney General.
Waller W. Graves, for Judge Of tht
Supreme Court, In the returns re
celved, has established such a leat
that 1t seems improbable that. Nat M
Shelton can overcome 1t. John A
Knott's clusest opponent for Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioner is W
IC. IBronough, and the chances ar
| that the incumbent has been nomin
ated to succeed himself.
On the Republican side, John e
Swanger Is renominated for Secretary
Of State; Treasurer James Jason F
Gmelich for Lieutenant Governor
Jesse A. Tollerton, for Auditor, ant
Wilbur E. Maring flor Treasurer.
The chief Republican State rae
was for Attorney General, and tn
chances are that former Congressman
Frank B. Fulkerson has won tn
honor of nomination, although Nortl
II. Gentry, has made splendid show
ing In many counties, and the tina
result is yet In doubt.
| William W. Wilder apparently ha
the Republican nomination for Rail
road Commissioner, and Argus Co
will likely be declared the Suprem
Court nominee, when the official coun
| is taken. The st. Louis Court Of Ap
peals nomination lies between Georg
| D. Reynolds and Charles A. Houts
| Reynolds having lead Of 5000 In st
Louis and showing up well In th
county districts.
Latest returns from the the coun
ties Of Missouri and from the City o
st. Louis cut the plurality of William
Is. Cowherd, nominated for Governo
in last Tuesdays primary by tn
Democrats, TO about $1,000 and in al
Likelihood, when all the precincts ar
heard from after the official coure, tn
successful candidate will have an ad
vantage over his closest opponent O
not more than 1900,
The figures last midnight stood thi
way: Cowherd, S3,260; Ball, 67,l4e
Wallace, 37,14S, and Stapel, 1929.
1t is probable that about IS per cen
Of the entere Democratic vote cas-
Tuesday has been received. Abou
2Oo,o 900 ballots have been reported q
- 4ho total nanoocratie vntA 4