| Show LIGHT VOTE CAST IN UTAH y LISTLESS CONTESTS IN TH THE E SE LECTION OF candidates RESULT OF NEW LAW less than thirty per cent of the registered vote cast at salt lake while in other utah towns voters failed to come to polls salt lake city the corrupt practices law is blamed for the lightest vote ever cast at a primary election la in utah the election on tuesday being one of the quietest in tile the history of the state with less than 30 per cent of the registered vote cast salt lake voters tuesday nominated candidates for two iwo city and city auditor file the total vote ote cast was or of a little more than half of the vote polled lit the election in 1015 stephen Step lien B newman led in the race A 11 II crabe being second 0 0 C third and cleber M wells fourth these four foun candidates will fight it out at the regular election two to be elected E A bock present city auditor and J T L may alay jr were the alie successful candidates for auditor midi tor voting was light in every part of tho th city due to the lack of organizations find and the absence of carriages cair lages and automobiles for hauling voters to th the e polls H heywood winner at ogden ogden in one of the closest races that lias has ever featured an election at ogden mayor mn or A it II heywood and T S browning former city commissioner qualified ned in the alio municipal primaries for foi the nomination for mayor maor frnnk francis editor of the ogden standard Stan daid was mas third lit in the race ince and S A israel son bon socialist wits MIS fourth commissioner chris flygare Fl gare and A E 1 weatherby Went heiby will be the candidates for commissioner for foi the four year sear tenn tenn at the fall election flygare rin ila ched ell far alfend of ills his principal opponent anent while anle job pingree jr and george hanson S socialist received only a few hundred bundled votes otes each city auditor A r F larson qualified fled for the finals by bi receiving more votes tes than ills his three opponents combined leroy parley farley will be its ills opponent lie having qualified over john W reee judge G eorge F barker and W IT stone socialist for municipal judge lind no competition due largely to the fact that it was the first municipal election under tile corrupt practices act tile the total vote te pt of 3 gives little more than SO 50 per cent of that cast ut at the municipal primary of two to years ago light vote for provo provo there was aas little interest Inte iest lit in the primary election mainly because all for mayor maor and auditor avill be placed on the ticket regardless of tuesdays vote ote and there was no very deiy strong fight for or against any of the candidates for coin fill ss loner the overshadowing oel shadow ing interest lit in the war find the liberty loan bond canvass also had something to do 10 with alth tile the sill small all vote ote its as did the fact that no carriages were used to convey voters to and from the polls the vote wits as ns as follows for mayor leroy dixon 38 wll liani D roberts Bobc its for commissioner joseph 11 beck albert S jones albert man waring arengi ago thomas C thompson for auditor mary boshard Bos liard alice brown |
