The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-06-25
Half of the Precincts In the State Were Heard
From During This Afternoon
NOW SAFE. FOR THE SECOND PLACE
Convention Candidates Believed to
Have Landed, But Later Returns May
Change the Results

From Tuesdays Daily.
st. Paul, June 22.-Returns
from 642 precincts out Of 3,1ss In
the state give for governor, DEM
oeratie: Hodeson, 6,2e2; Duane,
1884; Andrist, ESD; indrehus,
735: jacques, $50; Thorson, 1850;
H~arsadins, 2,014. This includes
the vote from 115 precincts In
Hennepin county and also vote
from 1873 precincts In Ramsey
county.
st. Paul. June 22.-wYth returns on
yesterdays statewide primary received
state early this afternoon. 1t became in
creasinsly evident that the contest for
the republican g~ubernatorial nomination
The. available returns gave J. A. O.
Preus statewide elimination candidate
SS,63l, n DR.. Henrik ~Shipstead the
Nonpartisan league candidate SASS. The
~unrsportcd precincts were in the rural
san leasuers expect to make a strong
showing.
On the remainder Of the republican
state ticket. the candidates approved by
the elimination convention We're leading,
In each case expressed confidence Of
nomination.
The democratic gubernatoriaI contest
proved e. Hodgs9a the 81. Paul may
precincts giving him $500 votes. as
against 2.ol4 garnered by his nearest
sional districts so far as returns this
afternoon. showed. but It was recognized
that nnai returns might completely al
st. Paul, June ~22.-Primary cleo
ton returns from 1.057 Of a.1s5 Min
day showed that state Auditor j. A.
%. Preus was leading q field Of six
candidates for the republican guber-
Material nomination with q plurality
Glenwood.
Preus was the choice of the repub-
hcan elimination convention Ship
stead was the Nonpartisan league
candidate. The vote. which included
ties, gave Preus, 70,073; Shipstad, 49,
46.407; Thomas Frankson, 1926;
Franklin r. Ellsworth, 2.092; Samuel
q. lverson, 1882 and Thomas Keefe,
LAOS. Some Of the counties which re-
ported their vote for Preus, Shipstead'
and Frankson. did not give the total
for the other candidates.
Hodqson Heads Democrats.
Mayor L G. Hodgson Of st. Paul
who polled a big plurality in this city,
was leading the seven candidates for
the democratic nomination for gov
ernor. Returns from 448 precincts
gave him 4,839 votes. Robert w. Har-
gadine, also Of st. Paul, was credited
with 1.702 and Oliver ]. Duane of st.
Peter had 1,1S0. The other candi-
dates trailed.
Ali Of the congressman seeking
nomination were holding pluralities N
the face Of incomplete returns. with
the exception of G. r. Davis, repub-
hcan Of st. Peter in the third dis
trict. w. T. Mollison Of Faribault had
q slight lead but Davis county had
not been heard from. Judge Frank
Clague Of Redwood Falls was leading
II. A. Fuller Of Mankato for the re-
publican nomination in the second
Ellsworth, who did not seek renomin.
alton. preferred to participate in the
gubernatorial struggle.
Predict Preus to Hold Lead.
st. Paul. June 22.-First returns of
the morning after" increased slight
ly the lead maintained from the out
set by J. A. Q. Preus over Dr.. Hen.
rik s~hipstead, Nonpartisan league
choice, in the contest for the repub-
lican gubernatorial nomination.
While 1t was realized. that fuller
returns from the rural precincts, ma
turally late in reporting, might serve
to cut down the ratio Of Preus' lead,
close political observers took the
view that a representative rural vote
had been reported and that Preus
would maintain a decisive lead.
The first dozen precincts heard
made the count in 1908 precincts out
Of 3,195 in the state as follows:
Preus, 70.2s7; S~hipstead. 1884;
Frankson, 1880; Ellsworth, zoos;
Iverson, 2,25S and Keefe, /; 406. :
Shipstead Showing Gains.
st. Paul, June 22.-Dr. Henrik
Shipstead, Nonpartisan league can
didate for the republican guberna-
torial nomination, began to show his
strength as rural precincts reported
today.
The first repart from Renville coun
ty came today, and 1t showed the
following vote in seventeen precincts
out of thirty six in the county: Ship
stead, 1,131; Preus. 873.
Look For shipstead Gain.
st. Paul, June 22.-Returns today
from the strictly rural communities
was expected to have a favorable af-
feet for Shipstead on the standing of
leaders in the republican gubernator
ial race, as available reports were
ldrSOly IIOu CLUES anu tOWuS.
It was estimated that in counties
where only a fourth or less of the
total precincts had been heard from,
the vote represented towns and vii
lagos and probably did not include
any strictly rural districts.
Where the precinct reported rep
resented from a third to a half Of
the precincts in the county, 1t was
indicated that robably half OF those
heard from were farm precincts.
This calculation for all available re-
turns would indicate that probably
not a fourth Of the total was from
precincts outside municipalities.
Supreme Judge Vote.
st. Paul. June GAS the compil-
alton of returns from the supreme
court contests In yesterdays prim-
any began today, the first entry was
from Anoka county, where nine out
OF nineteen precincts. gave Dibell,
302, Johnson. 35S, vanderburgh, 80,
and Siegel, 1877.
Mallon's Lead In RenviiIe.
st. Paul, June 22.-Fifteen precincts
IN .Renville county gave Mallon, 968,
and Collins, 1885, aafH 'Aattes' ."st
In the first eight precincts to re-
port In Nicollet county Preus polled.
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