Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-20
Governor Charles S. De1een Wins
Gubernatoriai Nomination Over
Richard Yates.
oGLEsBY Is HIS RUNNING MATE
Magic of Name Gives Adlai E. Ste
venson Victory on the DEM
ocratic Ticket.
Chicago correspondence /:


an nomination for Governor in the
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 the aid of the United So
cieties, 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
ever.
Deneen carried both Chicago and the
down State counties, taking the latter
as whole. His majority in Chicago
proper, as it is now figured, was 1891.
Returns Come ia 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 returns were officially can
vassed by the local boards The vote
in the cities was taken as 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
were dilatory in reporting the results
to the county clerks. The estimates on
such precincts are conservative, based
upon 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 in the results.
StevensOn's Victory Complete.
On the Democratic ballot former
Vice President Adlai e. Stevenson
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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 a plurality of more than
11-000 on his competitors, but the
strength of the former Vice President
was too great down State for the Chi
| cagoan. 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 showings and
Douglas Pattison had fair show of
strength, but not sufficient to put Ste
venson'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
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
a plurality of 10000 over Edgar T.
Davis.
While Yates went down, the ma jOrity
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 centered
In the fight between Governor Deneen
and his predecessor. Richard Yates.
More bitterness, more energy, and posi-
bly, more money were put into that con-
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