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Show I UTAH REPUBLICANS I ELECT STATE TICKET I SENATOR GMOOT IS VICTORIOUS, WHILE MAYDE DEFEAT8 TAY- LOR FOR GOVERNORSHIP. H Beehive State Back In the Republican B Column, Entire State Ticket Be. B ing Elected by Plurality Estl. mated at 10,000. , salt Lake City. Tho Republican iB party triumphed In Utnh on November 9 the stale ticket being cloctcd by H a plurality estimated nt 10,000. B As an hullcntlon of the result of the ' ote. returns received early Wcdnes- A day mornliiB showed : tfl For President: Cox 24,104 fi Hardlno . . 36,714 For U. S. Senator: I Welling 23,393 ,fl Smoot . 35.720 ,'B For Governor: Taylor 23,450 Mabey 35,949 iB For Congress, First District: B Fun( , . . 9,589 H Colton 14,533 111 For Congress, Second District: tB Thomas 13,794 llfi Leatherwood .21,425 I Aw on enthusiast rcmnrked : "From I president to constnblo the Republicans pB carried Utah. Their victory could only B bare been more complcto with greater B majorities, hut those were sufficient cB to Indicate beyond any doubt where B the majority of voters stood." B In n statement Issued nt Republican B 6tate headquarters, It was predicted B that the plurality of national and stnto fiB catidlilntes In Utah would reach 10,000. lB Tliu calculation was based on Incom- B plo, rcturn9 trom wattered sections xB of "1C 'stntL Republican State Chair- "B man Kpry wnH norc "'"" I'oni'c'l with t B th success of tho campaign and do- i tH llan'11 "iat '" Bomo counties the Re- i stfl publican lead exceeded Ills expoctn- i sM tlons. Here and there on the ticket one per-B per-B wa Hood somewhere higher tlian his rjH Miom I ,,lp ItHtr favor. Tho dec-H dec-H B ,lon' however, as shown by the returns, , m nne In which personalities counted ec-H 'or far less than tho multiplicity of oiiH m Involved In the clear-cut deav-SH deav-SH Kt between the two major parties. It was the llrst election In which Utah has liail u native son candidate !,, 'or the highest office In the land. Par- yfl W 1 Clirlstensen, w the head of the itiB Farmer-Labor party, was not a real ,, conlfnder for Utah's electoral votes, rBJ hu' 1'C Imd a greater number of sup-n:BJ sup-n:BJ f10 "'an any leader of n minor j,,BJ fly e'nee tho Progressive split of BJ 19'i He drew his support chiefly ' from Salt Lake, Weber, Summit. Car-B Car-B l"11 Ji"l counties. ' Krom 7 o'elock in the morning, when llie election Judges llrst took their -? m jiliire. until hue vomers cast tlielr bill-W bill-W lot as the dock struck 7 In tho even-,1 even-,1 '"' a, steady stream of humanity up-B up-B I'"etl nt tl,p vt'K booths for ballots. '" It was Utah's llrst national election undor prnhihltlon. The elTect of that ' tte of affairs wan shown In tho or- r-m aorllness of the crowded downtown '" ttreet. "B I'1'1' weather aided not a little In ', , B mkl"c IIII the great vote cast. "I "ull tln nip of coming whiter in the BJn'r made overcoats more a comfort than a luxury, that nip wjm moder-fijeii moder-fijeii by the sun. and at most polling itelacM the wnlchers watched outside. |