The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-22
TAWNEY BEATEN
BY PROGRESSIVE
House Leader Defeated for
denomination.
CAMPAIGN A HOT ONE

Pinchot, Heney and Other "lnsurgent'
Speakers Visited His District and
Worked Against the Minnesotan
Because Of His Record in Congress.
Progressives Crowd Regulars Close
in Other Minnesota Districts.
ST. Paul, Sept 22.-Although the in
surgents lost in the st. Paul and Min.
neapolis districts, they won signal
victory in the First congressional dis.
trict in the defeat of James A Taw.
ney, for eighteen years the victor in
exciting campaigns, but finally slaugh.
tered in spite of the famous Winona
speech which President Taft delivered
in his district a year ago.
Tawney, who was Joseph G. Can.
mons choice for speaker, in the event
that the Danville man could not land ii
himself, made a bitter fight, but was
ignominiously defeated by Sydney A,
Anderson, a young lawyer of Lanes
bOIOy WIZ 10 hol btNoSNd WIN
worldly stores and who is making his
maiden venture in politics
But Anderson had valiant support
Clifford Pinchot stopped off and made
speech for him at Rochester and
Francis j. Heney spoke for him at
Austin, Rochester and Winona, and
while Senator La Toilette was too i'll
to talk there he sent a strong phalanx
of Badger state orators over into Taw-
ney's bailiwick in the last week of
the campaign. La Toilette wanted to
get some insurgent congressman in
Minnesota and he trained his heaviest
guns on Minnesota's spotlight stand
patter.
The united attack was too much for
Tawney by about 1000 votes.
Close in Other Districts.
In the Fourth district Frederick c..
Stevens, the present incumbent, won
| over Hugh r. Halbert, progressive, by
1900 plurality.
In the Fifth district, Hennepin coun-
ty, Frank M. Nye, the present Repub-
lican congressman, was renominated
| by less than 1000 votes over Albert Ill.
Hall, insurgent, and Alderman Thomas
p Dwyer was nominated by the Demo.
Gratis after a lively scrimmage
The Republican nomination in the
Second district goes to A. l.. Ward
by a small plurality and Winfield
Scott Hammond, the present Demo
cratic congressman, was easily renom-
| mated
Patrick H. McGarry, standpatter,
| did not have a lookin in the Sixth dis
| trict, G. A. Lindberg of Little Falls,
| the present congressman, being re-
nominated in landslide.
| Halvor Gteenerson, in the Ninth
| also won easily over H. p. Bjorge, and
Clarence b. Miller, in the eighth. de
/ feated Alfred Mcknight.
In the city contest at Minneapolis
| Mayor James c. Haynes was renom-
| mated by the Democrats by 1000 over
| Alderman George B. Esterman. The
Republican mayoralty nominee is W.
e. Satterlee, who had a margin of
| $500 over G. j. Minor
| Party Lines Obliterated.
1t was apparent throughout the
state that the voters are becoming in
/ dependent of party leaders. So de-
| termined were the voters to nominate
| the men of their choice that they ig-
nored party lines. SO true was this
that in many sections where normal
| ly strong Democratic vote is cast a
Democrat was at a premium.
County option asserted itself and
the returns indicate that this move
ment must be reckoned with in the
campaign for the regular election in
| November.
In it's path men of the old guard
have either gone down or are hustled
on the water wagon and are coming
with the procession, as is the case
with " b. Seward of Marshall, Lyon
county At present 1t looks as IL coun-