The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-03-24
PLACE IS
STILL IN DOUBT
DELEGATE-AT-LARG RACE OF
BOTH PARTIES TO BE DECIDED
BY OFFICIAL COUNT.
LARSON AHEAD OF MANHATTAN
Stevens Has Chance According to Fig
ures Made by Secretary of State
LawIer, King and Nelson Sure
of Places on Democratic
Ticket.

st. Paul,-While Minnesota Repub.
licans cast their lightest vote in many
years in the presidential primary, the
Democratic vote was the largest ever
cast by the party in nominating con
test. The intense feeling shown in the
factional Democratic vote evidently
served to keep Democrats in their
own primaries for once, and the indi
cations are that more than $4,000 vot
ed Democratic tickets, while the Re-
publican vote is not likely to show
over $4,000, less than half the usual
turnout.
Race for Fourth Place.
Until the state canvassing board
makes the official count of the ballots
there will be doubt about fourth place
in the delegate-at-large race of both
parties. On the Republican side, A.
o. Eberhart, S. R. Van SAINT and ]. F,
Jacobson are unquestionably winners
James Manahan, who forged ahead of
Fred c. Stevens on Thursday and Fri
day figures, was passed later by o. J.
Larson of Duluth, when an error was
found in the compilations. Another
set of figures, made by julius A.
Schmahl from 63 official returns in the
office of the secretary of state, shows
F. c. Stevens leading both Larson and
Manahan, but with st. Louis county
not included. which will help Larson
Austin Pressed by Weiss.
On the Democratic ticket, Dan W.
Lawler, c. M. King and B. F. Nelson
are sure of places. z. H. Austin holds
fourth place, but is closely pressed by
A. G. Weiss, and the complete count
might yet change the result.
The Twin City press bureau at the
state capital compiled the totals from
II counties complete and IA counties
sending partial returns, the little
county of Cook being the only one not
heard from. There are 1884 precincts
reported, and only about 100 small
ones are yet to come in. The Repub-
lican totals follow:
Cummins, 50,357; Estabrook, 9,S44
Eberhart, 47,76O; Jacobson, 35,S67;
M. Johnson, 1874; Larson, 24,S4O;
Manahan, 23,915; Rain, 1927; Stew,
ems, 1S,461; Van SAINT, 35,979.
Shows Lead for Larson.
These figures show a decided lead
for o. J. Larson as fourth man. Sec.
rotary of State Schmahl's total of 63
counties, official, includes Hennepin
and Ramsey but not ST. Louis county
or several other northern counties
where Larson is strong. The Schmahl
figures are: Eberhart, 38,145; Van
SAINT, 30,910; Jacobson, 29,1S4; Stew
ems, 1894; Manahan, 1884; Larson,
1859; C. o. Lundquist, 1924; M.
Johnson, 15,494; A. A. D. Rain, 13, $50.
The Schmahl figures for the So coun-
ties show the Democratic race for del
egate-at-large standing thus: Lawler,
27,741; King, 19,493; Nelson, 1886;
Austin, 1854; Reiter, 1905; Vessel,
1888; Just. 1859; Weiss, 1929.
On adding in st. Louis and other
northern counties Mr.. Weiss will gain
heavily, but the press bureau figures
show him just little behind Austin
in 1884 precincts. These totals are:
Lawler, 1889; King, 24,392; Nelson,
23,4S6; Austin. 20,992; Reiter, 2O,427;
Vessel, 20,477; Just, 1910; Weiss,
2O,S9S.
The Democratic vote totals 1874 O31.
Allowing that each Democratic voter
marked four ballots, this would mean
46,00S Democratic votes cast. I'm
doubtedly many marked less than four
names, and allowing for more than
100 precincts yet to report, it is evil
dent that over $4,000 Democratic votes
were cast.