The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-01-21
Department of Labor Gives Gut
Interesting Statistics in Re-
gard to Primary Election
SMALL VOTE CAST AT PRIMARY
Report Shows That Party Lines Were
nos Regarded and That Candidates
Sought Votes for Nomina-
tion in Both Parties

The following report upon the pri-
mary election held Sept. last has been
prepared by the department of labor
and statistics from data collected
throughout the state:
/. To what extent do people 90 to
the primary?
The primary vote for all candidates
for governor was 1891 per cent of the
ensuing November election vote, but
for each party the percentage was as
follows: Democrat, 248; Prohibition,
1865; Republican, 1854; Social Dem
ocrat, 1928.
2. To what extent do people of one
party go into the primary of another
party?
1t is probable that 1858 persons be-
longing to other parties went into the
Republican primary, if we assume that
primary going tendencies are as strong
with one political faith as another
This result is obtained by noting the
actual Republican primary vote and
then comparing that with what the pri-
mary vote would have been in that
party if the same per cent of actual
voters in that party had gone to the
primary as was true of the state as a
whole.
3. AS to majority and minority
nominations:
United States senator: The vote was
distributed as follows among the can
didates in each party:
Republicans. A. Cook, ,26.15 per
cent; F. E. McGovern, 1881 per cent !;
William HI. Hatton, 1914 per cent !;
Isaac Stephenson, 3107 per cent.
Observation-Disclosures received 1888
per cent of party vote.
Social Democrat-N Nominee received
99.43 per cent Of party vote
Prohi bition-Nominee received all of
party vote.
More About Majorities
In the Republican primary for coun-
| ty officers in seventy-one counties, $50
candidates were nominated out of a
possible 568. This shows that in thir-
| ty-two cases the Republican party
failed to nominate candidate. There
were 246 contests in which two OF
more candidates sought the nomina
ton. The largest number of candl
dates for one office was eight for the
office in Polk county, and the nominee
received 1925 per cent of the primary
vote
! Of the 246 contests in the Republican
primary the nominee failed to secure
a. majority vote in 101 cases or about
Al per cent of all contests Of all the
nominations the candidates failed tc
secure a majority vote in 101 out OF
$50, Of 1873 per cent Of all nominations
The Democratic party nominated SOS
candidates out of a possible 56S, anc
of these sos nominations there were
only thirty -nine cases in which con
tests between two or more candidates
developed. In the 100 assembly dis
tricts, fifteen contests between two OF
| uIOIG CdHOludG6S dIOS0 duu LII d1l CdSGS
the nominee received a majority vote
At the Republican primary for the
assembly, ffty-nve contests out of 100
districts occurred and Of the thirty
nine contests the nominee failed tt
receive majority in seventeen cases
The primary returns show no con
tests in the Democratic party for thu
election of members of the senate il
the seventeen districts in which cleo
tions were held this year Repub
lican returns show more contests and il
all nine the nominee received a ma
jority vote.
| At the Republican primary there
were 218 contests for county officers
emitting the Offices of coroner anG
surveyor because of the lack of in
terest shown in their election, ever
when there was more than one candi
date in the field.