The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-25
CLOSE FIGHT IN THE FIFTH
Mueller Re-nominated by Narrow Mar
gin Over Molinar0, the Italian Can
didate--Anderson has Big Lead in
Fourth Meier and Goodman Win.

There were few surprises in the pri-
mary election on Tuesday and with the
exception of Alderman Barth in the
eighth ward, all of the present alder
men who sought denomination secured
a place on the ticket. Barth was put
up against five cornered fight in his
ward and he was nosed out, of posi-
tion on the ticket by Joseph M. Meyer,
formerly one of the assessors Of the
'ity, and Harry Smith. In the fifth
ard Alderman Emil p Mueller had
hard race and while he was second in
the primary he was only few votes
behind Robert w. Burt In this ward
Raffelo Molinaro drew heavy support
from his italian countrymen and until
the last vote was counted it was, doubt
full as to which of the three candidates
would be dropped from the list. In the
fourth ward Alderman John Anderson
had pretty clear sailing over Lyman j.
Starr and John a. Thommessen the
next candidates and he got away with
plurality over Starr Of nearly sixty.
The race between Sullivan and Obertin
in the first ward was not as close as
had been anticipated and Sullivan had
lead Of nearly forty votes.
In the Tree for all in the ninth ward
where there had been no sitting alder
man in the field Adolph Meier had an
easy race for first place on the ticket.
William II Goodman was second with
an even hundred votes and Frank Mar
tin in third place with eighty eight.
1T was thought that count of the sec
ond choice votes might put Martin as
the second man on the ticket but after
the process of elimination had been
carried on and the second choice votes
counted in Goodman still had an undis-
puted lead over Martin. In fact the
counting of second choice votes did not
effect the result in any part of the city
and made little difference other than
to emphasize the lead Of the candidates
who had won.
In the second, sixth and seventh
wards Alderman Shearer, Loef and
Joachim won easily in getting the ma
iority of the votes cast.
Ben Cameron showed his ability as a
'unner when he went into first place
or the nomination for justice Of the
ICE over Carlson by vote Of nearly
uwo to one. There were not a great
many women votes cast with the ex-
ception of the fifth and ninth wards.
Tn the fifth ward there was an even
fifty votes cast by women and forty
two of the fifty went to Harry o. Whit
beck, the successful candidate for the
head of the list Of candidates. Over
in the ninth ward A. B. Celander and
Mrs Mae Walkup were candidates for
school commissioner and this brought
out total of forty -seven votes for
women. OF these Celander had twenty
seven and Mrs. Walkup seventeen.
Less than twenty-five hundred votes
were cast all over the city and in the
wards where the candidates for alder
men had little opposition the vote was
the smallest in years. Even where
there were many cornered fights for the
aldermanic nomination the vote was
not as large as it had been in the city
election of year ago. The count of
the vote was completed reasonably
early and the ninth ward brought the
only delay in the announcing the re-
turn. An error in the method of count
ing the second choice vote in this ward
caused some delay. 1t is just possible
that there will be some demand on the
part of defeated candidates for the re-
count of the second choice vote in the
ninth ward and the ballots were care
fully separated in anticipation of such
q demand.
The fifth ward solved the trouble of
handling the second choice vote. In
the very center of the table used by
the election officials was heavy nine
pin and by it stood card which read,
''For Second Choice Voters Evi-
IDENTIFY this put the fear into the hearts
of the voters and there was small
umber Of second choicers in this ward
Following is the total vote cast:
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE !