Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1914 — The Result of the Primary Election in State of Iowa. [ARTICLE]

The Result of the Primary Election in State of Iowa.

The following dispatch from Des Moines, lowa, under date of June 17th, was published In The Indianapolis Star of today, June 18th. It shows the Grand Old Party in the west is keeping up with Indiana. The dispatch reads: “Practically complete returns on the primary election now in the hands of the state board of canvassers show that Governor Clarke was nominated over both his opponents by a majority of 29,586. His plurality was 48,949. Senator Cummins defeated A C. Savage by 40,967 votes. The progressive nomination for senator, which has been in doubt, went to Casper Schank, of doublit, went to Casper Schank, of The total vote of each of the three parties for United States senator, was: • Republicans 140,277, Democratic 76,413, Progressive 5,359. The heaviest vote cast tor any one office was for the republican nomination for governor. This was 142,636, or nearly 47,000 less than the vote in the 1912 primary.