The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-03
SOCIALIST ANTS
FAIL TO SCORE
IN VOTE FIGHT
Wisconsin Elects ''LOyalty" U.
S. Senator by 1900.
Berger, Socialist, Gets About
Fourth OF Total Votes.
SOCIALISTS FAIL IN CHICAGO
All Socialist and Mayor Thomp-
son Candidates Beaten.
But Heavy Increase for "Antis''
in German Wards.
Berger, Socialist, Gets About
Fourth of Total Votes.
SOCIALISTS FAIL IN CHICAGO

milwaukee, Wis, April 3.-Wiscon-
sin has voted in favor of the war.
Returns today from more than half
the state show that Victor L. Berger,
100 per cent for peace Socialist can
dfdate for the United States senate.
was decisively beaten at yesterdays
special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Paul o. Hust-
ing.
Representative Irvine L. Lenroot.
Republican, was leading Joseph Da-
vies. Democrat, in the count early to-
day and indications were that he had
been elected.
Berger Carried Milwaukee.
Fairly complete unofficial returns
from all but fourteen out of seventy
one counties credited Lenroot with
1O4.1O4 votes; Davies with 93,401 and
Berger 63,123.
The unreported counties are in the
northern and western parts of the
state. districts that have been regard
ed as favorable to Lenroot.
Berger apparently has carried Mil
waukee city and county by small
margin over Davies. Lenroot was a
poor third here.
With approximately two-thirds of
the Milwaukee county vote tabulated,
Berger had counted 17,494 to 1887
for Davies and 9,S12 for Lenroot.
Marvin 8. Rosenberg was elected
Justice of the Wisconsin supreme
court over Charles Crownhart by 2S,-
900. Crownhart was recognized as the
La Toilette candidate.
Chicago Proves Loyalty.
Chicago, April 3.-Socialist candi-
or Thompson faction of the Republi-
cans were beaten in every ward in
which they appeared on the ticket
voted at the aldermanic election yes
terday. There were Socialist candi-
dates in thirty-three of the thirty five
wards. but in only six were there con-
tests and in these the fights were
waged by the Socialist candidates on
the continuous and active opposition
to the war issue voiced in the national
platform of the party adopted at St.
Louis" One Socialist member of the
council was up for re-e1ection-Wil-
liam Z. Rodriguez of the Fifteenth
ward-and was defeated by the vote
of women. On the vote of the men
alone Rodriguez won by thirteen, but
Republican opponent. whom the DEM
OcratS supported. a margin of 279 and
the victory by 266.
In the Third ward, where the strong
es- fight of the half dozen made sby
the Thompson forces for their can
didats was made, the result went
against the mayors adherents by a
large majority.
In the total results the Republic
cans will have two less votes than in
the old council, the Socialists one less
and the Democrats gain three votes
There is holdover alderman for
each of the thirty-five wards and in
the election yesterday twenty-f four
Democrats were elected and eleven
Republicans. The complexion of the
new council will be forty-six Demo-
Gratis. twenty-five Republicans and
two Socialists
Tho total vote of the Socialists was
46,216. much less than their leading
candidate received in the judicial
election last fall. In the wards where