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Show BERGER-LA FOLLETTE COMBINE IS BEATEN MILWAUKEE. Jan. 2. Louis Fons. Republican, running on an "America first" platform, defeated Edmund F. Melms. Socialist, in a speclo.l election in the Eighth senatorial district todav. Fons will fill the seat ate by Frank Retnip. who wafi expellf-d last uprlnc: by the legislature for an aJ-leeed aJ-leeed disloyal remark. Fons v.-!is elected bv a majority ot 237 vote.s eN'Cludlnor the soldiers" vote." Fons's victory was hrouxht about bv a combination of loyalists in the Republican, Repub-lican, Democratic and Socialist parties oealnst Melms. who ran on the anti-war tiociRilst platform, adopted In St. Louis. Fighting Fons up to the close of the polls was the Victor Bemcr-T.a Folletle combination, which counted on most o the Socialists, pacifists and dyed-ln-' he-wool he-wool I.a Follette men to support Melms. Fons's election is considered a slate. wido victory for Americanism. It was the firct opportunity that has come to the electors In any district of Wisconsin lo stand bv President Wilson since the declaration ol Nai. |