The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-23
Rurnauist In Primaries.

about our politics as do our farm
ers."
Burnquist In Primaries.
In the 1916 primaries Mr.. Burn
qutst won the Republican nomination
for governor by defeating Samuel G.
Iverson, former state auditor of Min
nesota, by a vote Of 136, 122 to 1885.
1t is a significant fact that while
/ Mr.. Burnquist was polling 136, 122,
| his present opponent for the guber-
material nomination was getting only
26,094 for the U. S. senatorial nomi-
nation.
Three Democratic candidates for
| the governorship in the same cleo
ton polled a total Of only $3.50
votes.
Greatest Vote In State.
In the general election in 1916,
when he was elected governor after
having occupied the executive chair
several months following his eleva-
ton at the death OF Winfield Scott
Hammond, Governor Burnquist was
accorded the greatest vote ever given
candidate for any office in the his
tory Of the state of Minnesota where
there was opposition-and a few Of
statistics declare that no candidate,
unopposed, has been accorded as
great a vote.
Mr. Burnquist was elected with a
total Of 245.S41. while his Democratic
opponent, Thos. Dwyer, poIled only
SO, l12. The explanation for Mr. Burn
quist's big vote is found to lie partial
ly in the fact that Dwyer was an ex-
ceptionally weak candidate, being a
Minneapolis boiler maker with no &C
quaintance in the state, and the vote
he gathered was purely partisan ex-
cept for that part garnered from
labor circles. ...-
The total vote polled was $40, 619,
the Prohibitionist candidate polling
1854, the Socialist, 26,306, and the
Independent labor, 5.4T6.
The biggest vote ever accorded a
gubernatorial candidate previous to
1916 was that given John A. Johnson
in 1908, when he polled 1876, the
defeated Republican candidate, Jacob
F. Jacobson polling 147, 997. johnson,
in 1906, polled 16s, $50, and in 1904 he
polled 1892.
LtHdhersh Fer Senate.
When Mr.. Lindbergh abandoned his
seat in the lower house of the United
States congress and sought to sue
coed Moses E. Clapp as the Republi-
can nominee, he received less than
10 per cent Of the whole vote cast in
the Republican primaries in 1915.
Mr.. Ldndbergh was the fourth man
in a field that included Frank b. KEEL
logg, A. O. Eberhart and Moses T..
Clapp, with kellogg winning the
nomination.
In that election Mr.. Kellogg re-
ceived 73.S1S: Mr. Eberhart 64,S9O;
Mr. Ciapp, 1858, and Mr.. Lindbergh,
The total vote cast for senator was
ls2,4S0, SO that the present Nonpar-
tisan candidate for governor received
l4-plus per cent Of the whole vote
Last Race For Congress.
Mr.. Lindbergh appeared in tie |
Republican primaries in 1914 in the |
Sixth congressional district for
nomination for congress. defeating |
FL. ]. Maxwell, 10,39s to t6.ssS.
In the general election Lindbergh \
polled 1884, defeating Dubois who |
polled 11,409. The Socialist candi- !
date polled 1886, and the Progressive |
polled 1853.
The Sixth congressional district
includes AitStn. Beltrami, Benton, |
Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard. Morri- |
SON, sherburne, Stearns, Todd and |
Wadena.
Where the Vote Lies.
An analysis of the Minnesota vote
with relations to the counties in /
which 1t is cast, is well worth while, |
though 1t may prove nothing so far 1
as the forthcoming contest is con- /
cerned.
In the Republican primaries of two
years ago, in which approximately
$4,000 votes were cast for the Ruber- /
Material candidates, $50, 600 of the
votes were cast in 30 counties.
These counties included Ramsey,
and st. Louis In which areI
located st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth. The balance of the counties
include such as Winona, in which
Is the city of Winona with $4,000 1
people; Goodhue, with Red Wing: |
Stearns, with ST. Cloud; Rice, with
Faribault, and so on.
In the general election, Is coun-
ties in which are located the most
important cities cast 10000 of the
total of about $50, 900 votes cast in |
he entire state.
Ramsey Hennepin and ST Louis
in the general election.
cast a total Of $4,000 votes.
These same counties, in the Re-
publican primary cast a total OF 72,-
ISL votes. out Of a, total of 16s.30s
ballots cast in the cleo
ion in the state. Ramsey county
,ast 1891; St Louis, 24,160, and |
Iennepin, $4,000
The Rival Candidates.
The rival candidates for the Min
lesota governorship are attorneys
md both have long been in the pub
ic eye in the Gopher state for sew
raj years.
Mr. Burnquist was born in Dayton, !
a., i'm July 1879 After graduating
rom the high school In Dayton he
,ame to Minnesota, entering Carleton
college, Mortified, graduating there
n 1902. He Is also graduate of