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Show LAFOLLETTE IS PLEASED Overwhelming Victory For the Opponent of Special Interests Milwaukee, Sept. 7. Reports received re-ceived up to 11 o'clock this morning indicate that Senator La Follette's plurality plu-rality for reuoiuinatlon was 13.ovu votes over his opponent, Samuel A. Cook. - - - - - - - - Follctte ran at least 60.000 votes ahead of the state ticket, -which is accounted ac-counted for by reaeon of the several candidates running for the gubernatorial guber-natorial nomination. The pluralities of McGovern und the other members o the La Fullette state ticket, w ith the exception or Turner, j the dead man, are estimated at 20,0uo. Milwaukee. Sept. 7. Robert M. La-Follette, La-Follette, United States senator, carried car-ried Wisconsin yesterday In the primary pri-mary election by an overwhelming majority over Samuel A. Cook of Nee-nah. Nee-nah. Figures are Incomplete even- In Milwaukee county, and will not be. known, perhaps, for a day or two from throughout the state. In this county the senior senator's plurality will easily reach beyond S.Ono, and estimates are given of his nomination over his opponent by a vole of ." to 1, There Is no doubt that La Follette will have control of the platform committee at Madison, and that he will have the next legislature back of him. So big was his vote that it carried with It a large majority of the legislative nominees. The ja Follette state ticket, headed by Francis E. McGovern, is also nominated nomi-nated Thomas Morris of La, Crosse, the La Follette stipiHtrter. was noml-" nated for lieutenant-governor. The Insurgents added to their strength by the nomination of Henry C. Cochems, the former University of Wisconsin football star, for congress. Cochems defeated Stafford for renornl-natifn renornl-natifn in the Fifth district. Cochems is the man who placed La Follette In nomination for president of the last Republican national convention. When Senator La Follette was notified noti-fied of his triumph, he made the fol- lowing statement: "It shows the people are awake to their Interests, determined to restore representative government. This splendid victory is nothing personal. It is the command of tho people that they choose to rule themselves and will not longer suffer themselves to be dominated by special Interests." Congressman Charb-s H. Weisz, Democrat, easily defeated Burt Williams Wil-liams of Ashland in the race for United States senator of his party. Aside from the Republican state ticket and the UDited States sena torlal nominations, few of ths noml- nations were contested. " |