Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-08
REGULARS SCORE
PARTIAL VICTORY
IN IOWA PRIMARY
Insurgents Probably Gain One
Congressman but Lose
Three Hard Fights
B. F. CARROLL FOR GOVERNOR
8 Progressives and 3 Taft Men
Lead, but 7 of Former
Faced No Contest
3. F. CABR0LL FOR GOVERNOR
Associated Press1

hES MONIES, Iowa, June 8.-An
hope of making definite announce
- ment as to the Republican nom
ination for governor was abandoned at
l o'clock this morning, only $50 voting
precincts out of 2300 in the state haV-
ing sent in unofficial returns.
On the basis of returns received,
however, Governor Carroll, regular,
has an indicated majority of 10000
over Warren Garst, progressive.
In the First and Seventh congress
sional districts the returns are sutt1-
ciently heavy apparently to give sound
basis to claims of the nomination of
Prouty, progressive, over Congressman
Hull in the Seventh and Congressman
Kennedy, "standpatter," over S. w.
Brookhart in the First.
While Congressman Smiths sup
porters in the Ninth district insist that
his nomination Is assured, progressive
leaders here assert the returns In
Smiths territory are far too scant to
justify the claim that the progressive
candidate, Attorney General Byers, has
been defeated.
The contest between H. NJ. Towner,
"standpatter," and Judge J. H. Oar
rah, progressive, in the Eighth dis
trict at a. m. was in doubt.
THE PROBABLE WINNERS
Following are the congressional
tickets indicated by incomplete re-
turns up to 1 a. m, eight progressiVes
and three standpatters:
Republicans-First, c. A Kennedy,
standpat; Second, Charles Grilk, pro-
gressive; Third, C. E. Pickett, progress
sive; Fourth, Gilbert N. Haugen, pro-
gressive; Fifth, James w. Good, pro-
gressive; Sixth, James E. Kendall,
progressive; Seventh, S. F. Prouty.
progressive; Eighth, H. NJ. Towner,
standpat; Ninth, Walter 1. Smith,
standpat; Tenth, Frank P. Woods,
progressive; Eleventh, Z. H. Hubbard,
progressive.
Democratic-First, James A. S. Pol
lard; Second, ]. A. de Almond; Third,
John Dennison; Fourth, d. D. Murphy;
Fifth. S. c. Huber; Sixth, Daniel w.
Hamilton; Seventh, Clint L. Price;
Eighth, F. @. Stuart; Ninth, w. L.
Cleveland; Tenth and Eleventh, no
candidates.
For governor-B. F. Carroll, Repub-
lican; Claude r. Porter, Democrat.
The polls opened at o'clock and
closed at D. m. in the cities and at 3
in the rural districts. This made news
from the centers where progressive
candidates are seeking to wrest nomin-
ations from the stalwarts late.
FOUR FIERCE CONTESTS
There were Republican contests in
the First district, where the progress
siVe, S. w. Brookhart, entered the lists
against Congressman Kennedy, a stand
patter; in the Seventh, where Judge
Prouty for the fourth time sought to
vanquish Congressman ]. A. L. Hull;
in the Eighth, the old Hepburn district,
where the progressives and stalwarts
are arrayed against one another in the
persons of John H. Darrah and Judge
w. M. Towner, and in the Ninth,
where Attorney General H. w Byers
was chosen to war against Congress-
man Walter l. Smith on the latters
record as a member of the so-called
Cannon regime.
The first returns from fourteen pre-
cincts out of forty eight in Des Moines
give Prouty 1865 against Hulrs 1912.
Carroll for governor had 1852 as
against 1897 for Warren Garst, pro-
gressive. Governor Carroll made his
campaign on his state record, ignoring
national topics, but his support came
largely from the Iowa Taft club, which
is organized in every precinct of the
state for the purpose of securing an
Endorsement of the Taft administration
at the state convention next August.
Garst was supported by Senator Cum
minis and Senator Dolliver on pro-
gressive platform.
Charles Grilk, being unopposed for
the Republican nomination in the Sec
ond district, the contest was left to the
Democratic factions. Early returns in
dicate that j. A. de Almond of Daven-
port would win over l. S. Pepper of
Muscatine, although the result was in
doubt.
Garst supporters claim the district on
the eoVernorship. The vote was light