The Ely miner., 1934-12-07

date for State Auditor, defeated on the
face of the returns by 648 votes, as
certified by the state canvasSing board,
has filed a contest against Stafford
King and asked for recount.
Significantly enough, Mr.. Lyons does
not want recount in Hennepin, Ram
Sey and St. Louis counties. He petit
toned, it is understood, for recount
in all counties of the state except these
three.
Why does Mr.. Lyons leave out the
three big counties? These are the
counties in which the Farmer-Labor
party ran strongest. These are the
counties in which the Farmer-Labor
party had the most complete control
of the election machinery. Presumably
Mr.. Lyons is well satisfied with the
count in these three big counties. He
carried each one of these counties, and
it was in Hennepin, Ramsey and st.
Louis counties that Governor Olson ac-
cumulated almost the whole of his
72,453 plurality.
In the recount now on, however, the
vote in Hennepin, Ramsey and st. Louis
counties will also be recounteG for
there are some things which seem to
indicate that Mr.. King, and all other
Republican candidates, did not get all
the votes counted that were cast for
them in these counties.
In the End precinct of the 18th ward
of Minneapolis, strong labor precinct
and ward, SOL votes were cast. but the
total vote for Governor was as follows:
Olson 434, Nelson, LOG, Regan %, Town
ley l, total of 564 or more than the
total number of votes cast.
1t happened that watcher in this
particular precinct was struck with an
apparent discrepancy in the vote for
Secretary of State. He called the at
tention of the election judges to this
discrepancy; the vote as counted stood
-Solberg 459, Holm 1873, Kennedy 49,
Turner 2, or more than the total vote
cast in the precinct Finally on the
insistence of the watcher the vote for
Secretary of State was recounted with
the following result: Solberg 342, Holm
1873, Kennedy 49, Turner 2.
The recount was identical with the
original count on all candidates except
Solberg. On the original count Sol
berg had been given 1T more votes
than the recheck showed.
At the time this is written, re-
count of votes in the 10Th legislative
district in Hennepin County where
Henry G. Tiegan, well known publicity
man for the Farmer-Labor party, was
certified as elected, showed a loss of
40 votes for Mr. Teigan and the gain
of like number for his senatorial op-
ponent, Burton L. Kingsley.
s*+ts
Republicans and Democrats alike be-
lieve that there were gross and almost
innumerable election irregularities in
Hennepin, Ramsey and st. Louis
counties.
In these three counties Governor
Olson received 1925 plurality. One
naturally wonders how much of this is
the result of election irregularities.
Governor Olson received 468 812 votes
on November 9Th. There were cast
against him total of 582,075 votes, or
majority of 1928 votes against his
reelection.
The 2,075 voters of the state who
voted against Governor Olson naturally
wonder how much of a mandate 10 him
and to the Farmer-Labor policies this
adverse majority of 1929 votes is.
Both the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the Legislature
which meets in January have held
caucusses and the results of these
cauceSSes make it plain that the people
elected Legislature opposed to the
Farmer-Labor platform and the pro-
poSal for cooperative commonwealth.
Each body of the Legislature has a
majority of independent progresSives." !"
Governor Olson made no attempt to
interfere with the organization of the
Senate, but he took off his coat and
spit on his hands and did everything in
his power to dictate the organization
of the House. He took to the air to
denounce the independent progressive"
majority of the House and he took to
the telephone in week long effort to
cajole and coerce House members into
organizing the House according to his
dictation.
These efforts failed when n mem
berS of the House, IL more than a
majority, gathered last week in ST. Paul
and unanimously nominated George W.
Johnson of Duluth for Speaker of the
House. This action gives the control
of both the Senate and the House to
the independent progressive" group.
George w. johnson, choice of the
independent progressive" majority of
the House for Speaker in the 1885
Legislature, halls from West Duluth.
1t is 46 years since the Speaker of the
House in a Minnesota Legislature has