1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin explained

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Election Name:	1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Country:	Wisconsin
Flag Year:	1866
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Previous Year:	1900
Next Election:	1908 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Next Year:	1908
Election Date:	November 8, 1904
Image1:	Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	Theodore Roosevelt
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral Vote1:	13
Popular Vote1:	280,164
Percentage1:	63.24%
Nominee2:	Alton B. Parker
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Henry G. Davis
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	124,107
Percentage2:	28.01%
Image3:	Debs-Eugene-circa1904.jpg
Nominee3:	Eugene V. Debs
Party3:	Social Democratic Party of America
Home State3:	Indiana
Running Mate3:	Ben Hanford
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	28,220
Percentage3:	6.37%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Theodore Roosevelt
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Theodore Roosevelt
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Wisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas.^[1] However, following the Populist movement, whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics,^[2] Wisconsin’s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan’s agrarian and free silver sympathies.^[3]

Wisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party.^[4] The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoining Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the state. As Democratic strength weakened severely after 1894 – although the state did develop a strong Socialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP – Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the “League” under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative “Regular” faction.^[5]

Neither Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt nor Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker would campaign in Wisconsin, as the state had been amongst the most Republican in the nation in the presidential elections in both 1896 and 1900. No official polls were taken in the state, but Frederick W. Cotzhausen, a lifelong Milwaukee Democrat, said during October that the state would vote strongly for Roosevelt.^[6]

Wisconsin would vote powerfully for Roosevelt, who defeated Parker more than two-to-one, and beat William McKinley’s 1896 performance by almost four percent. Roosevelt was the first Republican since Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to win Calumet County.

Results

+ General Election Results^[7]	Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles F. Ilsley	280,164
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Albert R. Hall	279,870
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	George Beyer	279,858
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	John I. Sherron	279,846
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	James M. Bushnell	279,820
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Fred C. Lorenz	279,758
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Fred W. Cords	279,722
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Jame H. Cabanis	279,712
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Carl S. Porter	279,671
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Hulbert A. Bright	279,630
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Edward McGlachlin	279,586
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Melvin D. Keith	279,527
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Ed L. Peet	278,690
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Harold L. North	124,107
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Charles Abresch	124,036
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Patrick H. Martin	123,820
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Thomas McCarthy	123,791
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	John M. Baer	123,774
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Franz Markus	123,766
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Carl F. Justman	123,744
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Thomas H. Patterson	123,725
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Stephen Richmond	123,707
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Henry J. Millmann	123,706
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Henry Volkmann	123,703
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Gilbert T. Hodges	123,694
	Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Thomas J. McCloskey	123,678
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	A. A. Blunt	28,220
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	William Kaufmann	28,178
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Eugene H. Rooney	28,175
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	William C. Young	28,170
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Ernst Schultz	28,167
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Edward Ziegler	28,166
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Fred Wilson	28,165
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Herman Hein	28,154
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Frank Weber	28,149
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Edward Scaife	28,140
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	John J. Handley	28,135
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	William Quinn	28,124
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	George Gollwitzer	28,076
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Jasper Dexter	9,770
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Charles W. Rose	9,760
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Frank R. Derrick	9,748
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Lafayette Brockway	9,741
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Hermann H. Rottman	9,741
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Benjamin F. Thomas	9,741
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	James H. McManus	9,740
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	William Ager	9,739
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	John Sherman	9,735
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	William E. Monroe	9,733
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Edson Schatto	9,731
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	George C. Alborn	9,727
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Elsworth McKenney	9,721
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Cyrus M. Butt	530
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	William A. Ramsey	511
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Samuel Isaac	510
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	William Munro	509
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Frederick W. Stearns	508
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Edward W. Luedtke	507
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Louis Elholm	506
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Ole Swennes	505
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	John Gruhl	504
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Peter Haan	502
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Charles Hatch	500
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Michael Seidel	499
	People's Party	Silas C. Swallow	Charles M. Boyles	497
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Theodore Horn	223
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Carl Doescher	218
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Carl Bartsch	217
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Herman Beyer	217
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	William Pietsch	215
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Carl Schulz	215
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Carl Slabey	215
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Joseph Pietsch	214
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Paul Unruh	214
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Ernest Wegner	214
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Rudolph Kler	212
	Socialist Labor Party	Charles H. Corregan	Nicholas Semmelback	212
Votes cast				443,014

Results by county

County	Theodore Roosevelt Republican		Alton B. Parker Democratic		Eugene V. Debs Socialist		Silas C. Swallow Prohibition		Thomas E. Watson Populist		Joseph F. Maloney Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Adams		1,399		80.08%		271		15.51%		29		1.66%		47		2.69%		1		0.06%		0		0.00%		1,128		64.57%		1,747
	Ashland		3,406		71.30%		1,016		21.27%		235		4.92%		116		2.43%		2		0.04%		2		0.04%		2,390		50.03%		4,777
	Barron		3,575		78.33%		625		13.69%		103		2.26%		242		5.30%		9		0.20%		10		0.22%		2,950		64.64%		4,564
	Bayfield		2,665		85.31%		345		11.04%		32		1.02%		77		2.46%		0		0.00%		5		0.16%		2,320		74.26%		3,124
	Brown		6,027		66.09%		2,636		28.91%		329		3.61%		108		1.18%		7		0.08%		12		0.13%		3,391		37.19%		9,119
	Buffalo		2,147		68.35%		911		29.00%		10		0.32%		64		2.04%		9		0.29%		0		0.00%		1,236		39.35%		3,141
	Burnett		1,262		88.13%		82		5.73%		31		2.16%		54		3.77%		1		0.07%		2		0.14%		1,180		82.40%		1,432
	Calumet		1,736		55.04%		1,257		39.85%		116		3.68%		36		1.14%		9		0.29%		0		0.00%		479		15.19%		3,154
	Chippewa		3,744		66.51%		1,669		29.65%		59		1.05%		141		2.50%		11		0.20%		5		0.09%		2,075		36.86%		5,629
	Clark		4,091		75.69%		1,050		19.43%		79		1.46%		183		3.39%		1		0.02%		1		0.02%		3,041		56.26%		5,405
	Columbia		4,737		67.59%		1,907		27.21%		158		2.25%		204		2.91%		2		0.03%		0		0.00%		2,830		40.38%		7,008
	Crawford		2,281		61.12%		1,363		36.52%		31		0.83%		57		1.53%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		918		24.60%		3,732
	Dane		11,041		63.77%		5,610		32.40%		242		1.40%		417		2.41%		3		0.02%		0		0.00%		5,431		31.37%		17,313
	Dodge		4,248		44.51%		5,092		53.35%		67		0.70%		133		1.39%		4		0.04%		0		0.00%		-844		-8.84%		9,544
	Door		2,689		81.21%		515		15.55%		33		1.00%		72		2.17%		2		0.06%		0		0.00%		2,174		65.66%		3,311
	Douglas		4,564		73.05%		968		15.49%		549		8.79%		130		2.08%		8		0.13%		29		0.46%		3,596		57.55%		6,248
	Dunn		3,303		81.27%		546		13.44%		83		2.04%		123		3.03%		7		0.17%		2		0.05%		2,757		67.84%		4,064
	Eau Claire		4,343		73.20%		1,224		20.63%		196		3.30%		155		2.61%		10		0.17%		5		0.08%		3,119		52.57%		5,933
	Florence		562		85.54%		82		12.48%		5		0.76%		8		1.22%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		480		73.06%		657
	Fond du Lac		7,021		59.57%		4,416		37.47%		149		1.26%		178		1.51%		21		0.18%		1		0.01%		2,605		22.10%		11,786
	Forest		988		82.68%		159		13.31%		23		1.92%		23		1.92%		2		0.17%		0		0.00%		829		69.37%		1,195
	Gates		1,415		81.70%		245		14.15%		23		1.33%		47		2.71%		1		0.06%		1		0.06%		1,170		67.55%		1,732
	Grant		5,802		64.50%		2,888		32.11%		77		0.86%		219		2.43%		8		0.09%		1		0.01%		2,914		32.40%		8,995
	Green		2,990		62.11%		1,460		30.33%		139		2.89%		219		4.55%		5		0.10%		1		0.02%		1,530		31.78%		4,814
	Green Lake		2,181		60.90%		1,269		35.44%		43		1.20%		84		2.35%		3		0.08%		1		0.03%		912		25.47%		3,581
	Iowa		3,328		64.58%		1,640		31.83%		21		0.41%		162		3.14%		2		0.04%		0		0.00%		1,688		32.76%		5,153
	Iron		1,250		81.17%		246		15.97%		16		1.04%		25		1.62%		2		0.13%		1		0.06%		1,004		65.19%		1,540
	Jackson		2,746		82.22%		479		14.34%		26		0.78%		89		2.66%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,267		67.87%		3,340
	Jefferson		3,669		47.78%		3,764		49.02%		96		1.25%		147		1.91%		2		0.03%		1		0.01%		-95		-1.24%		7,679
	Juneau		3,234		70.15%		1,243		26.96%		42		0.91%		78		1.69%		11		0.24%		2		0.04%		1,991		43.19%		4,610
	Kenosha		3,307		60.96%		1,592		29.35%		440		8.11%		77		1.42%		5		0.09%		4		0.07%		1,715		31.61%		5,425
	Kewaunee		1,578		49.76%		1,455		45.88%		99		3.12%		36		1.14%		3		0.09%		0		0.00%		123		3.88%		3,171
	La Crosse		5,506		61.82%		3,086		34.65%		115		1.29%		189		2.12%		7		0.08%		3		0.03%		2,420		27.17%		8,906
	Lafayette		2,875		58.28%		1,921		38.94%		28		0.57%		106		2.15%		1		0.02%		2		0.04%		954		19.34%		4,933
	Langlade		2,103		65.72%		1,018		31.81%		30		0.94%		46		1.44%		2		0.06%		1		0.03%		1,085		33.91%		3,200
	Lincoln		2,850		70.49%		1,004		24.83%		106		2.62%		69		1.71%		13		0.32%		1		0.02%		1,846		45.66%		4,043
	Manitowoc		4,626		53.31%		3,271		37.69%		687		7.92%		93		1.07%		1		0.01%		0		0.00%		1,355		15.61%		8,678
	Marathon		6,144		63.11%		3,245		33.33%		178		1.83%		158		1.62%		3		0.03%		7		0.07%		2,899		29.78%		9,735
	Marinette		3,977		77.30%		816		15.86%		195		3.79%		144		2.80%		11		0.21%		2		0.04%		3,161		61.44%		5,145
	Marquette		1,604		65.68%		747		30.59%		9		0.37%		81		3.32%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		857		35.09%		2,442
	Milwaukee		32,587		46.22%		18,547		26.31%		18,339		26.01%		935		1.33%		30		0.04%		61		0.09%		14,040		19.92%		70,499
	Monroe		3,892		66.78%		1,749		30.01%		35		0.60%		145		2.49%		7		0.12%		0		0.00%		2,143		36.77%		5,828
	Oconto		3,279		73.95%		1,017		22.94%		62		1.40%		68		1.53%		5		0.11%		3		0.07%		2,262		51.01%		4,434
	Oneida		1,710		75.66%		373		16.50%		130		5.75%		44		1.95%		1		0.04%		2		0.09%		1,337		59.16%		2,260
	Outagamie		5,951		63.72%		3,138		33.60%		113		1.21%		133		1.42%		2		0.02%		2		0.02%		2,813		30.12%		9,339
	Ozaukee		1,492		47.67%		1,494		47.73%		111		3.55%		26		0.83%		6		0.19%		1		0.03%		-2		-0.06%		3,130
	Pepin		1,033		74.16%		327		23.47%		3		0.22%		29		2.08%		0		0.00%		1		0.07%		706		50.68%		1,393
	Pierce		3,492		82.32%		594		14.00%		24		0.57%		129		3.04%		3		0.07%		0		0.00%		2,898		68.32%		4,242
	Polk		2,985		85.55%		296		8.48%		98		2.81%		101		2.89%		2		0.06%		7		0.20%		2,689		77.07%		3,489
	Portage		3,634		61.10%		2,168		36.45%		44		0.74%		101		1.70%		1		0.02%		0		0.00%		1,466		24.65%		5,948
	Price		2,202		80.25%		399		14.54%		71		2.59%		70		2.55%		2		0.07%		0		0.00%		1,803		65.71%		2,744
	Racine		5,573		55.62%		2,584		25.79%		1,453		14.50%		257		2.57%		147		1.47%		5		0.05%		2,989		29.83%		10,019
	Richland		2,696		61.52%		1,340		30.58%		48		1.10%		295		6.73%		3		0.07%		0		0.00%		1,356		30.94%		4,382
	Rock		7,972		71.69%		2,350		21.13%		458		4.12%		316		2.84%		22		0.20%		2		0.02%		5,622		50.56%		11,120
	Sauk		4,805		67.55%		1,914		26.91%		52		0.73%		342		4.81%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,891		40.64%		7,113
	Sawyer		782		75.05%		204		19.58%		13		1.25%		29		2.78%		13		1.25%		1		0.10%		578		55.47%		1,042
	Shawano		3,684		72.61%		1,237		24.38%		24		0.47%		118		2.33%		10		0.20%		1		0.02%		2,447		48.23%		5,074
	Sheboygan		6,121		57.19%		3,430		32.05%		901		8.42%		198		1.85%		33		0.31%		19		0.18%		2,691		25.14%		10,702
	St. Croix		3,898		68.35%		1,569		27.51%		108		1.89%		116		2.03%		10		0.18%		2		0.04%		2,329		40.84%		5,703
	Taylor		1,725		68.10%		719		28.39%		44		1.74%		42		1.66%		2		0.08%		1		0.04%		1,006		39.72%		2,533
	Trempealeau		3,560		75.63%		976		20.74%		10		0.21%		156		3.31%		5		0.11%		0		0.00%		2,584		54.90%		4,707
	Vernon		4,744		82.42%		758		13.17%		28		0.49%		220		3.82%		6		0.10%		0		0.00%		3,986		69.25%		5,756
	Vilas		1,467		79.17%		321		17.32%		39		2.10%		25		1.35%		0		0.00%		1		0.05%		1,146		61.85%		1,853
	Walworth		4,892		73.33%		1,378		20.66%		135		2.02%		263		3.94%		3		0.04%		0		0.00%		3,514		52.68%		6,671
	Washburn		989		77.51%		207		16.22%		48		3.76%		31		2.43%		0		0.00%		1		0.08%		782		61.29%		1,276
	Washington		2,565		52.10%		2,233		45.36%		68		1.38%		55		1.12%		2		0.04%		0		0.00%		332		6.74%		4,923
	Waukesha		5,247		62.68%		2,686		32.09%		231		2.76%		205		2.45%		1		0.01%		1		0.01%		2,561		30.59%		8,371
	Waupaca		5,471		81.45%		941		14.01%		70		1.04%		233		3.47%		2		0.03%		0		0.00%		4,530		67.44%		6,717
	Waushara		3,140		87.59%		319		8.90%		25		0.70%		96		2.68%		3		0.08%		2		0.06%		2,821		78.69%		3,585
	Winnebago		7,565		62.19%		4,006		32.93%		311		2.56%		259		2.13%		15		0.12%		8		0.07%		3,559		29.26%		12,164
	Wood		4,002		67.02%		1,674		28.04%		195		3.27%		96		1.61%		4		0.07%		0		0.00%		2,328		38.99%		5,971
Total	280,164	63.24%	124,107	28.01%	28,220	6.37%	9,770	2.21%	530	0.12%	223	0.05%	156,057	35.23%	443,014

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Calumet

See also

• United States presidential elections in Wisconsin

Notes and References

1. [Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips, Kevin P.]
2. Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 384
3. Sundquist, James; Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years, p. 526
4. Burnham, Walter Dean; 'The System of 1896: An Analysis'; in The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 178-179
5. Hansen, John Mark; Shigeo Hirano, and Snyder, James M. Jr.; ‘Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980’; in Gerber, Alan S. and Schickler, Eric; Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America, pp. 165-168
6. ‘Will Vote for Roosevelt’; Appleton Post, October 20, 1904, p. 4
7. Wisconsin Historical Society, Tabular Statement of votes given for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election held in the several towns, wards, villages, and election districts in the several counties of the State of Wisconsin, on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday, being the eighth day of November A.D. 1904