Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-11-07
O'CONN0R, KUHL
AND EMMETT ON
Winners LIST

Surprises and upsets, balloting
exceeding that of any previous
election and a definite Democratic
trend marked one of the most ex-
citing election contests in Carbon
county history Tuesday. A warm
November sun greeted voters and
contributed materially to the large
turnout of county balloteers.
With the Red Lodge third ward
making its report at noon Wednes-
day, only one precinct remained to
be heard from and its tabulations
have little chance of changing the
final results. Democrats captured
two of the three state legislative
seats and wheeled in enough bal
lots to place five of their candid
ates in county administrative Of
fees. The Republicans pushed G..
w. O'Connor, youthful Fromberg
candidate, into the remaining leg
islative office in a last minute raj
lily and in a state representative
race that was doubtful up until re-
ports of last minute precincts
were received.
M. F. Emmett of Fromberg and
Herman iE. Kuh'. rode in on the
Democratic ballot wave to be Sc
curely fixed for the legislative
Iposts. Emmett garnered 2,402
ballots, Kuhl, 2,431, while O'Con-
nor, who late in the contest enjoy
ed a popular vote over all legisla-
tive candidates, had 1855 ballots
at the climax.
The largest vote of the entire
county slate was polled for J.. R.
McFate, sheriff candidate, who
from the outset of the race had
little to fear from his Republican
opponent, John r. Clawson. Nc
Fate tailed 1888 ballots as against
Clawson's 1896 to take the con-
test hands down.
Floyd Gebo, in his race on the
Republican slate for the assessors
office, was another popular a
didate of Tuesdays contest, bring
ling in 3,01O ballots as against the
1870 polled for his opponent, R. S.
Coleman.
Doubtful until last minute re-
ports were received were the con-
tests of E. P. Conwell, Republican,
and John w. Ross, Democrat, for
the county attorneys office; J.. M.
Anderson, Republican, and James
j. Barry, Democrat, for the coun-
ty commissioners post, and M. G..
Swan, Republican, and Pat Nc
CURE, Democrat, for county sur
veyor. AS usual, the three Red
Lodge precincts which were among
the last to report, were the decid-
ing factors in removing doubt from
the races.
Ross, young Fromberg attorney,
rode hard on the ballot trail of E..
p Conwell. With % precincts re-
ported he was leading veteran
Conwell by 266 votes. The incum-
bent, however, swept ahead in the
Red Lodge precincts, having a to-
tai Wednesday noon of 2,309 votes
against Ross 2,116.
Anderson maintained S Ii g hit
edges over Barry throughout most
of the contest, but never a major
ity large enough to remove all
doubt from the final outcome I'M
til late reports were tailed. Swan
and Mcclure were nip and tuck at
various stages, MCGUIRE maintain
ing only a four-vote lead over Swan
with % precincts already tailed.
The Democratic candidate received
a giants share of the Red Lodge
ballots to give him 2,434 votes as
against Swans 1898 Wednesday
noon.
c. E. Thompson, seeking r%eelec-
ton to clerk and recorder, led the
three Independent party candi-
dates in the popular vote, but was
Overwhelmingly defeated for the
administrative office by his Re-
publican opponent, George j. Nc
Donald. Mcdonald came through
with an easy victory, polling 2,872
ballots as compared with Thomp-
sons 1874.
In other county contests, julius
E. Schroeder, Democrat, rang up
a considerable majority of votes
over his Republican opponent, E.
B. Provinse, for the county treas
urer's office. Twenty-eight pre-