Evening star., 1925-09-30
La TOILETTE Wins
BY DECISIVE VOTE
wisconsin Elects Former
Leaders Son to Senate by
Near 134,544 Plurality.
By the associated Press.

MILWAUKEE,. Wis, September so
Wisconsin again has placed The
stamp of approval on the name OF
La Toilette. The S0.year-old son of
The late Senator was chosen at q
special election yesterday to represent
the Badger State in the Senate.
Large ma jorities were given Robert
Nj. La Toilette, jr., in nearly every
county. Rock, home of the stalwart
section of the Republican party. re-
fused TO bow to him. The three other
counties in the first congressional
district. formerly regarded as in
Vulnerable when the right wing OF
Wisconsin republicanism was being
put to the test. failed TO show the
stanchness exhibited by Rock Racine
capitulated to La Toilette by almost a
tWo-to-one margin. while Keuosha was
lost to the regulars by 216 votes.
Nalworth went over 10 the La Toilette
camp by l36 votes.
Vote in Other Counties.
Nine other counties were carried by
La Toilette by less than two to one,
i3 went TO him by aDproXima telv a
two-to-one vote, while his tremendous
strength was shown IN two counties,
Calumet and kewaunee. Here he ran
ten 70 one ahead Of his leading op-
ponent, Edward 2. Dithnar of
t5araboo, running as an independent
Republican,
The strength OF Young La Toilette
was plainly shown by the nercenta &c
ot the votes in The other counties OF
the state. OF these. he carried 6
han 10 !, 4 by 3-2 10 !. 6 by 10 ].
: ~ I 4 Nv ND h,.T
With SIS precincts OF the SO. IN
the State missing early this morning
owing 70 the heavy rainstorna IN the
northwest section OF the state L.
Follete showed pluraliy OF IS4 ,54t
over Dithmar, and majority OF
1l2,9l5. Approximately half the yot-
ing strength OF the State went to
the polls, and returns from o.377 nre-
"jncts showed that 331 ,3S7 votes were
last, although in the election Of 1924
slightly more than 500 900 votes were
polled. The Tuesdays election vote
was slichtl! larger than that polled
in the primary OF September Is.
New Senator's Platform.
The new Senator went on record
hurins both his primary and election
campaigns as unuualitiedly indorsinC
the platform OF the Wheeler-La Fol
lette party Of 1874. He emphasized
. In almost every talk he made, how
ever, that the contest in which I've
was then engaged was between n
man who will stand behind the Cool
idge administration and one who will
follow IN the footsteps of Robert
Marion La Toilette"
He promised 10 carry or the wori.
started by his father and made this
one of his leading pleas for votes.
One Of the surprises Of the election
vas the weakness displayed by the
Socialists in Milwaukee. For the first
time in Is wears they failed TO carry a
single ward in the city of Milwaukee,
while La Toilette romped home win.
ner In a ajority of them. The So
cialist candidate, John NJ. Work. ran
third in the senatorial contest. polling
l1.072 votes. of which S,50S came from
the county Of Milwaukee.
Democrat in Fourth Place.
The Democratic candidate. William
George Bruce, running as an indie
pendent, owing to the fact that he did
not poll enough votes in the primary
10 permit his name 10 go under the
Democratic emblem, ran fourth with
4 vote of 1857. These votes were in
2.377 precincts out of 2,692 in the
State. The La Follette-Dithmar votes
IN IheSe precincts were: La Toilette,
222,161; Dithmar. 1907. George Bau-
man, the SocialistLabor candidate
had 700 votes.
Both La Toilette and Dithmar re
fused 10 comment on the election last
Night. Both announced they would
have statements to make today.
w. J. Campbell of Oshkosh, chair
man of the legislative committee of
the regular Republican party. in d
statement issued early today bla amed
The result Of the election on the State
primary law, declaring that lit is the
result Of Republican discourasemen
due 10 the misuse Of primary law
which permits Socialists to run as Re-
publicans and Republicans TO run as
independe nts.'
The late Senator Robert NJ. La Fol
lette was elected in 1922 and his son
will fill his uneXpired term, which
ends March l. 1929.
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