Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-09-17 | Page 9 | Humphrey Comes First under Wire

HUMPHREY COMES FIRST UNDER WIRE Regular Republican by Voters of Seattle Wash District Seattle Sept 16 Unofficial and In compute returns return from the First con press lonal district t show that TV William WilliamH I am amB B H Humphrey standpatter received more than the necessary 40 O per cent cont of the tho total vote The provisions of the tho state elate primary law which require electors to mark their second choice choloe when the candi candidate candidates dates date number lour tour or more inure gives an opportunity to contest con teet the nomination Thousands Thousand of voters chiefly Humphrey mono mon did not mark their second choice and the ballots were not thrown out I Thomas R It Revelle Insurgent In urgent declares that he will contest the nomination Judge W W V Black of Everett the I Democratic nominee began his battle tonight with a speech In Seattle lIe He hopes for tor insurgent support but Miles Milos the state tato insurgent leader has hu already advised the Insurgents not notto notto notto to bolt the tho judgeship nominations made by ay the machine that has just been de destroyed destroyed troyed and It Is II believed that Humph Humphrey rey will not be openly operal opposed by the Insurgents ln Complete verified returns from Crom King county all alt but ID 16 1 precincts In Snohomish mish county Skagit lt complete all but six alx Ix small aU precincts in and Island Iland and counties complete give Congressman Humphrey votes out of a total of votes cast On the face of thee returns return Mr 11 Humphrey Humphre has bas the necessary 40 10 per ner cent and 1176 votes oteA to spare The small county of San Juan has bias made madeno no report The Seattle for many years an unswerving Republican newspaper n announces announce today that henceforth It will be an Independent Republican newspaper politics politiC being treated only In no so 0 far an as a It concerns the moral material social and aDd of the city rity and state The Po tI nl lII Keneer will not stand pat for a Republican candidate t merely because he is a 1 Republican says the announcement