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Show DEMOCRATS ffl II SfflEOF UTAH ENTIRE STATE TICKET ELECTED AND NEXT LEGISLATURE WILL BE DEMOCRATIC. Mays and Welling Returned to Congress, Con-gress, Three Democrats Elected to Supreme Court, and Three Amendments Adopted. Salt Lake City. The Democrats won a sweeping victory in the state election elec-tion on November 5, the entire state ticket being elected by a substantial majority, while the next legislature will be almost solidly Democratic. Representatives James H. Mays and Milton H. Welling have been returned to congress. Samuel R. Thurman, Valentine Gideon and A. J. Weber were elected justices of the supreme court. The Democratic ticket was victorious victor-ious in practically every county of the state. One exception was Morgan county, which was saved by the Republicans. Re-publicans. William Spry, former governor, was defeated for election to congress from the Second district. W. H. Wattls, the Republican candidate for congress from the First district, also went down to defeat. The three constitutional amendments, amend-ments, No. 1 on prohibition, No. 2 on the exemption of homesteads from taxation, tax-ation, and No. 3 on the taxation of mines, were all adopted by the vote of the people. In the adoption of amendment No. 1, the people of Utah voiced their sentiments sen-timents toward state-wide prohibition for all time in no mistaken terms. Those who had believed that the amendment would be given the stamp of disapproval by the voters of Utah were doomed to disappointment, being "shown" in no uncertain manner. In the next legislature there will be one Republican in the senate and five in the house, the one, G. C. Adney, coming from Box Elder ; two, Isaac N. Pierce and Thomas E. McKay, from Weber; P. M. Croft from Morgan and .Toseph P. Finlayson from Millard. There will be, one woman in the senate, Mrs. Elizabeth Hay ward, from Salt Lake county, and. two in the .house, both from Salt Lake pounty. These two are Anna T. Piercey and Grace Stratton Airey from Salt Lake. Personnel of Legislature. The membership of the next Utah legislature will be as follows, all being be-ing Democrats unless otherwise designated desig-nated : Senators. First district : Box Elder and Tooele counties Archibald Bevan. Second district : Cache county J. W. Funk. . . Third district : Davis, Morgan and Rich counties Richard Stringham. Fourth district: .Weber county W. J. Parke, Joseph Chez. Fifth district: Daggett, Duchesne, Summit and Wasatch counties James W. Clyde. Sixth district: Salt Lake county Gilbert L. Olson, George H. Dern, Elizabeth Hayward, Allen T. Sanford, James W. McKinney. Seventh district : Utah county J. William Knight, Edward Southwick. Eighth district : Juab and Millard counties Daniel Stevens. Ninth district: Sanpete county-Orlando county-Orlando Bradley. Tenth district: Garfield, Piute, Sevier Se-vier and Wayne counties Quince Kimball. Twelfth district: Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan and Uintah Don B. Colton (R.) Representatives. First district : Box Elder county 0. G. Adney (R.) Second district : Cache county B. A. Meyers, J. E. Cordon, W. H. Ballard. Bal-lard. Third district: Rich county John B. Kennedy. Fourth district: Weber county Isaac N. Pierce (R.), Thomas E. McKay Mc-Kay (R.) Fifth district: Morgan county P. M. Croft (R.). Sixth district: Davis county W. J. Whi resides. Eighth district: Salt Lake county Charles C. Richards, Arthur Welling, Anna J. Tiercey, Francis W. Quinn, F. Eugene Morris, Frank R. Newman, Robert E. Carrie, Delora E. Blakely, John Hanson, Jr., Grace Stratton Airey. Eleventh district: Utah county Alma Greenwood, I. II. Masters, J. O. Bullock. Lorenzo R. Argyle. Fourteenth district: Sanpete county Robert H. Hinckley, Henry R. Tanner. Tan-ner. Fifteenth district : Carbon county J. E. Holmes. Sixteenth district : Millard county C. J. Johnson Nineteenth district: Millard county Joseph P. Finlayson (R.) |