Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-07
THE INSURGENT WAVE.
wisconsin swept by Progressive
senator La Toilette Wins by Vote
of -Four to One.-Progressive Vic
tories in Vermont, New Hampshire
and tffrhiDan.

by the wave Of republican insurgency.
Latest returns from the statewide prl-
maries yesterday indicate Senator La
FoIlette's denomination by vote OF 4
to l over his opponent, Samuel A.
Cook, millionaire paper manufacturer,
"stand-patter."
La Toilette carried nearly every
county. The La Toilette state ticket IS
also nominated almost certainly. 1t will
be La Toilette platform convention
and La Toilette state legislature.
Francis E. McGovern, progressive
candidate for the gubernatorial nomI-
nation, carried the state, according to
latest estimates, by majority OF ~
900 votes against Edward T. Falrchlld,
standpatter. Captain William Mitchell
Lewis, candidate on the county option
issue, finished third. The McGoyern
campaign endorsed the La Toilette
principles and attacked local option.
Latest returns from the eleven con
gressional districts OF the state indicate
the progressive wave overwhelmed the
standpatters.
Although returns are not completed
early today, it is generally believed
later figures will not change the above
results.
Progressive leaders at noon estimated
La FolIette's majority at 100000.
Burlington, VI, Sept. THAT in
surgency is an active force even in
rock-ribbed republican Vermont is
generally conceded today. With re-
turns from only two counties and eight
small towns missing, the plurality of
DR.. John A. Mead, republican, for gov
ernor, over Charles ID. Watson, demo
crat, in yesterdays election is esti-
mated at about 5000. These figures,
even the republican admit, approach
the danger mark, as indications of the
general result in the rest Of the country.
In the last state election the republl-
can plurality was 1854.
Although figures are as yet unavall-
able, it is certain that the democrats
in yesterdays voting made gains in
both branches of the legislature, but
United States Senator Carroll S. Page
will doubtedly be reelected.
Both republican congressman, David
]. Foster and Frank Plumley, were re-
turned, but it will be some days before
the size OF their victory is known.
C. d. Watson, the democratic can
1. l.. T., nnIu go FFInn
his home city of st. Adams, by wide
margin, reversing the republican VIC
tory OF two years ago, but he also came
within 80 votes Of carrying Franklin
county, which has always been known
as strongly republican. Two years ago
Franklin county went republican 10y
,945.
Concord n. H., Sept. THAT the
progressive republicans are almost in
complete control in New Hampshire
was made certain today. Belated re-
turns from yesterdays election show
that Robert p. Bass, iDsurgent, has
been elected by nearly two TO one as re-
publican nominee for the goyernorshlp,
over Col Bertram Ellis, Of Keene,
regular at the first general primary
election in the state S history. Returns
from nearly two-thirds Of the 800 cleo
ton districts in the state give Bass the
majority by almost 5000 votes. If
this average is maintained throughout
the state it will mean that the regulars
are routed, horse, foot and dragoon.
One of the chief minor features Of
the election was the defeat in this city
as delegates to the state convention Of
United States Senator Jacob II. Gal
inger, chief supporter OF Col. Ellis,
and former Senator William +.
Chandler
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 7.-Incomplete
returns early today from the general
state primary election showed Con
gresham Townsend leading Senator
Burrows for the senatorial nomination
10y 19, 900; and Chase Osborn leading
the other two candidates for the Cover
norship nomination by $4,000. These
figures were from about two-thirds OF
the states voting precincts. Detroit
was incomplete at Z a. m, but was
giving Burrows a slight lead.
The primary was general victory
for the progressives. Congressman
Washington Gardner, a standpatter
and Cannon man, was defeated for the
nomination in the Third district by j.
NJ. C. Smith, OF Charlotte, an insur-
gent.
Reno, New, Sept. THE promi-
nent republicans progressive in yester-
days primaries have been defeated, ac-
cording to returns today from about
sixty per cent. of the precincts OF the
state The insurgent candidates were
eddie, defeated 10y w. A. -DemGssy for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor, and George Sprinmeyer, defeated
by Hugh Brown, for the republican
nomination for attorney general. The
returns also indicate a victory for the
present democratic administration over
the democratic insurgents.
New York. Sept. THE ports OF
insurgent victories all along the line
yesterday threw bomb into the old
guard camp today and there was a
hurried rush of the anti-Roosevelt
leaders to this city for conference.
The 1T. Leger stakes.
Doncaster, Eng, Sept. THE $780,
900 st. Leger stakes, the last year OF
the years classic three-year-old races,
was won today by the Earl Of Derby's
Swynford, ridden by F. Wooton.
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