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Show NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATE LOSES IN MINNESOTA ST. PAUL, "Minn., June 22. Primary Pri-mary election returns, from 1,005 or tf,i95 "Minnesota " precincts compiled early today, showed that State Auditor J. A. O. Presus was leading' a field of six candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination with a plurality plur-ality of 21,500 over ITcnrik Shlpstead of Glenwood. Preus was the choice of .the Republican Repub-lican elimination convention. Ship-stead Ship-stead was the non-partisan league candidate. can-didate. Mayor R. L, Hodgeson. of St. Paul.! who polled a big plurality in this party, was leading the seven candidates candi-dates for the Democratic nomination for governor. The Republican gubernatorial vote, which included returns from nine-tenths nine-tenths of the counties, gave: Prous. C6.202; Shlpstead, 44,705; Lieutenant Governor Thomas Frank-son, Frank-son, 12,329; Kranklln P. Ellsworth, 2,-002; 2,-002; Samuel G. lveraon, 2,252, and Thomas Keefe, 1,043. All of the congressmen seeking re- nomlnation wero holding, their leads on the facu of incompletu returns with the exception of F. T. Davis, Republican, Republi-can, of St. Peter, in the third district. W. T. Mollison, of Fairbault. had a slight lead, but Davis county had not been heard from. Judge Frank Clague, of Redwood Falls, was leading S- A. Fuller, of Mankato. for the Republican Republi-can nomination, in the second district. Representative Franklin F. Ellsworth, who did not seek ro-nomlnation, preferred pre-ferred to participate in the gubernatorial guberna-torial struggle. ri n J |