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Show RETURNS FROM WISCONSIN. Election returns from Wisconsin are encouraging to Americans. While Len-toot, Len-toot, who won the senatorshlp. is not the highest type of an American statesman because he flirted with the German vote in the early part of the war and voted to prevent munitions of war being shipped to the allies, still of late he has been lining up with the aggressive forces of this country and now is to be classed with the most patriotic. I -en root defeats Davies by approxi mately 10.000 votes. In a state normally normal-ly Republican by 65.000. even the Democrats can find some consolation over the showing made by their candidate. can-didate. LaFollette's candidate for supreme; Judge was defeated by 50.000. Less than two years ago l,aFolIette carried the state by 116,159 plurality over Wolfe, the Democratic candidates for senator. Evidently LaFollette is dead i and burled, politically. Only one feature of tbe election was disquieting. Berger, the Socialist, on an anti-American platform, polled over S8.000 votes. In 1916 tbe Socialist candidate received only 29,000 votes. Berger's vote was made up, undoubtedly, undoubt-edly, of those of the German element who are more devoted to Germany than the United States, and also a certain cer-tain percentage of Americans of the L W. W. class, who are unworthy of the name "Americans " Lenroot, In 1916, as a candidate for representative in congress, carried the eleventh Wisconsin district by 22,740 to his opponent's 8,726. Now that the Wisconsin campaign Is disposed of, let us forget politics and help uphold tbe hands of th President, Presi-dent, whoso task is immc-asurahly greater than that of any president j since the days of Lincoln. an |