Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
Republicans Total
Exceeds Aggregate
Of Two Other Parties
Percentage Of All Ballots
Raised From 34% in SO
To $50 This Year
By CHARLES w. HOLMRURG,
Special Correspondent Of yhe STIR.


eonsin Republicans were jubilant
this week end over what they con-
sidered their greatest primary elec-
ton victory in over decade. and
predictions were being made freely
that the entire G. o. p ticket, from
Wendell Willkie down to county
coroner, would sweep the State in
November
Near complete returns from all
but handful of the States 1904
precincts showed that Republican
candidates for Senator and Governor
had piled up a total of more than
$50 900 votes, approximately SIS per
cent of the total primary vote cast
for all candidates in all parties,
which will exceed COS 900. Demo-
cratic and Progressive party candi-
dates were nearly neck and neck to
split the remainder, q per cent or
100000 for the Progressives, % per
cent or $4,000 for the Democrats
The fact that Republican candi-
dates polled a total considerably
more than the Progressive and
Democratic party candidates COM
bined gave weight to the forecast
of Republican leaders that Wiscon-
sin would be in the Republican COL
umn. both State and National, in
the general election.
Wide Shift Indicated.
Such a result would mean a mass
shift in political sentiment since
1885. when President Roosevelt car
ried Wisconsin by an unprecedented
2-to-1 majority over ALT M. Landon.
and Progressive party candidates for
State office. including Gov. Philip
r La Toilette, were swept into Of
flee on a landslide.
1t would mean. too. the defeat of
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette, jr.
by Fred H. Clausen. prominent Wis
consin industrialist and foe of the
La Follettes and the New Deal. Mr.
Clausen. the Republican nominee.
led a field of seven candidates, and
his vote of los 900 was only about
10000 fewer than the total vote cast
in the Progressive senatorial pri-
mary. all of which went to Senator
La Toilette.
Gov. Julius P. He'll was renomi-
mated. but his politically unknown
opponent. DR.. James K. Robinson OF
Milwaukee, created a sensation by
receiving a total vote nearly so per
cent of Gov. Heil's total. DR.. Rob-
inson made no speeches and con-
Quoted almost no campaign, and his
vote total of LOT 900 to Gov. Heil's
224.OOO caused wide speculation.
How much anti-Heil sentiment was
expressed in the Robinson vote NAV
be revealed when Gov He'll faces
Orland S. LOOMS, Progressive party
nominee. and Francis E. McGovern.
Democrat, in the November guoer-
natorail contest Mr.. Loomis is a
long time La Toilette supporter and
Mr.. McGovern, former Governor,
headed the pro-Roosevelt delega-
ton to the Chicago National Con-
vention.
DR.. Frank Gets Tribute Vote.
Wisconsin was shocked two days
before the primary by the tragic
death of DR.. Glenn Frank, candidate
for the Republican senatorial nomi-
nation. and his only son, and the
disaster cast shadow over the pri-
mary election. AS tribute to the
regard in which he was held by his
party, the former university presi-
dent, even in death, received vote
that will reach $4,000. In the Madi-
son suburb of Maple Bluff, where
the Franks made their home, a tri-
butte vote of more than 2 to was
given DR.. Frank.
In the Democratic primary,
write-in campaign in behalf OF John
Cudahy of Milwaukee, Ambassador
to Belgium. as candidate for Sen
ator proved failure Although
several hundred thousand stickers
had been printed and distributed
which were supposed to be attached
to Democratic ballots, Mr.. Cudahy
received only about 1000 votes as
compared to $4,000 for James E.
Finnegan, Milwaukee, former attor-
ney general. With Mr.. Finnegan as
the Democratic candidate for Sem
ator and Mr.. McGovern the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, the
Democratic ticket is headed by two
candidates strongly antagopistic to
each other. 1t Is problematical
whether Mr.. McGovern will be able
to attract much assistance from
Washington in view Of the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Finnegan.
G. o. P. Gain by Percentages.
A comparison of the vote per-
eentages in Tuesdays primary with
those of the primary of September,
1886, shows substantial Repub-
lican gain and losses to Progressives
and Democrats. The Republicans
raised their batting average from "a
per cent of the total vote for all
candidates in 1886 to SIS per cent
for 1910. Democrats slipped from
80 per cent in 1886 to % per cent in
1910. Progressives skidded from So
per cent in 1886 to % per cent this
year.
Progressive spokesman claim there
Is nothing conclusive in Tuesdays
figures and that because of wide
spread interest in Republican pri-
mary contests for county Offices
sheriffs and district attorneys-large
numbers of Progressives voted in
49, AND u,ara