The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-07

Kenosha county swung back into
the republican column on Tuesday SO
far as county officials are concerned
and the entire republican ticket with
the exception Of Frank Waldo, the
candidate of the party for the office
of clerk of the circuit court, was
elected. Waldo was defeated by Ben.
M. DeDeimar, the present clerk, by a
marrow margain of 80 votes.
The republican candidates won
hands down, most of them carrying
both the city and the rural districts
Of the county, County Clerk Jones,
A. L. Drury, Philip Hartman and Her.
bert Millager ronre1 under the poll
teal wire with some old time republl-
can pluralities and majorities, while
Or. Achen, the republican candidate
for sheriff, got away with Edward
Murphy, the popular democratic can
didate with plurality of 260, and
Perkins G. Torrey, the republican can
didate for register Of deeds, went
back into office, defeating Leo Flasch
the present Official by plurality OF
160.
The vote on the county ticket wrote
the political obituary Of M. ]. Scholey.
one time idol of the Kenosha democ-
racy, as Charles II. Pfennig, the repub-
lican candidate for member of the as
sembly won great victory over
Scholey having 3 plurality of nearly
$50 votes, Pfennig whipped Scholey
nearly everywhere in the county. He
went out of the city with plurality
Of 354 over Scholey and when the re-
ports from the rural districts of the
county came in his plurality was more
than doubled. Even in the fifth ward
the home ward of Scholey ,Pfennig
led by "a votes. Scholey had counted
on terrific pluralities on the north
side Of the city, but they failed to
1naterialize and in every ward and
town the former mayor and present
assemblyman ran behind the head Of
his ticket.
EARLY in the evening the election of
Pfennig was conceded by even the
most enthusiastic of the Scholey sup
porters and it became simply ques-
ton of how deep the political grave
OF Scholey had been dug. County
Clerk Russell H. Jones, who has been
accustomed to lead in big pluralities
in the county, was forced to award
the palm to A. l.. Drury, the republi-
can candidate for district attorney, for
while Jones rolled up a plurality of
lilac in the county, Drury defeated
Henry j. Hastings by total of 81, 1913.
The defeat Of Waldo came as result
of the big vote for DeDeimar in the
city. The democratic candidate for
clerk of the court ran Car ahead of
his ticket in the city and had Waldo
beaten by 246 on the face of the re.
turns from the city. At that it looked
as if Waldo might win with bic
pluralities in some of the heavy repub-
liean towns of the county, but these
failed to come across with votes
enough to pull him out of the rut he
had been left ia by the city vote
Torrey was also behind in the city
but he was behind only III and this
was easily overcome by the county
vote.
The voting on the split tickets did
not greatly affect the vote cast for
county candidates and while the bal
lot was little mixed up and hard for
some of the electors to vote they man
aged to handle it with ease and no
great difficulties were reported from
either the city or county.
The machine vote in the city showed
that the voters had absolutely no trou-
bic in solving the problem of how to
split the ballot.
The vote of the Social Democratic
party in Kenosha county was disap-
pointment, it not being as great as
that cast at the election of four years
ago.
The republicans had a mild celebra-
tion of their victory just before mid
night Tuesday night. 1t was fore.
gone conclusion at nine o o'clock that
nearly all Of the republican candidates
had been elected, but the successful
men wanted to wait until the county
was heard from. Chief of Police