Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-11

MilWaukee.-The Republican state
ticket is elected in Wisconsin by a
plurality of from $4,000 to 10000.
The returns showed a large cut in
the Republican vote of the state
and the result will demonstrate the
fact that the big Republican plurali-
ties received by Gov. Davidson and
his associates upon the state ticket
! can not be counted by Francis E.
McGOvern and those who go into
office with him after Jan. /.
The returns were exceedingly slow
in coming III and from the first indi-
Gated big slump in the Republican
vote and considerable gains in the
Democratic vote These, however,
were not sufficient to carry Wisconsin
into the Democratic column.
Many precincts scattered through
out the state, when compared with
the vote Of two and four years ago,
showed a valiant struggle on the
part Of the Democrats to increase
their vote, but the percentage Of
gains, as well as the percentage of
Republican losses, is insufficient to
elect Schmitz or his fellow Demo
Gratis.
Although claims were made early
in the evening that the Republicans
had carried the state by practically
the usual off year plurality, returns
50 far received show that the ticket
is elected by a largely reduced vote.
But few returns up to this hour have
~T r he
state where the vote shows the hay
lest cut on the ticket. Just what this
cut will amount to in the total Of the
result can not be stated. Various es-
Inmates give the Republican ticket
pluralities running from $4,000 to
10000.
One of the remarkable features of
| the election is found in the remark
ably strong showing made by Judge
Levi II. Bancroft, candidate for at
| torney general, who, upon returns SO
/ far received, is elected, in spite OF
the independent candidacy Of Charles
| II. Crownhart and the efforts of the
! Republican state central committee.
| The returns show that he ran we'll
| up with other candidates on the ticket
and that CroWnhartS candidacy was
| not received by the voters of the
| state with any degree of favor. The
| vote showed CrOWnhart out of the
I running very early in the evening, the
| only question being whether or not
Bancroft would be able to beat Do
| herty, his Democratic opponent.
While the result, upon the returns
| SO far received, is still in doubt, suf-
ficfent reports have been received to
indicate Bancroft's election by vote
considerably less than the balance of
| the state ticket. In many precincts
| Bancroft ran well up with the Repub
| lican ticket and his election can be
| claimed at this hour with reasonable
| certainty.
The vote received by Judge Ban
! croft, when compared with the vote
| cast for other state officers, shows
| that he was generally supported by
| Republicans, and whatever cut the
| state ticket sustained was largely due
to the fact that Republicans resented
| the action of the Republican state
central committee in forcing an in
dependent candidacy.
Returns show the election of a
majority in both branches of the
next Legislature sufficient to insure
| the return Of Robert NJ La Toilette
| to the United States senate. The
majority of the Republicans elected
are pledged to vote for his return.
In many of the districts the Demo-
Gratis have made gains and heretofore
safely Republican districts will be
| represented by Democrats In Mil.
/ waukee the Social Democrats elect
| twelve assemblymen and one senator
! giving them a representation of four
| teen members in the next legislature.
| The Democrats fail to elect a mem
Der from this city. The Republicans
in Milwaukee will be represented in
the next Legislature by four assem-
blymen and three senator's
The Republicans will organize the
next Legislature, electing the speak
er of the assembly and subordinate
officers. The contest for speaker will
undoubtedly be between Assembly
man c. H. Ingram of Pepin county
and John Mcconnell of La Crosse.
The Democrats have made a consid-
cradle gain in the membership of
the lower house, returns being too
! incomplete TO give the list of those
| elected with certainty
! Col. John J. Hannah said that the
| Republican state central committee
had heard from 80 out of the 100 as
| sembly districts. In these Republi-
| cans had elected forty-fiye, the Dem
ocFats twenty-five and the Social
| Democrats twelve, with one doubtful.
OF the twenty districts remaining.
Col. Hannah said the Republicans
would have fifteen and the Democrats
five. The Republicans, he said, had
elected fourteen senators, the Demo-
| Gratis two and the Social Democrats
| one, with one district in doubt
While reports are still meager, re-
turns show that a number of former
Republican counties have gone Dem
ocratic. This is notably so in the
| case of Kenosha county. A number