The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-07-02
GOV WORSTED
NORTH DAKOTA VOTE WAS
CAST YESTERDAY
LEAGUE HIT BY BALLOTS
Organization Fails to Poll Ex-
pected Lead In Rural
Sections

dtso, IN. ~, july -" iiidiu
LANCER had q lead of 1887 votes
over Lynn ]. Frazier when 1913 out
of 2.064 precincts in North Dakota
had been heard from this morning.
The count was:
William LANCER .............2O .7s
Lynn J. Frazier .............10,37 1873
The figures include the cities of
Bismarck, Mandan, Wahpeton, Val
ley City. Jamestown, Devils Lake.
Grand Forks. as we'll as ten out Of
seventeen precincts in the city OF
Fargo.
Fargo election officers were still
counting votes long after daylight.
The returns available include
nothing from numerous far western
counties, and they include only the
town and village votes in several
other counties. .
LANCER Strong In Country.
Uniform gains for William LANCER
in the rural districts as compared
with the vote cast for John Steen,
the Independent republican candi
date for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton in the primaries two years ago.
were reported. This condition was
of the state, and as a result it will
take a larger number of rural re-
turns than heretofore to over turn
the present majority for LANCER.
Outstanding features of the cleo
fiQ p returns available include the
LANCER has carried the city of
Fargo by approximately ], 300 to L.
100, on the basis of a vote Of 1884
for LANCER to $50 for Frazier. The
missing precincts are among the
largest in the city.
LANCER apparently has overturned
in Logan county to majority for
himself of from 200 to $50.
Meager reports from Mcintosh
county indicate that the Frazier ma
joritw in that county of GIL in 1918
has been wiped out, and a LANCER
majority substituted for it.
Richland county, which gave
Steen a majority of 279, has gone
between 500 and 1000 for LANCER
vt gave 1,471 for LANCER and GA for
Frazier in II out of forty nine pre-
cincts
Living To LANCER Column.
Grant county. which gave a ma
jority of S43 for Frazier two years is
y
lead of 221 on the face of returns
from eight of the forty-two pre-
cincts in the county, political OBJ
servers of the county reporting by
telephone to Mandin early today that
they believed LANCER could expect
an even break when all returns were
in. '-,. p II.
Rural districts, and the small
towns of Ward county, showed gains
for LANCER as compared with the fig
ures two years ago, and Minot re-
ports today figure that Ward coun-
ty will go for LANCER. Two years
ago Ward county broke exactly
even.
Stutsmann county is in the LANCER
column with a lead of 1913 on the
face of returns from twenty-five out
Of sixty eight precincts. 1t may
finally land in the LANCER column by
a round 500, as compared with a
Frazier majority of 500 in 1918,
jamestown reports.
No compilations were available
early today on the contest between
Senator A. ]. Gronna and DR.. E. F.
Ladd for the nomination for United
States senator. Gronna, Endorsed by
the Independent republicans. was
running about even with LANCER, and
few returns.
Cass County Strong.
Cass county. which shows a mar
gin of 1.489 for LANCER with thirty
six precincts out of seventy five
precincts in, may be expected to in
crease the LANCER majority materi-,
ally boosting to between 1000 to o.
800, when it Is considered that sew
en- more Fargo voting districts are
still to be heard from. and that much
of the rural district in the county
will at least break even
lGriggs county is the only county
in the state so far as reported to
stand by the league as strong as ev-
err. Her rural precincts came in
during the night on the old sixty
five to five basis with Frazier ahead.
Leal Holds Honor.
Leal, in Barnes county. with
vote of thirty eight for LANCER and
none for Frazier, holds the honor so
far of being the most united COM
munity in the state on political is
sues. -
Reports from the various cities
disclose an increased total vote
cast for. Frazier as compared with
two years ago, offset, however, by
even greater increases in the vote
Counties from which the leaguers
expect their heavy vote and from
which little returns were available
during the night include McHenry,
which gave Frazier majority OF
$50 two years ago; Bottineau, which
gave Frazier a majority of 500 and
rom which the only returns avail
able are from the city of Bottineau;
Renyille, Which gave margin 81