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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1938)
SUt. Soci.«, The Frontier VOL. Lix! O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 198& No. 26. GREAT REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE! Republicans Elect Governors In 17 States NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS ELECT NEARLY ALL ON THE STATE TICKET; LOSE TWO Three Republican Congressmen Elected. Stefan, Heinke and Curtis, Are Easy Winners in Race. Cochran, Swanson Re-elected *■ STEFAN WINS RACE BY MAJORITY OF 50,000 KARL STEFAN Nebraska republicans hummed a victory tune Wednesday night— with sour notes only where the melody skipped over the gover norship they lost after a nip and tuck race. Aside from Gov. R. L. Cochran, pulled thru largely by his Omaha strength, democrats retained their partisans in only two congres sional seats, the secretary of state’s office and the short term lieutenant governorship. Everything else went to the re publicans, returned to the strong holds from which the new deal 4 ejected them several long terms ago. The g. o. p. made its strength known outside state borders by picking up congressional seats now held by Representative Henry C. Luckey in the First district and Representative C. G. Binderup in the Third. Luckey was defeated only after a photo finish that nar rowed republican George Heinke’s victory margin a few hundred votes. Binderup went down to a resi dent of his own town, Carl T. Cur tis, of Minden, who surprised the victory margin to a few hundred strength. Representatives Karl Stefan (r) ► of Norfolk, Charles F. McLaughlin (d), of Omaha and Harry B. Cof fee (d) of Chadron, all incum bents, won an easy re-election. Voters who rejected Robert G. Simmons in his previous repub lican bids for the U. S. senate chose him on a nonpartisan ticket as chief justice of the supreme court to succed Charles A. Goss. Simmons had a wide margin over C. A. Sorensen, former attorney general. In other state races, the contest for treasurer was the only one that looked close after the ballots started rolling in. Former Treas urer T. W. Bass (r) finally edged out Treasurer Walter H. Jen sen (d). Three Johnsons came thru to victory for the republicans. Ray C. Johnson won over Auditor Wil liam H. Price (d), Walter R. John son defeated Attorney General Richard C. Hunter (d) and W. E. Johnson captured the lieutenant governorship from Terry Carpen ter (d), the running mate who previously opposed Governor Cochran’s old age pension policies. Harry R. Swanson, secretary of state, was the only full term dem ocrat to join Cochran in the vic tory column. A close race with L. E. Marsh gave him some bad moments early in the tabulation, ^ but Swanson later pulled away. Duane T. Swanson (r) defeated Floyd L. Bollen for the six year term on the railway commission. It was a bad year for all the proposed constitutional amend ments save the repeal of double liability on stockholders in failed state banks. That proposal won, after previous unsuccessful at tempts to put it over. The four companion measures embodying the short ballot plan failed badly, however, as did the scheme to license slot machines for added pension revenue. State Superintendent Charles W. Taylor rolled up a big total against Sarah T. Muir, the Lincoln teacher and former legislature who opposed him. in the rntn university regent district Stanley D. Long of Grand Island got a slight margin over Malcolm B. Wilcox, of Holdrege. In the Sixth district, Frank M. Johnson, Lexington, topped Frank J. Taylor, St. Paul. 1952 precincts of 2.033, Cochran, (d) '205,191; Warner (r) 188,646, Bryan (ind.) 70,107. 349 of 349 precincts for First district congress, Luckey (d) 44, 426, Heinke (r) 44,809, McGerr (ind.) 6,180. 228 of 228 precincts for Second district, congress, McLaughlin (d), 46,493, Mulvaney (r) 32,313, Nel son 2,233. 408 of 451 precincts for Third district congress, Howard (d) 22, 761, Stefan (r) 69,957. 468 of 481 precincts for Fourth district congress, Binderup (d) 39, 924, Curtis (r) 55,162. 491 of 524 precincts for Fifth district congress, Coffee (d) 5l - 060, Shuman (r) 26,855, Flood 2,836. 1,834 of 2,033 precincts, lieuten ant governor, Carpenter (d) 188, 022, Johnson (r) 198,209, Elliott 23,626. 1,951 of 2,033 precincts, secre tary of state, Swanson (d) 226, 298, Marsh (r) 197,859. 1.957 of 2,033 precincts, auditor, Price (d) 174,958, Johnson (r) 210,889, Babcock 27,930. 1,894 of 2,033 precincts, treas urer, Jensen (d) 194,395, Bass (r) 201,061. 1,824 of 2,033 precincts, attorney general, Hunter (d) 165,693, John son (r) 218,761. 1,999 of 2,033 precincts, rail way commissionar, Bollen (d) 175, 595, Swanson 235,558. 1,995 of 2,033 precincts for chief justice, Simmons 229,819, Soren sen 177,218. 1,656 of 2,033 precincts, for making all executive officers but governor, lieutenant governor and auditor appointive, 73,403, against 180,078. 1.649 precincts—for making state superintendent member of educational board of lands and funds 112,246, against 129,642. 1.648 precincts—for changing pardon board membership 88,332, against 184,020. 1.649 precincts—for authorizing recall of executive officers 100,125, against 132,677. 1,603 of 2,033 precincts, for re peal of double liability of bank stock holders 145,373, against re peal 133,567. 1,580 of 2,033 precincts, to li cense slot machines, yes 90,998, no 241,818. 1,802 of 2,003 precincts, state superintendent, Taylor 234,358, Muir 120,198. 324 of 343 precincts, university regent, Fifth district, Long 22,484, Wilcox 20,987. Holt County Results In the congressional race Con gressman Karl Stefan, of Norfolk, smothered Edgar Howard, former congressman and pioneer newspa per man of Columbus. Howard re ceived 1512 votes in the county to 5011 for Congressman Stefan or a majority of 3499 in the county for the congressman. He received the greatest vote and the largest ma jority ever cast for a candidate for office in this county. When the final returns are compiled the con gressman will have a majority in the district of between 50 and 60 thousand, which is some majority, even in New Deal times, in any man’s country. On the county ticket all incum bents were elected with the excep tion of the county assessor, Asses sor Sullivan going down to defeat at the hands of Fred Mulford, Stuart republican with a vote of 2972 for himself while Mulford re ceived 3304, or a majority of 332 votes. Assessor Sullivan had serv ed one term in office and has made a good, painstaking official. The county assessor elect was formerly a resident of Stuart and while resid ing in the city was assessor of that precinct and the fact that he is highly thought if in that city was evidenced by the heavy vote he polled there on election day and in all the townships in the western part of the county. County Treasurer Winchell was the star vote getter on the demo cratic ticket as he received 4228 votes for reelection as county trea urer to 2299 cast for his republi can opponent, or a majority of 1929. County Clerk J. C. Gallagher was the second highest vote getter on the democratic ticket. He re ceived 3978 votes in his quest of reelection to a third term as again st 2640 votes cast for Mrs. Mabel Meredith McKenna, his republican opponent, or a majority of 1313. Pete Duffy had one of the great est struggles of his long career as sheriff of this county in staving off Art Marquardt, of Ewing, from ousting him. Pete has been such an easy winner for several years that most people looked upon his election as a certainty until the last week of the campaign when re ports coming in from the hustings made it appear as if Pete had a real fight on his hands. The final count on the countest was Duffy 3667 and Marquardt 3133 votes, or a majority for Duffy of 534 votes, the lowest majority he ever received except in his first and second cam paigns. Mr. Marquardt made a splendid campaign and during the campaign made hundreds of friends throughout the county and he can be looked upon to take a prominent part in the political affairs here after. Richard L. Tomlinson, demo cratic candidate for clerk of the district court, a new comer to politics, made a splendid campaign for the office. Although he was going against the most efficient clerk of the district court this county ever had, he put up quite a scrap with the result that he poll ed 2938 votes to 3543 votes cast for Ira H. Moss incumbent, or a majority for Moss of 605. The race for county attorney was between the candidates who made the contest against each other four years ago, which resulted in a vic tory for County Attorney Cronin with a majority of a little over 100 votes. It was a different story this year as County Attorney Cronin made a runaway race of it last Tuesday receiving 3845 votes to 2829 cast for Mr. Harmon, or a majority for Cronin of 1016. Esther Cole Harris again dem onstrated her ability as a vote get ter in her contest for reelection to the office of register of deeds, a po sition she has ably and acceptably filled for the past eight years. Mrs, Harris received more votes than any candidate on the republican county ticket, a total of 4047 voters having marked an X in front of her name. Her opponent, Mrs. Julia Corrigan Samples received a total of 2383 votes, leaving Mrs. Harris with a majority of 1664. M. F. Norton, who has been coun ty surveyor for this county for many, many years was the only candidate for this office, he being the nominee on the republican ticket and he was elected with a vote of 5134. The race for supervisor from this district was botween Thomas J. Brennan of this city and John Sullivan, who has filled the post for over twenty years. It was a good scrap and created much in terest during the laBt few days of the campaign. Sullivan won out with a majority of 133, the vote standing Sullivan 754 and Brennan 621. Mr. Brennan said he had an enjoyable time during the cam paign and wishes to express his sincere thanks to his many friends for their labors in his bphalf. In the First district Supervisor Stein, who has represented that district on the board for many years was again victorious re ceiving 369 votes to 292 cast for his democratic opponent, Troschy nski In the Fifth district Supervisor Gibson retains his seat, receiving 674 votes to 495 cast for his repub lican opponent J. W. Walter, or a majority of 179 for Gibson. In the Seventh district Chairman Matousek had an easy time in de feating his opponent, Jesse James, formerly supervisor'from that dis trict. When the votes were final ly counted it was discovered that Mautousek had 760 votes to 330 cast for James, or a majority of 430. As a result of the election there will be no change in the personnel of the board, it remaining the same as it has been for the past two years. On the non-political ticket Miss Elja McCullough was the only candidate for the office of super intendent of schools and she re ceived a vote of 5567. In the race for chief justice of the state supreme court Robert G. Simmons, formerly congressman from this district, was an easy win ner in this county over C. A. Soren sen, formerly attorney general of the state. v Simmons received 3520 votes to 2099 cast for Sorensen, or a majority of 1421 for Simmons. Present state superintendent C. W. Taylor received a splendid en dorsement from the voters of this county. He received 3636 votes to 1723 cast for his opponent, Sarah T. Muir, or a majority of 1843. Frank J. Taylor, of St. Paul, one of the present regents of the state university, carried this county with a small majority over Frank M. Johnson. Taylor received 2399 votes to 2319 cast for Johnson, or a majority for Taylor of 80 votes. The race for membership in the legislature from this legislative district was a close one in this county between Senator Frank J.! Brady, present member, and Lloyd 1 G. Gillespie of this city. The final! vote, in this county, is Brady 3213 < and 3025 for Gillespie, or a major- j ity in the county for Brady of 188 j votes. St. Mary’s Alumnae To Honor Sisters The Alumnae of St. Mary’s Academy will give a tea at the Academy on Sunday afternoon from two until five honoring Sis ter M. Antonette and Sister M. Geralda, who will arrive here <Jn Friday. Sister Geralda was one of the group of nuns present when the Academy was first opened, and Sister Antonette was here for a number of years, leaving about l'J2Q. All friends as well as alum nae are invited to attend the tea. Mrs. L. B. Hassel, of Hunbolt, Nebraska arrived Monday and will visit here at the home of her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ted McElhaney. Complete Unofficial Vote of Holt County For Governor: R. L. Cochran, D., . 3579 Charles J. Warner, R., 2281 Charels W. Bryan, Petition 902 For Lieutenant Governor: Terry Carpenter, D., 2905 William E. Johnson, R., 3013 John B. Elliott, Petition 286 For Lieutenant Governor—(To Fill Vacancy: Nate M. Parsons, D., 3214 J. S. Kroh, Petition 1852 For Secretary of State: Harry R. Swanson, 1)., 3338 L. E. Marsh, R., 2748 For Auditor Public Accounts: William H. Price, D., 2486 Ray C. Johnson, R., 2850 Harry L. Babcock, Petition 538 For State Treasurer: Walter H. Jensen, D.,. ..2936 T. W. Bass., R., 2983 For Attorney General: Richard C. Hunter, D., 2562 Walter R. Johnson, R., 3235 For Railway Commissioner: Floyd L. Bollen, D., . 2437 Duane T. Swanson, R., 3363 For Congressman, Third Dist.: Edgar Howard, D., -1512 Karl Stefan, R., 6011 COUNTY TICKET For County Clerk: John C. Gallagher, D„ 3978 Mabel Meredith McKenna, R., 2640 For County Sheriff: Peter W. Duffy, D., 3667 A. H. Marquardt, R., 3133 F'or County Treasurer: B. T. Winehell, D„_4228 W. E. Starr, R., 2290 For Clerk of District Court: Richard L. Tomlinson, D., 2938 Ira II. Moss, R., 3543 For County Attorney: Emmet A. Harmon, D., 2829 Julius D. Cronin, R., 3845 For Register of Deeds: Julia Corrigan Samples _ 2383 Esther Cole Harris, R., 4047 For County Assessor: John Paul Sullivan, D., 2972 Fred Mulford, R., 3304 NON POLITICAL For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: C. A. Sorensen 2099 Robert G. Simmons 3520 For State Superintendent: Charles W. Taylor 3636 Sarah T. Muir 1793 For Regent State University, Sixth District: Frank J. Taylor 2399 Frank M. Johnson 2319 For Member of the Legislature, 28th District: L. G. Gilespie 3025 Frank J. Brady 3213 For County Superintendent: Elja McCullough 5567 County Agent: For County Agent 2899 Against County Agent 1759 American Legion Will Hold Armistice Day Program On Friday The American Legion will hold their annual armistice program on Friday, November 11, beginning with a parade of the veterans at 9:45, followed by the following pro gram at the K. of C. Hall: Invo cation, Rev. H. D. Johnson; Selec tion, O’Neill Band; Song, O’Neill Glee Club; Introduction of Speaker, Commander of Legion; Address, Wm. Brennan of Butte; Song, St. Mary’s Glee Club; Selection, Band; Benediction, Rev. Wright. At the completion of the program, Taps will be sounded. Election Results Given Here In A Nut Shell Governors elected (32): Demo crats, 15. Frank M. Dixon, Alabama; R. T. Jones, Arizona; Carl E. Bailey (x) Arkansas; Culbert L. Olson, Cali fornia; E. D. Rivers (x), Georgia; Herbert R. O’Connor, Maryland; R. L. Cochran (x), Nebraska; E. P. Carville, Nevada; John E. Miles, New Mevico; Herbert H. Lehman (x), New York; John Moses, North Dakota; Leon C. Phillips, Oklahoma; Burnet R. Maybank, South Carolina; Prentice Cooper, Tennessee; W. Lee O’Daniel, Texas. Republicans (17), Ralph L. Carr, Colorado; Raymond E. Baldwin, Connecticut; C. A. Bottolfsen, Idaho; George A. Wilson, Iowa; Payne II. Ratner, Kas.; Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts; Frank D. Fitzgerald, Michigan; Harold E. Stassen, Minnesota; Francis P. Murphy (x), New Hampshire; John W. Bricker, Ohio; Charles A. Sprague, Oregon; Arthur H. Janies, Pennsylvania; William II. Vanderbilt, Rhode Island; Harlan J. Bushfield, South Dakota; George D. Aiken (x), Vermont; Julius P. Heil, Wisconsin; Nels H. Smith, Wyoming. Senators elected (35): Demo crats (21): Lister Hill (x), Ala bama; Carl Hayden (x), Arizona; Mrs. Hattie Carraway (x), Ar kansas; Sheridan Downey, Cali fornia; Alva Adams (x), Colorado; Claude Pepper (x), Florida; Wal ter F. George (x), Georgia; D. Worth Clark, Idaho; Scott W. Lu cas, Illinois; Allien W. Barkley (x), Kentucky; John H. Overton (x), Louisiana; Millard E. Tyd (x), Maryland; Bennett Champ Clark (x), Missouri; Robert F. Wagner (x) and James M. Mead, New York; Robert R. Reynolds (x), North Carolina; Elmer Thom as (x), Oklahoma; Ellison D. Smith (x), South Carolina; A.I Tom Stewart, Tennessee; Elbert D. Thomas (x), Utah; Homer T. Bone (x), Washington. Republicans (11): John A. Danaher, Connecticut; Clyde M. Reed, Kansas; Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire; W. Warren Bar bour, New Jersey; Gerald P. Nye (x), North Dakota; Robert A. Taft, Ohio; Rufus C. Holman, Ore gon; James J. Davis (x), Pennsyl vania; J. Chandler Gurney, South Dakota; Ernest Gibson (x), Ver mont; Alexander Wiley, Wiscon sin. (x) Re-elected. Brady Wins Senatorship Brady Gillispie Holt 3213 3025 Boyd _ 1330 900 Rock _ 412 286 Keya Paha _ 734 325 Totals _5689 4536 Majority for Brady 1153 The Weather The weather has been nice the past week, a little cool op Monday and Tuesday nights, but very nice for this season of the year. We had .13 hundreths of an inch of moisture here last Friday night it being much heavier east of here. A very good rain at Page and amounting to two inches at Os mond.. Following is the chart for the week: H. L. M. Nov. 8. 38 30 Nov. 4 57 15 Nov. 5 .55 25 .13 Nov. 6 _ 32 18 Nov. 7 35 9 Nov. 8 . 48 8 Nov. 9 _ ...... 46 24 Annual Red Cross Drive Next Week The annual Red Cross drive starts on Friday of this week and will last until Thanksgiving Day. This year the Red Cross had 402 members in this county, of which 101 were enlisted from O’Neill and Emmet. The ladies soliciting com mittee have been named for this city and they will start work next week. The following ladies head the soliciting committee for the city: Mrs. William Froelich, north east section; Mrs. Charles Mc Kenna, southwest section; Mrs. Ed. Campbell, northwest section; Mrs. O. F. Rummell, southeast section. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Sanford an nounce the birth of a son on Friday, November 5th. W. R. Johnson, Old Pioneer Passes Away Wallace R. Johnson died sudden ly at his home northwest of O’Neill last Saturday morning about 2:15 of a cerebral hemmorage, at the age of 74 years, 4 months and 8 days. Mr. Johnson was a large robust man and had always enjoyed good health. He was in this city last Thursday afternoon and visited in this office for a couple of hours and was in fine health and, as usual in his visits to this office, discussed olden times with the writer. He was again in the city on Friday and after leaving here drove to Atkin son, where he visited for a time and looked after business matters, then drove home. Shortly before 2:00 o’clock he suffered a heart attack. His son, Floyd, who lives about three-quarters of a mile from his fathers home was called and by the time he reached the house his father had passed away. Wallace R. Johnson was born in Peoria, Illinois, on June 27, 1864, where the family resided until Wal lace had reached the age of fifteen years, when the family moved to Nebraska, locating at Hastings for a year and then came to this county in 1880, and licated on Eagle Creek northwest of this city. When Wal lace reached the age of 21 he took a homestead on Eagle Creek and made his home there from that time until his death, a period of fifty-eight years. On June 19, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Gordon. Two children were born to this union, one son, Floyd Robert of this city and one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Brown, of Atkinson, whom with their mother are left to mourn the passing of a kind, affectionate and indulgent husband and father. In addition he leaves two brothers, Clyde O. and Dell Johnson, both of O’Neill, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Purdy, Denver, Colo. Wallace Johnson was one of the hale and hearty pioneers of this county and had a host of friends in all parts of the county, as he was well known in all sections. A large and robust man, his stature com manded and attracted attention in any crowd any place. He had a very agreeable disposition and in a calm and modulated voice he liked to dis cuss pioneer days in the 'county with the old timers and there was not a trip he made to this city but what he called upon some of the old timers and took time out to dis cuss pioneer days. The writer had been intimately acquainted with Wallace for over fifty years and we always found him a man who could be depended upon. Loyal and true to his family and faithful to his friends, of whom there were legions. The passing of this sturdy old pioneer who had done much in the settlement and development of this county will be sincerely re gretted by friends everywhere and the old time friends in his own im mediate neighborhood, except his family, will miss him most for Wal lace was a true friend to many of them when they found themselves in financial distress. A careful and prudent business man he had been very successful in a business way and several years ago had accumu lated enough to take life easy. But like other hardy pioneers he was not content to sit aside and let others superintend the work, he had to look after it himself and he passed away while still actively conducting the affairs of his ranch. The funeral was held last Mon day afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church in this city, ser vices being conducted by Rev. Wright, burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. It was one of the larg est funerals seen in this city for many months, attesting the high esteem in which the deceased was held by the people of this city and county. Joe Martin made a business trip to Nenzel on Wednesday.