South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-10
Candidates Who Had Plurality
of First Choice Votes Sue
CeSSfuI in Each Instance
in This County.
TREASURERSHIP CONTEST
AMONG DEMOCRATS CLOSE
{. F. Keller Wins Nomination
For This Coveted Office.
County Goes For
Watson.

Second choice votes in St Joseph
county did not affect the standing
Of any of the candidates. In every
instance where candidates received
q plurality Of the first choice votes
they We're elected. Examinations
were made and the second choice
votes Of the contestants were added
in to the first choice ballots but the
nominees had enough urst choice to
swing them over.
IN the race for commissioner from
the middle district. Noah e.. Leh-
man second high gained 40 votes
ON Walter q. Miller from the second
choic- ballots. re lacked 40. how
over which gave Miller the NOM
nation. Miller at the start had
f242 hrsts 90 Lehmen's lips. When
the elimination process OF the five
other candidates had been completed.
Miller had l,56S to Lehman's l.49S.
or "A majority of 20.
Many second choice votes were
b.ousht into play on the g. O. u.
race for representative Geycr.
Cody and Beyers had 1.705. 1924
and .526 frsts. In the elimination
process they received enough sec
ond choice votes 10 bring up their
totals 20 1872, lao and 1896.
Although Harry s. New was the
republican candidate for United
States senator who was successful in
the state. St Joseph county went for
James r Watson. The latter's ma
jority was 1855 after Robinson had
been eliminated.
Trcasurcrship Race Close.
In the democratic rangs. in only
one race did the second choice pro-
vision cause anxious moments i'm the
minds Of the candidates This was
IN the treasurership contest where
+. T. Keller was successful.
Leonard b. Clore of Laporte, who
with John A. NJ Adair was a can
didate for gubernatoriaI race. was
virtually showed under i'm this coun-
ty u required no elimination pro-
cess or tallying Of the second choice
votes 10 figure out the winner here
as there were but two men i'm the
unopposed and consequently polled
a big vote.
A noticeable feature OF the vote
pOlled in some of the precincts was
the absence Of the secoI CHOICE
preferences cast In number of
precincts not one second choice vote
was registered Whether il was be-
cause the voters were afraid of mu-
tilating their ballots or because they
had no second choice preferences. is
not known.
ProgrcssiNcs Cast Is.
total of rs progressive votes
were east in the county j. Frank
Hanly got Il while the other two
candidates got about the same num-
Der. In the vote for progressive
delegates 20 the state convention.
some failed OF election because not a
single vote was east for them. one
vote would have been necessary for
nomination as the delegates were
unopposed in this party
Keller for Treasurer.
There were ABB first choice votes
cast for treasurer OF these. none
81 the four candidates for the DEM
ocratic nomination received a ma
fority OF the total Thomas p More
name was dropped and the second
name was dropped and the second
choice votes added as i'm the legisl3-
tive contest Marion Wesolowski
with 1.Iz1. had the least number
his name was dropped This left the
race between Keller and Dunnahoo.
with Keller winner on "a total OF
1873
OF the 4.IS9 first choice votes cast
for sheriff Charles +. Bailey. seek
ing denomination. received 2.44S. a
majority r j. Swantz had "a ma
iority OF 500 Of the 3,S47 votes cast
for coroner defeating Or. d. W.
Mcnamara Thomas Williams had
a majority OF the 4,044 votes cast
for commissioner from the middle
district George W. Phillips and