The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-24
.NORBECK Wins BY A
Vote OF TWO TO ONE
CHRISTOPHERSON SURPRISES
OPPONENTS BY WINNING HIS
CONGRESSIONAL RACE.
RESULTS IN LAKE COUNTY
HARTWICH, KELLER, O'CONNELI
AND MISS ALICE Ripe ARE
THE WINNERS.

Sioux Falls, May "a, $500 p. M
Special: In a primary election with
out unusual feature, Peter Norbeck
yesterday ran away from his repub-
lican opponents for governor, the
vote cost for him being more than
the combined vote for Egan and
Richards. and in the First congress
sional district c. A. Christopherson
has a substantial majority over G. III.
Dillon, present congressman, against
whom he was opposed for United
States representative. All of the
counties in the First district have
reported. Reports received here
late this afternoon give Christopher
son a majority of 1879. Egan did
not even carry Minnehaha county,
his home. Although Dillon carried
the most counties. the big lead given
Christopherson here could not be
overcome.
Majorities were given the two re
publican candidates for congress as
follows:
Moody county, majority for Dill
lon. so.
Minnehaha county. majority for
Christopherson, 2,100.
Lincoln county, majority for
Christopherson, %.
Union county, majority for Chris
topherson, $50.
Clay county. majority for Dillon,
100.
Yankton county, majority for Dill
Ion. 500.
Bon Homme county, majority for
Dillon, 200.
Dawson county. majority for Dill
Ion, lie.
Brule county, majority for Dillon,
25.
Lake county. majority for Chris
topherson. %.
Norbeck's plurality in the state
will not be less than 10000, and
probably will run much above that
figure. Egan was second.
Willis G. Cook. of Sioux Falls. was
elected the South Dakota member of
the republican national committee.
The harmony delegation to the
Chicago convention has been elected
with the exception of one member
in the First district, where there
were three candidates for the two
places. Col. Melvin Grigsby, Roose-
welt candidate, sought to defeat Hans
De Muth, a harmony delegate. The
position OF the three names on the
ballot was such that 1t would not be
surprising if both Col. Grigsby and
De Muth we're elected and the sec
ond harmony delegate defeated
through voters marking the first
two names, which were those of Mr..
De Muth and Col. Grigsby.
Lake County Vote.
Within Lake county, the contest
was not SO spirited as the early cam
paigning OF the candidates would
have seemed TO warrant. The fact
that approximately 1,775 of the reg
istered 2.512 electors marked ballots
in the county, lent proof that inter
est in the outcome of the contest was
either at low ebb or that many men
were of the opinion hal the privi-
lege of casting a ballot was not suf-
ficient compensation for leaving their
work long enough to visit the polls.
Reports from the various city and
country polls started to arrive short
ly after s o'clock last evening, and
the last precinct result did not reach
the city until this forenoon.
Keen Contest.
Greatest interest in the county
contests was centered in the race for
county superintendent of schools, for
which office there were six contend
ers, five girls and one a Miss
Alice Ripe and Miss Mabel Mat
thews lead most of the way, but it
was not until the last precinct had
been heard from that Miss Rippe's
election to the SUPPLEMENTARY was
made positive. The vote for Miss
Ripe was 368, a majority of 38
over that cast for Miss Matthews, her
nearest rival.
Big Vote for Auditor.
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