The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-04-08
COUNTY SPLITS
DELEGATE VOTE
Instructed and Uninstruct-
ed Delegates Break Even
in Kenosha County.
VOTE FOR LOVEDAY
Voters of County Give Major
tiles in Favor of State
Amendments Proposed.

Kenosha Republicans split their SEN
timent between the uninstructed dele
gates and the LaFollette delegates in
the election on Tuesday and the final
returns show that three uninstructed
delegates at large and one LaFollette
delegate at large had a majority of the
votes in the county while the two dis
trict delegates named by the LaFollete
forces had a good clean majority in
Kenosha county. The final vote on
the delegates was Emanuel L. Philip,
1928; Edwin J. Gross, 1890; Otto Boss
hard, 1176; William H. Hatton, 1851;
James Thompson, 1852; John ]. Blaine,
1916; George A. West, $40; Senator
Schultz, COG; John Strange, 234.
The vote for district delegates
was R. v. Baker, 1850; Fred w. Gil
man, 1921; John NJ. Whitehead, 939;
Henry Lockney, 1913.
Delegate Vote Weird.
Kenoshas preferential primary for
president and the vote of the county
on the election of delegates to the ma
tional conventions, was one of the
weirdest things in the way of an cleo
tion ever pulled off in the county.
While the vote indicates that Keno
sha county is much in doubt as to whom
il wants for president, there was large
upport Of the men pledged to the
nomination Of Robert M. LaFollette
for president but the vote was not
such SIS to give much of an indication
nc tie strength Of any candidate for
president. Senator LaFollette was
leading where the name of presiden-
tial candidate was written in, he be-
Mig the favorite of some forty voters
in the city. General Wood, Governor
Lowden of Illinois and Hiram john
son had a scattering support through
out the city, but most of the people
refused to 60 far enough to write in a
name to indicate their choice for presi-
dent on either the Democratic or Re
publican ticket. Herbert Hoover, the
new star on the political, non-partisan
horizon, didn't seem to have made
much Of an impression in Kenosha and
ne got only a few votes in the city
Ind county. The Democratic voters
did not pay very much attention to the
yote for delegates to the national
convention and the prohibitionists and
he Socialists were Just as care-free
when it came to considering it.
LOveday For President.
The Democrats showed a leaning
toward Governor Edwards of New Jer-
sey and William G. McAdoo, but few
old timers were still loyal to Bryan.
Possibly forty Democrats in the whole
city indicated a choice for president,
but it will take the official vote to
show where Kenosha county stands.
Eugene " Debs received many votes
from Socialists in Kenosha and there
was an unusually large scattering of
votes for Victor l.. Berger as the Soci-
alist nominee for president. Governor
Philip was given small vote as
vice presidential nominee in the city.
The preferential primary offered q
great chance for wags to have sport
at the cost of tired election clerks and
names galore were written in. One
ballot in the third ward bore the in
scription For president, Earl Love
day." "For vice president, Carl Carl
son." While this one recalled the
sensational crime of the year in Keno
sha other ballots were just as interest
ing. Local favorites in the various
wards we're voted for in the presi-
Dental and vice presidential columns
and lot of these people are going to
have some interesting records to hand
down to their children. The mayor
received some ten votes for president
on the different tickets. One ward
showed its willingness to be impartial
by giving five votes each for Wood,
Johnson and LaFollette.
Fair Minded Democrats Working.
That the old LaFollette idea of the
Fair Minded Democracy" was still
working, was shown by the fact that
the delegates pledged to the support
of the senior senator, were given large
support in the heavy Democratic wards
Of the city. In most of these wards
the vote for the LaFollette delegates
was greater than the vote cast for tue
Democratic delegates. This was true
in the towns of the county too. The
Democrats worked largely in the Re-
publican primaries. The vote for
Robert Verne Baker, who was one OF
the LaFollette delegates, led the vote
in the Kenosha county primary.
Amendments in Favor.
The proposed amendments to the
s+ata constitution were oivan +be s,,n
port of the voters of Kenosha city and