The Irish standard., 1914-11-07
COUNTY OPTION IS DEFEATED?
MEASURE WILL LOSE IN BOTH
HOUSES Is PREDICTION.
Thirteen Senators Lose In Reelection
MOSTLY New Men Elected All
Over State.

st. Paul.-That county option will
be defeated by the incoming Minneso-
ia legislature is indicated by the make
up Of the senate and the house.
Returns are complete on the sena-
tors and there are but few districts in
which the house members are not
known.
Option Was Issue.
The county option question was the
issue in most of the legislative dis
tricts. On that issue, many candi.
dates went down to defeat. In some
instances men were elected on that
issue alone.
Conservative estimates are that
county option will lose in the senate
by four votes. It is expected that the
anti-county option vote in the house
will have big majority.
With returns in from most of the
legislative districts, talk of who the
speaker of the house will be has al.
ready started. The name of H. H.
Flower Of Cleveland, LIE Seueur coun-
ty, was among the first to be men.
toned for speaker. In the last legis.
lature Mr.. Flower was not known to
be rabid one way or the other on tho
county option question. Other names
will undoubtedly be mentioned within
the next few days and in short time
the scramble for the speakership will
begin. -!
Many New Faces.
There will be many new faces in
the legislature this coming session:
In fact, the big majority in the branch.
es are men who have not served be.
fore.
A number of the well-known legisla.
tors will be missing when the roll IL
called. Among them are w. l. Nolan.
who sought election in the senate; Ole
Sagen, B. E. Sundberg, Tom Pugh of
Duluth, Sampson R. Child, and others.
In the senate 10 of the senators
who served last year have been re.
elected. In addition. there are four
men who are graduating from the
house to the senate. All the rest Of
sixty-six are new men. More than
two-thirds of the house members will
be new men.
Thirteen senators who sought re-.
election were defeated. The list in.
cludes some men who are we'll known
throughout the state.
Defeated Senators.
The defeated senators are: Ole Sa,
geng, Ottertail county; Thomas J.
McGrath. Winona county; S. A. Nelson.
Fillmore; l.. O. Cook, Wabasha; S. B.
Bedford, Mobiles; Henry Benson, Nicol.
let; George Carpenter, Wright; Frank
Murray, Renville; Napoleon L'Herault.
Hennepin; F. H. Peterson, Clay:
Thomas Pugh, st. Louis; John Saug.
stad, Polk, B. E. Sundberg, Kittson.
The following senators were 70.
elected: Duxbury, Lende, Weis, Glotz-
bach, Rockne, r. P. Peterson, Dwinnell.
Wallace, Pauly. Putnam, Handlan,
Van Hoven, Denegre, Dunn, George H,
Sullivan, J. d. Sullivan, Edward Rus.
tad, James Johnston and Hanson,
Five Go to Senate.
The five house members who gradu
ated to the senate this year are: N.
J.. Holmberg, E. ]. Westlake, Patrick
McGarry, Bob" Dunn and D, p.
O'Neill.
There probably will be one Socialist
In the upper body, namely Richard 8.
Jones Of Duluth. Jones has a sub.
stantfal lead over Thomas Pugh, the
Oldest man serving in the senate. e..
q. Lobeck of Alexandria, Prohibition
leader, one time candidate for cover.
mar, has been elected to the senate.
There will be at least one Prohibit.
ton, A. V. Anderson of Goohue coun.
ty, and one or more Socialists in the
house.
Charles A. Gilman of St. Cloud. one
time lieutenant governor, now over 80
years old, has been elected to the
house from Stearns county.
There is certain to be contest for
senator in the Twelfth legislative dis.
trict. E. w. Davis leads John Steffen
by just one vote there.