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Show Democrats Carry Boil Camp And County In Election Tuesday The Democrats Won In Tenth Precinct t Every One On Ticket Being Elected Majorities Were Not As Great As Two Years Ago Race Between' Stuart And Green Was Very Close Quinn Leads Legislative Ticket. iMuch interest was taken In the election bere Tuesday, although the vote was lighter than formerly owing to the fact that under the new law workers" are not permitted to haul voters to the polls. The Democrats were victorious, but the majorities were not great. The closest race was between Judge John C. Green. Democrat, Demo-crat, and Archie Stuart, Republican, for the office of Justice of the peace. Green won but it Was by a very close margin, receiving a majority of only 11 votes. In fact as the early returns re-turns came In, Stuart was In the lead and at midnight It looked that the majority he had could not be overcome, over-come, and Green had practically conceded con-ceded the election of his opponent. Stuart carried (Bingham proper and candidate for state senator, received a good vote in the camp. While this gave a substantial majority to other ' county and state candidates on the . Democratic tit'Ket. Judge Dudley re-s ceived 604 votes In the camp, while I his (Democratic opponents received 570. , , .There was a great deal of scratching scratch-ing on both sides especially for local and county candidates. In this matter . it seemed that there were hundreds of voters who were for the man in-Etead in-Etead of the party. , The election was considered quiet on account of the absence of workers ' who formerly hustled through the camp in search of voters. One thing that looked like old times was .the Weather. It Is ciiHtnmnrv tn 'Ld.. it was by the vote of SLark that placed , Green ahead. This was the contest' that claimed much interest at the Democratic and Republican headquarters headquar-ters as the report came In. Both candidates are m!ghty good men and had numerous friends who were anxious an-xious about the results. Francis Wl Quinn, the local legls-l latlve candidate, not only run well throughout the camp, but he was a popular candidate in all sections of the county and received more votes than did any of the other nine candidates candi-dates who were elected froiil this county. Judge Dudley, the local 'Republican snow on election day and it did not fail this year. The snow commenced falling Monday and it continued most of the day, Tuesday. . . There was practically no betting. It seemed that bets could not be booked book-ed at all. No one on either side seem ed anxious to put up their money on the various results There were a few hats, a few boxes. 'of cigars and a small amount of ' money put up, but nothing worth mentioning. There was much surprise In th k camp at the election results In the other states as even the Republicans here were anticipating a Democratic victory all over the country. |