Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-06-10
PRIMARY \ RETURNS
Clarke, Hamilton and White Are
\ in Lead For Governor.
CUMMINs AND CONNOLLY WIN

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CUMMINs AND CONNOLLY WIN
I Present Senior Senator Appears to
Have Majority Over Opponent
Well Up to That Of 1sos-i ~
NJ Light Vote Is PoIied.
Des Moines, June Incomplete re-
turns on Mondays statewide prt-
mary indicate that Geo. w. Clarke is
the nominee Of the republican party
to make the race for governor in the
November elections. ~ z
John T.. Hamilton of Cedar Rapids
seems to be the democratic governor
ship nominee t,&$ Ill.,, s,, g. ..}v
!, Reports Of the republican vote from
Isl country precincts, not including
any Of Polk county',s 75, give Clarke
7,198, Lee 4,447. 3Rowley 1,073.
m In the democratic contest for the
governorship nomination thirty-one
sample country precincts reporting
give Hamilton 1900, MoGinnis SOL. \
B Mostly City Precincts. M.
Except for The Polk county pre-
sctncts those that SO far have reported
are from all corners in the state, the
preponderance Of them probably be
ing city precincts. Neyerthe less they
are sufficiently scattered, and SO gem
orally representative. that the total
vote cast for each candidate, it is
I thought, will he nearly proportional to
the total Of precincts now known. 4.
MN On the basis OF; the figures for ISL
country prectncts, Clarke's total pri.
mary poll for the entire 2,29! voting
precincts within the state probably
viii approximate IS 100000, the same
vote It lis Indicated Cummins has re-
ceived. IA Judge &. II G. Lee has polled
about sc, 900 votes and John w Row
ley Of Keosauqua has been accorded
! : totaa poll OF about 16 $3.50. III /: * X
s5t Democratic total vote predictions,
Z ~ the same Sba sis, which as yet is
very uncertain, give John T. Hamil-
! ton Of Cedar Rapid a total Of between
Isl, 900 and 80, 900, Z and make the vote
ssof ". .saR. McGinnis OF Leon about 40
900. , 55.. I II
4 VI Igures indicate that the total vote
i for al three republican gubernatorial
candidates has been about 1871 900. 5E+ Z
Fy3 Same As In 1912. R53 n q.
fYt The total vote for governor two
years ago, in 1912, at the primary, was
181, AS. This would indicate that the
blican party in Iowa had retained
NJ entire strength since til democrat
ic landslide two years ago. Further
standardization Of this indication Is
i gained from the fact that Clarke poll
ed 1884, 14sS votes IN the 1917 NoVem-
her election approximately the same
I - the primary governorship total.
! Seventh Cong ressIonal5 District. sS
lf I 5s With returns coming In very slow
II from outside Des Moines only u
I out Of 1874 precincts in the Seventh
4 district had a been heard from up to
IN early. hour this morning on the
republican, contest for representative
7 n congress. Ontthe total Of this NUM-
her OF precincts, DoweN had q lead Of
/ 800 votes over Myerly and 500 over
! Payne. III many Of the precincts the
vote was running fairly close ana AZ
1 there was no assurance in the partial
vote that 1t indicated accurately what
the total would be: S..,.Et
nitsd states Senator. I. n I 4
Albert B. Cummins and Maurice
{ Connolly have been chosen BY the
i *; voters Of; Iowa to represent respec-
lively the republican and democratic
parties in the fight for United States
I. son ator next November, according to
returns 81 Monda primaries. Bull
moose returns were not sufficient to
( predict the Bashor-S chenk result result at
the time OF this report. a /. Il
! &33 "a. MI. Cummins led his opponent,
I Arthur C.. savage. OF Adair, BY 2 larger
+ percentage of the total vote o. ms ms
party than did the democratic victor
N precincts which have reported the
I ~ results Gof the senatorial nomination
4 contests. VI Ri !.
'Sss Returns On: representative from 416O
/ prs cincts outside OF Polk county give
Cumn,ins II, 872, Savage 4,57l:5 POLK POLK
county 8 forty-hve precincts add ~, -
Is Cummins'E.vote and i ,512 to Savage.
y In the democratic contest, ninety
I've precincts outside Polk county re;
port Connolly 1868, Meredith =, oo6.
I Il polk County c Connolly received 47 1'e
and Meredith s55. b3.3 MI 3:s Il, 15 81
TWO BIG Campaigns. e
4 The issues upon which the campaign
asatnst Cummins was based referred
mainly to his tariff record. Appar-
emily republicans OF Iowa are not not as
/ posed to take too seriously renee
t,on On the senior senator's position
with respect to import duties, and IN
cidentally yesterdays vote seems to
demonstrate in some degree that the
average Iowan is not SO concerned
over the present tariff situation as
has been generally believed.
The Connolly campaign against
Meredith has been the warmest OF any
contest in the whole state or con-
BID Farm Deal Closed. :
= Grundy Center.-Philip Letbsohn, OF
this city has just closed a deal Win
a. N. Y Dung Of Evanston, ILL.,, where
by he becomes the owner OF what is
Known as the Chicago Stock Farm, ad'
Joining the town of Buffalo Center, Ia.
This is one Of the best improved
farms in the state and contains 900
acres, the improvements costing ABOUT
$50 900. They consist OF seven
houses, one barn with seventy-hve box
stalls, four silos, cattle barns, and
many other first class improvements
] not usually found on farms. ~.
Couple Joined BY Death.
I I. EChariton,-Mr. and Mrs Thomas E.
Palmer OF this city. who enjoyed
& Il 1;fo ne =, ga r1v sixtyInine1