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Nelson Johnson 1 (Rep.) in October 1909, Governor Burke appointed as U. S. senator 

 Fountain Land Thompson (b. 1854), Democrat, who resigned for ill health February i, 

 1910, and was succeeded by William E. Purcell (b. 1856), Democrat, also appointed. 

 Asle J. Gronna (b. 1858), Republican, representative in Congress in 1905-11, was the choice 

 of the primaries for the unexpired term (ending March 3, 1915) and was elected by the 

 legislature, January 18, 1911. On the same day Porter James McCumber (b. 1858; 

 Republican, senator since 1899) was re-elected for the term 1911-17. 



In 1911 Judge John F. Cowen of the Devils Lake District was impeached before the 

 state senate on charges brought by Governor Burke. He was acquitted after a trial 

 lasting two months and costing the state nearly $100,000. 



The first state-wide presidential preference primary in the United States, held March 

 19, 1912, gave Robert M, LaFollctte 34,123 votes to 23,669 for Roosevelt and 1,876 for 

 Taft. This result was a great surprise, as the LaFollette boom had seemed to die out; 

 it was not, however, a sign that that boom was reviving, but probably expressed the 

 intense radicalism of the state and possibly the antipathy of the farmers to Roose- 

 velt's original support of reciprocity with Canada and to the support given to Roosevelt 

 by George W. Perkins because of the hatred of the North Dakota farmers for the 

 " Harvester Trust," with which Perkins was identified. Governor Burke was the only 

 Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. Woodrow Wilson carried the 

 state (5 electoral votes) with 29,555 votes to 25,726 for Roosevelt 2 23,090 for Taft and 

 6,966 for Debs (2,421 in 1908). P. D. Norton, Republican, secretary of state of North 

 Dakota in 1911-12, was elected as a third Republican Congressman, under the new 

 apportionment, which makes three districts. The Republican nominees for Congress 

 were endorsed by the Progressives. The legislature elected in 1912 will be strongly 

 Republican in each house. In the campaign for governor Frank O. Hellstrom (Dem.) 

 and W. D. Sweet (Progressive 3 ) were defeated by the Republican nominee, Louis 

 Benjamin Hanna (b. 1861), who was representative in Congress in 1909-13, and the 

 remainder of the Republican state ticket was elected. Hanna received 39,811 votes; 

 Hellstrom, 31,544; Sweet, 9,406; and A. E. Bower, Jr. (Socialist), 6,835. 



On November 7, 1912, a prisoner in the county jail at Steele, accused of murdering 

 his wife and her father, was lynched. 



A statue of Rollo the Northman, given by the City of Rouen to the Norse race in 

 America, was unveiled in Fargo on July 12, 1912. 



Bibliography. Laws (Fargo, 1911); "North Dakota Primary," in Literary Digest, March 

 30, 1912; F. O. Hellstrom, "North Dakota Penitentiary," in Survey, February 24, 1912. 



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Population (1910) 4,767,121 (14.7% more than in 1900), a figure exceeded only by 

 New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois; 12.5% were foreign-born whites (11% in 1900), 

 and 85.1% were native whites. In density, 117 to the sq. m. (1,376.7 in Cuyahoga 

 county), the state ranked 8th. Rural (unincorporated) territory contained 34-6% of 

 the total (41.9% in 1900). The 139 incorporated places with 2,500 or more inhabitants 

 each contained 55.9% (in 1900, 126 such places had 48.1%). The 37 places contain- 

 ing more than 10,000 inhabitants were: Cleveland, 560,663 (381, 768 in 1900); Cincinnati, 

 363,591; Columbus, 181,511; Toledo, 168,497; Dayton, 116,577; Youngstown, 79,066; 

 Akron, 69,067; Canton, 50,217; Springfield, 46,921; Hamilton, 35,279; Lima, 30,508; 

 Lorain, 28,883; Zanesville, 28,026; Newark, 25,404; Portsmouth, 23,481; Steubenville, 

 22,391; Mansfield, 20,768; East Liverpool, 20,387; Sandusky, 19,989; Ashtabula, 18,266; 

 Marion, 18,232; Norwood, 16,185; Lakewood, 15,181 (3,355 in 1900); Alliance, 15,083; 



1 Johnson was born in 1850 in Wisconsin, lived for a time in Iowa, where he was a member 

 first of one and then of the other house of the legislature, and was representative in Congress 

 from North Dakota in 1891-99. He was elected United States senator in 1909. 



2 The Roosevelt electors tried unsuccessfully to get on the official ballot in the Republican 

 column; they were nominated by petition, 



3 The only other Progressive nominee was for commissioner of agriculture and labour. 



4 See E. B. xx, 25 et seq. 



