The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-21
IS NORTH DAK0TA'S
FIRST CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT

$500 TO 10000 Plurality In Tues
tay's Electlon-Taft's Support Neg.
ilsibie- 49,.
In the first election of the kind
ever Aeld by any country on the face
at The globe, the voters Of North DA-
lsoaa in Tuesdays presidential pm.
uaries gave Robert NJ. La Toilette,
SsnaAor from WISCONSIN. . great
mnteetty over Taft and Roosevelt,
for peesident. The fight wasn't even
close. LaFollette was away and
ahead in a very large number Of pre-
c1Acts, Roosevelt getting scarcely
any votes in some of them. Taft's
support was negligible In hundreds
of precincts Taft did not get a vote
and it is doubtful if he received
more than a few hundred throughout
the state.
1t is estimated that La Follette's
majority over Roosevelt Is between
$4,000 and $4,000 tho at this writins
the majority is somewhat profile
NAUTICAL.
North Dakota seemed to have for =
gotten her adopted son. No doubt La
Follette's tour of the state had a great
deal to do with piling up such a
great majority for him and then
scores Of able La Toilette speakers
have spoken for weeks in every nook
in the state. The result of Tuesday
election shows that North Dakota 's
Overwhelmingly Progressive. Had
the Progressives endorsed Roosevelt
the results no doubt would have been
vastly different, altho La Toilette Is
deservedly popular with North Dako-
tans.
while Roosevelt is regarded as
high type of a progressive, the fact
that he has the endorsement Of the
Stalwart wing Of the republican par
tv in the state, tended to weaken him.
The Stalwarts blame the Democrats
largely for the results Of the cleo
ton. It IL a fact that mighty few
Democrats voted the Democratic TIC
ket and it is q fact that Democrats
are quite numerous in the state. It
is an old political trick for one party
to assist the weaker candidate of the
other, and the Democrats realizing
tlla& Fighting Bob would have less
show of getting the nomination than
Roosevelt, may have given him some
support.
The city of Minot gave the Wiscon-
sin man plurality of 172. In this
city La Toilette received a total OF
32s. Roosevelt ISL and Taft only Ii.
Il is estimated that the northwestern
oountdes of the state gave La Fol-
,ette a majority Of over 1000. In
!. Keemare city, La Toilette received
So. Roosevelt 81, and Taft 8. In Fair
baaAs township, Ward county, Roos'
e.eat received q majority Of IS.
Nposeveat carried the Missouri
slope district where he used to i've.
Bss,eagA county gave him a majority
Of $50, Morton county, majority o.
80. Hettinsm, 100, Mercer 100
STARK, $50, Mcintosh, 80, and En-
mons, 800.
Those. MarshaIl Of oakes, vas
ro.sinated over r. G. Cooper for
republican national committeeman.
At Harvery, La Toilette received
% votes and Roosevelt, s..
rother returns:
= stanley-La Toilette, Is; Rooseveit'
81; TAFT, ,.
prake-Roosevelt, IS; La Toilette
So.
c,enb,rn-IA toilette, 11s; Roose
Il I. / .
Il Welt. s; Taft, 8.
Kenmare Twp.-La Toilette IS;
Roosevelt, 6.
Plasa-La Toilette, IS; Roosevelt
%.
Berthoh City-La Toilette. y,
Roosevelt, II; Taft, I.
Palermo-LA Toilette, q; Roose-
welt, IS; TAFT, 2.
Tioga-La Toilette, 80; Roosevelt
10.
white Earth-LA Toilette, %;
Roosevelt, 10.
carpio- LA Toilette. "A; Roosevelt
10.
Powers Lake city-LaFollette, q;
Roosevelt, 8.
Ross village rAFollette. %; Rocs-