The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-09
STRONG FOR
BLAINE TICKET
Governor and Senator Run
ming Mate Carry Every
Precinct in County.
PARTY LINES GONE
Former Democratic Wards
Give Heaviest Majorities to
Republican Leaders.

Independent Democrats were lacking
in Kenosha county on Tuesday and the
Republican ticket headed by John J.
Blaine for governor and Robert M. La
Toilette for United States senator,
swept through the county carrying
everything before it. The Republican
candidates for state office carried
every precinct in the county and every
ward in the city and there were
scarcely enough votes cast for the In
dependent Democratic candidates to
make it worth while to count them.
The party lines which had been cast
aside at the primary election when
Blaine and LaFollette made their rec
ord run, had not been drawn again
and the largest majorities for Blaine
and LaFollette were reported in the
wards which in the past had been
considered the strongest Democratic.
1t can be said that the gallantry of
the old time Democrat did show it.
self a little and Mrs. Jessie Jack
Hooper, who was so daring as to con-
tend with LaFollette for the leader
ship of the state in the Senate, got
more votes than were given to Arthur
A. Bentley of Lacrosse, the Indepen-
dent Democratic candidate for COVER
nor. The Blaine LaFollette vote car
ried with it the other men on the
Republican ticket and all of them had
Kenosha county majorities mounting
into thousands. There was some cut
ting of Soloman .Levitan, the Blaine
LaFolette candidate for state treasur-
cr, and Herman L. Ekern, who has
been called the '"Crown Prince" fell
a little behind the rest of the ticket,
but all of them had thousands of
votes to spare.
Cooper Races as Usual.
Congressman Henry Allen Cooper of
Racine, raced under the wire winner
as has been his custom at most cleo
tons during the past more than thirty
years. While he had no opposition,
save that of Socialist candidate, who
received less than a thousand votes
in the county, Cooper was given a
splendid endorsement and his vote
ran close to the party leaders.
Interesting in the vote for state
officers was the large Prohibition vote
cast in the county. 1t is taken that
this large vote came from Republi-
cans who had not forgotten the pri-
mary sores and who declined to line
up under the Blaine-LaFollette ban
ner. Kenosha county gave to the
governor and the senator by far the
largest majorities ever given to can
didates for state offices.
Scores Of votes were cast for can
didates whose names were written in
on the ballot but the tired election
clerks did not take the time to tabu-
late all of these ballots. candy
Gump's" name was much in evidence
in several Of the wards and it was de-
clared by election officials that he re-
ceived several hundred votes in the
city, they being divided between the
Office of United States senator and
member of Congress.
Favor Fiye-sixths Decisions.
The amendment to the state consti-
tuition, providing for the deciding of
civil eases on five-sixths vote of the
jury, won the majority of the votes
Of Kenosha county men and women.
It is believed that the call of Judge
Belden to the people to support this
amendment, was largely responsible
for it's being adopted so far as this
, county is concerned. Kenosha county
people indicated clearly that they did
not want to give cities right to in
crease their bonds. 1t was a notable
fact that every rural town in the
county voted against this proposed
amendment. The people in this county
we're rather emphatic in their declara-
ton that q two-year term for sheriffs
was sufficient. This amendment lost
by large majority in this county.
Tabulations of the vote for state
officials and on the amendments will
be found in another column of to-
nights paper.