| Show don democrats sweep local offices As record vote Is cast in tooele thoele lee Is only GOP winner in county balloting there wil be no new faces on the tooele thoele county commission next year but there will be a change in the house of representatives for tooele thoele incumbents james R will ams and P ross gowans both democrats were here swept sept back into office with the tide of democratic votes which engulfed the whole country and john W another demo overcame S wayne dark clark to gain the seat la in the state legislature i after all the ballots had been the voting tot for the candidates for all of tooele thoele county was truman 2798 dewey 2036 wallace 48 dobbs 2 thomas s 1 bosone 2869 dawson 1951 mcdonough 2778 hansen 1963 maw 2025 lee 2807 bennion 2758 anderson 2017 reese 2765 2008 adams 2750 clayton 7 2007 2037 vernon 2757 kessler 1994 bateman 2879 greenwood 1 baker brady 1741 crockett 2828 carlson 1870 ellet 2784 Holni holmgren gren 1867 hogenson 2756 larsen 5 jeppson 2798 mccrea 1881 thomas 1910 roberts 2774 duncan 1988 2707 johnson 2040 2648 dark clark 2120 gowans 2746 gillette 2052 williams 28 2803 3 anderson 1971 in a statement issued to the tooele thoele county chronicle wed morning state He Ile presen dative S wayne dark clark thanked all the people who had helped him hi in his campaign for reelection and said the people by expressing their franchise have kaow receiver the govern ment they have asked for 1 I hope it is the kind they deserve counted wednesday morning the final vote was as follows in the race for the congressional seat mrs reva beck bosone forged far ahead of incumbent william A dawson republican taking the position at 2869 to 1951 count fred J will hold the position occupied in the state sen ate by sol J behin last session he ile beat out C W johnson 2740 to 2040 all through tooele thoele county districts 0 only one republican predominated that was 3 bracken lee who will assume the governorship in january his ills plurality in tooele thoele county was 2807 to 2025 thomas E dewey lost out to the president in this county too receiving 2036 to 2798 tor for president truman all six of the judges running on the democratic ticket had majorities in tooele thoele county with clarence E baker former resident poll ing a record number to lead all 12 candidates for the half dozen 48 voters cast their ballots for henry A wallace of this number 17 were from the tooele thoele district number 7 which includes the newtown section this section can I 1 well be proud of itself for all but 25 of the more than registered voters cast their ballots erda a record was even more impressive for only one out of the 71 eligible there failed to ote vote voting in general was the heaviest in history for tooele thoele county with vatious various organizations urging peo pie to get out and vote and great interest created in the elections al All returns were in wednesday morning with the exception of the two from wendover ibapah and ophir and partial returns from stockton but at that point the leaders had enough votes to be assured that they were merely shoo ins for their offices the was on job until 2 aam am when the county clerks office closed and answered numerous telephone calls during the hours the results were being tabulated many people took ad vantage of the special telephone service set up by the tribune telegram and the tooele thoele county chronicle in the court house and calls were received as late at 1 30 am more election highlights with sketches of the successful candidates will appear in the next issue of the chronicle 1 I wish to thank the citizens 0 ol 01 I 1 tooele thoele county for or the confidence that they have placed in me in electing me their state representative I 1 assure them that my interests will always be for tooele thoele county and Us its good people I 1 shall work at all times for legis lation that will benefit our county and our state very sincerely john W |
