The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-21
MAJORITY FOR
La TOILETTE TO
STOP At l0,500
That Apparently is Highest
Figure it can Reach in
the State.
REDUCTIONS N SEVERAL
COUNTIES NARROW MARGIN
Brucggcr and Duis Continue to Run
Close for Committccmau-Omc
Returns Will be Necessary Before
the Contest Can be Finally Decided.

Displacement of LaFollette majori-
ties IN fve counties and the substitu.
non OF Roosevelt ma ajorities. and sub
sfantial reductions in several other
counties of the LaFollcttc maiorities
as reported on early returns. have mar
roWcd the margin between Col. Roose-
VcN and Senator Robert LaFollette
In the North Dakota primaries by sew
eral thousand votes.
On the returns available at noon to.
day, LaFollcttes majority in the en-.
tire state is placed at about 10, 500,
and 1t may even go under the 10000
mark.
Cass Change is Big.
Several counties i'll which the early
votes for LaFollettc were brought
down materially by late returns, Cass
being notable example. the first re.
ports there showing majority of
i,aoo for LaFollette over Roosevelt.
while the almost complete returns
have reduced the majority to only
7ss: Divide is another the drop In
LaFollettc's majority being from 500
to S"5. Dunn. Hettinger. Kidder.
Rlchland and Ransom have been
transferred from the LaFollette to the
Roosevelt column.
Eleven hundred and sixty-four pre.
Gincts out of 1861 precincts in forty
i1Vc counties. reported at noon today.
gave LaFollctte 25,0ss. and Roosevelt
counties. Williams Ward, Dickey and
lsurke. on which exact figures were
unobtainable. gave LaFollette 1920
plurality His actual majority on the
precincts reported is 1905. and with
the l,"20 added. gives him a.31s
Division of Missing Precincts.
OF the 4a7 precincts still to be re-
ported i'll the forty-five counties. III
precincts are in counties which went
for Roosevelt, and 326 arc in counties
which went for LaTollette. ON that
showing LaFol!ette will have to E.ain-
| TAIN high average to exceed the TO-
600 mark
The Missouri slope which. on early
returns. appeared to have given La
toilette majority. gave Roosevelt a
majority over the WISCONSIN senator
OF 415 votes. LaFollette carried Ad-
| ANS, Bowman. Mckenzie and Oliver
counties. while Roosevelt carried
Billings. Stark. Morton. Hettinser.
Dunn and Mercer. The complete re-
turns shifted Dunn and Hetttnger
counties from the LaFollette to the
Roosevelt column.
Brucsger and Duis Close.
John Bruegger and George E. Duis
are apparently running very close for
the position of national committees
man In the counties of Bottineau,
Grand Forks, Mclean. Ramsey. Rem
vile and Walsh. the only ones from
which anything like complete figures
have been obtained, Duis is ahead Of
BruesSer.
Canvass Votes Next Wednesday.
The official canvass of the votes
cast in Tuesdays election will be-
made by the various counties next
Wednesday. the law prescribing that
the count shall be made within eight
days.
II is not probable that the result
of the contest for democratic commit
teen,an or for the places on the DEM
ocratic national delegation will be
known till that time
The returns available at noon to-
day on the presidential situation fol-
low: