Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-21
LAfOLLETTE'S
LEAD 13.5O0 i'm
NORTH DAKOTA
Wisconsin Senator Polls Al
most Two to One Vote
Over Col. Roosevelt in
First State Primary.

Fargo, N. D., March 2O.-Wltn par
tial returns received during last night,
Senator LaFollette Of Wisconsin evil
dently has lead of more than $4,000
votes over Theodore Roosevelt in the
first presidential preferential primary
election today. At an early hour this
morning $50 precincts out of 1900
gave LaFollette 21,697, and Roosevelt
1874. This ratio, if maintained by
the reports from other precincts, Will
bring LaFollette's majority over
Roosevelt UP to approximately lS,-
500 LaFollette's strength was greater
in the eastern part of the state, al
though Roosevelt did not develop SO
much strength in the west as had
been anticipated. Roosevelt carried
but one of the eastern tier Of counties.
Thomas Marshall the LaFollette
candidate for national committeeman,
has a majority which it is believed
will equal that of LaFollette.
The LaFollette presidential electors
all have been elected with majorities
ranging about the same as the head
Of the ticket.
The total vote in the state is be-
lieved to be about $4,000. It was cut
down materially in the western part
on account of the storm. F.- "
Bass B,anes Democrat Votes.
John S. Bass, manager Of the Roose-
welt campaign, issued the following
statement last evening:
"Our reports indicate that practlc-
ally all the democrats have voted for
LaFollette and this has run up the
early returns for him in the eastern
and valley section OF the state where
LaFOllette is running ahead about two
to..one. Our later returns from the
eastern slope indicate that country is
general for Roosevelt by two to one.
do not concede LaFollette success and
predict Roosevelt will win by a very
close vote, II the democrats had stayed
out of the republican primary there
is no question that Roosevelt would
have won.
LaFoIIette Hears News.
Chicago, March 2O.-''The time for
talk has gone by; the time to do is
at hand. shall campaign from now
on until the last delegate is elected.
in the same spirit, with. the same
deiniteness as to principle, and with
the same confidence in the result as in
North Dakota"
The foregoing was Senator Robert
NJ. LaFollette's announcement after
reading reports of the North Dakota
presidential preferential primary upon
his arrival here last night from Devils
Lake, N. D.
sThat's better even than I expect.
ed,'' said Senator LaFollette, when
he was shown early returns from the
North Dakota preferential presidential
primary election. II am glad to see
the so-called Cow country returned
the results it did. My friends, in that
state cannot be fooled by merely talk,
and North Dakota can't be shaken
from its progressive trend"
$50 Mr.. Bass says Roosevelt suffer
ed because democrats voted for me
and thus prevented the people from
expressing their desires for the presi-
Dental nomination, did he? In many
of those precincts there are not many
democrats. suppose there that they
will have the COWS voting for me to
override the will of the people. That's
as good an explanation as the. other,
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