The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
MCGOYERN LEADS BY 1926
Candidates for Minor States Offices
Ran Ahead Of the Governor by More
Than 1O,00o-state Legislature Con-
troIled by Republicans.
Pluralities in State.

Plural1tles IN state.
For Woodrow Wilson,
1881 plurality.
For Governor-Francis E. McGovern,
11,276 plurality.
For Lieutenant Governor Thomas
Morris, 21,718 plurality.
For Secretary of State-J. S. Donald
23,089 plurality.
For State Treasurer-Henry John
son, 1885 plurality.
For Attorney General-Walter G..
Owen, 9l,849 plurality.
The canvass of the vote at the gen
eral election has been completed in
every county in the state except Green
county In this county the work may
not be completed for ten days.
The official returns are now being
fled in Madison and are in the mails
between the county seats and the
capital
Woodrow Wilson carried Wisconsin
by plurality of 1851 in a total vote
of 397,176. This is 57,265 less votes
than were cast in the state at the
presidential election in 1908.
Gov. Francis E. McGovern carried
The state by plurality of 1926 over
Judge John G. Karel. McGovern's vote
was 179,479. Karel received 1GS,203.
There were 5,9O1 more votes cast
for president than for governor. The
total vote for president was 397176,
while the total vote for governor was
891, 275.
Karel received 1894 more votes for
governor than Wilson did for president.
McGovern received 48,6O1 more votes
than Taft, but his vote was 10000 less
than the combined vote of Taft and
Roosevelt, showing that all of the
Roosevelt vote did not come from the
republican side.
Wilson Behind Bryan.
Wilson received 164,4O9 votes or
1888 less than were cast in the state
for Bryan in 1908. Taft received
130878 votes or 1860 less than he
received in 1908. Roosevelt's vote
was 58,661. Taking the Taft and
Roosevelt vote together and there is
still net loss Of 58,208 to the repub-
licans, showing very clearly where the
stay at home vote came from.
The prohibitionists lost 3,245 votes
as compared with their vote in 1908.
The social democrats showed gain
of 1913 votes over those cast for that
party in 1908, but as compared with
the vote the socialists received IN the
state in 1910 they have a loss of
5419.
Wilson carried forty-th three of the
seventy-one counties in the state, Taft
carried twenty-five and Roosevelt six.
The counties carried by Taft were Bar
ron, Buffalo, Clark, Door, Dunn, Eau
Claire, Florence, Iron, jackson, Juneau,
Marinette, Oconto, Oneida, Pepin,
Price, Richland, Rock, Rusk, Irem-
pealoau, Vernon, Waupaca, aad Wau-
shara.
The counties carried by Roosevelt
were Bayfield,, Burnett, Douglas, Polk,
Pierce, and Washburn. His only
plurality of moment was received in
Douglas county where Roosevelt had
1920 votes, Wilson 1,1S5 and Taft,
TAI. Even Debs beat out Taft in this
county, receiving 765 votes.
Taft's plurhties were from strong
republican counties where the republi-
can vote was large enough to stand
the drain caused by the bull moose
inroad Taft's heaviest pluralities
came from Rock, Waupaca and Yer
non counties, Rock giving him 1916,
Vernon, 1,211 and Waupaca GAP.
Wilson 8 heavy pluralities came from
Milwaukee county, where ne had a
lead over Taft of 9,576; Dane county
where he had 1902 plurality; Dodge,
where he had 1857; Jefferson, where
he had 2,455; and Lacrosse, where he
had 1891 plurality. In the other coun.
ties Wilson received plurahties rang
ing from a few hundred up to 1900.
1t was case where the landslide az
feeted nearly every county. 1t was
assisted, as the returns show, by the
irroads of the bull moose whose vote
was heavier than was expected BY
those who were watching the trend of
events must closely.
CARVER" GRADE TROTTER