Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-14
ELECTION RESULTS
FROM SEVEN STA TE,S
Municipal Officers Chosen in Illinois.
Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado and Arkansas
Liquor the Issue at Many Places.

The margin Of victory in Blackford
county was 1S1. Cass county zoe.
wet" by 1874.
Results in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee. = Muncipipal elections
were held in large number of cities
throughout Wisconsin Tuesday, the is
sue of license" or mo license" being
at stake. License carried in major
ity of the cities and towns thus ia,
heard from. In Appleton and Beloit
where the struggle was holly waged
the "wets'' were victorious. Sparta
which voted dry" last election, de-
cided for license" while Sturgeon
Bay went dry" for the first time
New Lisbon's vote resulted in a tic
and will remain "dry."
The following places carried for I'll
cense:"
Beloit, Baraboo, Appleton Sparta
Oshkosh, Plainfleld, Platteville, Ply
mouth, West Salem, Broadhead, Fenni
more, Barron, Ashland, Onalaska
Galesville, Rhinelander, Eagle River
Stanley, Eau Claire, Marinette, Nee
nah, Somers and Blanchardsville.
The towns voting dry" are:
Mondovia, Eleva. Gilmanton, New
Lisbon (tie), Sturgeon Bay, White
Hall, Grantsburg, Richmond, Slough
ton, Albany, Decatur, Lodi, Black
Earth, Bloomington.
Democrats carried Oshkosh in the
mayorality, ]. c. Voss defeating Mayor
John Branderob (Rep.), by SOC
majority; Democrats also carried She.
boygan, Darlington, Kenosha and
Mauston; while the Republicans were
successful in GAINESVILLE. Most of the
towns elected citizens tickets.
John Barnes, state supreme court
justice, is reelected without opposi.
ton.
Democrats were successful in Fort
Atkinson and Portage.
A. ]. Horlick (Rep.) was re.
elected mayor of Racine by safe plu.
rality. Three Democrats and two Re.
publicans were elected to the Racine
council.
Elections in Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb-The question of sa.
loon license was the dominating issue
In the municipal elections held in Ne
braska towns and villages Tuesday
and returns thus far received. while
showing few surprising changes, do
not indicate landslide to either side.
The gains, especially in the smaller
towns, are on the side of the "drys,"
One of the important victories of
the no-license forces was at Kearney.
which voted out the saloons by ma
JorltyS of So. AS an Offset to this.
Alliance, which for a year has been
without saloons, decided in favor of
their establishment by nearly a
hundred votes after the most strenu-
GUS campaign in the history of the
town. Beatrice increased it's "dry'
vote by over hundred, Hastings
rendered verdict in favor of the
wet" side.
"Dry" Win in Colorado.
Denver, Col.-Prohibition was the
main issue in the municipal elections
held in Colorado outside of Denver.
The anti-saloon party generally was
victorious.
Returns from Missouri.
st. Louis, Mo.-The election of the
Republican city ticket by 5000 votes,
was conceded by the Democrats after
227 precincts out of 4O3 in the city
showed Frederick H. Kreismann. Re.
publican nominee for mayor, had re.
ceived 31,466 votes and his Democratic
opponent, William G. Woerner, g..
700.
Jefferson City, the capital of Mis-.
souri,, elected John F. Heinrichs. Dem.
ocrat, mayor. At Columbia the Demo.
cratic ticket won over a Citizens
ticket favored by the Civic league.
Most of the smaller cities and towns
in eastern Missouri reported Demo.
cratic victories.
Various elections in Kansas were
holly contested. Leavenworth elected
Omar Alternately mayor and Wichita
chose Charles L. Davidson. Both of
these contests were under the com.
mission form of government, and re.
suited in it's continuance.
Drys Victorious in Michiuan.
Detroit, Mich.-Of the p counties
which voted Monday on the question
of abolishing the sale and manufac
ture of liquor within their borders
20 went dry" and seven wet" Fol
lowing are the results:
"Dry"-Alcona, Allegan, Benzie
Branch, Calhoun, Clare, Eaton. EN-
NETT, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ionia, 1osco
Isabella, Jackson, Kalkaska. Living
stone, Newaygo, Sanilac, Tuscola
Charlevoix.
"Wet"-Berrien, Huron, Montcalm
Necosta, Ottawa, Washtenaw and
Monroe.
Virtue AZ rSeflnAIl&&,