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