New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-09-28
Congressional Situation. Board Of Canvassers
Met in st. Paul.

Tuesdays primary election in
Brown County passed off very quietly.
Nothing out of the ordinary occurred,
the candidates for the contested offices
hustled to get out the votes who appa.
rently manifested an interest in the
candidates for Congress, for the office
OF auditor, sheriff and county super
intendent of schools.
The only sign of unusual activity
was noticed in the evening when few
automobiles brought the tardy voter
to the polls.
AS was expected Hammond was no.
minated by an overwhelming majority
over his opponent Quigley. The Re-
publicans thought they would make it
easy for Hammond at the general cleo
ton, consequently they nominated
Ellsworth. The latter is said to have
carried the district by about l00-150
votes.
The state canvassing board starts
it's work Tuesday to determine official
ly who have been nominated at the
primaries. It will canvass the returns
on congressional, judicial and legisla-
tive nominations where the candid tes
are voted for in more than one county.
A number of county canvassing
boards have completed their work al
ready and all of the returns will pro-
baby be in before Tuesday.
The law requires that the secretary
of state must certify the nominations
to the county auditors not later than
three weeks before the general cleo
tion. Candidates that want to run in
dependent must file their petitions
with the county auditor before that
time, and if they are voted for in more
than one district the auditor Of their
home county will certify the names to
the auditors of all the other counties
in the district.
Candidates nominated by conven-
.tion or by petition for state offices
must file their certificates of nomina-
ton with the secretary Of state not
later than October 1. Nominations by
petition must have l per cent of the
votes cast at the last election, but not
exceeding 1900 names for state offices,
S per cent but not exceeding 500 names
to run for Congress Or district judge,
and 10 per cent of the total vote to get
on the county or legislative ticket.
The law does not permit any one to
sign a petition for an independent
candidate before the day of the prima-
ries, nor does it allow any one who
voted at the primaries to sign petit
tion for candidate for. any Office ex-
cept state Office.
Regarding the congressional sltua
ion, the Pioneer Press Washington
correspondent says:
One thing is already certain, the
insurgent movement has made Or will
make private citizens of a large num-
Der of conspicuous and influential pub
Lie officials. One of the most noticeable
of these is Representative James A.
Tawney, of Minnesota, who was de-
feated for denomination IN the Repub-
lican party in his district this week.
Tawney is regular of the regulars,
and standpatter of standpatters.
AS chairman of the committee on ap-
preparations and Speaker Cannon's
first lieutenant he has been one of the
big men of the house. His influence
has been second only to that of the
Speaker in shaping legislation, and
twas in his district and home city
that President Taft delivered his first
speech on the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and promo unced it to be the best
tariff law ever enacted.
Tawney made desperate fight for
denomination, and he had every as
sistance that the regulars could rem
der him, but he went down in defeat.
1t was a stunning blow, not only to
TaWney, but to the entire Cannon-Al-
drich element in national affairs.
Almost as conspicuous as Tawney's
case is that of Representative BouteIl
of Illinois, who was simply swamped
when he stood for rem omination in the
primary in his district. Boutell has