The Mankato free press., 1912-10-04
STATE VOTE CANVASSEO
EBERHART'S LONG LEAD
From TUESDAYS Daily.

From TUESDAYS Daily.
st. Paul, October 1.-After wrest-
ling for more than week with
returns from the primary election
held two weeks ago today, the state
canvassing board late yesterday af-
ternoon finished its work, compiling
totals on the various candidates for
state, legislative and congressional
offices Estimating the party vote
on the totals in the primary, the
republican votes number about 1885,
900, while the democratic vote does
not run much over 100000 The re-
publican vote was close to the nor
NAL republican showing, while not
one in three of the democrats, ap-
parently, cast a ballot in the pri-
| mary.
W. e. Lee, who was second high
man for the republican nomination
| for governor, got more than twice
as many second choice votes as
Eberhart did, but still in the final
elimination was 7,444 behind the
governor Eberhart had 62,402 first
choice votes, and with the elimina-
ton of Falk, Gordon and Spooner
gained 4,255, making a total of &c.
557 Lee had 40,571 first choice
votes and in the elimination gained
S,542, giving him final total OF
49,113.
| The official vote on democratic
candidates for governor is: Ring
dal, 1851; Andrist, 1867.
=. :. :.
The elimination process is en-
ployed in only the cases of guber-
material candidates and candidates
for large in con-
gress on the republican ticket and
in the case of the democratic can
didates for the siX-year term of rail-
road and warehouse commissioner.
| The totals for judicial candidates
| in class for associate justice give
Andrew Holt 126,323. Judge Oscar
Hallam gets 1885 and Justice Bum
1906, in class 2, but both go on the
ballot. Charles NJ Start, chief JUS
tice, who has resigned his renomi-
nation, got 61,126; Charles M. STAN
ton 54,710 and F. A. Stewart 46,11S.
Start and Stanton should go on the
ballot if Start had not withdrawn.
The final count n the primary
| election give James A. Manahan the
| nomination for congresSman-at-larg
with vote of 42,595. Carl J. Buell.,
candidate for congressman-at-large
on the democratic ticket, and with
out opposition is given 21,65S votes
in the final count.
| .:- :. =.
! While Senator Knute Nelson wins
handily over James A. Peterson, his
rival for the republican nomination
for United States senator, with S8,-
145 votes, compared to Peterson's s
63,431. Daniel w. Lawler, sole DEM
ocratic candidate for senator, had a
vote Of 27,6S6.
Burnquist gets 74,107 votes for the
republican nomination for lieuten-
ant governor, winning out over Neill
with 64,946 votes Powers on the
democratic ticket for nomination for
lieutenant governor, with 1904 votes
! to his credit, defeats King, his
rival, who is given 13,433 votes by
the state canyassing board.
The feature of the vote on secre-
tary of state is the large, vote cast
for julius A. Schmahl, renominated
by the republicans for secretary of
state. AS Schmahl had clear ma
jority it was not necessary to use
the elimination process. He had 7S,-
322 first choice votes. Mattson,
1859; and Ege, 20,495.
Harvey Grimmer, democratic can
didate for secretary of state, hand
lily defeats Olund, his rival Grim
mer's vote is 1881; Olunds 9,04S.
Walter j. Smith, sole candidate
for the republican nomination for
state treasurer, receives 124,720
votes. Vessel and Bibb, democratic
candidates for the same position get
1920 and 1888 votes respectively,
Vessel winning with large major
Iity to his credit.
Attorney General Smith is given
! S4,S16 votes in the total count, in
comparison with 56,137 cast for
Fraser, his rival for the republican
nomination. Donahue, the only can
didate for the nomination of attor-
ney general on the democratic
ticket, received a total of 25,327
votes.
G. E. Elmquist, the successful can
didate for the republican nomination
! for the siX-year term for railroad
commissioner, will be opposed by j.
J. Reiter, who defeated Andrew
French by the close vote of H.
AT to 14,147. For the four-year term
John M. Gaynor wins the demo
cratic nomination, to oppose Ira B.
Mills, the republican candidate. The
first choice votes were: Gaynor, H.
34S; Strickler, S,6SS; Currier, 1894.
There were no contests for any
of the public ownership or prohibi-
ton candidates. They received the
following vote:s
Public Ownership-For congress
man-at-large, ]. S. ingalls,, 5,175;
governor, David Morgan, 5,433;
lieutenant governor, D. NJ Robert
son, 5,2S6; secretary of state, J. A.
Johnson, 5.32S; state treasurer, ]. E.
Nash, SAB.
Prohibition Congressman-at-large
w. G. Calderwood, 2,414 governor,
E. E. Lobeck, 2,616; lieutenant gov
ernor, George H. Andrews, 2,425;
secretary of state. c. l.. Johnson,
2,459; attorney general, j. H. Morse,
1859.
Mrs. I. H. Summers returned last
night from a week spent in ST Paul