Republicans Sweep Everything in Holt County
But Clerk of the District Court
REPUDIATE RING RULE & SLANDER
Republicans ami Honest Democrats Unite and Give tin* Strategy Board a Black Eye.—Harrington Loses
Eight Hundred Votes in Holt and Boyd Counties.—Western Counties Go Republican On Every
thing Hut District Judges, Which Reelects Harrington and Westover.
The result of last Tuesday's election in Holt county is an emphatic rebuke to the high handed methods of the fusion
bosses, whose campaign of falsehood, deception and slander knew no limit. The unfair and high handed methods were
continued to the last minute, even to replacing legally appointed members of the election board by men who had no kind
of authority to sit on the election board. Through the united action of republicans and honest democrats, every republican
county candidate whs elected except one, that of clerk of the district court, to which the democratic incumbent was re
elected by a reduced majority.
The republican candidates were elect
ed in three of the four supervisor districts
and this makes the board four republi
can and three fusion. Hence the repub
licans have all the county offices but
One and the board of supervisors.
In the Judicial fight the fusion vote was
reduced 800 votes in Holt and Boyd
counties. Four years ago Harrington
carried Holt county by 539, this year he
carries it by 158; four years ago West
over carried the county by over 400,
this year by 24; four years ago they
carried Boyd county by 300, this year
they lost it by 150. A peculiar circum
stance appears in the counties in the
western part of the district. The major
ity of them went republican on every
thing but the judicial ticket, which went
fusion and reelect Harrington and y
Westover by about 250.
The total vote of Holt county was 3122
with the head ot the ticket very close,
Loomis, the fusion candidate for supreme
judge having a majority of only 3, while
the republican regents carried the /
county by a small majority.
The fusionists made a desperate effort
to secure control of the board of super
visors and sheriff’s office and their signal defeat is a vigorous protest from the voters of Holt county against deception and
fraud. The following are the totals for the county:
Douglas 1446
Jtenokes 1310
Harrington 1604
W estover 1470
Harnish 1708
Robertson 1327
Simar 1637
Morgan 1363
Hall 1628
Mathis 1445
Malone 1699
Simmons 1325
Sturdevent 1404
Hannon 1618
Zink 1590
VanConett 1437
Skidmore 1524
Lell 1483
Page 1493
Norton 1497
Wilson 1546
Flynn 1450
VOTE ON SUPERVISORS
Roberts 228, Bedford 167. Roll 266, Coover 199. Rocke 284, Shorn 230. Hickman defeats Root by 38 or 40.
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The loss of the judges '
is the only regret of
republicans and the
honest democrats who
voted with them. It
can be accounted for
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in no other way than
ineffective organiza
tion and lack of fighters
in the western counties,
as the east end did
M It KKKSK
wore than its share to
swing the district into
the republican column
as shown by the vote.
There may have been
some sore spots also
left from the primaries
that festered at the
polls and encompassed
defeat for republican
candidates.
The state is still strongly in the republican column, Reese be
ing elected to the supreme bench over Loomis by 20,000.
The ringsters ere “licked” to a finish in Holt county. The re
publicans promised a square administration two years ago and
have been re-elected because thev made good. The same square
deal policv will be pursued in the future as in the past.
