The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-06-23
CHRISTIANSON HAS
STRONG SUPPORT
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Chase, Nolan, Burnquist, Holm
berg, Rines Lead Repub-
licans in Vote Monday
BROWN NEAR 3 TO 1
Townley, Shoemaker, Arens
Among Leaders on Farmer
Labor Congress Ticket


Labor Congress Ticket
Redwood county Republicans gave
Earle Brown an overwhelming en-
dorsement at the polls Monday while
county Democrats favored Arthur A.
Van Dyke as their gubernatorial
choice with BIG votes to 1876 for John
E. Regain and 129 for Theodore Heg-
land.
With only few scattered precincts
missing late Wednesday, Brown was
leading Franklin Ellsworth in the
county with 1902 votes to 469 for the
Tom Davis candidate.
Brown carried a vast majority of
the county precincts with Kintire
township giving him the largest mar
gin with So votes against eight for
Ellsworth. In only one precinct,
Wanda, was Browns name left en-
tirely blank while Ellsworth polled
four votes.
In Sherman and Vesta townships
Brown and Ellsworth ran even with
seven votes each in both places while
Lucan, Vail, Seaforth, New Avon,
Wabasso and Westline gave Els
worth majorities.
Redwood Falls voters gave Brown
ITO votes to 33 for Ellsworth in the
first ward and 209 to 43 in the second,
Van Dyke 27 votes to for Theodore
Hegland and two for Regain in the
first ward and So, and in the Sec
ond.
Chase a Leader
In the Republican congressional
nominations, Redwood county accord
ed Theodore Christensen the strong
est support with 1,173 votes while
Ray p. Chase ran close second with
964. Other leaders in the county were
j. A. A. Burnquist, former governor,
with 668, N. j. Holmberg with $50;
Harold Knutson, 615; w. l. Nolan,
TIP; and Henry Rines, 555. J. v.
Weber led second district candidates
with $50 while L. P. Johnson of Man.
kato was among the first II in the
county with 46S.
For Congress, the city gave Ray P.
Chase 289 votes while Theodore
Christensen had 2S2, N. J. Holmberg
235 and j. v. Weber 22O.
Magnus johnson led Farmer-Labor
candidates for congress in the coun-
ty with 623 votes while A. C. Townley
polled $40 votes, Henry Arens, SGT;
Ernest Lundeen, 425; John Paul
Kvale, 511; Susie w. Stageberg, 432;
F. H. Shoemaker, ACT; Mat Wagner,
259. Emil Regnier of Marshall gain
ed 264 votes and c. F. Gaarenstrom,
Fairmont, 200 in the county.
Democratic votes in the congress
sional race were more scattered with
Einar Hoidale leading with 1862.
Others among the first nine were
Emil E. Holmes, 293; Anna Dickie
Olesen, ESQ; ]. A. Cashel, 249; John
P. Coughlin, 218; L. B. Hanna, 225;
I, Walter F. Dacey, 223; Robert C. Bell,
264 and Victor f. Anderson, 254. Ed
ward G. Quamme was also over 200
with ZIG votes.
Benson in Lead
For encouragement on the Re-
publican ticket, the county favored
Henry N. Benson with 1,192 over
George T. Simpson with 367. For
railroad and warehouse commissioner,
Oscar Swenson had 813 votes, Frank
C. Hughes, 456 and j. R. Davidson,
189.
K. K. Solberg was accorded GIL
votes to 2OS for B. F. Opsahl on the
Farmer-Labor ticket end Emil Gott-
fried Johnson secured 458 votes to
1862 for Knute Wefald for railroad
and warehouse commissioner.
On the ticket with Van Dyke, Her
man Johnshoy gained 359 votes to
213 for Ruth Haynes Carpenter for
lieutenant governor and j. Math
Aretz 402 to 1913 for Jerry A. Harri
for secretary of state. In other DEM
ocratic contests Ray G. Moonan had
173 votes, John NJ. Cannon, 283 and
Arthur A. Sturdevant la for attor-
ney general. j. E. Howe led Timothy
Doyle 345 to 230 for state treasurer
and Viggo Justesen had 1876 to 345 for
Mathew N. Kraus for railroad and
warehouse commissioner.
| Votes given other candidates for
congress on the Republican ticket
were: Adams, 218; Andre, 124; An
dresen, 800; Christgau, 435; Cole, 1853;
Falk, go; Flakne, AZ; Goodwin, 342;
Hougen, 231; Jacobsen, 216; John
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