Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-03
PATRIOT
ISPROvEN BY
VOTES CAST
Chicago and Wisconsin
Show Loyalty-Len-
root Leads Davies.


dates and those representing the
! Mayor Thompson faction OF the Re-
publicans were beaten in every
ward in which they appeared on the
ticket voted at the aldermanic cleo
tion yesterday. There were Social
ist candidates in 33 of the 80 wards,
but in only six were there any real
! contests and in these the fights
| were waged by the Socialist candi-
dates on the continuous and active
/ opposition to the war;" voiced in
the national platform of the party
adopted at st. Louis. One Socialist
member of the council was up for
reelection, William d. Rodriguez
OF the Fifteenth ward, and he was
beaten by the votes of women. On
! the vote of the men alone Rodri-
gueZ won by 13, but the women
gave Oscar H. Olsen, his Republi-
can opponent whom the Democrats
supported, a margin Of 279 and the
victory by 266.
Mayors Crowd Beaten.
In the Third ward, where the
strongest fight of the half dozen
made by the Thompson forces for
their candidate the result went
| against the mayors adherents by
large majority. In the total re-
suits the Republicans will have
! two less votes than in the old coun-
| ell, the Socialists one less and the
| Democrats gain three votes. There
! is holdover alderman for each of
the 35 wards and in the election
yesterday "a Democrats were
elected and IL Republicans. The
! complexion of the new council will
be 46 Democrats, % Republicans
and two Socialists.
Socialist Vote Small.
| The total vote for the Socialists
was 64.216, almost eight thousand
less than their leading candidate
received in the judicial election of
> last,fall In the wards where the
| German vote is heavy, however, the
! Socialists made gains in compar-
ison with the vote at the last cleo
tlon. In the Twenty-fourth ward
| the Socialist vote mounted from
| 1852 to $3.50 in spite of the fact
that Alderman John Haderlein,
| running for reelection is of Ger
man birth.
Taken as a whole, the vote in the
city was light, 3S9,126 out of a reg
istered vote of 7S1, 360-approx-
imately so per cent. The total Dem
ocrat vote was 166, ,9O6 and the Re-
publican 152,013.
John w. Rainey, Democrat, was
elected to congress in the Fourth
/ district to fill a vacancy caused by
/ the death of Charles Martin, Dem
! ocrat
7 Wisconsin Fight Hot.
Milwaukee, Wis, April 3.-Two
| widely divergent influences, name
ly, pro-Germanism and the plea
Wilson wants Davies" cut great
| chunks out of the normal Republi-
| can majority in Wisconsin at yes
| terday's election but returns from
/ SO out of II counties, incomplete,
| but doubtless representing more
than half the registered vote, indi-
cate the election of Congressman
Irvine L. Lenroot, Republican, over
| Joseph f. Davies, Democrat, who
had the backing of the Wilson ad-
ministration. Davies leaders de-
! clined to concede his election and
said that the soldier vote might de-
eide it.
Since the inception of the cam
paign every leader has insisted that
the loyalty of the state was being
judged by the nation. The Socialist
platform, which fatty opposed the
presidents policy OF peace with vic
tory. offered refuge for the ballots
of the disIoyal element. Patriots
accepted this vote as a test, and on
that basis the state has apparently
voted loyal by three to one.
LenrOOt Leads.
Belated returns from yesterdays
elections confirm the victory of Ir-
vine L. Lenroot, Republican. for
senator His plurality at noon was
S,575.
With 10 counties complete and
comparatively full reports from all
but four others. the vote stood:
Lenroot, 130,50S: Joseph Z. Da-
vies, Democrat, 121 ,933; Victor L.
Berger, Socialist, SS,03S.
This morning newspaper re-
turns gave Lenroot 92.677: Davies
S2.775 and Victor Berger, Socialist,
90. .OO6. The Berger vote was by
|
three polled by Lenroot and DAY.
les.
It was estimated that Lenroot's s
ultimate plurality would be about
twelve thousand or fifteen thou
sand. The ordinary Republican
majority is from sixty to one hun
dred thousand.
Repubs Vote for Davies.
Some OF the vote lost by the Re-
publicans went to Davies because
the president wanted him but much
CT II represented by the German
element in the La Toilette faction.
voted straight Hohenzollern, ac-
cording TO local analysis. The So
cialist platform. which calls for
withdrawal of the American forces
in France and repetition of the
Bolsheviki experiment In negotiat-
ing peace with the Hun. was fully
understood throughout the state
Prominent citizens who have felt
that the state had been misrepre-
isantad we're content to count the