The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-03
BERGER BEATEN
VERY DECiS|vELY
Wisconsin Does Not Want a So
cialist Senator Who is in
Favor of Making
Peace.
|LENROOT LEADS ALL
Republican Candidate Elected on the
Face Of Returns From
Good Part Of the
State.
LENRooT LEADS ALL
[By l.. C. Earnist, United Press Stan
Correspondent

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, April 3.-Wis-
consin 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
didate for the United States senate,
was decisively defeated at yesterdays
special election to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the death of Paul o. Hust-
ing.
Representative Irvine L. Lenroot, re
publican, was leading Joseph Davies.
democrat, in the count early today,
and indications we're that he had been
elected.
Fairly complete unofficial returns
from all but fourteen out of seventy
one counties credited Lenroot with
104, ,1O4 votes; Davies with 9S,401 and
Berger 62,123.
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 q
ipoor third here. !.
with approximately two-thirds OF
Z the Milwaukee county vote tabulated.
; bSIHSSI ldu SouhtCo " AO'SS>
for Davies and 9,S12 for Lenroot.
i Davies leaders refused to concede
that Lenroot is winner. They declar-
ed complete Milwaukee returns Will
I give Davies a sufficient margin to Off
+ set Lenroot's lead In the state outside
| Milwaukee county.
However, according to figures COM
piled hy the Davies headquarters,
I Lenroot was leading the democratic
candidate by approximately 1000 Win
many Milwaukee precincts yet TO De
reported.
IenrOct's managers claim his cleo
ton by 10000 plurality.
! Analysis of the partial returns indl-
Gates that in several counties OF the
German belt much of the vote given
lanes Thompson. La Toilette repup-
t1ican candidate who was defeated AT
the primaries. was cast yesterday TOT
Berger.
! Shebovgan and Manitowoc counties,
heavily German, rolled up big MAORI
ties for Berger. Returns today, now
ever, made it apparent that Berger mas
not polled a total vote equal to the
Rerger and Thompson vote at the prl-
maries
The final count, it was estimated
will show that Berger on his stop-the-
war platform failed to poll more than
tbir+v.fiye per cent of the combined
win-the-war vote OF Lenroot ana
Davies.
prys Claim Victory.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. April 5.-Wls
consin drys claimed victory To-Day IN
the first skirmish OF the fight to elect
dry legislature next fall and rat1ry
! the federal prohibition. Saloons were
ousted at Superior, Ahland and Beioi'.
The official count will be needed to
determine the result at Madison
where both vets and drys claim VIC
torv nv narrow margins.
CHICAGO Votes Loyal.
CHICAGO April 3.-Chicago vot-
org hoasted 100 per cent loyal re-
cord today. having defeated all So
ciaIist anti-war aldermanic candidates
AZ Yesterdays city election. The
vr,,nan,s vote ousted Alderman Rod
riguez. socialist, overturning his male
majority.
.John W. Rainey, democrat was
,amed congressman from the fourth
district.
The total socialist vote was 64,216,
approximately 5000 less than at the
last election. Slightly more than a
fifty per cent vote was recorded by
all parties in the city as whole.
The total democratic vote was 166,906
and republican 152.013. Twenty-four
democrats and eleven republicans
were elected to the city council
Lenroot Away in Lead
IRv L. C. Earnist, United Press Staff
Correspondent
i MILWAUKEE. Wis, April 3.-With
approximately eighty per cent OF the
+! vote of Yesterday election tabulated
Irvine L. Lenroot. republican. was
leading Joseph Davies for United
States senator by about 5000 votes
! this afternoon Victor L. Berger. so
1 cialist. was 41,oo0 behind the leader
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