The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
LONG PRAIRIE MAN VICTORIOUS
IN 50 OUT OF IS COUNTIES
REPORTED.
BIG CITIES TURN HIM DOWN
HAMMOND CARRIES SIXTH DIS
TRICT BY 1,184.-LEE LEADS
IN SECOND BY so.

in nearly every case official and COW
ering every county in the state but
Cook, give Winfield S. Hammond 1885,
lis votes for governor, to 142,681 for
William E. Lee. Cooks vote is small
and the final returns will not be far
from these figures. This gives Ham
mond a plurality of 13,434.
Hammond's plurality in the three
counties of Hennepin, Ramsey and st.
Louis is 2O,7O2. Outside the three big
counties Lee led Hammond by 1858.
Hammond carried six congressional
districts anu Lee four. The second dis
trict was close with the advantage in
favor of Lee. The new tenth district
gave Lee pluralities in seven counties.
but they were more than offset by
Hammond's lead in the HennepiR
county district.
Of the IS counties heard from on
governor, Lee carried 81 and Ham,
mond 33.
The vote on the candidates of other
parties is yet to be obtained. Lee led
Hammond by 2,79O in the first district
carrying Dodge, Fillmore, Freedom.
Houston, Mower, Olmstead and Wa
SEGA counties, while Hammond carried
Steele, Wabasha and Winona.
In the second district, Lee carried
Cottonwood, Faribauit, jackson, Lin
coin, Mobiles, Pipestone, Redwood and
Rock counties while Hammond carried
Blue Earth, Brown, Martin, Murray.
and Watonwan. Four counties were
close with less than hundred votes
to the credit of the victor, and on
thele unofficial rteurns Lee carries his
opponents district by SO votes.
Hammond had things pretty much
his own way in the third district, car
rying nine counties, while Lee carried
only Goodhue, and Hammond led in
the district by 3,840.
The fourth district, Ramsey county.
gave Hammond the enormous plural
ity of 1886.
The ten Minneapolis wards that
make up the fifth congressional dis
trict, gave Hammond plurality Of
3,1O7, all but the eighth and thir-
teenth wards being carried for Ham
mond.
In the sixth district Lee carried
Aitken, Beltrami, Crow Wing, Hub
bard, Sherburne, Todd and Wadena
counties, while Hammond led slightly
in Benton, and Cass, had 203 plurality
in Morrison, and the humping plural
ity of 3,469 in Stearns. This one
county turned the scale in the sixth
best of it by 1884.
Hammond got small margin in
three of the seventh district counties,
Big Stone, Stevens and Traverse, but
the other eleven counties went for Lee
by from 200 to 800 plurality each and
the district rolled up 1922 plurality
for Lee.
The five eighth district counties had
from, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching.
Lake and St. Louis, all were carried
by Hammond, with total lead Of
2,812 for him, and Cook county still to
hear from.
Lee carried everything in the ninth
district save the small counties of Red
Lake and Mahnomen, which gave
Hammond little the best of it. Elev-
en- counties went for Lee, Ottertail
taking the banner with 1,125 plurality
and the district gave Lee the best of
it by 1881.
The seven counties Of the new tenth
district outside of Hennepin, namely
Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Mile Laos,
Kanabec, Pine and Wright, all were
carried by Lee by total plurality Of
2,072, but the Hennepin county end
of the district went against Lee by
1852, giving Hammond $50 the best
of it in the new district.
The state canvassing board meets
Nov. "a to make the official count Of
the returns.