Sisseton Posten. [volume] (Effington, Sud Dakota [S.D.]) 1902-19??, 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.
Proeressives Crowd Regulars Close
In Other Minnesota Districts.
st. Paul, Sept. 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 c. Can
mons choice for speaker, in the event
that the Danville man could not land 1t
himself, made a bitter fight, but was
ANONYMOUSLY defeated by sydney A..
Anderson, young lawyer OF Lanes
boro, who is not blessed with much
worldly stores and who is making his
maiden venture in politics.
But Anderson had valiant support.
Clifford Pinchot stopped off and made
a 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, wor
over Hugh +. Halbert, progressive, by
1900 plurality.
In the Fifth district, Hennepin coun
ty, Frank NJ. Nye, the present Repub
lican congressman, was renominated
by less than 900 votes over Albert II
Hall, insurgent, and Alderman Thomas
p. Dwyer was nominated by the Demo
Gratis after lively scrimmage.
The Republican nomination in the
Second district goes TO A. l.. Ward
by small plurality and Winfield
Scott Hammond, the present Demo
| cratic congressman. was easily renom
mated.
Patrick H. McGarry. standpatter
did not have lookin in the Sixth dis
trict, c. A. Lindberg of Little Falls
the present congressman, being re
nominated in a landslide.
Halvor Steenerson, in the Ninth
also won easily over H. p. Bjorge, anC
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 "
! f.. Satterlee. who had margin o
! $500 over c. j. Minor.
Party Lines Obliterated.
1t was apparent throughout tn,
state that the voters are becoming in
dependent of party leaders. SO dc
termned were the voters to nominate
the men of their choice that they ig
nored party lines. SO true was thi
that in many sections where normal
| ly strong Democratic vote is cast
Democrat was at a premium.
County option asserted itself ant
the returns indicate that this move
ment must be reckoned with in th
campaign for the regular election il
November
In its path men of the old guar'
have either gone down or are hustlet
on the water wagon and are coming
with the procession, as is the cas-
with V. B. Seward Of Marshall, Lyol
county At present it looks as if coun
ty option had proved too strong 70
A. j. Rockne, speaker Of the las
house, who was asking the Republican
nomination to the senate from Good
hue county.