The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-04-10
Delegates Elected Last Night
To County Convention.
COUNTY MEET IS TOMORROW
Light Vote PoiIed in City Owing to
Stormy Weather; No Contest at
Any Of the Wards.

Inc repuDllcan primaries "eic heiu
throughout the city and county last
evening. The vote was light every
where, owing to the snow storm dur
ing the afternoon and evening. In the
city there were no contests.
The delegates elected will attend
the county convention to be held to-
morrow at 1890 o'clock in the city
hall, and will elect nineteen delegates
to the state convention, and also
nineteen deegates to the district con-
yention which meets here on April
Ii. This convention will elect two
delegates and two alternates to the
national republican convention which
meets in Chicago June l6.
The delegates elected in the city
last evening are as follows:
First ward-W. II. Gary, S. A. An
derson, Z. r. Brown, John Almquist,
W. Swedberg, A. Deike, A. Bashaw.
Second ward-J. w. Schmitt, Mic
Kleinschmidt, A. SLIDER, Tom Dooley,
Andrew Engwalson.
Third Ward-George Wiedemann, +.
NJ Zuel, Gustaf Widell, George w.
Scherer, Chris Polehow.
Fourth ward-H. L. Schmitt, j. w.
Andrews, Daniel Fuquay. o. w
Schmidt, DIR. w. A. Beach, c. j.
Laurisch, w. F. Hughes, NJ. Hanna.
Fifth ward-Paul Iverson, c. L.
Benedict. H. H. Perrin, Lee Wood,
d. A. Little, F. W. Hunt, o. Lund-
berg, o. c. Carlson, J. W. Wigley,
George Atchison, S. B. Wilson, G. A.
Lewis.
Sixth ward-Gus Eichstaedt. Calvin
Smiths Evan Hughes, Chris Burmeis-
ter, John Polchow.
New Ulm, Minn.-Gen. Jens Bob
Letter was elected mayor without any
recognized issue before the voters,
though it was generally expected that
if Mayor Fiber had been reelected
there would have been strict enforce
ment of the lid law. -N-
Rushford, Minn.-Rushford went dry
for the first time in seventeen years
by 81 majority. The fight was in
tense and interest was great. +. A.
Olson was elected mayor.
Benson. Minn.-In its, first election
as city Benson went dry by 17S to
l69. after having had saloons continu-
ously for thirty-two years. A. n. Ed
wards won sharp mayorality fight
from S. d. Winners by $50 to III.
The candidates of the Young Mems
club were elected aldermen.
Blue Earth, Minn.-License won by
81 majority and August Conrad was
elected mayor by more than 100 ma
jority.
Fairmont Delegates.
Fairmont, April THE primaries in
this county, so far as heard from,
resulted in harmonious delegation
to the county convention for Colonel
+. w. Betz for district delegate. In
fact, there was no opposition as the
county is overwhelmingly for Taft,
unless Roosevelt can be induced to
run. The county convention will be
held at l p. m. on Thursday.
Garden City last evening elected the
following delegates: j. S. Church, A..
ID. Crane, E. w. Gates and E. E. Nor
ton.
Minneapolis, an alleged La Toilette
stronghold, went almost solid for Taft
last night, and additional reports from
other parts of the state only strength
en- the prediction that the state will
be solid for Taft. In Minneapolis not
over 80 of the 5ll delegates i'll the
county convention Thursday will be
for La Toilette.
From present appearances Wilkin
county will be the only county in the
state that will not send Taft men to
the state and district conventions.
Breckenridge went for La Toilette, as
reported yesterday, and that city will
probably control the county. Barnes
vile, another railroad division point,
went for La Toilette. Moorhead in
the same county has controlling in
fiuence in that county.
Clay and Wilkin counties together
have only 81 of the l39 delegates in
this district convention.
Everything Is For Taft.
From all other parts of the state,
while the reports are far from com
plete, everything that has been re-
ported is for Taft, and it is pretty
certain that if there had been any
thing else anywhere it would have
been reported.
Vernon Center delegates to the
county convention are NJ. H. Caller
and George Caller. These gentlemen
were instructed to east the full vote
of the Vernon Center delegation.